i think anti-lawyer sentiment is a symptom of how fucked up our legal system is. i mean did they have so many lawyer jokes in the USSR? :fry: ?did they?
yeah anti-lawyer sentiment definitely comes from the fact that unless you can pay for it you have no access to the law. So you can be legally in the right and have that just not matter
To a certain extent but 95% of company lawyers and a plurality of divorce attorneys are human shitbags.
It's like that airline attorney arguing that they shouldn't have to pay restitution because the people in the airplane died instantly on impact. Lawyers attempt to defend corporate murder on a technicality.
I want to say an episode of Citations Needed mentioned that a lot of the anti-lawyer sentiment originated with the bourgeois pushing for "tort reform" to get rid of "frivolous" lawsuits (like the woman who spilled boiling mcdonald's coffee on her lap and needed skin grafts).
they also came back to it in Copaganda episodes, there used to be a bunch of Cool Defense Lawyer shows, but they've all been replaced by cops & prosecutors, with defense as villains
i think anti-lawyer sentiment is a symptom of how fucked up our legal system is. i mean did they have so many lawyer jokes in the USSR? :fry: ?did they?
yeah anti-lawyer sentiment definitely comes from the fact that unless you can pay for it you have no access to the law. So you can be legally in the right and have that just not matter
I think it's anti-bourgeoisie sentiment being redirected due to capitalist realism
To a certain extent but 95% of company lawyers and a plurality of divorce attorneys are human shitbags.
It's like that airline attorney arguing that they shouldn't have to pay restitution because the people in the airplane died instantly on impact. Lawyers attempt to defend corporate murder on a technicality.
yea defence lawyers are cool even if they have to defend genuine criminals because the legal system should work that way
corporate lawyers are all about fucking over consumers or destroying the competition
I want to say an episode of Citations Needed mentioned that a lot of the anti-lawyer sentiment originated with the bourgeois pushing for "tort reform" to get rid of "frivolous" lawsuits (like the woman who spilled boiling mcdonald's coffee on her lap and needed skin grafts).
they also came back to it in Copaganda episodes, there used to be a bunch of Cool Defense Lawyer shows, but they've all been replaced by cops & prosecutors, with defense as villains