It's kind of interesting how much better the world would be if all the "nightmarish" things CHUDs think about the world were actually true. Everything would be so much better if we lived in their worst nightmares. And yet, despite them "winning" they are still jumping at shadows over everything because the world being run by and for selfish, miserable short-sighted sadsacks is a miserable place.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

(Apparently in the original context this is the punchline to "Imagine a world with no lawyers." I always wonder the underlying motivations behind that, though. Is it advocating that police be judge, jury, and executioner (even moreso, I mean)?)

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

remember, lawyers don't just defend, they prosecute

and trial law is a rather small amount of what many lawyers do. paperwork, counseling, negotiating, and patenting often consume large amounts of time. and that's not even counting that lawyers often don't just stay lawyers, they end up managers or politicians, positions that aren't exactly publicly popular.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

lawyers write laws to keep job security for the profession. contrast with Cuba's recent family code that's iirc written in plain language anyone literate (i.e. all Cubans, suck it USA) can understand. also probably other laws of theirs.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The "lawyers are bad people" joke was a trope from the 80s to the 2000s. IIRC there's a citations-needed episode about how that kind of rhetoric was pushed by megacorps who wanted to discourage "frivolous lawsuits", like the woman who got 3rd degree burns from mcdonalds coffee.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago

there's been quite a few periods in time where lawyers were particularly unpopular and mocked. most of the people involved in Watergate were lawyers, so lawyers popularity dropped massively when that hit, and they were ridiculed by all kinds of media.

[–] GrafZahl@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago

The way Springfield PD was depicted in the show, I doubt the creators held police in high regard

[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 16 points 4 weeks ago

There's a barn near my house that the owner wrote a long sign on about how Biden is a communist and was going to make the US like China.

Every time I drove by, I thought "I wish he was the monster you think he is".