Awesome

End longass thread lmao

As these assaults on our movements expand and compound I think we need to place the Golden Gulag/critical resistance school of abolitionism dead center in our political analysis, but can treat the project of transformative justice maximalism as a fruitful inquiry that hit its natural dead end

local PDs operate as ICE’s handmaidens, and the NYPD as a political actor in NYC politics will seek to destroy the most momentous socialist administration in American history, even while said administration embraced Tisch and the cops as the cost of doing business

Meanwhile the latter project - assessing the role of The Police and The Prisons in daily American life, has been both sharply vindicated over and over and has never been more important

I’d rather call a duck a duck and work through the institutional factors to minimize these structures’ ability to do unnecessary damage than pretend we’ve resolved the most fundamental features of human conflict

And something you can reasonably call a jail, if not a prison proper. And while I could rename them something more pleasant I’d consider that basically a form of disingenuous propaganda.

Having spent a good five years picking through the matter on and off while I think working through the former was important I can’t quite endorse its results. Just about any social schema I can put together, even under the most optimal conditions, probably has someone you can reasonably call a cop

I see two major threads in abolitionist theory - attempting to model a plausible society that expurgates the acts of detainment and bureaucratically organized violent force, and assessing how the immediate institutions of policing and incarceration poison the societies we live in today

I love that author Kodi Rain made this fun little reader to practice newer grammar through the lens of finding the dog owner who doesn't clean up their dog's poop! 😂
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This isn’t even close to my most woke opinion it’s just the opening salvo

too complicated imo. how about “ever notice how the people complaining about cancel culture are pedophiles?”