
Luis Castillo attempts to eat the baseball like an apple in the second inning. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)
The first piece of fiction from my team just went up, a bit of a taste, a teaser, for the cycle's story but also the setting of the first set "The Automata Initiative". There's gonna be quite a few this preview season, which I am excited about!
basically every prosecutor elected in the last several decades has been elected on being “tough” on crime. even what might be called “reformists” slowly skew towards “tough” because they are influenced by the police who can (and will) torpedo cases if they dislike the prosecutor’s stance on certain crimes.
what has happened to public defenders and defense attorneys mirrors what has happened to unions and i am hopeful that what we are seeing with unions will be mirrored (eventually). part of this is that most people only see defense attorneys when the cases are high profile and gain media attention, then they really remember the ones they have negative feelings about, and americans tend to have stronger feelings about “guilty” people going free (literally the OPPOSITE of the founders) so their biases about defense attorneys are “validated” (v similar to the “welfare state” and “public programs bad”).
anyways it, no joke, all comes back to our society still being puritanical which punishes positive/sexual/gratifying emotions and uses violence and justice as relief valves because otherwise people go insane. fuck the pilgrims. fuck the puritans. fuck the prosectors. FUCK EM ALL BURN THE SYSTEM. to the dildo guillotine with them.
i have many more feelings. but i have to do my capitalist bullshit so i can eat. this has been positive thoughts with nys.
Almost all the other stuff about Satan was invented out of canon. I've posted about this previously.
Anywho, yeah, prosecutors are cops and they suck. And prosecutors in solidly "blue" cities do some of the most harm. Is it the worse class of elected in the US? No, that's still sheriffs, but prosecutors aren't out of the race.
We are seeing some more hardline reformists entering district attorney races and winning. It's rare, but it makes the right (both nationally and locally) completely lose their shit. Any DA that is perceived as being anti-cop becomes enemy number one for the center-right.
Hence the massive endeavor that was the Chesa recall in SF. And the right-wing astroturf social media sock accounts have pivoted seamlessly to Pamela Price in Oakland since the moment she was elected.