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Who do the ACAB rules apply to? (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 226 points 2 months ago
[-] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 130 points 2 months ago

Including Paw Patrol?

Especially Paw Patrol.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 42 points 2 months ago

friends don't let friends raise their kids on the police state

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 points 2 months ago

Seriously if anyone has kids, have them watch some of the shows on PBS Kids. Most are far less annoying than the slop Disney's been producing for the 2-6 age group, and all are far more educational.

Like, Daniel tiger is annoying but at least teaches good stuff (I've literally referenced it while teaching my kids something to help reinforce), but there's some really good shows on there like Molly from Denali, Alma's Way, Hero Elementary, Wild Krats, and Carl the Collector. Better paced, better animation and a million times better writing, plus they all happen to be shows from different human perspectives than just a random talking mouse or talking dog teaching a corporate-approved malaise

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[-] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 97 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 months ago

ACAB includes the Zootopia rabbit

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 94 points 2 months ago

Dude, if you look at Zootopia objectively, remove all the personal connections and relationships to the characters... (spoilers ahead)

Judy was hired through a DEI-type program (assistant mayor Bellweather mentioned something about a "mammal inclusion initiative" that got her hired), which is normally a good thing, but they kind of play it like that's the only reason she got a shot at being a cop. Bunnies aren't cops in this world. The police academy was specifically designed for larger, more powerful mammals. Judy had to circumvent traditional training protocol and use her cadets' power and size to assist her in order to graduate.

She goes off-book on her first day. Chases a supposed criminal, causing all sorts of mayhem and damage across town. Insubordination against her boss. But she doesn't get fired, thanks to her political connections.

When she's given a high-profile case to work (again, thanks to connections with the assistant mayor), with no resources to access, she partners with a known shifty scam artist off the street. Blackmails him with tax fraud to cooperate (instead of turning him in). Coerces him to climb a fence so she'd have "probable cause" to investigate the area without a warrant. Basically finding loopholes to circumvent official processes.

She also manages to become part of the family in the local mafia. After a single visit to the mafia, she becomes the godmother of the mob boss' granddaughter. She even uses them later to intimidate a witness to make him talk. Literally threatens to murder the suspect if he doesn't talk!

Then there's the fact that she single-handedly caused the fall of two separate regimes! First, she takes down the mayor for kidnapping predators, then she takes out the next mayor for causing predators to "go savage."

Then she gets the shifty scam artist hired into the police force as her new partner!

From an outside perspective, she's an extremely crooked cop that abuses her position, uses political connections to get her way, makes exceptions for criminals to gain access to police resources, and violates the rights of citizens. ACAB definitely applies to Judy.

[-] TommyJohnsFishSpot@lemy.lol 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah but when do we have sex with her?

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

What about rule 34 Zootopia rabbit?

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 2 months ago

All dogs go to heaven. Except the class traitors of paw patrol

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[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In regards to paw patrol, I feel that

  • The cop dog is constantly saving the day even by doing other dogs' jobs even when he shouldn't be stepping in
  • There are no clever stories in that universe
  • Every single problem they face could be permanently solved by a Belgian Malinois with a Barret 50cal
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[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 87 points 2 months ago

ACAB includes B99

(Except Rosa, she quit)

[-] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 2 months ago

I heard (don't remember where, could be true, could be right out of someone's ass) that the reason the show ended is many of them started feeling bad about doing a light-hearted fun show about cops. Basically the actors all started feeling like Rosa.

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago
  • The writing staff literally threw out their scripts and rewrote the final season to try addressing the climate surrounding police violence.
  • Stephanie Beatriz tweeted that any actor who makes high number residuals from producing copaganda should donate part of their checks to organizations combating police violence and corruption—she included a screenshot of her $11,000 donation to a couple of charities.
  • On the show, her character, Rosa, literally stated that George Floyd was the reason she couldn't continue working as a cop and instead became a PI who investigates corruption on behalf of civilian victims.
  • The cast and crew collectively donated $100,000 to combat police corruption and violence.
  • The main villain of the final season was lawyer or union leader or whatever who enabled and encouraged police corruption, citing anti-white hate and how it's racist to call someone racist.
  • I think it was Terry Crews who said in an interview that the show considered how it could possibly evolve into less problematic first responders or something, but that anything other than pointing out their issues and ending the show felt wrong. I can't remember exactly what was said, and I'd already spent far too much time reading interviews to refresh my memory.
  • Andre Braugher reflected on his career of copaganda and how he himself had fallen into the trap of how the media sweeps the police problem under the rug.

I'm sure there's other stuff, but I've already spent an inappropriate amount of time on this comment.

Fin.

[-] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago
[-] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 months ago

One of the characters in the show. I think she quit to become a P.I. because she didn't want to be a part of a bigoted system anymore.

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

She quit to be a P.I. that specifically investigated police misconduct. There was a great episode where she got water tight evidence to nail a cop and brought it to the police commissioner, who thanked her and destroyed it.

The commissioner believed that prosecuting the cop would have gotten her removed from office and “someone worse” would take over, and she considered herself “one of the good ones.”

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 42 points 2 months ago

it was a captain working towards commissioner, but yeah, that's the episode summary. it ends with jake, the writer's room's go to self insert character, saying "i guess i am part of the problem and figuring out how to fix that is harder than i thought"

the final episodes leave the impression that jakes decision to retire is driven solely by fatherhood, but the overall season implies that jake both wants to be a present father and to raise a son who has a dad who's a former cop rather than a cop. obviously he still supports his cop wife, amy, but i think there's a lot of meat there to that jake views her work reforming the nypd and their sexist biggoted ways that he's spent the last 2 years finally seeing as important to making new york a meaningfully better place.

i also think it's important to note that one of jake's last acts as a police detective is slipping a pen into his non-violent criminal friend's pocket so he can escape from prison.

look. brooklyn 99 is copaganda but it's the one piece of copaganda i recommend people check out because there's very much eras to it and as a piece of media it reveals an interesting shift in american politics. it's a unique relic for this reason, and it's probably the safest piece of copaganda to expose someone to without risking them leaving thinking the police stats is good. but anyway the eras of brooklyn 99 are:

  • uncritical celebration of the television staples of workplace comedy and cop show
  • cop show as social critique of racial injustice with an undercritical view of the role of copaganda in racial injustice
  • hopeful projection of what would be possible if community policing was focused on care rather than punishment
  • exhausted and frustrated deconstruction of copaganda, seemingly from the perspective of that the making of this show that they had loved working on, and loved working on together, was from the beginning a naive mistake

and remember kids: problematic media from a prior age should be celebrated for having become problematic. problematic media from a prior age means the overall narrative has shifted. brooklyn 99 was once beloved by liberal audiences and now leaves them uncomfortable. brooklyn 99 hasn't changed. it can't. it's over. but the culture's relationship to it has because our shared understanding of ourselves and eachother has. now we can get our detective show fix from something like Poker Face where the detective is a drifter on the run from the mafia and the fbi, and all the cops are in the pocket of a powerful rich man.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago

ACAB includes:

  • The goth chick from NCIS.
  • The fuckable bunny from Zootopia.
  • The cyborg lady from Ghost in the Shell.
  • That cool cyborg cop from Robocop.

And many more...

[-] Damage@feddit.it 28 points 2 months ago

It feels like Robocop spent more time fighting other law enforcement than anybody else

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[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago
[-] Valthorn@feddit.nu 19 points 2 months ago

All cop shows are propaganda!

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

Yep... copaganda.

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[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 46 points 2 months ago

Does ACAB include Ghost in the Shell's Major Motoko Kusanagi?

[-] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 months ago

yes, though I hesitate to call GITS copoganda as a whole. There's definitely some iterations of it that are, but there's also some that show that the ruling class controlling Section 9 are corrupt, and Kusanagi has to leave the force to pursue justice because the cops can't provide it.

[-] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 24 points 2 months ago

does it include the tatchkomas? (forgive spelling, old lazy stoned guy)

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 26 points 2 months ago

Sadly, yes. Tatchkomas don't have fathers.

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[-] Fiona@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 months ago

Tell me you haven't read the manga without telling me you haven't read the manga by asking that question…

Yes, it applies to her, like a hundred times over! Coming from someone who disagrees with ACAB. But that woman is just flat out a murderous criminal. The animes really play it down, but

The Ghost in the Shell (original manga)She literally ends up taking a hostage with the plan of faking her own death in the following hostage rescue to escape murder charges after comparing her work killing some guy (who didn’t really do anything besides sitting on a chair) that she spotted a mere second earlier (her correction to the prosecutor: “0.82 seconds”) to that of a “waste treatment plant” in trial.

Her biggest smile in the entire manga is in the recollection of when she was setting things up so that a known terrorist will shoot his own underage son through a door. (“The kid was like sixteen, but he was bragging about how he killed two of our men.”)

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[-] froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 2 months ago

does it include lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium?

[-] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Please. Delete this. I’ll pretend I didn’t see it

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 months ago

my playthrough of disco elysium involved my dubois committing a ton of time to useless shit specifically because ACAB, even if me and this delightful man are those cops. so some simple sabotage is in order. we're just gonna waste a bunch of time doing nothing

[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

Sooooort of. Look at what the revachol citizens militia actually is

But also yes, look at the shit he lets you get away with while being the only obe empowered to stop you.

[-] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Both Kim and the protagonist.

I’m on record saying that DE is one of the best reflections on the nature of investigative police work in any medium, but just look at it. Is anyone’s life actually better by the end?

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[-] mech@feddit.org 41 points 2 months ago

ACAB includes Captain Raymond Holt from Brooklyn 99.

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It includes my cat, when she seizes control of her cardboard house and polices it so the other cat stays away. She's a cute bastard, but still a bastard!

Oh wait she's always a bastard, even when not being a cop. Because she can't stop being a cat. So I guess it's more "ACAB" for "all cats are bastards" in her case.

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[-] EffortlessEffluvium@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 months ago

It includes Keanu Reeves in Point Break

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[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 months ago

Does ACAB include judge Dred?

He is technically a judge.....

[-] killingspark@feddit.org 14 points 2 months ago

Imma be pedantic about this one: judges are not in the same part of the three separate parts of power as the police (at least commonly in democracies). Technically they are supposed to keep the cops in check and be a neutral independent instance.

In reality: most judges are bastards too if you have any qualm with the police, because that often translates to problems with state authority which includes them as well, which more often than not makes them allies to the cops.

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[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 18 points 2 months ago

ACAB includes the two pairs of shoes walking towards the camera in the intro to The Bill in the 90s.

[-] Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

All Cops Are Bastards

Or

Assigned Cunt At Birth

[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

All Capybaras Are Best.

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 months ago
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[-] Aljernon@lemmy.today 14 points 2 months ago

I guess that depends on whether you consider lab technicians cops.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago

Abby is a character designed to give cops/federal agents a good PR makeover. As sweet, vulnerable, firey and lovable as she is, the reason behind her character makes her AB.

The actor doesn't appear to be a bad person through.

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Does ACAB include police dogs?

[-] killingspark@feddit.org 19 points 2 months ago

No, the good bois are being forced to act as bad bois :(

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[-] trashcroissant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago

Nobody will ever convince me that it applies to Olivia Benson. I'll die on this hill (probably death by cop).

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