Good morning comrades!
CW if anyone decides to watch this: racism, alcoholism & misogyny
Scales of Justice is a fictional miniseries created in 1983 by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company) which looks at the absolute shitshow that is the Australian police and the justice system. The miniseries is in three parts, each about 70-80 minutes long. Each part covers its own story, the first being focused on a recruit trying to be a “good policeman”, the second focusing on a drug task force, and the final episode focusing on politicians in the state government and their attempts to crack down on crime. While you can watch each episode as a standalone story, there are some recurring characters in the background, and it is in chronological order.
Now, the reason I am suggesting this is because it is the absolute perfect depiction of the police and politicians. By perfect, I don’t just mean that it doubles down on ACAB, but that it is impossible to differentiate the fiction here from real life. Every character is racist, misogynist, constantly drinking alcohol and always doing something illegitimate. The only real difference between what this show depicts and police in real life is that now the racism would be mostly aimed at Chinese/Muslims/Africans as much as it is aimed at Greeks/Italians, and there’d be more immigrants working for the police. For everyone who isn’t Australian, watch this and you will know everything you need to know about the justice system here.
The show is currently on youtube which I’ve linked below. They’ve been ripped from video from what I can tell, so there are some issues with image quality and sound. There are also no subtitles, which will make it very difficult for anyone who is not ready for full Anglo-Australian accents, especially when the characters are drunk which is common. I first watched this when I was very young, and it may have been one of the first pieces of media that got me pushing left since it shows that there’s no avenue to be a “good cop”. The people I’ve shown it to have said they enjoyed the second episode the most because it is an entertaining crime drama/thriller, but I think episode one hits hardest.
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My partner found a salt lamp on a dumpster run and was speculating that it wasn't really salt and just a pretty rock.
I did the natural thing and licked it to test.
I liked the dumpster rock.
It was in fact salt.
My aura's feeling cleansed AF rn.
Christ I wish I had funding from Soros. I'm not going hungry or anything but my last grocery bill was alarminig.
I don't even know what political economy is, I just heard someone say it once
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My friend who is a nurse made a grievance with the union over unpaid hours. Management tried to fucking bribe her with a $200 gift certificate to a grocery store. It's for a lot more money than that but also, the fuck? This is nationalized Healthcare and management is trying to bribe nurses to withdraw a grievance with sobeys gift cards. Shits wack
At the core of capitalism thriving is cajoling workers with on-the-side payments to look the other way.
I hate this system in which bribery is considered prudent business practice. It’s already enshrined as legitimate in electoral politics at every level.
Normal people: “Suicide doesn’t solve problems.”
Hitler: “Hold my Hefeweizen“
:nuke:
Normal people: “Doesn’t count, nazis aren’t people.”
If that guy who eats a raw cow brain and six raw eggs shows up on my fyp again I'm deleting TikTok
sounds like he won't be a problem for too long
gotta get vCJD at some point right?
Yeah I only keep seeing him on my fyp because doctors keep dueting the vid and talking about the dumbass is gunna die because of it. I did learn about prions though, so I guess that's cool
gotta get vCJD at some point right?
that's the french karate movie guy, right?
If you delete tiktok where would you keep up on the latest trends in trans humor?
the horny tory who was watching pornin the commons next to 2 women is gonna resign. it just goes to show you these sick fucks really can just do anything they want and be so dumbfounded when they face the most tiny pushback. in all my years of work, never really felt the compulsion to watch porn around coworkers, or at all tbh
hate when I keep getting caught watching XXX big horny babes dot net in the commons chamber
I can't seem to find o e singular instance of a trans woman hurting anybody in a public bathroom. but I can find more than 1 instance of a tory watching porn in the commons on his mobile. :thinkin-lenin: . glad the Guardian knows who the real danger to women is :)
I got ghosted by someone and my phone sent me a notification that said, "Last text sent 3 days ago. Follow up?"
Like, "Damn, thanks for reminding me, Google - I was trying to push her out of my head. And also, I'm trying to accept that people are allowed to leave if they aren't interested in being in your life anymore, but thank you I guess."
I drove past a church that still has a "CHURCH IS ESSENTIAL" sign still from quarantine era 2020. It's funny that churches pushed so hard for the ability to grind down their waning and usually older congregations lol
In my early 20s I ran sound at some local mega churches and I remember one of the techs that worked full time at a church asked me if I was gonna tithe and I was like “my dude, I’m here to make money.” Lol
It was shit money too, the bigger the church usually the less I got paid ironically tho wholly unsurprisingly
lol worst one was a huge church in a suburb that was between churches so they'd rent out the civic center every sunday while the new one was being built. I had to be there at 5 am, which meant getting up and leaving at 3:30.
We did 3 services. Sometimes my shitty employer would agree to do too many gigs so the other hand would be at another church, so I had to wheel in and set up an entire sound system of 4 line arrays, 2 big ass subs i could comfortably be fit inside of with another person, probably 8 stage monitors all by myself from scratch before 7 to do practice and start service by 8. and then break it all down and load up after the last service at 3
I got paid 50 bucks lmao
So many christian orgs do this, when they asked me for money working at the YMCA I was so mad.
Supposedly church attendance has been plummeting among younger demographics, since younger demographics are gay and have the internet and it's hard to keep people in an ascetic death cult when they realize they have options. There's not much to look forward to these days but I am looking forward to a time when 51% of Americans tick "Atheist/Agnostic" on the census.
hyped for may day tomorrow. there's always so many comrades I never see apart from may day. the we go down to this communist pub for a quiz night after the trafalgar square rally and speeches
I should shave off my depression beard and see if there's may day stuff in this city. It'll be my first may here, and I need to touch grass very badly.
If I was a fantasy god I would definitely be one of those Hermaeus Mora-Keeper of knowledge-types.
Except instead of being all knowing and tempting people with forbidden knowledge I would just spend eternity organizing all the books in existence in ways that I find pleasing without ever reading them.wow, are you me??? low key sometimes i dream of being a librarian in a secret/forbidden library, just going around endlessly adjusting my sorting methods, never having to engage with any people
New yorkers annoy me. Living in the biggest city in the US, shopping at their little convenience stores they gave a funny name, eating their big floppy pizza slices. They make me sick
New Yorker discourse is started by the New Yorkers being smug assholes so more people talk about New York in reaction. simply do not engage, they crave attention of all kinds. the real torture to a New Yorker is when somebody doesn't listen to them talking about New York
(dont tell anyone, especially no New Yorkers, but NY style pizza is actually the only good thing about NY)
