Damian M. Schloming ideas and information

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This website is to allow me to present intelligibly my thoughts and insights on various social, political, historical and even scientific issues I've been studying in the past two years. 

Some of which I have background knowledge of due to having been involved with and interested in various political movements many years ago. 

My political viewpoint leans towards libertarian, except that I am not completely happy with the way some of them think. Libertarians want limited government and civil liberties. As a matter of principle, that is excellent. But then libertarians seem to suffer from this ingrained bias of Western Culture that you can somehow intellectually decide that government "should be" a certain way and then the perfect society can then be achieved by some legislative body sitting down and crafting some written rule decreeing that that is how society is to be from now on.

 

Actually, I think government and the larger society it is embedded in is more like some kind of living beast that you can train or that can morph in one direction or another, but it can't be so easily manipulated or changed as we think. Written rules don't have the exact effect they literally intend, but instead enforcement of the rules and all sorts of other considerations regarding government bureaucracies results in all sorts of ripple effects or unintended consequences. As a result, the most free society does not necessarily result from the one with the nicest and most free sounding written constitution or constitutional rights guaranteeing liberty. A very good example of this issue is the liberal Warren Court expanding all sorts of fifth amendment procedural and technical criminal protections for defendants. Liberals saying they want to do this might be arguing this is to help the poor. The opposite is the truth. This is to help defense attorneys, and why is that a bad thing? Because criminal procedures and technicalities of the liberal Warren Court only resulted in defendants having protection IF they could hire an expensive enough attorney to do a good enough job PRESSING them. Public defenders are part of the corrupt court system, they deliberately do a bad job so as to make sure well heeled defendants find it worth their while to pay extra. Huge sentences ALSO give well heeled defendants more incentive to pay extra. Thus, defense attorneys representing rich criminal defendants have a vested interest in maintaining the strict sentencing policies responsible for Mass Incarceration. Furthermore, there was a law school bubble which burst, and now law schools are doing poorly because lawyers are not finding it worth their while to spend so much money on a law degree. Fact of the matter is, those liberal Warren Court protections indirectly increased legal fees for defense attorneys, thereby contributing to the upward pressure on college tuition and law school tuition, simply because the amount of money attorneys could make from a law degree made it more worthwhile. 

It also is true that the regulatory state increased in many other ways, increasing demand for attorneys in other spheres besides the criminal justice system. But I am going to talk about the criminal justice system here for now to use it as an example.

This is just one example showing how a policy that, examined in the most superficial way you think it's designed to help criminal defendants overall in the long run has the exact opposite effect. Because these protections are ones that only can be accessed by those with the money to pay for top dollar attorneys. And, it isn't always necessarily related to the facts of the case. The attorney usually has an incestuous relationship with everyone else in the court system, so much so that basically if you pay the right attorney enough money, you will get off because he is friends with all the judges and prosecutors, and parole officers, etc.

And for me to say that could lead to others thinking it is rather awful to have a court system so incestuously corrupt. Except, these are all nice people who know each other and court systems have ALWAYS been like this, more or less. And they always will be this way. Government is incapable of being perfect. Understanding its inherent imperfections such as this are necessary when it comes to avoiding passing laws which interact with such a culture in a way to produce very bad outcomes.

 

After all, we have always had government and, for some reason, it would appear if we always have had it, that is because we need it. The inner workings of government are so awful, you discover after you observe it, it can easily lead many to think we should just abolish it. But, given that that is impossible, the best alternative is to understand it as inherently flawed, and realistically think of how to make things "the least bad."

This is what I have thought for a long time, yet only recently have I stumbled across some law professors who subscribe to a movement called "legal realism." It turns out they think exactly the way I do, and see the same flaws in our society (or in the thinking of popular culture which leads to wrong-headed policies in our legal system) that I see.

Oddly enough, they seem to describe themselves as leftists yet they are not the kind of ordinary mainstream leftist most people would understand to be "of the left." Which is strange because I never would have thought of myself as a liberal -- but not a conservative either. But maybe this is because of certain strands of liberalism I have been exposed to which are quite awful. 

In any case, why categorize oneself? As I study and learn more about society, I like to share various insights and not limit myself to any one "box" or "category" that I pigeonhole myself into.

March 08, 2015  /  Damian Schloming

[QUOTE=Mequa;134903]I've been there, on the receiving end of it. Disgust is too mild a term. I know what it feels like to hate another human being so strongly that I would wish for their death.

As a man, when women have done that to me, I've been shamed as "weak" and a "pussy" for, well, not having a thicker skin, not taking it in my stride, not shaking it off, and not putting my big boy pants on for not shutting my mouth about the behaviour of women who have treated me in exactly that way. You know, for when someone decides to string me along in a manipulative way, prey on my genuine kindness, then slam the knife in my back and gloat about having got away with it.

While painting me as the bad guy who has just got what is coming to him somehow, who clearly hates women and has mommy issues for daring to criticise the behaviour of a female.

And I just got told by a feminist in a chatroom that I am harming women by making a big deal about hatred of men...[/QUOTE]

Oh, by the way, with me it isn't about any one person in particular. It's the whole entire gay community -- the whole gay scene. Hundreds of people at minimum. What I'm realizing is, I always noticed, first of all I am quite attractive, so there should be no reason why I am not popular among SOME sort of crowd. And my personality, also, is very likable. I can tell people genuinely like me when they meet me or get to know me. Still, that did not stop pretty much all gay men from either shunning me, or only meeting up with me to abuse me or otherwise manipulate me. And what's absolutely horrifying is to realize, practically every last one of them knew I was being targeted as part of a criminal scheme -- and they all did their part to manipulate me into situations where I could be abused, and then discard me like a soiled glove afterwards. 

And now, of course, I am being utterly shunned -- and, the odd thing is, I suspect it's because I am alive, I am not going to be murdered, they figured that out, and probably the situation will be something where the perpetrators will be brought to justice in the end. 

Now, you know how it is, for the longest amount of time I sort of was able to be convinced that most gay men perhaps didn't know what was going on, and may have genuinely thought I wasn't a desirable person. Now I realize, they knew all along I was a decent person, etc., and they knew all along that I was being targeted by bad people, and practically every last one of them only jumped at every chance to aid and abet the perpetrators and use me to the max. That is literally true. Given a chance to distance themselves from some of the most despicable, evil, immoral sociopathic abuse -- they all jumped at the chance to participate in it. Or maybe not all -- just a lot. Meanwhile, those who didn't jump at the chance to participate in abuse still did their best to be passive enablers at best. 

I think, the way it is, when things start to turn around for me in such a way so that they can no longer pretend not to know the truth, then they behave like bratty sulky children -- angry that they aren't going to get away with it and trying their best to stick it to me in the nastiest passive aggressive ways they can think of. And that literally is what I am dealing with now. A lot of really nasty games. Fake interest, get me to start to talk to them, then abruptly cut me off. Stuff like that. And what's funny is, I am reminded of someone I talk to occasionally about the situation who kind of hinted to me that she knew "they are being even more evil to you than they were before." Or, in other words, no amount of effort to try to appeal to anyone's good side, to anyone's sense of honor, decency, right or wrong can have any effect on them -- other than to make them act even more evil than they did before.

Every now and then I get treated to a little bit of faux decency -- but laden with a different kind of abuse: passive aggressive sneaky abuse rather than brazen up front obvious abuse. Of course, I think the biggest problem is, there are a large number of gay men as well as crooked cops and all sorts of other powerful people who have done really horrible despicable things to me -- which also include some very serious crimes. And they are all "hooked into" the scene, know a lot of people, and it just works out so gay men know, behave despicably to me, and they will maintain their social standing. Treat me with even a modicum of decency -- and everyone will turn their backs on them and ostracize them. I wonder if that might not be what Hannah Arendt meant when she referred to Eichmann and other Nazis in Nazi Germany as evil in a banal way -- with their motives being solely that they "wanted to belong." 

And another thing that's interesting. Before, every now and then a few guys would treat me semi-normally. And I think that was to try to pull the wool over my eyes and manipulate me into not understanding that I really couldn't trust anyone not to do their damnedest to take advantage of me. You know how it is, you can't completely shun someone if you want to go manipulate that person into putting himself in situations where he can be subjected to all sorts of horrible and evil abuse. Every now and then you have to arrange for someone to give them a glimmer of hope that if they keep trying to meet people, they'll find someone who doesn't abuse them in an evil way. And now nobody treats me normally. But it's sort of like a "we now know you are onto us -- so we aren't going to even bother trying to manipulate you anymore, because we know it won't work." But what that also means is, absolutely no attempt to show even a modicum of decency. It's sort of like the whole gay community knows I am onto them -- and it's not worth it for them to put up even a minimal front of fake decency now. They can drop the act now. 

I mean, obviously there are a few here and there dotted around who are not part of that whole disgusting scene. But it's not very many. See, this all has to do with the government, and the way with identity politics and all, systematically criminal behavior in the gay community becomes almost universal -- even while certain crimes are simply never prosecuted. Have a criminal police force -- and you end up with a criminal culture. Certain queen bees who are criminals call the shots -- and everyone falls in line. 

Same thing as with rape victims, male or female. The female rape victims who get ganged up on are ones who have been designated targets by various queen bees -- who, in today's world, are women, or if not women, at least women play a very important and crucial role in covering it up and aiding and abetting the perpetrators. 

The feelings of utter disgust come in when you realize, it's not you, it's them. Like, ok I never needed to convince anyone I was a desirable person. Nobody ever thought badly of me. It wasn't that. They knew the truth -- and did it anyway. 

That, by the way, is something I remember this woman who counseled me a lot when I was going through the worst of this abuse told me. She kept telling me "they know -- but they do it anyway. That's terrible. You need to believe in yourself." And she also told me, she knew all about what it was about -- because a lot of the same kinds of abusive things done to me had been done to her when she was younger. And, I ought to note, it seems she must have had no choice but to cover it up, like a lot of people. 

What's interesting, though, with the gay community is, a whole lot of it is just one of those "which way the wind is blowing" thing. Everyone is calculating, and the "thing to do" these days (aka, the way to treat me these days) is to treat me like shit, but in a passive aggressive way rather than the more blatant kinds of abuse people engaged in before. However, the wind could easily starts blowing in a different direction, and then all the same people, instead of shunning me, would start falling over themselves trying to placate me. In fact, when I first hired a lawyer, that's exactly what happened. I got deluged with emails from gay men all over, from morning til night, all fawning on me, sucking up to me, all wanting to get the opportunity to placate me with sexual favors and etc. And I had to turn every one of them down, because literally I had had too many close calls by then and, by that time, I knew if I wasn't able to get a lawyer involved, I would end up dead. Or, even if I didn't end up dead, they weren't going to stop the abuse until I did something about it. 

I think it was a few hundred people who were all trying to placate me with sexual favors in hopes of dissuading me from hiring an attorney, and then when it became clear I wasn't going to be dissuaded, just as suddenly they all cease any and all such temporary interest. Which, in and of itself, is just another example of the utter sickening morals of the gay community. And, of course, there are other times when I've gone through similar periods of being sucked up to like that for awhile, only to have it all cease later on. But, that's the thing about it. It's so fake and so superficial. No desire to be genuine. Just calculate how you treat someone according to what way the wind is blowing and what you calculate is the best way to use someone in the moment.

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