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Taerkar posted:

Inspector Gadget is completely incompetent, MUCH LIKE THE POLICE! Or is he more FBI/NSA?

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Ixiggle posted:

Paw Patrol is fascist and its been brought up in my circles a long while before this all happened so it didn't come out of nowhere. Cancelling Inspector Gadget isn't real though.

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

I always got the vibe that whatever organization Inspector Gadget worked for wasn't exactly legal. I mean, they stuck a boxing glove in some dudes head just to see what would happen.

ungulateman posted:

this is just the 'twelve men own 90% of all the wealth' '50% of them should be women' tweet but taken seriously

also no poo poo children's cartoons are authoritarian, they're trying to teach kids to listen to their parents because they say so, because adults think children are complete morons (and sometimes they are). even the 'woker' ones like my little pony or she-ra are still wrapped up in queens and princesses who hold absolute power because benevolent dictatorship is the best analogue for a family structure that children will understand

Technowolf posted:

Inspector Gadget is just a kid-friendly RoboCop.

bunnyofdoom posted:

......holy poo poo I am mad I didn't think of this myself

Technowolf posted:

Inspector Gadget is just a kid-friendly RoboCop.

Samurai Sanders posted:

Oh yeah and Swat Cats, lol. At least that part never came true and the police don't use fighter jets. Only tanks.

E-Tank posted:

No, he is entirely non-lethal. He's got like a laser gun in his finger, and he never uses it once on a person. He's also much more competent at his job (protecting people) than Robocop is. Most Robocop can do is shoot you and a normal cop can do that just fine.

Samurai Sanders posted:

Recent events have made me think about the cartoons I watched as a kid, and how many were police themed. I think it's just one or two, and inspector gadget was one of them?

Oh yeah and Swat Cats, lol. At least that part never came true and the police don't use fighter jets. Only tanks.

Edit: Batman is pretty much a cop but worse though and I loved that show.

Cloud Potato posted:

Stephen Collins:

Pants Donkey posted:

Those are because toy companies see princesses as a reliable seller. The head writer for My Little Pony wasn’t allowed to have queen ponies because Hasbro said princess toys sell better. So that’s more capitalism being capitalism.

E-Tank posted:

No, he is entirely non-lethal. He's got like a laser gun in his finger, and he never uses it once on a person. He's also much more competent at his job (protecting people) than Robocop is. Most Robocop can do is shoot you and a normal cop can do that just fine.

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INSANITY IN SEATTLE
President Trump threatened to quell the rebellion in Seattle and shut down what’s known as the ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.” He must not do it. The Seattle Mayor and the Governor of Washington want him to intercede. It’s a trap. All violence will be blamed on Trump in order to dash his reelection bid.

No, it would be better to let the little experiment in Seattle play out. If the citizens of that city and state like what they see, let them reelect their mayor and governor.

Seattle has always been a left-leaning city. They have toyed with socialism since the early part of the 20th century, when the Industrial Workers of the World tried to exert their influence in the Puget Sound area. The result was the Everett massacre in 1916. Let’s hope another such massacre can be avoided as we watch the experiment unfold.

Another group that threatens violence is the Black Lives Matter movement, largely funded by the billionaire George Soros, who loves to see America divided. His BLM operatives are pushing for the elimination of police forces in major cities across the country. The question is, the cities in question have been mostly run by Democrats for years. Many have and have had black mayors. Why wasn’t ‘systemic racism’ handled earlier? No, instead they all blame everything on Trump and white people. Whites are told they are 100 percent racist—even progressive white people. We are told nothing has been done to advance racial equality since the Civil War. Really? What about affirmative action and the quota system? What about civil rights legislation that has been passed?

We are told we need to pay for the crimes of our ancestors in the form of trillions of dollars in reparations. This is nonsense. The bill has already been paid. It was called the Civil War and 620,000 people died in the battle to end slavery, including black soldiers. It’s time to stop kneeling from false guilt. Stop destroying statues and our history. Enough theatrics from Nancy Pelosi and her fellow kneelers. If she really felt guilty she’d be contributing her ill-gotten millions to poor back citizens.

The police do need to reform. They need to do away with their militaristic black uniforms, intimidating equipment, civil forfeiture, and bullying tactics. American citizens are not foreign combatants. City Halls need to stop using the police force as revenue collectors. A $100 ticket for not waiting a full three seconds before turning right on red is absurd. Don’t they know how much that hurts the poor? A speeding ticket should be $20, not $200. Do away with the ridiculous war on drugs altogether and our prisons would be far less crowded. Have the police fight real crime, not mark time shaking down citizens. There needs to be equal justice under the law for all races. BLM would have all justice removed—some in the ‘CHAZ’ takeover even want to do away with the court system. If they get their way, everyone had better be armed, because human nature and history say it won’t be a pretty outcome.

—Ben Garrison

Fathis Munk posted:

Jedit posted:

Robocop isn't designed to be a better cop than a human cop. In fact, he's explicitly designed to be exactly as good a cop as a human cop. Robocop's design purpose is to be better at shooting people and harder to shoot back at.

E-Tank posted:

. . .He's *so* close to an epiphany it feels like. "Gee it's like the police are meant to punish the poor for being poor."

Like. . .Garrison. Stop and consider: We're more or less saying the same thing here. Cops are bad. Have you considered that Daddy Trump is the biggest cop of them all?

Garrison's rant posted:

A $100 ticket for not waiting a full three seconds before turning right on red is absurd. Don’t they know how much that hurts the poor? A speeding ticket should be $20, not $200.

Alhazred posted:

Robocop was designed to be a cop that doesn't do things like go on strike when he isn't paid enough or ask questions about what he's doing.

Alhazred posted:

Robocop was designed to be a cop that doesn't do things like go on strike when he isn't paid enough or ask questions about what he's doing.

Jedit posted:

Robocop's design purpose is to be better at shooting people and harder to shoot back at.

EoRaptor posted:

Lots of children's TV is about teaching obedience to authority. Selling the tools of your oppressors as good and noble is just part of that.

Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4YFDSDW4w

Also also toys

Wikipedia posted:

Hy “Taser” Watts (voiced by Len Carlson) — A police officer who worked with the Seattle Police Department and is known for tasering crooks who try to resist arrest.

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Pants Donkey posted:

The initiation is a day of silence without eating, and you largely sit through creepy faux-Native ceremonies and build your campsite. I never wanted anything to do with them, but my dad pushed me into it.

Also, high five trans eagle. They said eagle scouts can be anything, so I became a rad lady.

Fathis Munk posted:

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Bennett in a rare return to form.