All caught up again!
Mommy and Daddy must have had a pretty long talk and some pretty dire consquences to make Russ drop his demand for a Jury case. Historically we know he doesn't listen to (real, non-imaginary) lawyers when they tell him his cases are unwinnable and stupid, so I doubt his exhausted looking representation could have said or done anything to pull the brakes on that inevitable train wreck.
Poor poor Russ, having his favourite weapon turned against him like that. I mean sure, he's been told he's retarded by judge's in the past but Russ could always interpret that as the courts aren't saying "your legal argument is wrong" (due to the judge hating the disabled and loving teen pop idols) and trying to find a new loophole. This time though his holy grounds of the courtroom are saying his
actual words and actions are wrong. I don't expect Russ himself to be able to fully appreciate the difference I wonder if we'll see him attempting to justify and explain away his actions like he does with his school shooter kill list than blaming others like he does with his failed lawsuits.
I have to say I'd also love love love if the next time this happens the woman's lawyer (who would hopefully be the same as Erika's, I'd love her and Skordas to have some kind of reoccuring anti-greer legal squad) to really emphasis how often he uses the legal system to try and blackmail women into keeping contact with him. I know they touched on it a bit this time with the mediation thing and his typed up lawsuit example or whatever that was supposed to be, but I'd like the point really driven home; each one of his fake lawsuits printed out with a photo of the target on the front and in big letters "For not answering his DM" or "For being his sister and not calling him back" just so that an outsider can see, on record, just how often he uses this tactic and for such petty reasons.
I know that sounds kind of silly, but I think actually seeing it all laid out like that would really put into perspective (for an outsider) how real of problem this actually is. I think even those of us who are pretty numb to seeing his threats may be a bit suprised. And I'd be interested in how he refutes the evidence when it is directly, undeniably in front of him (I know, he'd ignore it, but once in a while something does seem to spark in his peanut brain)
I'm not sure he thinks he can trick a judge into ruling discrimination laws apply to personal relationship, rather I think he thinks they do already. He really doesn't understand how they work at all.
Yep, and I think this circles back around to how he also thinks all personal and social relationships are transactional and thus are held to the same laws and standards one would have to the sale of goods and services.
And, to Russ, if that social interaction wasn't a transaction from which he would receive something of value (that "something" usually being a toothy supermodel he can "own" to represent his own social value, MOM) then it was pointless so he wouldn't engage in it anyway, like when his roommates had the gall to invite him to play video games with him. Why would he when he could instead spend that time writing the greatest summer jams as part of Operation: SEE MOM??. Fun has no value to him, experiences have no value to him. Never once have I seen a greer post that was like "I rode a rollarcoaster, it was fun!" instead its all "I went out to Breakfast Chain Food with my dad" with the underlining point being that he traded his time (which has value to his dad) in exchange for his dad paying for Breakfast Chain Food Meal, rather than because spending time with someone else is meaningful and fufilling to our pack-based brains.
I'd rather the iron fist of justice come down on James Terry Mitchell next. He willing admits to repeatedly raping a nine year old girl when he was 16, and can't understand why people are mad about it.
Oh god I'd forgotten about him. He probably still lives really close to that elementary school too.
