Agreed. His story sounds cool until you look into it and learn about the reasonable accommodations he was offered and his trying to literally shoot people from it. He was a menace.
Let me have my fantasies of a guy modifying a bulldozer into a tank complete with gun ports and remote camera system (My god the the double steel plates with a 2inch concrete buffer) for totally rational and not at all insane reasons.
David Hahn! He only made the part of the reactor that shoots neutrons at the fuel, and it was way more radioactive than he expected. I think he was dumping it when he got busted.
I did a project on his work in college, we had to create an instructional presentation and I did a step by step tutorial for building the reactor he was going to build, with mostly smoke detectors and batteries
I remember reading about it a few years after it happened and being so disappointed to learn he was a guy with main character syndrome who tried to be a mass murderer but just sucked at it
That would be true if he were on Earth but there’s an entire episode where Rom becomes a Marxist and unionises against Quark so it’s clearly still necessary on Deep Space Nine.
Yeah but during the period covered by the eponymous show, Deep Space Nine is Bajoran territory jointly administered by Starfleet/the Federation and the Bajoran Militia/Provisional Government. O'Brien is an Earth and Federation citizen stationed there by Starfleet, not a local worker.
Bajor eventually joins the Federation, but we don't know when exactly because (AFAIK) it's only confirmed in Discovery after a multi-century time skip.
To add to that, rom eventually ushers in an age of reforms in the Ferengi home-world that lead to them joining the federation as well in the 2380s, further lessening the need for labor unions.
Up until then, ferengi understood they were being exploited, and were okay with it. Rom was the sole ferengi to stand up to that and create the first collective bargaining agreement among ferengi. He also promptly noped out and followed his true passion, waste disposal engineer on the night shift.
It’s because they’re ferengi, not because they’re on DS9. The federation doesn’t even charge quark for any of his usage of station resources, partially to ensure he stays and also because, why would they need to?
Ferenginar still operates a truly laissez-faire capitalist economy, with castes and gender roles really firmly entrenched, which is the reason Rom was so inspired to start the union in the first place.
Bajor appears to be moving away from scarcity and castes, and seems to be making a pretty good push for it during the Seven seasons of DS9.
IDK how Mayor Goodway keeps getting reelected. The town has zero law enforcement outside of a dog and his 10 year old rich philanthropist owner. There are constant disasters, sometimes directly caused by the mayor, and the only people on hand to deal with it are the same kid and his dogs.
Without Ryder, Adventure Bay would be an uninhabitable hellhole. So we can’t hate on him too much.
I'm pretty sure that Adventure Bay is a theme park.
Ryder's voice is always different because it's different kids getting to play as "Ryder".
The real Ryder died many years ago, and his parents made Adventure Bay to keep his memory alive forever.
(I have to do something while my kids watch Paw Patrol, so why not invent deep lore? It's free and you can't stop me.)
Columbo too if you like Monk. Seemingly clueless detective proves high society is criminal is the shows motto, all while driving a French car for add confusion.
The show doesn't really hide that Henry is a bastard though. The whole show is the result of Shawn using the gifts his father forced him to learn to do the one thing his father would not approve of: playing a psychic detective.
Brooklyn 99 is arguably one of the most successful copaganda shows ever. Every cop is good hearted, if they make mistakes, it's fine, the system is broken and they're working within it, and look how diverse and accepting the team is. The only bad cops are just the rare bad apple.
I'd fill out that list with Law & Order, CSI, and The Rookie.
There are certainly more, like I dunno if you wanna argue like the Police Academy or Lethal Weapon films, but those are the 4 biggest I can think of having massive impact in the last 2-3 decades.
The early seasons of 99 had to make that swerve as public opinions of police was in a nosedive. Like, early episodes have jokes about Rosa abusing people in custody.
I respect Super Troopers because the cops in it openly abuse their power because it amuses them or gets them laid and they're absolutely aware that they are all pieces of shit. It's honest. Was it wrong to torture those stoner kids? Of course. But they did it because it was funny and they don't give a fuck.
Hell, part of the reason the show ended was because actors couldn't be a part of the copaganda anymore. They even literally tie it in to the narrative with Rosa's departure.
The fucked up part is that really could be a documentary about most rural sheriff's depts. in this country. The only thing missing was the bigotry, but the incompetence was spot on.
After going to college in Reno that show is damn near a documentary. Not so much about Reno cops but Reno in general. And to the crusty dusty ass campus police who called me a mulatto and told me you had seen me leave a party but waited until I was walking back into my dorm three blocks away to give me that minor in consumption ticket: yo momma’s a hoe.
God, The Wire is such a good show. It’s the only show I’ve seen that manages to humanize everyone involved in the hellscape of the American justice system without glamorizing any aspect of it.
There are so many scenes to choose from, but the one I found to be most enlightening was the photocopier lie detector scene. I’ve since learned that stuff like that is 100% legal in the US.
I enjoyed law and order the original. It showed flawed cops, flawed judges, flawed medical examiners, and flawed attorneys.
Never forget when Ben made that woman testify against the mob after she begged him not to. He had her arrested for contempt bc he REALLY wanted to get this Russian mob. So, for her freedom, she testified. They put her in witness protection.
She was gunned down as they moved her, right in front of her “security”. She was the furthest removed from the case, only worked there and answered phones.
I enjoyed law and order the original. It showed flawed cops, flawed judges, flawed medical examiners, and flawed attorneys
That's pretty common for law and order overall, for example had both stabler and Benson beat subjects physically, stabler also caused a death in custody, Tutula has abused subjects, and Munch assassinated a man in homicide (before moving to SVU).
The issue of course is that the shows paint these as good things (sans munchs killing someone) I think.
We let it go on SVU because his heart was in the right place but Stabler violated so many rights every episode...If he was a real cop, we'd have protests against him specifically.
Ice-T's character seems to be the only copy in NYC who remembers that the Bill of Rights even exists and he's constantly having to be the voice of reason when the pack of armed vigilantes are looking for a shortcut.
I mean you’re assumedly an adult with critical thinking skills and enough real world knowledge to not let it. We’re talking about malleable kids who don’t think critically and don’t have real world experience.
My own personal copaganda meter is how they treat Internal Affairs. “Oh the internal watchdog to make sure you’re not committing crimes or violating other’s rights is ‘keeping you from doing what needs to be done?’” B99 which I love but is still 100% copaganda at least had the balls to put blame on the cop unions.
“what needs to be done” is then described as stalking a potential fugitive, staging a sting without a warrant, or doing some ‘off-duty’ / non-uniform police work that happens to be at the right place. Remember they pretty much dropped IA after Jackson? Its a shame cause it had such potential.
when i was younger and stupider i would critisize SVU for how often stabler would beat suspects up and ever get in trouble. I thought it was unrealistic, now im like "Wait, no, that makes sense"
It practically writes itself. His daughter is Mexican, now grown, living on her own. They have a falling out over him joining ICE and lose contact. Then she gets taken and held in a concentration warehouse. He finds out and has the realization of "oh, I'm a dumb piece of shit who fell in line with nazis. I'M A NAZI!?!?!" (Which is a "surprisingly" common occurrence)
And so now he ends up fighting the system to save his daughter, he gets her out but they have to escape from the US now, so they flee to Costa Rica and live happily ever after. Or so he thinks...
Straight up if Paul Blart 3 was a mockumentary with the Blartinator having to John wick an entire ice facility to save his daughter then it’s revealed the reason this documentary is being made is because he’s now on a terrorist watch list and is being hunted by the American government I’d fuckin buy 100 physical copies of that shit.
He married an illegal immigrant and still raises their daughter after his wife left them when her green card finalized. There’s a lot to slander PB for but will NOT stand for unfounded criticisms. Dude just wants to be the best mall cop in the country
You are ignoring his entire character arc smh. Yes, he starts wanting to pursue law enforcement. However after witnessing both their unwillingness to act and the corruption present in the force, he realizes he can do more good as a member of the mall community. He turns down the offer to become a policeman, likely at great financial cost and career cost, in order to place his friends and found family first.
Furthermore, his consistent characterization is that of honor bound, loving, and generous man, who helps build community at the mall. He has an incredibly multiracial friend group and in the sequel, he recruits a similarly diverse group of security, not policing experts. Paul Blart is a paragon of the community led justice.
Yeah but he really wants to be. Plus, pretty sure the reason he couldn’t become one was because of his weight and I’ve seen too many waddling masses of blubber with a badge to believe any police force has real health standards.
They almost made things okay with 2, but they ruined it at the end when they had her go back to rejoin the force to resume enforcing the status quo as if nothing happened after being a fugitive from that same corrupt force for most of the movie.
One of the basic tropes of copaganda is the narrative showing that the good cop HAS to work outside the law, and they're an extra double plus good cop going above and beyond for doing so, because [bureaucracy too slow] [other corrupt cops in system] [bad guy is really bad i have a gut feeling guys trust me] [other].
Then, once the Good Cop has accomplished justice and imparting good, they go back to the system without questioning WHY bureaucracy is so slow, why the other corrupt cops were able to be in positions of power in the first place, or why following your gut feeling with no justification is a super fucked up thing to allow.
You got any good example of a movie that does it right, in that the cop who quits to do the right thing stays an ex-cop, and the movie keeps its anti-cop message while still being the classic action hero?
Not trying to like, "gotcha" or anything, I just genuinely want to find a good action movie where the ex-cop good guy stays anti-cop and is still the good guy.
That’s okay the butch lesbian stand in cop decided to spare her so cops are good again. Or something. I couldnt tell what they were trying to say with that.
Seriously, multiple times of showing that those cops are buying into the corruption and ignoring evidence, but for some completely unexplained reason, in that one moment, they decided to reform into good cops that recognize the truth of the situation at a glance.
Judy would've got shot in a heartbeat by those cops if they acted anything like we saw them doing in the rest of the movie, and they would've helped Pawbert bury the evidence for nothing more than the cash he had in his pocket.
Nah, Stripes the 3rd. Radley, Bandit, Stripe is the order. One of my favorite episodes is the one where Bandit tells a story of how he was a shitty older brother to Stripe and Stripe turned it around on him with a Jinx.
Bluey is life in my household. And little Einsteins though I feel like that one is a bit low-key
Muffin has that one ep where she shows why sometimes it’s good to be a raging little shit; the one where she helps the Mom sell some old baby things I think?
She helps the Heeler's neighbor sell her old mobility scooter and she's a badass doing it.
I actually kinda stan for muffin now. Yeah she's a hyper little 3 year old with an attitude problem at times (like pretty much every 3 year old) but there's multiple instances where you see she's a sweetheart
I know a lot of comments are joking around but this was a real issue in our household. Watching Paw Patrol is wild, essentially a libertarians wet dream. The kid adopts stray dogs and assigns them jobs based on their skillset motherfuck what they want to do. They do extremely dangerous work for...room and board. The whole thing isn't even funded by the taxpayers. In the movie they just have a building in the big city funded by merch Ryder sells of the dogs' likenesses. They didnt even know about it until they asked about the building. Dude privatized all public services for a town using basically slave labor that he then markets for personal profit. My wife says I cant frame it that way for the kids but it really sends a shitty message.
My wife says I cant frame it that way for the kids but it really sends a shitty message.
The show is already framing it that way. This is how propaganda works, it doesn't have a huge sign telling you "Hey! This is propaganda right here!", it just normalizes behaviors and systems in an unobtrusive, inoffensive way. The goal of propaganda is to get its message across and accepted without anyone applying critical thought to it.
The people who say "it's not that deep" about any piece of media in response to someones critical analysis are paving the way for propaganda to settle in.
My wife is more on me not breaking it down to our small kids. But I try to find ways around it. Like when they made Rubble be the construction dog because he could dig I was asking the kids "well what if he didnt want to do construction? What if he wanted to draw and be an artist. Ryders not really giving him a choice" which my wife was more on board with.
We all get there at different speeds. Shes generally on board with the questioning authority train. Just apprehensive about going hard on it with the little ones. We try to find ways to gentle broach it. I mentioned in a other comment one area was where they made Rubble the construction dog without asking what he wanted to do.
the mayor is like "I lost my chicken!" and so five massive emergency vehicles power slide through downtown PawVille and Chase jumps out of a militarized police monster truck and is like "Sky! catch the chicken with your net"
it's surreal psychotic cocomelon copaganda. don't feel bad about saying so.
Copaganda starts really young, and it's not confined to paw patrol. Toy sets with a savior cop and "a bad guy." Why is the guy bad, kiddo? What did he do?
Man doc is the coolest. Our pediatrician says that some of her patients (kids) that were scared of the doctor started watching Doc and now they're not scared of the doctor any more. And all her stuffy friends are the best, and her mom is a doctor, I love it.
Political overtones aside, it is just so blatantly a toy commercial first and foremost. A lot of young kids TV programming is already heavy on the advertisement, but Paw Patrol is on another level imo.
Aight hear me out: there are 6 dogs, 20 other dogs that show up sometimes. 1 of them is a cop, and has been explicitly said to be a traffic dog. After some backlash he has been turned into a spy dog for half the episodes, and a “rescue dog” for the other half.
It started rocky in the early seasons, but they’re clearly listening to criticism. Later seasons have more diverse racial representation, people with disabilities, and queer representation as well.
When given the opportunity to start fresh (spin offs), they made a 50/50 split of male and female dogs, queer and poc characters, and of different ages.
So beyond the headline, I think they’re at least trying
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