#shitty police are shitty

[percontaion-points]

The Chemist chapter 3

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Chapter 3

Tonight, her name was Alex.

I’m literally on the third chapter, and I already want to punch her in the face. 

And the author, for subjecting us to this shit. 

She had a greasy burger, onion rings, and a chocolate malt. All were delicious.

This book is so fucking tedious. I’m literally in chapter three and this is what it is that I’ve been dealing with. 

If she didn’t agree to the job, they would do their best without her.

I’m sorry, but if multiple police agencies fail to stop one deranged school teacher and Mexican drug lord with an unknown super-virus without Julie’s help… Then they probably deserve to see the complete collapse of society. 

She would have to go around them, so to speak. Only five days. She had so much work to do.

Chapter 3 summary: After leaving the meeting, Carston sent over a box of files to the hotel that Julie had laid her trap in. She told the manager that the box was full of recovered items from her abusive ex, and had him send them down to the laundry, then sneak them up to her room in a maid’s cart. From there, a bike messenger took custody of the box, zig-zagged around town, where it was dropped off at another location. Julie then copied everything, and burnt the original files. 

She then checked into another hotel, where she slept before reading the files. Daniel Beach, a school teacher who often went on Habitat For Humanity missions to Mexico after his divorce. (There was so much info given about him. I wonder why anybody cares about that shit.) However, money began to “mysteriously” appear in his bank account. Then it was moved into a bank in the Caymans. Then it bounced around a lot, and was difficult to follow. 

Enter a wanna-be Mexican drug lord. To make a super long and tedious info dump short, this man recruited Daniel to be the carrier for a mystery substance the files call TCX-1 (Julie does not know what that is). She can see Daniel is scheduled to head to 4 different cities as a pre-emptive step for his Habitat for Humanity school trip soon; it wouldn’t be hard for him to dab a bit of TCX-1 onto a few door knobs and let it spread from there. 

After reading the files, Julie goes out to eat, where she doesn’t think about any of this. But back in her car, as she drives around, she thinks about what this could possibly mean for her. Yes, it’s bad. But as I said, if the government agencies can’t take this operation down without Julie, then they probably deserve to fail anyway. 

If she wants to grab Daniel, it needs to be within the next day or two, since the mysterious (unnamed) agency she worked for plans to grab him that weekend. 

[oifaaa]

it's insane to me that "death penalty bad" is still considered a radical stance to have in 2025 but whatever

[piesafterdark]

So I was rewatching the caitvi s2 prison scene and let me tell you there are layers. But for now, I'm going to focus on something rather minute: Caitlyn's face softening when she walks in on Vi.

From Caitlyn's point of view, Vi has no reason to trust her: she hit Vi in s2 act 1, became the figurehead for martial law and the persecution of zaunites, tried to kill jinx and isha (isha's death would've been accidental but still), and a slew of other things. Caitlyn always knew Vi would choose Jinx over her and, in her mind, her actions forced her into that decision.

Around them, zaunites are fleeing because of the impending war. With everything Caitlyn's done, why wouldn't Vi take Jinx, leave with the refugees, and start a new life somewhere else? Their dad's dead, Isha's dead, caitvi's broken up, Ekko's missing, the only thing keeping them there is sentimentality and Sevika. In the season 1 finale, Vi even tried placating Jinx with the "we'll leave this city together as sisters" promise to spare Caitlyn's life; it's definitely an option. So Caitlyn posts the guards at the Hexgates so the sisters can escape the city.

Caitlyn's made peace with the fact that her choices will lead to the woman she loves/loved possibly leaving her forever. Even Caitlyn doesn't forgive herself for what she's done.

Of course, Caitlyn knew that Jinx wouldn't cooperate.

When Vi says "I really believed she'd help" Caitlyn realizes that Vi's motivations for getting Jinx out of prison wasn't to escape, but to help Caitlyn defend Piltover and Zaun (yes and Zaun because Viktor's glorious evolution plan included all of humanity, not just Piltover) in the war. Despite every wrong thing Caitlyn's done since her mother's death (a lot), Vi is still with her and believes in her. That's why her face softens.

Her face also softens because she realizes Vi hates herself for being tricked and wants to comfort her, but I think it can be multiple things at once.

TLDR: Cait probably thought Vi was going to leave Zaun and Piltover after breaking Jinx out of Jail, but was shocked when Vi revealed that it was because she wanted Jinx to help in the war.

[ahaura]

something something when the facade of western "democracy" continues to crumble, liberals are faced with the choice of either abandoning the systems that facilitate genocide, theft, exploitation, racism, etc. or resort to old habits that do nothing to seriously challenge or dismantle said systems... inevitably many will fall back on focusing on optics/aesthetics and hyper-individualizing their approach to combat their feelings of helplessness etc. and/or to avoid confronting the systems in place that have led to this moment (which they are most comfortable in, because liberalism never truly changes the systems in place)

the problem is not, never has been, and never will be the *tone* or *conduct* of palestinians (in occupied palestine or the diaspora); the obstacles in the way of peace&liberation are not from palestinians or palestinian resistance but the continuation of colonialism, the maintenance of which is inherently violent and oppressive. the people responsible for the genocide going into its 4th month are not palestinians who liberals want to tone police but the u.s. empire and its glorified military base settler colony, whose existence is founded + depends upon the genocide and ethnic cleansing of palestinians.

[weebiemcweebington]

The boys in blue 🚓

Just a sketch.

[iambeees]

Arcane: here's how cops can be corrupted, here's how war corrupts, here's a cop being corrupted, here's the corrupt prison system, here's a cop being corrupted, here's the corrupted government, here's a cop committing war crimes, here's more corruption, and some more corruption.

*some* of the fandom: can't believe arcane is so pro- police :((((

[gumshoegoat]

[spookyscarywoodrow]

new young justice comic run but it’s all of their crimes catching up to them. oh, who’s that knocking on their door? space police. who’s that right next to them? magic police. who’s standing behind them? time police. who’s standing to the side of them? regular police. who’s standing behind all of them? you’ll never guess-

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is getting really annoyed with the relationships unit in your sociology class because the whole thing is just 100% amatonormativity.

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if think your teacher, professor, and/or TAs might be interested in discussing the concept, I have some idea of bringing up the topic?

I'd personally say something like, "Hi, During our section in sociology around relationships, I couldn't help but think it would be interesting to discuss how a sociological theory called "amatonormativity" might relate to these lessons. I gathered a few sources from the professor who coined it, a thesis written on it, and a law review written about the connection between it and laws in the USA. There's some connections between its use in feminist thought and in queer theories, and I'd love to know your thoughts about it. I personally was thinking of when [specific statement] was said, and how I would apply this theory. I hope it's as interesting to you as it is to me."

Coiner's current webpage: https://elizabethbrake.com/amatonormativity/

Thesis: https://vc.bridgew.edu/honors_proj/330/ (click download in upper right hand corner for the PDF, depending on the individual it may be worth downloading and sending that rather than a link)

Law Review: https://uclawreview.org/2022/06/09/amatonormativity-in-the-law-an-introduction/

[trypoed]

Saw V (2008) / Mirrors (2008)

[sluttypatrickstar]

seeing people going like “guys we’re not gonna get all conspiratorial about this 🤨” about people expressing doubt that luigi is the shooter and i just wanna say. it is not conspiratorial to doubt that the police, a notoriously corrupt and shitty organisation who have been very obviously inept throughout this whole investigation, might have got the wrong guy

[niuxita21]

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Meiji: Why would I sit on a chair/the couch when my girlfriend's lap is literally RIGHT THERE

[shittysawtraps]

I never watched the saw franchise, but where did John and his apprentices get the funds to make their traps? Did they get funding from loans, paychecks, donations, or other methods? Were they sponsored by someone?

Like, was there something along the lines of "before I activate the trap, I will lock you to the place you are and inform you that this trap was sponsored by skillshare" in the script?

it's never mentioned, so either they have a really dedicated patreon set up, or john's pulling from his pension

[moeblob]

Right and his work menaces (Brent and Karen).

I don't remember last I mentioned it but apart from crude nicknames to people (except Chris), he also just puts them in his phone really weird (except Chris, who is literally in his phone as Chris). And I bring this up because in Right's phone, Karen is saved as "Lawful Obligation".

[marzipanandminutiae]

I wake up

I see a Hot Take in the tag for my main fandom that a male character is gay because "he's so soft and sweet and submissive! that makes him effeminate and GNC! which in turn makes him gay!"

I fight the urge to leave society and take to the Woods

[arcsin27]

Shuada does hit a lot of the power imbalance issues that come with huge age gaps like that: one is bigger and stronger, one is more forceful and actively instigates the relationship whereas the other just awkwardly complies, one could easily manipulate the other with blackmail including potential for “I’ll tell everyone you’re dating someone like me,” etc

The funny part is it’s the underage teen that has all this power lmfao