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I was liberal until 2017 and I didn’t realize that year after year, decade after decade my worldview had been warped by the propaganda of endless episodes of tv cop series and tv legal series that I consumed without thinking. I had no idea…
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For the poor - bail is a jail sentence.
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The right to a speedy trial is a lie.
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Even when I was a boy and a teen - jury trials were already uncommon. NYT: “In 1980, 81% of federal convictions were the product of guilty pleas. Now [in 2016] the percentage is about 95%.”
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Plea bargaining in the US is a disgrace. There was a transfer of power from prosecutors to judges.
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Etc.
How many women deal with SA.
I haven’t been abused, but I gotta tell you the difference between going out in boy mode and girl mode is like night and day - I’ve never been more “accidently” touched or groped in public in one day until I put on makeup, a skirt and a scarf. I knew it was bad before I transitioned but it is like a whole other universe when you gotta live it.
Not the same person, but when I was a kid I asked my dad why some train cars had smaller boxes than other train cars. He said they melted and shrunk in the sun (lol), I thought that was true for like 20 years and then had a sudden epiphany that that made no sense.
I’m having a hard time remembering mine, but I know I have them. Lots of"knowledge" that just goes unaddressed for ages.
I think my dad told me prosecuted meant executed and that stuck with me for a while
Ponies aren’t just baby horses.
The extent to which anti-communist propaganda was baked into my high school education.
We read 1984 and Animal Farm and for the longest time I thought it was just cool political reading to get us thinking, until I learned that Orwell was a snitch and a class traitor and it was all just “socialism bad”.
Orwell wasn’t even really a class traitor. His family was somewhat upper-middle class for the time (his father was a government officer doing opium trade stuff in India), and he even went to Eton (on scholarship, because his family’s not rich rich, I guess). And then he went and became a colonial cop in Burma.
If anything, he’s just a fed and a larper (famously, Orwell purposefully lived in working class areas in London and Paris, dressed like a tramp).
