Capitalist exploitation is a natural cause? That’s a wild take.

And for everything that is not solvable in an ER visit, go and die somewhere out of sight.

…and in the same breath wonder why they don’t get more aid and direct foreign investment.

Good! Now do the rest of Europe and Canada.

Fiiiind another race.

Bad example. In the US it’s super cool to deny care for dollars. Illness and death are built into the system from for profit hospitals to health insurance and pharma pricing.

Edit: Downvote all you like, but Luigi isn’t a folk hero without reason.

3 part answer:

1. Yes. Many are deeply morally and ethically good people. I know a few personally. They view defending the indefensible as the price to pay for society to have a free, fair and functional justice system. They are true believers in what the legal system aspires to be, even when it doesn’t always live up to its promise. They know a bad guy going free is harmful, but must be balanced against innocents being victimized by a vengeful society as more harmful. They love to lose when the evidence is compelling against their client knowing justice was served and the sometimes severe punishments are applied to a human being with their conscience clean.

2. No. Well, not always. There are shitty people everywhere. Criminal Defence can pay really well and pay and prestige attracts more than a few self serving dark triad types.

3. Same goes for judges. I am generally fond of European courts and Canadian courts where Judges are often appointed from lists created by comittees of law societies or their equivalent. Their peers tend to select the best legal minds among them as nominees. We tend to score very high in comparative analyses. Contrast this with the US election of judges and political appointees of Supreme Court Justices and, well, you can see dumpster fires of a bad system everywhere. Elected people are unduly influenced by the pressures of their electorate or campaign financiers. This tends to result in vengeful false convictions of innocents and disproportional persecution of underclasses, political or economic motivated injustices, and well heeled crooks and creeps going free.

I appreciate the correction, but now I’m going to keep my error for the humour.

Torture is free speech? Careful what you ask for, fascists.

I’ll take your brain to another dimension. Pay close attention.

Liebensraum

Linda Hamilton?

Crosspost in programming or technology?

I think I have a new mental illness for medical science to classify. It’s kinda like dyslexia, but more severe and more selective at the same time.

Every headline I read that identifies what Trump said or did, my brain makes the letters jump around on the page and re-interprets it as some variation of the following theme:

“Trump reaches into his diaper with both hands pulls out fistfulls of shit and smears it on his face, the walls and the people around him. He then proceeds to lick his fingers and looks to his stunned audience for approval and gets really mad when he doesn’t get praise and a burger.”

Fascinating.

Edit: Some suggestions on naming the condition:

“Trump Induced Metaphorically Correct Synopsis Syndrome”.

“Post Traumatic Executive Summary Disorder”

It’s a digital replica.

You’re not thinking big enough. ;)

Rename Florida “Trump’s Swamp.”

What about the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!

A heart attack? Your manager should get more exercise and eat a diet rich in iron, folate, protein and fibre and scantily clad women. Like beans. See above for a serving guide

Punches below the belt. Right in the photovoltaics.