Normie here, chiming in for what it's worth; hope I'm not overstepping boundaries.
At that point (in my opinion) I think the question becomes: What are you achieving, besides making yourself -- frankly -- miserable? Do you consider yourself happy, or stressed and anxious?
I'm not going to find a lot of success coming here and telling anons to pump the brakes, but maybe that's what's needed here -- take a break and let someone else fight the fight for a while, while you look after yourself and your family.
Not every problem can be solved by a "one size fits all" resolution.
I think this idea is contradicted by the "one size fits all" treatment you've given each race here -- Hispanics are consistent, Blacks do things fast, etc.
I think your brother's duty in this case is not to his client, but to the rule of law: he's there not to defend his client's horrible actions, but rather to ensure that the punishment is assigned and carried out fairly, legally, justly, in line with the Constitution, and doesn't become the public stoning / lynch mob we all maybe would prefer to see while our blood's still boiling.
Tips from a lifer PD, to a newbie, grabbed from elsewhere:
You are a criminal defense lawyer. You are not a social worker. You are not a teacher. You are not a life coach. Don't act like those. You CANNOT get emotionally involved in your cases. That's death. Because it's not your life. You didn't arrest the person, etc. Stick to your defined role.
You cannot live your client's lives for them. For the most part they're adults who have made bad choices. I work in NYC, and I don't want to hear the institutional racism bullshit for why my client committed armed robbery. Yes, there's racism in a lot of petty drug arrests, stop and frisk, etc. But those aren't the hard cases. Commiting a crime is a a choice he made. That's OK, because it wasn't my choice. I just have to clean up his crap. I will refer to social workers, etc., but I'm his lawyer. I need to act like it. I don't mean be standoffish or an ass, but I mean be friendly but professional. The moment you start commiserating with him about his fucked up family life, you're sucked in and it's over. You may very well feel that way, and that's fine, but the cold reality is that it's not you're life and you're not responsible for him sitting in front of you. If he's an adult, he's responsible for his own life. And that's something a lot of our clients can't grasp.
Don't take the job home. The moment you walk out of the office, you have to make a conscious, voluntary decision to focus on your life and what you want to do, and not on the 17 year old kid who shot his buddy and is in jail on $100,000 bail. Because when you bring that home, you're just traded your life for his. It took me about 2 years before I was really able to leave things at the office. But again, it's a conscious effort. Obviously, if you're on trial or something, that consumes your life.
Pick your battles. There are zillions of awful decisions by judges, lying ADAs, deceitful clients, and general malfeasance. You have to let 90% of it go. Why? Because doing something about it won't get that judge's decision changed. Save your efforts for the issues that both matter and you have a chance of prevailing on. I've seen some awful decisions, and the first question is "who is the judge hearing motions today?" That colors my decision on what to do. And regardless of the motion judge, if it's a henious decision but I know I will lose the fight, I don't fight. I don't have the time or the energy. You'll learn that not everything is as big an injustice as it first seems.
Lib here!
Big problem: the world you're describing is exactly the world that has been dreamed up, twisted, and exploited as a boogeyman by a section of the news media (TV hosts and twitter lords like Tucker, Shapiro, Owens, Posobiec, Newsmax, OAN, Pool, Hannity, Crowder, etc) for the last few decades, exaggerating and metastasizing issues into life-and-death battles, in which libs are the evil cartoon characters, waging terror, spreading death, while honest American viewers are kept enraged, upset, and afraid at what their country is becoming onscreen.
It's a seductive lens, and a hard one to escape. But illusions are easier to break once you know how they operate -- who the moving pieces are, what they stand to gain. If someone invites you to hate along and pwn some libs, they're profiting from it. Ask how.
your a little hopeless and definitely alone.
I'm good, actually, I'm just not a Q follower, not an anon. Using the royal "I" and whatnot.
God is great, but the Father of Lies has a tight stranglehold on the Q movement. It is a demon-haunted world with greedy selfish enemies posing as righteous noble allies, lying for profit/fame/attention; tread carefully.
Normie here --
What you're getting at is the ultimate redpill of Q: it portrays the world as a waking nightmare through selective information, trolling, photoshop, mis/disinformation, twitter hustlers (Owens / Posobiec / Shapiro), exploitative politicians (Wendy Rogers) who want anons' votes, and an entire media apparatus of selectively-edited news, reaffirming the nightmare narrative every day, from Fox News on down to OAN.
It's all lies, but they're seductive lies, they make black-and-white sense of a chaotic world, and they give me a role to play in a heroic battle against evil, all from the comfort of my laptop, alone.
"Alone" is the keyword here. The whole reason the Cabal cannot be destroyed is because your family and friends would lose their minds and riot in the streets if Obama, Hillary, Zuckerberg, Maddow, and Tom Hanks were arrested and executed on live TV. It's THEIR refusal that's postponing everything: if the normies would just open their eyes and Trust The Plan, then the arrests could begin and the suffering could end. Why won't they listen? Why are they cutting ME out of their lives, when all I want is to HELP them, PROTECT them? Why is everything so upside-down?
This is the most horrible part of the Q redpill: friends and family become enemies. They are the ones holding The Storm at bay — the ones who, through their ignorance, are allowing the Cabal's rule to continue. Why does my family refuse to listen, when I have such bulletproof evidence? Why do they keep denying it?
If I'm in that situation, I need a community, I need an outlet/escape, so I find other people suffering from the same pain. Feeling the burden of enlightenment. Shared tales of being ostracized. Tactics for sneaking pills into conversations. And all the misinformation posts I can eat, right there on the front page, digging my hole deeper. So, until The Storm arrives and victory comes, I’ll meme onward because I have to, against Satanic monsters committing mass murder and duped “useful idiots” who perpetuate the suffering by accepting/spreading the lies.
Nobody deserves that. I guess that's why I come here; try to pull someone out of it.
She is not the same person at all
Trying not to offend or cross any lines here, but I gotta ask: Do you think it's her that changed, or you that changed?
My gut wants to say both, just because: everybody changes, it's easier to spot in others, it's harder to spot in oneself.
That said -- I hope things smooth over one day with the sister and her family, however, whenever. I'll be rooting for ya :)
Passing normie lib here with a delicate question (and the best of intentions, I swear).
I see these types of posts/comments here a lot: “My family won’t talk to me, but I’m still holding the line.” There are a lot of anons describing the relationships they’ve lost along the way — it’s heartbreaking, and it makes me wonder how widespread it is.
Have you lost friends and/or family relationships during your Awakening?
Lib translator here!
This is the "big tent" philosophy in action: Republicans are very homogenous in their ideology (Christianity, Patriotism, Freedom), but Democrats have a lot of shades of gray -- like, there's the radical ACAB crew who wants to totally defund the police, and there's the more moderate crew who wants reform police, not defund, to better serve the communities.
But that's a consequence of the big tent philosophy that Democrats have been applying for years: bring together different ideologies and find common ground, to increase our voting numbers. It makes for some shaky alliances, but it's worked in the past.
Republicans don't really have to do this, because Republican ideology is more centered: the Bible, the flag, and currently Trump. Anything that deviates from that focus (or goes against Trump) is rejected.
So that's what's up -- it's not necessarily a double standard; it's just a lot of sorta-contradictory political philosophies being gathered under the Dem tent.
I'm leaning towards photoshopped: that's a JP Morgan Visa Infinite card ("must have a minimum of US$10 million in assets under management with J.P. Morgan Private Bank") which makes me think someone looked up "what is most exclusive credit card" and went from there.
EDIT And from a graphic design perspective, the kerning on 'OBAMA' is a little suspicious.
Hate to say it, but the tweet is fake -- he never said this.
https://twitter.com/rinor_sherifi/status/1429698140748361729
Normie here -- didn't get chased out of town last time, got another question for the heck of it.
Impossible to know where it's all going, but what do you think the next step of The Plan is? Given everything that's happened/hasn't, where does The Plan go from here, in your opinion?
Dem here, I can offer the dem take, for what it's worth (i.e. little)
If I had to figure Cheney out, I'd say she saw the writing on the wall early on: Trump is too unstable, too erratic, too eager to bully. He fights for the common man, but he doesn't do it well and he rattles everything just by speaking up without much discipline/control.
Cheney recognized this (in fact, almost all R's recognize this, but are beholden to Trump because they'll be voted out of office by MAGA if they criticize him). Congressional R's faced a Faustian bargain and a really lousy choice: follow Trumpism nonstop and agree with everything he does (which R voters love), or go against Trumpism because it's doomed to fail (which R voters hate, and will punish for).
By "doomed to fail," I mean red flags like: Trump promises things that can't be achieved, postpones the follow-through ("two weeks"), and boasts about handling everything ("I alone can fix it"), but prefers to sit back and observe instead (because then he can say "I told you so" when it inevitably fails without his required participation).
Anyway, Liz Cheney (who isn't so worried about her career; she's in the Cheney dynasty) sees that Trumpism is (in her opinion) a dead-end road and wants to preserve her legacy (taking notes from Romney, who walks a similar line).
It's not that Cheney is a secret Dem; it's that she sees herself benefitting more from going against Trump, than with Trump, because the national temperature towards Trump is (in my opinion) much chillier than it is here on TGA. Cheney has put all her chips on "Trumpism isn't the way forward" and, well, history will decide.
And if you want my Kinzinger take, I'll place good money on him running for president as the R candidate, offering a (sane, stable) Republication alternative to Trump. I do not think he will succeed -- the boy's only quality is "Look at me, I'm not Trump!"
We hear you, we just don't find the evidence as convincing / rock-solid.
(filthy leftist here)