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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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"The Dukes of Hazard" mainstreamed southern corruption (lemmy.sdf.org)
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Boss Hogg was a corrupt politician and a main character. I don't remember much beyond that. But my memory is that the Duke Boys were escaping persecution from local state actors.

Side note: I was a little kid and my friends in pre-school thought the car could fly, which broke my brain when I couldn't articulate that it jumped.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Born in '69. The bad guys growing up were often the legal officials in tv shows and movies during the 70s and early 80s. Like Smokey & The Bandit and all those exploitation films like Caged Heat and Chained Heat.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Not to mention Scooby-Doo, where each episode revealed that the monster was some grown-up authority figure abusing his power.