Oct 12 2021 24 mins 5
Is the Paw Patrol an unintentional conservative utopia? What can the show tell us about how the political spectrum views the police, its purpose, and its funding.
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Bibliography and Further Reading
- How the regulations around tv shows as toy commercials were repealed in the Reagan administration
- How square dancing was popularized as a tool of white supremacy
- How EMTs are underpaid, overworked, and underrecognized
- About police officer Joe Crystal, shunned by police for trying to hold them accountable
- Wikipedia entry on the Blue Wall of Silence
- NYPD internal investigator called a "rat"
- Prosecutors don't like to prosecute cops
- Attorney General Letitia James plan for civilian oversight of the NYPD
- Police departments aren't largely being defunded
- Crime is rising in cities that did not defund their police the same as those that did
- How torture doesn't work
- About Abner Louima who was sodomized with a broken broomstick by the NYPD
- The great Forced Adversity video about the Punisher/Police Problem
- Some More News video about the Warrior Mentality training given to the police
- How congress buys equipment for the military that it doesn't want or need as pork barrel
- Study finding conservatives lack a sense of humor
- Last Week Tonight's video about Tucker Carlson and his lightly veiled fascism and even less well veiled white supremacy
- Edmund Burke and the origins of conservatism
- Conservatism defending the status quo
- The myth of meritocracy
- Book about how billionaires are funding the radical right: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
- On prison labor in America
- The Thought Slime video that covers the video where John Doyle says that conservatives aren't about equality, they're about hierarchy and natural law
- Police will tell you to obey them if you value your life
- Republicans legalizing the automative murder of protesters
- Poor people can't just get a better job
- Why conservatives are more punitive than liberals
- The penal system as slave labor
