Words are Wind

You know our society is fucked up when people seriously think being a criminal defense attorney is like. A moral evil. Like people seriously jump to “wow you defend murderers” as if the majority of “crime” that happens on a daily basis isn’t literally stuff like addicts being caught possessing drugs or homeless people being arrested for loitering or fucking poor women stealing food and clothes for their kids like… the average person is just one or two paychecks away from also being deemed a “criminal” by society but yeah sure you should definitely act like needing to be defended against the state makes you an automatically morally bad person

Also you’re seriously dumb if you think criminals don’t deserve a defense. That means you’re willing to accept that the capitalist colonial state has arbitrary power to arrest and detain you no matter what. You act as if a criminal having the right to a defense is a bad thing but you don’t even fucking realize how that right to a defense is the one thing that theoretically stops the government from being able to take away literally everything to your personhood

Like actually women and children who kill their rapists and abusers DO deserve a defense. Sex workers do deserve a defense. Addicts do deserve a defense. Homeless people do deserve a defense. Black people and Indigenous people who are arrested by the police for literally the smallest things do deserve a defense. Teenagers shoplifting from big corporate grocery stores do deserve a defense. You’re out of your mind if you think criminal defense is some like inherently immoral thing and you’re out of your mind if you think the capitalist racist state should have the power to unleash its full carceral wrath on your fellow people

If you are a white kid with a positive relationship (as in they are not abusing you and generally like you as a kid and want you to like them) with a casually racist family member have you considered guilt tripping them? It's been a highly effective tactic with my grampa. When he used to pop off with shit I wouldn't give him a dissertation like my mom and uncle did bcus he'd just dig in his heels and argue. Instead, I found a well placed "wow :( no it's fine I just like idk. I didn't know you were like that :(((( " worked WONDERS. If you want to deradicalize people, don't focus on writing essays for random trolls online. Just make your racist family feel bad for being racist. You might even be able to sneak some idk facts and logic into them after you've been doing that consistently while hanging out.

they should invent a job that doesn’t ruin your back or shoulders or legs or neck or

the mantis is making him good at baseball ratatouille style

It boggles my mind that somebody paid 44 billion dollars to become the permanent main character of twitter.  Say what you will but when William Randolph Hearst owned a newspaper you could not get away with calling him a little bitch in it.  You wanted to call William Randolph Hearst a little bitch you had to go to the trouble of making Citizen Kane.

everyone shut up. the meaning of life is literally sharing moments with loved ones and baking bread and making soup and splitting clementines and singing songs and looking up at the same moon people thousands of years ago saw and getting that funny feeling in your chest that makes you hope good times like those and more never cease to exist. god

deleted that post bc i didn’t wanna make it seem like i promote appropriating religious symbols for goth cred (except catholicism)

Are you sayin that you support appropriatin Catholicism for goth cred but not other religions? If so, why?

cause all their crucifixes have jesus looking like a nasty nine inch nails music video baddie

she let me hit cause i support my public library

Lord Hurons music is just *describes horrors beyond mankinds understanding and welcomes death as an old friend but to a jaunty tune*