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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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I do enjoy me some skip intro. I got started when I googled if the Wire was copaganda and he had a good essay on it. Actually a whole series on copaganda in TV.
The Wire is fantastic because it shows cops as incompetent, corrupt, or who actively make things worse. Season two starts because a high ranking cop gets his ego bruised over a church window. Season three is what happens when you stop enforcing unjust laws. Season five has an entire cover-up by guys who are considered "good."
The show says it without saying it outright that all cops are bastards.
Unfortunately the Wire isn't full ACAB. David Simon still holds the belief that the war on drugs is what's ruining policing, not that policing itself is wrong. This is consistent through the show, which bemoans the stat game and proposes that good things could happen if police could just do real police work.
However, the Wire doesn't hide any of the ugly bits and a critical viewer could come to the same conclusions you did. I don't think it quite counts as copaganda because it paints the situation as unwinnable, but any show which features police protagonists will inevitably tow the line the same way you can't really make an "anti-war movie" without glofiying it to some degree.
Haven't seen either, but David Simon also made Generation Kill which is about the Iraq War, as it was going on, and seems to demonstrate your last point