subsonic is a similar setup though nowhere near as much love yet

they’ve convinced a disturbing number of people that the 3/5 compromise was a radical step towards the global abolishment of slavery

when i went looking for one all i could find was stories about how denver cancelled their salvation army contracts after violent clashes

i only have experience with my local unitarian universalist church who broke away from the organization when the organization was a little to accepting of zionism. it’s kind of a paradox of tolerance thing. but i can’t really speak on where the national organization is when i have no ties to them and the only ones i had got severed. they might be good they might not. it would be inappropriate and irresponsible for me to say. if you’ve been engaged with them or their members and are finding them helpful in these times, then i see no reason not for you to say “these guys are good, others should check them out”

it makes your nose red

i would direct people to in particular consider coalition building with the united methodist church and evangelical Lutheran christian in america (ELCA). neither group is perfect but they’re both involved in civil rights activism

they, additionally, are against labor unions and secular soup kitchens. they claim to want to help people, but they won’t help people unless it feeds their savior complex and control over congregation.

the funny part to me is that jesus reads as an anti-authoritarian. he preaches that it is better to help the hungry than to be dogmatic about orthodoxy. makes the salvation army seem pretty unchristian

there’s other shelters that salvation army actively antagonizes and lobbies against so they can have a monopoly on coercing the homeless into swearing to be devout to the salvation army’s christofascist views.

“i refuse to respect thou’s pronouns so thou’s pronouns are now thou/thee”

funny what happens when you have a system without profit motive so people mostly just talk to other people

especially when the origin state is red

what about those of us who embrace absurdism while things are going poorly and active nihilism when they’re going well?

the controlled opposition comedian. the favorite comedian of anyone who actually thinks chuck schumer is doing well

Judge Dredd is an exploration of the British and American legal tradition where the judges are not as impartial as they are presented to you. Dredd represents the lived reality that the judge is a tool of the holders of capital

i love brooklyn 99, and this is still true. i have another comment in this thread giving a deeper breakdown. the nypd partnered with b99 for a reason. i think at the end of the day the two messages that go out with b99, the creators and the equipment owners, the creators’ messaging surrounding racial equity, found family, and queer acceptance comes across stronger than the equipment owner’s messaging that not all cops are bastards. but you still have to engage with that the nypd cooperated on that show for a reason, and it’s worth talking to less critical viewers about that no, sophia is not a monster, you fucking dipshits. what she says about defense attorneys is outright true, and the prevailing online opinion that she’s a terrible person is not shared across the spectrum (this is literally an opinion i’ve only ever encountered with one real life person and with redditors at large)

you can enjoy the whole show as you so desire. avoiding problematic media has never really done anything to shift the narratives. what has has providing context to people who consume this media uncritically and recommending them better media to take on alongside the problem media. the world needs people who can look at chips and see and explain the problems with it. if the people who can don’t, that will only leave the people the copaganda works on locked into a media bubble unaware of the problems. so watch and love chips. but read and love Mutual Aid by Dean Spade, too. and always know that any broadcast you watch you are recieving two messages. there’s the message the creators of broadcaster wanted you to receive and the one the equipment operators (usually advertisers and politicians) wanted you to receive. try to find both and identify which is which, and then discuss with other people watching the thing which they identify with and why

yes, genuinely. California Highway Patrol didn’t collaborate with the producers for nothing

mothers i’d like… verily… enter… selfishly?

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

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.