#copaganda

[prokopetz]

The X-Files is tricky to pin down on the 1990s copaganda scale. On the one hand, part of the show's explicit thesis is that the protagonists are working within a system that's fundamentally incapable of solving real problems and which silences, marginalises, and ultimately kills anyone who tries. On the other hand, darned if it doesn't make being an FBI agent look cool as fuck.

#media #television #the x-files #x-files #1990s #copaganda #death mention #swearing

[strideofpride]

made a new uquiz: do you have good or bad taste in tv?

#uquiz #ryan murphy #hbo #netflix #sitcoms #copaganda #medical drama #tv shows #tv series #idk what else to tag here just reblog!

[k-wame]

PHILLIP SCHNEIDER & BRUNO PÉREZ Blutige Anfänger (Bloody Beginners)

#bruno x phillip #bruno perez #phillip schneider #blutige anfänger #eric cordes #martin peñaloza cecconi #kiss #queer #couple #affection #intimacy #passion #desire #lovers #amor #romantic #lgbt #queer media #series #copaganda #zdf #germany #deutsche

[shu-of-the-wind]

END the copaganda that not giving your DNA to your cops makes you more suspicious.

END the copaganda that if you don't tell your side of the story to a cop you're going to be arrested.

END the copaganda that not allowing the cops into your home without a warrant is criminal behavior.

END the copaganda that not allowing cops to interrogate you without an attorney present is inherently more suspicious.

END the copaganda that if you don't speak to a cop that stops you on the street, you are breaking a law.

this is all bullshit and it is framed in a way that destroys your constitutional right to be protected from unreasonable intrusions into your life and into your home. it is a way for cops and the law enforcement system to intrude on your privacy in ways they are legally not allowed to, by making YOU feel like YOU will be seen as a bad guy for standing up for your rights.*

demand to see a warrant. if they stop you on the street, ask if you're being detained and if so, why. do not speak to cops without your attorney present. that is WHY miranda rights exist. you are ALLOWED to keep your mouth shut.

*ALL of this is stuff that will be more dangerous to do if you are black or brown or visibly trans or queer or disabled. if at ANY POINT you feel that you are going to be at risk of harm for doing these things, you are NOT at fault for complying. your rights are important but they are not more important than preserving your life. stay safe out there y'all.

#this post is also very heavily focused on US experiences and US copaganda but i'm a defense attorney in the US so y'know #that's what i know #copaganda #ACAB #constitutional rights #shit like this is why i can barely watch true crime and why i refuse to watch cop shows anymore #it's just. all over and it makes me so angry #shut up alix no one cares #sometimes alix goes viral

[silvermoon424]

I cannot believe how fucking stupid and gullible people are about fentanyl. Yes, it’s a very dangerous drug and nobody should be using it outside of a hospital, but cops and random civilians are not ODing because they touched a few grains of fentanyl for 20 seconds with their hands.

This misinformation is actively dangerous because it causes people to demonize drug addicts and be less willing to help them if they’re actually overdosing.

#fuck this stupid copaganda #if I have to see one more pig having a panic attack because they looked at fent I’m gonna lose it #copaganda #misinformation

[troythecatfish]

#instagram mention #instagram post #instagram app #copaganda #propaganda #relatablepost #military industrial complex #spreading awareness

[alicelufenia]

Random Disco Elysium thought, I often see first time players prejudging certain skills and overlooking them, especially Esprit de Corps.

I can assure you, not only is it not the pro-cop stat or whatever you might be thinking when you see the description “understand cop culture”, higher ratings in the skill actually make it even less copaganda, as it constantly cuts away to scenes of brutality/corruption/ways the system is broken and bad for everyone, and often just contradicts Kim’s optimistic view of the RCM.

#disco elysium #copaganda #the warning no one asked for #but probably needed

[sir-ballister-boldheart]

bestie i got another one:

This is so unhinged fr. That is not a pro tip for critical thinking that is literally the opposite of it. That's literally black-and-white thinking.

I haven't watched the spiderverse movies so I can't comment on it but for Nimona specifically oh my god. Copaganda is not just having cop characters with one redeemable trait. The sympathetic ex-cop protagonist and his sympathetic cop love interest questioning, recognizing and rejecting the brainwashing the Cop Institute did to them is not Copaganda. That is literally the complete opposite of Copaganda. Cops rejecting Copaganda is the very anti-thesis of Copaganda. I literally don't know how much more simply I can put this.

Like this scene! This scene where Ballister drops his sword when faced with Nimona. That sword is a metaphor. It symbolises the institutional brainwashing that got into Ballister and which caused him to hurt his friend. When he drops the sword and reaches out a hand to a suicidal Nimona, it symbolises him finally rejecting and unlearning all the brainwashing for good. The sword is the Copaganda and Ballister throws it away in favour of his friend.

Also, if you want an example of Copaganda disguising itself as "progressive", then ZOOTOPIA is right there!

#nimona #ballister boldheart #lol #copaganda #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona movie #nd stevenson #meta #original post #ask me anything #riz ahmed #eugene lee yang #chloe grace moretz #goldenheart #ballister x ambrosius #ambrosius x ballister #ask #ask reply #suicide tw

[liberalsarecool]

End extreme funding for police.

#copaganda

[elumish]

There's this very specific type of cop character who is The Main Character, who is clearly supposed to be at least somewhat liberal, who is a woman or who supports women, who is openly cool with gay people, who ostensibly isn't racist and even gets mad at other cops who are openly racist, who has also committed somewhere between a little and a lot of police brutality and/or other crimes.

And somehow the reader is always supposed to oppose those crimes being investigated because they are the Main Character, and they're supposd to believe that the character is a Good Person and a Good Cop.

#copaganda

[catgirl-catboy]

You guys need to stop using "copaganda" to describe anything with a cop in it who has one (1) redeemable quality.

Copaganda should:

Promote the police system as a whole as a force of good. Individual cops can be bad, but the damage those cops cause aren't focused on.

Present people exercising their rights as a bad thing.

"all defense lawyers are scum, it doesn't matter that having a lawyer should be a right"

Present loose cannon cops as a good thing and not a liability, since they have good hearts.

#acab #copaganda

[prokopetz]

Side-scrolling shooters for the NES are like "you're a RENEGADE COP killing DRUG DEALERS on the MEAN STREETS OF L.A.", then in level 3 it's like "the DRUG DEALERS are secretly ROBOT NINJAS", and by level 5 it's like "the ROBOT NINJA DRUG DEALERS were built by SPACE ALIENS", and then right at the end the game suddenly remembers its original premise and the final boss is just, like, a guy.

#gaming #video games #nes #gaming history #nostalgia #copaganda #violence mention #drugs mention #death mention

[terranceholdsapencil]

"Youre a leftist?"

"Yes!"

"So you understand why the police as an institution are inherently bad?"

"Yes! All cops are bastards."

"ALL cops are bastards?"

"All cops are bastards"

"And you wont fall for copaganda?"

"I will keep away from it and not fall for it, yes sir!"

"Whats this then?"

"Dont bring the boys into this"

#brooklyn 99 #b99 #castle #castle abc #cbs elementary #elementary #the mentalist #death in paradise #i am aware these types of shows are all copaganda #find the odd one out btw #but that doesnt mean I stop enjoying them #alot #and i know theyre not the reality #but I will also continue watching these shows because I am weak #copaganda #copaganda shows #maybe its because of the autistic coded detective or consulting character that i latch onto these shows

[lizardsfromspace]

Whenever someone tries to justify copaganda by saying murder mysteries are only popular due to the easy stakes behind them I kind of lose it since like

Yeah, but why do those stories have to follow cops. There are plenty of mystery shows (and books etc) not about cops! It used to be more common for detective shows to be about private eyes or similar non-cop investigators than it was for them to be about cops. There's lots about the mystery/procedural genre that does make it enduringly popular but none of those things are "they have to star cops"

#television #copaganda

[thecruellestmonth]

Do you guys really believe that killing is the singular bad thing that cops do?

Or even that killing is the most frequent bad thing that cops do?

Are you saying that if cops didn't kill, then they'd be the same as Batman? Because then you're suggesting that effectively Batman already is a cop, with the exception that he hasn't killed (just like the majority of U.S. cops, who have never once shot or killed anybody).

I'm a bit worried to see opinions suggesting that only killing is wrong—and that violence, stalking, and humiliation are okay. In real-life, police commit countless acts of those "little" abuses, terrorizing entire communities, before they murder anybody.

Invading people's privacy is wrong. Hurting people to the point of hospitalization is wrong. Forcibly drugging people is wrong. Putting people in cages is wrong. Torture and "enhanced interrogation" are wrong. Ambushing people in their homes and safe places is wrong. Keeping inexhaustible wealth is wrong.

Superhero comics are power fantasies. Not all fantasies need to reflect our ideology in reality. But once you apply your real-life values to fiction, once you decide that fiction showcases exemplary real-life ideology—then your praise for Batman's ideology does become a worrying reflection of your real-life understanding of social issues.

#copaganda #Bruce Wayne critical #GCPD #fandom discourse #Batman copaganda #police brutality cw #Almost sorry to drag serious discussion of copaganda into ridiculous superhero comics but I swear the other guys started it first... #To be clear I'm completely disinterested in condemning or interrogating Bruce over his personal choice not to kill. #But I am so fascinated in how he justifies his own use of violence and privilege!!! So very very fascinated!! #Once again: LESLIE THOMPKINS IS RIGHT. #Actually I'm not gonna tag this post as @nti Bruce W@yne--because really I enjoy canon Bruce a hell of a lot more than his stans do lol. #Sorry but Batman isn't a darling anti-cop revolutionary. If he were then he'd get in line behind Green Arrow and like the Invisibles. #I mean maybe The Audio Adventures version is anti cop but still in a free-market libertarian power fantasy kind of way if you can dig that. #violence mention cw #murder mention cw #fandom drama #This is why Cheer doesn't work because Red Hood realizes 'Oh I don't want kids to lose their parents like I lost mine-- #--therefore I won't murder anymore. It's time to put my faith in the system. 👼👼👼' #Jason sweetie... you lost your father firstly to criminalization and incarceration for property crime. #You lost your mother to poverty and addiction. You are actually not like Batdaddy and your trauma is not a mere echo of his trauma. #Batman discourse

[earhartsease]

copaganda shows will all be like

fashion show ep

autistic kid ep

amish ep

ballet ep

hacker ep

vegas ep

"good" cop shoots someone but the someone's gun can't be found so "good" cop feels angst until inevitably gun is found and "good" cop is exonerated

almost forgot to add corrupt One Bad Apple ep where the "good" cops take down the one or two evil cops whose corruption they're of course horrified by

#copaganda #oh and there's more