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Not sure how I feel about a civilian uprising that complains that the cops should be doing more oppression, actuallyPermalink On twitter.com
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Generally speaking, pro-police movements are countermovements to progressive ones. This isn't an America thing, I can't think of a single prominent (and organic) social movement that was like "the police should be arresting more people".Permalink On twitter.com
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In Japan, the most culturally significant violent uprising post WWII has to be the Zengakuren uprisings, which were uh, like, not huge fans of the cops, among other things.Permalink On twitter.com
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I know it's not literally created to reference this event but check out Akudama Drive on the left and Washington DC burning over the summer on the right. Uncanny, right? (The cyberpunk dystopia is currently happening, yes)Permalink On twitter.com
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Guess my point here is I'm not sure if Akudama Drive is saying ACAB as hard as I'd like. The framing of the show is pro-police. The characters act in ways that a pro-police person would think they do. Thing is: all the sympathetic characters are the criminalsPermalink On twitter.com
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This is what they thought the CHAZ checkpoints were lmaoPermalink On twitter.com
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But again, the reason why the CHAZ checkpoints were not like this was because the nature of mass movements doesn't lend itself to a reactionary class character, but a socialist one.Permalink On twitter.com
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A fascist uprising would more than make sense for Akudama drive, but they would work with the police to get rid of the Akudama. But in this show the fascists and the police are at odds, which definitely never happens lmaoPermalink On twitter.com
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Yeah like see it's an undeniably right-wing insurgency and the show is all "this is good actually". When the actual problem is not the criminals who exist out of thin air, but the material conditions that create criminalityPermalink On twitter.com
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unrelated but I don't understand her She's all "they pardoned me for being a criminal" but like that doesn't mean you can commit new crimes i'm pretty sure you still go to jail for recent murdersPermalink On twitter.com
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But if you assault an executioner on duty and obstruct justice you're not an Akudama? She don't make no sense it's because titty too largePermalink On twitter.com
