As the Idaho bill to bring back the firing squad is signed into law, Justin discusses how there isn't anything extra morally egregious about the bill compared to lethal injection or other methods used by the state to murder people, and why we need to wholesale get rid of the death penalty.
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Justin discusses crime on a theoretical level, what it is presented as, and what it actually is.
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Justin and Britt discuss a spate of recent police killings, the need for an abolitionist response, and how some on the left fall short.
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Justin reflects on his two years serving as a public defender, how we are taught to think about crime as opposed to its everyday reality. He explores how criminalization is a process done to people to dehumanize and reinforce hierarchies of power, ultimately destroying lives and making us all less safe.
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Sam Bankman-Fried posted perhaps the biggest bail ever posted and is now out of custody. However, most poor people are not given the same courtesy.
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Justin discusses the Republican attempts to capitalize on tough on crime narratives in the midterms, how they've used those narratives historically and how it has ballooned the carceral state, and how Democrats furthered that process by co-signing tough on crime politics. And now some on the left are doing the same.
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Justin and Britt discuss the role the criminal system victimizes everyone involved and how some of its worst aspects are justified.
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Justin & Britt discuss the integral nature of abolition to socialism and how abolition is inherently a working class issue though the lens of borders that are and have always been a construction imposed by imperial capitalism to perpetuate a system of violence, exploitation, and immiseration.
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