Sam_Hyde

Protip: "Probably guilty" means not guilty.

I've hung a jury. It was great. The only downside is the juror selection questionnaire you fill out asks if you've ever been on a hung jury. This potentially ruins future chances to legally nullify, although it ruins the chances of all the chuds on your jury ever getting picked again too!!!!

You will be amazed how fucking stupid a "jury of your peers" are. In our case the judge specifically told the jury to ignore drug possession when it comes to deciding the case (the drug possession was not supposed to be mentioned but someone slipped up and it was technically allowed). The second we sit down for deliberations someone said "I thought they were innocent but then they brought up the drugs" several people agreed and my brain turned to mush.

edit: Oh and i forgot about the fucking lib kid who complained about the lack of any POC on the jury yet still voted the black defendant guilty even after I called him on it.

I'd love to unionize my workplace but my coworkers are too stupid for me to even try.

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From the last time we had one of these stupid threads (many users literally renounced communism when they realized drugs would be banned...) I’m locking it after I post this so our resident liberals don’t swarm with their expertise:

“This thread is swarmed with liberals who think communism is a utopia of "individual liberty and fulfillment" where you get to sit around and smoke weed all day. Why do you people keep speculating? Does the thought of studying what socialist states that actually existed did, and is doing presently even enter your mind? Or do those solutions not satisfy you because deep down you find them "oppressive"? No one cares about your desire to smoke weed or buy crack at convenience stores. And when the oppressed peoples of the world think about communism this is definitely not the first thing that enter their mind. Questions like this just screams First World petit-bourgeois consciousness. I despise you people. Anyway, we don't know how a future communist society would handle drugs, but we do have a glimpse of the future. Under socialism "hard drugs" are obviously banned, and if you try to trade it you will get shot. Addicts will be sent to rehabilitation centers, where they will receive free job training, get educated about the harmful effects of drugs and perform rehabilitative labor. The ultimate goal is to re-integrate them as fully functioning members of society: http://en.qdnd.vn/politics/editorials-features/part-1-the-facts-expose-distorted-information-488802 http://en.qdnd.vn/politics/editorials-features/part-2-second-home-and-opportunities-to-reintegrate-into-community-488835 As for what you consider "recreational drugs", it obviously depends on the historical conditions of each nation. In Vietnam for example, "thuốc lào" - a traditional form of tobacco is not banned, but if you try to grow/use cannabis, you will get in trouble. Perhaps the latter isn't much more "dangerous" compared to the former. But while the former is a part of daily life for the peasantry in rural areas, the latter is considered by the masses to be a sign of comprador decadence, as marijuana is mostly brought from the united $tates. On the other hand, under a future socialist state of the Black nation, I'd imagine drugs like marijuana wouldn't be banned, since marijuana for many years was used as an excuse to justify mass incarceration of Black people. In the end though, I'm an outsider so I'm also speculating here, which is why I won't comment any further (just wanted to give an example so you understand the historically contingent nature of these issues).”

https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/b6w2e5/how_do_drugs_work_under_communism/ejpxmfo/

“No. Communism will not soft peddle to your white middle class privilege, you will have to give up every activity that is premised on the oppression of a vast, invisible pool of labor and the imperialist division of the world. That includes drugs, pornography and prostitution, video games and whatever other idle activities you think grow on trees. If you can imagine a totally different economic system but can't even imagine not sitting around smoking weed and playing video games, or accurately this is when it stops being "fun" and starts to sound scary, you are the problem. If you don't like it, communism may not be for you, though I imagine anarchocommunists would be more than happy to keep lying to you about some fantasy world where you can have your cake and eat it too (as long as we don't mention where the cake is made, who makes it, who delivers it, who serves it, who throws out the waste, and who enforces the transaction as law). if you think this is harsh the op was banned for advocating total legalization and deregulation of drugs as communist and is now merely restating their opinion in the form of a question. They will keep asking the same question until they get the "right" answer, I specifically brought up those things because that is where the mask of petty-bourgeois radicalism comes off and the full-on middle class white male redditor emerges. I'm using this thread to weed those people out, I have no illusions anyone will change their minds.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/hqu0np/what_is_the_communist_stance_on_drugs/fy0abg6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3