Unpopular General Opinions • Page 149

I just became an aunt in November and when I visited my brother the best part was that I got to do all the easy stuff like holding her cute little self and then hand her to my brother for the diaper change and feeding!

 

Haha congrats! It’s the greatest!

 

I became a godfather in December and I’m looking forward to the ages 5-9 and that’s about it.

Old enough to ask humorous questions, can walk on their own, not shit themselves (usually) and you can play games and stuff with them. Good times.

 

Sometimes I want to have kids so I can name them and dress them cute but then I remember they're not dolls.

 

reported.

 

I also love being an uncle, I’m hanging out with my cousins right now and I’m kinda pissed they didn’t bring my nephew

 

Personal opinion - they get a LOT of fun way before this. My three-year-old nephew is mostly past potty training. He has a personality and opinions. He’s also old enough to have made his mind up on me - thankfully, I’m the “fun” uncle. I love spending time with him, even when he’s having a down day. I’m about to have my first child, and my nephew helps me know that there’s a real person at the end of the rainbow. Will they be the same? Of course not! If I work hard, will I have an individual with all of their own idiosyncrasies to fall in love with and foster? Yeah! Being an uncle before a dad has really helped me understand what’s coming. My life is about to be fuuuuuuucked up... and yet, I’m kind of thrilled.

 

Congrats!

Wait until yours turns 3 then revisit this post lol

 

Thank you! By then, I expect grey hair and a thousand yard stare.

 

Fig Newtons are fuckin amazing

 

That's not unpopular tho

 

They’re underrated then

 

I feel like I always see people asking how lawyers who defend bad people sleep at night, and like idk I think they're important. Espesh after I met more lawyers and granted they're court appointed so they HAVE to defend who they're assigned to and sometimes they get to be the good guy and sometimes they have to defend a monster and idk I think that takes a certain kind of person I could never be. They have to defend these ppl no matter how sucky and go along with their awful arguments to advocate for their client and give fair representation. Like I feel like they sleep at night cause they know they gave it their best shot and gave their client a fair fight? Idk I guess I'm a sucker for that part of the justice system. I recently had a friend vent that if we know someone is guilty they shouldn't get council and I was like oh sis like that could go all sorts of wrong.

 

I love Girl Scout cookies, but Thin Mints are garbage.

 

RT

 

Mint flavored stuff in general is trash but I’ll slam a box of Thin Mints if they have been in the freezer for a little while

 

I refuse to adhere to the socialist communist girl scouts cookie sales schedule and am all about

 

This is why I dropped out of law school in my first year haha

 

I get the ones from Aldi that cost $1

 

Hey they're pure capitalism because they keep getting more expensive and tasting worse

 

Someone who is anti-Girl Scout cookies recommend a good alternative to Tagalongs for me

 

@ Aldi

$1

 

NO. Peppermint mocha Frappuccinos, York peppermint patty’s, mint chocolate chip ice cream AND YES THIN MINTS are all fantastic.

 

Public defenders are by far the *least* sleazy part of the criminal system. Like if you were to put types of lawyers on a political compass, PDs are about as far left as you can get lol. Private criminal defense lawyers are all across the board but are still typically better than most. But with PDs, even when the defendants did something heinous, they’re still living in poverty and very often have some addiction or mental illness that isn’t properly treated. And the PDs are the only ones standing in the way between them and a criminal system that would absolutely steamroll them without a second thought.

What I’ve never understood is people who become prosecutors, or why people don’t hold greater disdain for prosecutors. Like at least with the defense you have an actual, physical human being for a client. But with prosecutors, at best you can claim you’re representing the interests of the victim (which you objectively aren’t but w/e), and at worst you have to say you’re a “representative of the state” which is just this abstraction. What prosecutors really do is represent the police, whose narrative of events they typically rely on without any interrogation in any given case. And even when prosecutors are able to actually put somebody away who deserves it, those kinds of convictions are a drop in the bucket compared to all the ridiculous drug possession cases where there isn’t even a victim. For all the people who acknowledge how horrible the police are, there’s so often a complete blind spot with DAs and prosecutors, who have basically complete discretion to charge or dismiss cases