• Wertheimer [any]
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    2 years ago

    Oh, and detective? :stalin-shining:

    One more thing. :stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      he's a cop within lib fiction, which is to say he's charming and goes around fucking over rich people

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah like the fact that he nigh exclusively fucks over rich people by being charming

          He's what a good cop detective would look like, were they to exist. That's the lib fiction.-

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I enjoy the show but I remind myself that it's copaganda that bears little relation to reality. Good cops only exist in fiction. Columbo is always polite and holding rich people in Beverley Hills accountable. The real LAPD is taking orders from the hill people and curb stomping minorities.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    What's going to happen to the whodunit after the revolution :thinkin-lenin:

    People do love their detective fiction

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I do believe that detectives will exist in some capacity after the revolution, but almost exclusively for murder cases.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I mean lots of Columbo villains are rich people doing horrid stuff, so he could be part of the anti boug squad.

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      2 years ago

      There are Marxist police procedurals! 'Course, there was a reason they had Kollberg finally quit.

      I haven't seen any of the adaptations, so maybe someone can tell me if the Marxism remained intact. I've been assuming not.

      “We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they’d only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality. We wanted to show where Sweden was heading: towards a capitalistic, cold and inhuman society, where the rich got richer, the poor got poorer.” They planned 10 books and 10 books only. The subtitle would be “The story of a crime” – the crime being society’s abandonment of the working classes.

      (From here)

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Columbo is who we wish the police were, not what they are, he is an ideal we must reach and it requires firing any and all police officers (out of a cannon) that do not own a basset hound and a trench coat.