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hey, tag this with a food people get really upset about you not liking

Some ya’ll who are younger need to google Frank Serpico and read about his time in the NYPD and what the cops did to him and attempted to do to him up until the late 90′s. He literally had to go into hiding in Italy and Switzerland and multiple times people tried to kill him. He only came back to America after the mafia (who hated the NYPD a lot, obviously) said “you’re under our protection.”

Damn, NYPD is so bad, Mafia started protecting good cops

extremely good article, please read it. at the very least read the "how to be a bastard" section, it outlines a lot of the ways cops will try to trick you

if you call women “females” i automatically do not trust or like you

you really wont like the military then buddy

jokes on you, i already hate the military

Bitches will be like "prev tags omg" on my post and I check the preg tags and it's like "blorbo from my shows"

world heritage post

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

Armand's memory manipulation gift was such a fucking genius move from the writers and honestly the fandom response to it just proves it further

Imagine taking a character who has lost his memories to trauma and can no longer trust his own recollection of events and giving him the ability to manipulate other people's memories. Imagine taking a character who is terrified of trusting anybody or anything and making him inherently untrustworthy. All Armand wants is to be accepted and understood but how can anybody do that when they can never fully believe their own perception of him 😭😭

#At this point they're just feeding him prime ministers - via @copiccrow