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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days 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...

[-] caboose2006@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Peter is that you?

[-] Damage@feddit.it 33 points 1 day ago

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

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day 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.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 240 points 2 days ago
[-] neuracnu 132 points 2 days ago

Including Paw Patrol?

Especially Paw Patrol.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 41 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 points 2 days 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 103 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 55 points 2 days ago

ACAB includes the Zootopia rabbit

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 104 points 2 days 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 11 points 2 days ago

Yeah but when do we have sex with her?

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[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[-] mech@feddit.org 44 points 2 days ago

ACAB includes Captain Raymond Holt from Brooklyn 99.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

they literally shut down the show because of BLM (as in, they didn't want to do copaganda anymore due to BLM opening their eyes)

[-] prole 11 points 2 days ago
[-] Soup@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

He is a character meant to uphold the idea that the system can be changed from within while making the police force out to be a kookie fun place.

A fun show, at least until season 5 started explaining the punchlines, but it’s not without issue.

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acab includes both bowser and blitz

"bowser and blitz from the tv cartoon cops"

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[-] germanatlas 89 points 2 days ago

ACAB includes B99

(Except Rosa, she quit)

[-] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 2 days 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 16 points 1 day 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.

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[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 days ago

Does ACAB include judge Dred?

He is technically a judge.....

[-] killingspark@feddit.org 20 points 2 days 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.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 16 points 1 day ago

In Dredd's universe a "Judge" is a cop, judge and executioner.

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[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago

So they are kind of ACAB+ or ACAB allys

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[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Does ACAB include police dogs?

[-] killingspark@feddit.org 24 points 2 days ago

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

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Ehh, They're natural predators. They're training them with positive reinforcement to use their prey drive and enhanced senses to do their bidding through a reward system and pack mentality. That's not far enough away from what they're doing to cops in training to call them good bois.

That said, they're also not capable of making ethical decisions, so those treats and the dopamine hit from taking down a prey target is all they have to go on for decision-making.

I'd say they're less cops and more tools. That dog ripping into the arm of a scared young non-white man running for his life isn't exactly a good boi, no is he being forced, but he doesn't know it's wrong.

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[-] Valthorn@feddit.nu 9 points 1 day ago

I feel like ACAB is just like the "all men are rapists". Yes, there are nice men and nice cops. ACAB does not mean that every single one of them is a fascist, but due the the systematic issues surrounding these groups and their behaviour, you as a citizen/woman just can't trust that that this specific cop/man isn't a bad one. Thus, all cops are bastards and all men are rapists, just to be safe.

[-] ScrooLewse@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 1 day ago

The reason ACAB is justifiable is that policing, at least in a modern capitalist society, is so fundamentally broken that to even join the force you have to make a serious moral compromise. You can claim you're fixing it from the inside, you can try to keep to yourself, but no matter what you do, by the act of signing that initial contract of employment you're participating in and materially supporting the violence arm of your local elites.

[-] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Sounds more like justifying reasons to hate without having reasons.

Well the ACAB thing is actually justifiable, people try to keep their ingroup save, even if they don't like specific individuals in that ingroup and understandable people outside that group really really don't like that bullshit which is fair. add to that that Murica's culture is pretty cancerous and voilà.

While on the other hand you have sexist incel rhetoric.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe they're both absolutist, misleading, and fairly unhelpful?

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[-] froufox 46 points 2 days ago

does it include lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium?

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[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 19 points 2 days ago

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

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 47 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Fiona 19 points 2 days 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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