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imimmortal4-deactivated20170713

for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!

don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!

libraryogre

Remember, when you're on the jury, a good "that cop's story didn't add up" will sway a lot more Chads and Karens than "fuck the police."

damnfool-of-a-took

Had jury duty, can confirm!

An innocent man is home with his family instead of spending his kids' whole childhoods in jail for "resisting arrest" when none of the cops could agree on why he was being arrested in the first place. (But it definitely had nothing to do with him being a Black man in a nice car, honest! 🙄)

And it still took like two hours of delibration after we'd heard all the evidence because one lady was so gung ho about believing everything the cops said, even when not a single goddamn one could agree with their own testimony, let alone their colleagues'.

Pointing out all the inconsistencies and admitted misconduct and letting people slowly come to their own conclusions as the trial played out was fucking hard, I won't lie. I can be patient, but it doesn't come naturally to me.

But. Yelling about how this was obviously a bs case would have shut everyone down and made them stop listening. Asking questions and letting people discuss how the cops tried to make xyz sound suspicious but it was totally normal, or about how if things played out the way the cops said then logically events should have proceeded in a totally different direction, and positing different theories that actually lined up with the evidence presented?

That got people thinking, and everyone realized that for a variety of reasons we all had reasonable doubts that the defendent had committed any of the crimes of which he was accused.

Being able to raise reasonable doubt among a jury of one's peers saves lives. If you get the chance, take it.

genderkoolaid

"Jury Room / The Holdout" (1959) by Norman Rockwell. One of my favorites of his. Particularly the gendered dynamic he depicts here.

deramin2

Highly recommend watching the McCarthy Era legal drama 12 Angry Men (1957). It holds up like Roman concrete. 12 white Ben on a jury must decide the fate of a Spanish American kid accused of killing his father. It seems open and shut until one juror votes not guilty because to him the facts don’t add up and he has reasonable doubt. And in making everyone go over all the evidence and pick it apart, they start having to confront (and reject) the biases that made the cops sound believable.

This film is 69 years old and still hits at what is rotten at the heart of the US (in)justice system, what is aspirational, and what actually works to persuade people.

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or inn

#rebagel #queue tag

thissweetenamor

#critterposting #art tag #rebagel #queue tag

cuttledreams-bugs

I deliver a friend feel free to spread it as you please

#critterposting #art tag #isopods #SO GOOD #rebagel

metanarrates

also to be clear i don't actually think there's anything wrong with enjoying m/m. it's fine. i enjoy some of that myself. I just think any argument that "actually it's secretly feminist to like m/m" immediately falls apart under scrutiny and perhaps instead of playing defense all the time about it, it would maybe be healthier to challenge the ways that misogyny actually flourishes in m/m fan spaces and to acknowledge the fact that the attention m/m gets compared to f/f Is Perhaps A Result Of Misogyny

#rebagel

sol1loqu1st

did you know that you can increase the quality of your quesadilla by adding seasoning

sol1loqu1st

did you know that you can decrease the quality of your quesadilla by making a tumblr post while it's cooking and burning it

#rebagel #queue tag

kosmogrl

#it can still be daunting #it will still take effort. but we will get there #rebagel #queue tag

tournesoool

a mother bear and her cubs 🤧❄️

#atla #katara #sokka #art tag #rebagel #queue tag

thestuffedalligator

I’m going to level with you. I have listened to The Devil Went Down to Georgia for most of my life. We were a country music household, this was a staple of my childhood along with Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, and that one Chipmunks country album.

I have no idea what “Fire on the mountain run boys run/The Devil's in the house of the rising sun/Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough/Granny does your dog bite no child no” means and at this point I’m too scared to ask.

dementian

For once I can be of assistance.

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

Mountain Whippoorwill (aka How Hillbilly Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize)

impossiblepackage

this is the key part of the song, that a lot of people miss. people have this misconception that the contest between Johnny and The Devil is about who is the better fiddle player. but it isn't. its about who is the better fiddler.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

but Johnny wins because the contest is about being the best fiddler. the song uses these lines mentioned above as a shorthand for saying that Johnny is playing these songs. Johnny launches into a set of the most popular songs, played well, and that's what gives him his big win. A good fiddler knows all the hits, and can read the room to know what to play next. The Devil loses because he completely fails to read the room, and doesn't know the right songs.

#Music #country music #folk music

parkchanwoohoo

This kid is so fucking good holy shit. I love how into it the audience is, too

megalodont

yeah dude

coquelicoq

[Description: TikTok video from @/diabetic4one in which a kid is standing in front of a microphone in a school gymnasium holding up bird plushies and very precisely imitating the sounds each bird makes, as the audience of other children becomes more and more excited and impressed. Below it is a still from the video of a kid in the front row turning around and making a "mind blown" gesture. /end description]

#the single greatest audio mimic in the animal kingdom is the human being #this kid shows you exactly that #there are birds that are also incredible at mimicry of course #I like to think we’re in a long tradition with them and I think kiddo here would agree #queue tag #video #bird kid #bird noises #bird calls

tikkunolamresistance

i'm reading Anti Judaism: The Western Tradition and my biggest takeaway thus far is that we jews are stuck in a time loop. i have no other explanation

#reference #to read

caprart1

i DO believe that a good writer can make mischaracterization work. oh there's a character who doesn't normally cry? figure it out!! disect the character. make the situation cryable for them. make that character cry ugly tears even if it goes against their very nature. YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK!!!

#at that point it’s not mischaracterization imo it’s just not usual for them #tho I get the point and v much agree. I love fics like this