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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Sebby is more interested in criminal-justice reform than many of us. You just have to push different buttons to get him to say that, but it comes from the same urge to be contrarian. When people talk about major party candidates, his contrarian impulse requires him to say that he votes his wallet, just to deflate the idealistic pretensions any of us might have that our vote would somehow make a difference in the world. When people talk about crimes in the news, his contrarian impulse requires him him to point out that the criminal justice system is unfair, just to deflate the idealistic pretensions any of us might have that wrongdoers are punished.
Sebby definitely gives a shit about what other people think. If we didn't have idealistic pretensions, he would not be able to deflate them. He's not a conservative, but what he shares with conservatives is a preoccupation with what his peers (a/k/a "elites") are thinking, and a desire to take them down a notch or two. But he does believe the criminal-justice system is unfair and thinks it should be more fair, unlike most conservatives, who generally like the way it perpetuates traditional heirarchies.
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I don't mean to be disrespectful, but who the fuck cares? I don't give a shit about his ridiculous contrarian urges that require he be on the opposite side of whatever, whenever. I don't care about what he's interested in chatting about. I care about actions. You can talk all the shit you want. But if your actions lead to Sessions running Justice, then you might as well be in favor of for-profit prisons, eliminating scientific evidentiary standards, bringing back the drug war with all the destruction that causes black and brown people, eliminating any advances made during the last Administration towards holding police departments accountable for their
institutional racism, etc.
ad fucking naseum.
He votes his wallet. Period. That's all that matters. The fact that he thinks it's irrational for anyone to not do exactly that means he is unreachable. And that translates to a message to notbob and anyone else of "Don't waste your fucking breath."
TM
