we have more power than they want you to realise, too 🙌
Hopefully we get to use it someday!
Now. Use it now. That’s what the whole post is saying.
Improve your local community
I’m not a fan of optimism. Optimism and pessimism are both a form of vulgar fatalism — the belief that things are going to get better or worse irrespective of what we do. If I believed that, I wouldn’t get out of bed.
But I believe very much in hope. And hope is the belief that if you materially improve your circumstances, you will gain a new vantage point from which you will see things that you couldn’t see before.
I keep seeing Cory Doctorow everywhere on my feed nowadays. It's so frequent that it might even be annoying — if not for the fact that he's consistently spitting bars.
It's a wonder what you can do when your main job helps you to refine your word craft, and also you've been campaigning on tech and internet issues for literal decades, giving countless chances to refine your rhetoric.
He's a valuable voice in the current climate, and I'm glad that "enshittification" catching on got him a much larger political platform than he had before.
Nice quote. What's the origin?
Added to the original comment. Sorry about that!
No worries, thanks!
Corey Doctorow.
I think.
I mean, I understand and agree with his message and that sounds pretty catchy… but doesn’t he have those definitions switched around?
After all you don’t have “optimism” when all is lost lol.
Every word has slightly different meanings based on context. I'm fine with leaning into the differences to make a point as long if it's obvious what they meant they're not otherwise being pedantic about it.
I.e. "I'm not going to be a dork about it if they aren't."
can't help but cringe at these I'm-13-and-this-is-deep quotes. Dude is just argueing about which synonym he likes more.
But they aren't synonyms.
Can someone explain what this means or what they're doing? All I know is that habeas corpus has something to do with you actually showing up in court, physically. It means something like "have the body," in Latin (?)
They are challenging the legality of the imprisonment of people by ICE. When it is granted, ICE now needs to bring the prisoner before the court, which might help undisappear people, in conjunction with them having to prove they are legally justified to detain them.
I think they're litterally getting people released because ICE knows they can't justify it in court so they release them instead when there's any pushback
So, simply put (if I get it right), if you have a friend willing to pay the lowest lawyer wage to get you out, you can get out.
It also demonstrates that the defendant is alive, in good health, and is being treated humanely.
When the government has lots of excuses for why they can't be bothered to produce the actual human being they are trying to destroy, that's a HUGE red flag.
my dishpit brother who used to do immigration law (his labor trafficking cases were his most rewarding cases of his life. until he stopped and thought about how it compared to that time he "volunteered" for his cult and realized he had been labor trafficked and more details would be personally identifying and and my brother deserves privacy even if he is a dipshit and a cultist, he was still a victim. like, you never know who it happens to and when they'll realize it happened. i wish i could send this to him, but unfortunately, both he and his wife are dipshits and estranged themselves. (they know what they did)
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I believe I can translate.
His brother works in law on immigration cases and found working on cases involving trafficking workers (viz. "People exploited as cheap/free labor") were the most rewarding.
His brother then reflected on how much free labor was extracted from him by his "cultish church" coercing him into "volunteering" for it and found uncomfortable similarities.
Would you care to provide a little more context for us all? I don't know why but I'm interested.
I would love to but I lack consent to share any more of his story and even though he's a dipshit he's still my brother
Habased Corpus
(Shitty attempt at a Kelly self-insert)
Self Efficacy is a powerful concept that teachers should be trained to instill in kids. It was part of my training as a teacher, but nobody seemed to understand how crucial a lesson it was besides me.
It's the first lesson I teach any child I am able to that crosses my path.
My partner is a public defender, and for people splitting hairs in the comments: The justice system is unjust and inscrutable and you’re not gonna crack the case here. Each case has countless “gotchas” and goes back and forth nigh endlessly.
What matters most is being there for people during some of the hardest times of their lives, when they’re being dehumanized and erased by a system that wants to ignore the rights it promises them, and that’s the message of OP here and OP in screenshot.
As others here said, hope gives us the strength to believe we can help ourselves and others, and we need that right now.
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