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In reply to the discussion: Capitol Rioter Decides to Represent Himself in Court, Accidentally Admits to Two New Felonies [View all]Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)56. Yes, the court ordered a mental health evaluation
That is often done in cases, like this one, where a party seeks to represent themselves, because it would be a reversible error if a court were to allow a mentally incompetent person to do so.
But we - as a society in general and as nominal "liberals" in particular - no longer give a shit whether someone involved in the criminal justice system or captured doing something outrageous on social media is mentally ill. We just don't. We are back to the medieval practice of just making fun of them in public or expressing moral outrage at them. It's easy, fun to do, and makes us feel superior and good about ourselves.
By not doing something for such people, we are allowing them to fall into the arms of hucksters like trump who will use them up and then dump them in prison,then the province of public responsibility.
Bingo, but we don't give a shit. There's tons of material on social media, this site included, which are more or less "Hey, let's make fun of the re***d!" popular on playgrounds past, and more or less aligned with the childhood years of what seem to be the general age range on sites like this.
We've even revived the classic terminology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_idiot
The village idiot was long considered an acceptable social role, a unique individual who was dependent yet contributed to the social fabric of his community. As early as Byzantine times, the "village idiot" was treated as an acceptable form of disabled individual compatible with then-prevailing normative conceptions of social order.
The internet enables all sorts of what would have been marginal populations of isolated deviants to form "communities" of like-ill-minded people, and they are as you say ripe for the picking.
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Capitol Rioter Decides to Represent Himself in Court, Accidentally Admits to Two New Felonies [View all]
babylonsister
Oct 2021
OP
Problem is most of them are white and most judges are white so they tend to get
mucifer
Oct 2021
#16
Thank you for this. I have relayed to her several times that she is courting legal jeopardy.
niyad
Oct 2021
#54
Trump really missed an opportunity by not offering law and medical "schools" at Trump University.
tanyev
Oct 2021
#27
...I think a very bright person said that...Abe Lincoln, or another bright one, Mark Twain"
Stuart G
Oct 2021
#37
I'm sure that the guy thinks he's as much an expert on the Constitution as he is CRT
Rabrrrrrr
Oct 2021
#58
Lemme tell you something. Recognize there are times when you need an expert
bucolic_frolic
Oct 2021
#67