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My partner is a public defender, and for people splitting hairs in the comments: The justice system is unjust and inscrutable and you’re not gonna crack the case here. Each case has countless “gotchas” and goes back and forth nigh endlessly.
What matters most is being there for people during some of the hardest times of their lives, when they’re being dehumanized and erased by a system that wants to ignore the rights it promises them, and that’s the message of OP here and OP in screenshot.
As others here said, hope gives us the strength to believe we can help ourselves and others, and we need that right now.
I’m not a fan of optimism. Optimism and pessimism are both a form of vulgar fatalism — the belief that things are going to get better or worse irrespective of what we do. If I believed that, I wouldn’t get out of bed.
But I believe very much in hope. And hope is the belief that if you materially improve your circumstances, you will gain a new vantage point from which you will see things that you couldn’t see before.
I keep seeing Cory Doctorow everywhere on my feed nowadays. It’s so frequent that it might even be annoying — if not for the fact that he’s consistently spitting bars.
It’s a wonder what you can do when your main job helps you to refine your word craft, and also you’ve been campaigning on tech and internet issues for literal decades, giving countless chances to refine your rhetoric.
He’s a valuable voice in the current climate, and I’m glad that “enshittification” catching on got him a much larger political platform than he had before.
Can someone explain what this means or what they’re doing? All I know is that habeas corpus has something to do with you actually showing up in court, physically. It means something like “have the body,” in Latin (?)
They are challenging the legality of the imprisonment of people by ICE. When it is granted, ICE now needs to bring the prisoner before the court, which might help undisappear people, in conjunction with them having to prove they are legally justified to detain them.
I think they’re litterally getting people released because ICE knows they can’t justify it in court so they release them instead when there’s any pushback
The problem is, even “10 people ordered released” is explicitly not the same thing as “10 people released” when the government just ignores the courts, which is what they’re doing. It’s not that hard to get the courts to agree that this is illegal, because it is. It’s much harder to get ICE to comply with the laws.
It’s great that he’s trying, but are any of these people actually released now? That’s the critical question. If they’re not actually being released, then all these things he’s doing and encouraging others to do is performative. And that’s the problem, people think they’re “helping” when in reality, it has gone beyond that. People need to understand how deep the corruption actually is and how much damage has already been done. The systems of democracy and justice we used to rely on are no longer reliable, and it’s counterproductive to still believe they are in the face of the evidence that reality is providing.
When all’s said and done, I’d rather have proof that ICE ignored 1000 orders than only ignored 10 and nobody challenged the other 990. It’s not one or the other, we can still use the court systems to create a trail of accountability while we also work to dismantle the systems being put in place to ignore the courts. As flawed and incomplete as the Nuremberg trials were, they only made it as far as they did because so much was documented by people who thought they’d never be held accountable for their actions. Every ignored court order is the chance to punish someone when they are no longer in power.
And besides, even if they only obey one out of every ten, that’s still worth the effort when the alternative is just not trying because people don’t think it’ll work.
That’s totally sensible, my issue is just with framing this as “10 people released”. If it actually is, great, fantastic. But if it’s not, it’s creating a false sense of progress that causes people to underestimate the problem and feel like it’s resolved when it’s really, really not.
This comment is also speculation is it not? We have evidence that the court ordered people to be released. We don’t have evidence that the order was ignored. Even in the cases where ICE/DHS have taken time to release people they drag their feet, maybe submit an appeal, but they have not outright ignored the order.
Huge asterisk of course because they did ignore orders when sending people out of country. But in terms of holding them domestically the largest delay I’ve heard was a week I believe where they were trying to get out of the court order through appeals.
Feel free to post evidence though, keeping up with the crimes of this administration is a full time job
But if it’s not, it’s creating a false sense of progress that causes people to underestimate the problem and feel like it’s resolved when it’s really, really not
No, its trying to tell you that you could make a difference if you tried instead of just assuming its going to fail and doing nothing. Like, in the actual words in the meme.
