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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Not just commercials, TV shows, too.

Last season, The Rookie had an episode where a rookie trainee cop, who was living in his car, got an offer from his best friend in college, a successful NFL quarterback, to be his head of security. He’d live in the guys mansion, and get paid about 4x what he was making as a cop.

All of his cop friends talked him out of it because " you wouldn’t be living your life, you’d be living his."

Yeah, what’s wrong with that? Your life sucks, you’re working full time at a dangerous job, and you can’t afford to live anywhere but your car. Why wouldn’t you rather live your friend’s life?

Of course, he gets talked into staying a cop and living in his car, because that was the more honorable choice, somehow.

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CottonMcKnight@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Dang that young guy could’ve saved a lot of money for the 4-8 years his friend was in the NFL and would’ve been able to go into a different career pretty easily.

What is the Rookie even? Copaganda?

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- RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Eh, not really. It way more grounded that moat Copaganda shows like Law and Order. Funny too at times, since its a pseudo comedy series.
  
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  - BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It was a fun show at first, but it has definitely been veering into copaganda territory for the last few seasons. I hate watch it now.
    
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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
But if he stays in his current career, he’ll eventually be able to afford a second car, maybe. To dry his laundry in for example.

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- krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  "Trinity honey, can you please get Daddy’s clearing stick?’
  
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- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  We’ve reached a point in American society where living in your car is not only a viable living option, but a better one than many, since so many people can’t even afford a car.
  
  Now that Larry Ellison, the world’s 2nd richest Psychopathic Oligarch owns Paramount and CBS, we can expect to see a lot more MAGA propaganda about how poor people get all the breaks, and ruthlessly exploit the hapless wealthy, just so they can waste it on luxuries like food, homes, and health care. It just isn’t fair!
  
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krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The rookie is just… so fucking bad.

I like Nathan Fillion but it’s so. So. Bad. Everything about it is bad. The acting, the story, the characters. It’s just crap.

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- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It started okay, but it’s become a cartoon, and not even a good one.
  
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