2020 Election MEGAthread

[Danth]

Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Three days later he's thrown out of car in front of his house and then he's thrown out of work because who can work with all those broken bones.

Communists, Fascists, and mobsters: Not much different, they all operate via rule-through-fear. What you describe above basically happened to my old man except it was the local racket he somehow ran afoul of after doing jobs for 'em for some 20-odd years. He disappeared for the better part of a month; eventually he was found in a rail yard in east Cleveland, robbed and beaten to a pulp. Hoodlums are bad enough, but when the State IS the hoodlum, things get real bad real quick.

Dad only ever talked to me about being in one shooting, where he and a brother of his shot another dude non-fatally just to make a point about leaving their sister alone. That was his advice to me when another dude was hanging around my then-girlfriend, "Do what you gotta do." At least the hoodlums usually had it coming when they got their end of it. Dad wouldn't ever say who busted him up--he was no rat--I can't recall him saying he didn't deserve it, either. Extremist governments-turned-thugs have a tendency, instead, to start killing off people whose main crime is that of merely existing.

Danth