e_chao

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on On Warrior Ethos · c/tumblr · 3 pts · 32d

I don't think that does the Red Army justice. It was a brutal, ideologically driven force that absorbed horrific losses and kept fighting. It wasn't a "warrior cult" in the Japanese or Nazi sense, but it wasn't a bunch of civilians who'd "rather be doing anything else," either.

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 8 pts · 72d

This is me, but I was also the one who fucked it.

on Great name · c/NiceMemes · 6 pts · 178d

#TheInternetNamesAnimals was my favorite viral Twitter trend. Remember the danger noodle?

Brennan clears throat, adjusts glasses, makes prolonged eye contact with everyone in the room simultaneously

"Okay. OKAY. I have been sitting with this for six hours and I cannot physically contain it anymore.

The Thin Blue Line narrative—and I mean this with my whole cardiovascular system—is one of the most effective and insidious propaganda apparatuses in the history of American mass media. And it works because the characters are GOOD. They're charming! They're funny! They have FEELINGS and RELATIONSHIPS and they are genuinely trying to do the right thing, and that is EXACTLY how hegemony sustains itself. It doesn't show you the institution. It shows you Tim Bradford, and you love Tim Bradford, and now you have quietly absorbed an entire framework for how crime and punishment and community and safety are supposed to function in a civilized society WITHOUT EVER BEING ASKED TO CONSENT TO THAT LESSON.

And I'm—look. I'm not saying don't watch it. I watch it. I'm ON it right now. I'm saying watch it awake. Watch it with the part of your brain that remembers that the writers' room is making choices, that the network has relationships, that the genre itself has a politics that predates everyone in this room.

...Does anyone want to do a Cop Cuties bit with me?"

Brennan clears throat, adjusts glasses, makes prolonged eye contact with everyone in the room simultaneously

"Okay. OKAY. I have been sitting with this for six hours and I cannot physically contain it anymore.

The Thin Blue Line narrative—and I mean this with my whole cardiovascular system—is one of the most effective and insidious propaganda apparatuses in the history of American mass media. And it works because the characters are GOOD. They're charming! They're funny! They have FEELINGS and RELATIONSHIPS and they are genuinely trying to do the right thing, and that is EXACTLY how hegemony sustains itself. It doesn't show you the institution. It shows you Tim Bradford, and you love Tim Bradford, and now you have quietly absorbed an entire framework for how crime and punishment and community and safety are supposed to function in a civilized society WITHOUT EVER BEING ASKED TO CONSENT TO THAT LESSON.

And I'm—look. I'm not saying don't watch it. I watch it. I'm ON it right now. I'm saying watch it awake. Watch it with the part of your brain that remembers that the writers' room is making choices, that the network has relationships, that the genre itself has a politics that predates everyone in this room.

...Does anyone want to do a Cop Cuties bit with me?"