i mean obviously the curtain is getting pulled back more and more on the so called decorum bit every week

y'all LOVE to be the more polished evil villain everyone hates, but has better decorum, don't you????

FOX NEWS THIS, TRUMP THAT

Anyone who uses the language of business when talking about government is, at this point, a dishonest looter and should be loudly and repeatedly mocked

It's shocking how many wealthy parents don't adequately feed their kids tbh. I was a child myself the first time I discovered that, and it's still true.

Personally, I'm the kind of educator who advocates for UDL. Instead of individual accommodations requests, we strive to make everything as accessible as possible to everyone. Having a ramp and stairs always available instead of unlocking the gate blocking the ramp on request.

Tons of research shows people rarely commit fraud for social services anyway. We literally went through a mo ths-long news cycle about DOGE committing more fraud than they actually found. What is wrong with you people. Just let people have accommodations. Why do you fucking care?

theres either a brilliant hidden commentary about white ppl & feeling safe & police, or its unintentionally fucked to place this symbol of pop culture racism and dehumanization of Detroit somewhere were many visiting white ppl will see him

given what i know of the artist, its deffo unintentional

oh, hilarious. they put it in eastern market, facing towards one of the main entrances to the area

the entrance most likely to be used by ppl getting off one of the freeways

which is the way most of the white ppl from the suburbs get to eastern market

theres some dark ironies here

(unrelated sidenote, the recent robocop game is actually good. i was very wary of how it would handle things, but its basically a sequel to robocop 1 focusing more on the cop aspect, repudiates some of 2s messaging, & concludes that being a cop and serving the community are kinda contradictory)

so why have a fuckin statue of him in our city?
are we that desperate for recognition? just bc its a famous movie series set in our city, for good or ill?
it really bothers me. despite robocop 1 being a classic movie for good reasons, im very much not a fan.

the movie was set in Detroit but wasnt really ABOUT Detroit
and the memes are already flying
robocop isnt a symbol of anything positive far as im concerned
for one thing hes a fuckin COP
him as a character doesnt symbolize anticapitalist sentiment
he symbolizes 'Detroit is violent' in pop culture

ive talked about this many times b4, can search my posts

& now, the fucking statue is finally up

why? i cant be the only 1 who associates robocop with the racist pop culture influence it unfortunately has

why are ppl excited about this, when IMO all it does is reinforce the stereotypes ppl have?

and as a lifelong white detroiter who moves in some mostly-white spaces, i get to see a lot of racist white ppl making these jokes constantly. including 'leftists' and 'progressives' and the like

and they look at me like im fucking crazy when i point it out. never even occurs to them