While randomly googling I found out that someone I liked in high school now works for the ADL. She was nice and one of the top students in our class, but I guess not really too creative? She never expressed any political opinions but was clearly a lib. She was also one of the popular girls who thought they were better than everyone else. I was still kind of shocked when I found out. Like...how can you do this?
As I think about it, another girl I liked in high school is now attending an obscure medical school which is kind of controversial for graduating a bunch of anti-vaxxers or something. She was one of the best students in our class as well and also really nice.
Who do YOU know who has ended up doing something totally awful?
Edit: :jesus-christ:
My first serious boyfriend in high school grew up to be a prison guard :cringe:
If you turn on the radio these days there are just like nonstop advertisements for jobs in prisons. Great benefits and pay, flexible schedules, join the prison family, it’s totally not dystopian!
i once went on a few dates with this girl who was working for a union and was lib and 'progressive', but she was considering a career change to become a prison guard and i absolutely could not figure out the logic there
funnily enough she ghosted me but then a few weeks later she messaged me apologising and begging me to go out with her again, she said she had been scared off because she thought i was a terrorist but i guess she eventually decided that wasnt a dealbreaker
lmao
:lmayo:
goals
found the guard who ends up running off with an escaped inmate because she "can fix him"
they can't get enough people to do it. i've thought about taking the paid training and then getting fired but it just sounds emotionally exhausting in a way i don't want to deal with even if it wastes the carceral state's time and money.
yeah, i can see the appeal of becoming a cop to a normal garden variety asshole who's been fed propaganda their whole life, but corrections seems like work that requires an incredible level of misanthropy and sadism.
i know this guy from college who works for a prison. not as a guard, specifically, but without getting specific, in a job skills training capacity lets say. i remember when he took that job (comes with an insane commute), my closest friends and i were like, "yikes", but he's lib brained and the money/funding is good (obviously). he's a few years into it now and i was catching up with him and he was somehow still surprised that everyone he works with is a dipshit, racist chud. i tried to explain that the carceral state is effectively a jobs program for fascism to provide training, indoctrination, and material support for the sadistic thugs it requires, but he can't quite glimpse the bigger picture around the warehousing of such a large portion of our population.