Fuck the fucking police, fuck the fucking DA, and fuck the dumb ass judicial bench.
Theyre all fucking bastards and I hope they die slow painful fuckin deaths.
Swear to god this shit is a game to them. All they wanna do is “win” their stupid fucking chess game trial and refuse to see the lives they’re playing with Holy fuck they almost fucked my client up today and I’m so fucking heated holy fuck. Trial time. Hope it turns out well for him.
Send good vibes please.
Death to fucking amerikkka. :acab:
-your hidden pmc lib
Solidarity comrade. You're doing a good and necessary job and I wish you the best.
Once in my misguided lib youth I was studying to get a law degree and become a prosecutor. Then mental health happened and put a stop to that. I'm sorry for a lot of the havoc dumping out of law school wrecked but today I'm deeply thankful that I didn't become a part of that evil system.
Glad that you’ve come out of the law school experience as a self-aware, healthy individual. And I’m glad to hear you’re a comrade.
We were all libs before we were radicalized. Except me. I’m still a lib.
I was raised by communists and then became a lib, thinking I could be the successful one. Then I dropped out because I was poor as fuck and couldn't balance work and school living on my own. Almost two decades later and I've become a committed communist and most of my older family have become yuppy libs and the ones that hadn't lost their way to anti-vaxx and qanon shit.
It's such a difficult environment to navigate and not come out a reactionary, this is why even internet "anarchist" libs that still have anti-communist brainworms get my critical support. They could be a LOT worse.
The internet lets us disengage at will and make up our own caricature of whoever we are speaking to, in person it's a lot easier to get people's ear.
In that second paragraph, you hit the nail on the head with how I see the reactionary tendencies of the working poor—see it in my clients and even family.
:10000-com: on point
It's our job to exercise patience, and navigate their brainworms with tact and understanding. Sure I've had some luck being assertive and bullying my best friend into rejecting the capitalist propaganda we were raised on, but that takes a certain amount of trust and ability to present oneself as an authority on a subject.
With folks I don't know so well I focus on the latter first, teaching people cool history facts about stuff less likely to trigger thought terminating cliches. I talk about the lesser known atrocities of the US or the more radical aspects of labor history and civil rights movements.
Once I get people asking me for my opinion on a subject only then do I start trying to unravel the more ingrained stuff.
I almost got cancelled on twitter just for saying that white people need to be the ones to deprogram our racist friends and relatives if we can...
People just jump to "oh so you want to team up with the boogaloos". Like no motherfucker do you read? There's a lot of idealists that want to ignore the fact that as conditions worsen even if more people are becoming leftists even more people are being targeted and successfully radicalized by fascists, opportunists, and other reactionaries.
This is part of my inspiration for the writing project I've been mentioning. I want to try to tackle the whole history of fascist radicalization , on why and how their ideas are spread (specifically the roots of decentralized online recruitment), and what we need to do on the left to combat it.
Hell yeah. We need comrades in all circles—especially in common spaces like the internet. Congrats on actively pushing friends left. That’s an area of praxis I need to brush up on.
Hope you post your writings here. I could use em.. :thinkin-lenin:
This will definitely be the first place I post anything. If you want to read up on the source material I'm working off so far check out Kathleen Belew's Bring The War Home, and for a less thorough but similar work Robert Evans' The War On Everyone which is free on soundcloud along with this article a comrade from discord sent me on the subject.
I'd really love for this to be a collaborative affair.
:sankara-salute: Never stop explaining comrade.
Law school politics was weird. We had a "leftist" student organisation at law school but it was mostly aesthetics for popular kids. I never felt comfortable around them, in fact I preferred hanging out with the conservatives as they were a bunch of dorks like me and somehow had less cutthroat careerist vibes than the "leftists" and centrists did.
Ha!! Yeah the libertarian gun-clubbers seemed to have better legal takes than the rad-libs. That environment is weird af. I don’t miss it one bit.
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Except for the amount of p/bussy but I swear I’m volcel now.
People raised by reactionaries are either prude weirdos or freak weirdos.
Whether their weirdness leans left or right seems to be a coin toss, and is entirely unrelated to the former.