if you’ll pardon me complaining about this publicly: some of the meanest mfs i’ve met online are internet-poisoned communists. If i weren’t already a marxist-leninist, i would have some very unsavory ideas about what communists are like.
Lemmygrad and Hexbear are very nice places, thank you comrades _ … but elsewhere, even IRL, i’ve met incredibly rude people calling themselves communists and i need to stress this: if you want people on our side, you need to give good impressions of what we’re like. Don’t be hostile or dismissive or just violently anti-social. If you have to explain something for the millionth time to yet another liberal or anarchist… do it [insert Sankara quote], or at least find a nice way of saying you don’t want to. Save your offensive capabilities for people who deserve it. And please, PLEASE, go outside occasionally. IRL interaction is healthy, and will quickly kill any terminally online behaviours you might have. Maybe join an org while you’re at it ;)
i’ll stop stating the obvious now. Have a great day, comrades.
Also a lawyer is directly in a position to meaningfully help people
and someone considering becoming a lawyer is probably a teenager chosing their university and it’s more wrong to bully them because they are children
You’re right.
Lenin was a lawyer and paralegal in the Russian Empire. People attacking others for their jobs (unless it’s something comically evil like CIA Agent) is bizarre, reductive and not helpful in any meaningful capacity. A lawyer is objectively a wonderful profession. Plus they are overworked, exploited, and pushed to the brink, all in trying to help others, as only 0.05% of lawyers are those extremely wealthy corporate capitalists, most are really poor.