I had a public defender once and they pushed hard to take a plea, like hard hard. If I had the money for a real lawyer, it would have been in my favor.
I believe it. Reading comprehension is not great overall. Couple that with folks that like being angry, and you’ll have people responding to whatever interpretation makes them angry, even if it isn’t close to what was said.
Almost like tone doesn’t come across in written form for all the people reading it, maybe we should develop a form of tonal punctuation to show satire in forums like this.
The interrobang is purportedly for indicating sarcasm, though I and other people generally only use it as a silly “?!” ligature.
Personally, I still believe that if satire can’t be detected, either it’s shitty satire, or your audience is too dense to understand it even if they recognized it.
I can’t seem to find anything about it being used to indicate sarcasm at all, only as an exclaimed question to express surprise, and is the same thing as the symbols next to each other as you used in example.
If we want a reasonable effort from them, we might want to not overwork them so hard. Maybe just, y’know, hire more.
Frankly though, if we’re going to make them basically do paid residencies now, why don’t we make them work as public defenders? Would solve our problem, and they’re young, fresh grads, so you don’t have to pay them as much yet anyway.
Certainly public defenders shouldn’t need it if they’re just churning their clients through with plea deals
Edit: /s, jfc guys
That’s a weird attitude to take. Do you specifically hate poor people?
I took it more as a calling out that most public defenders do just churn out plea deals, not as praising them for doing so.
I had a public defender once and they pushed hard to take a plea, like hard hard. If I had the money for a real lawyer, it would have been in my favor.
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Yup that’s how I meant it, I’m concerned so many people here were willing to believe I was actually advocating for an objective flaw in the system
I believe it. Reading comprehension is not great overall. Couple that with folks that like being angry, and you’ll have people responding to whatever interpretation makes them angry, even if it isn’t close to what was said.
I’m convinced it was sarcasm
Lol I’m a little surprised it needed saying, but you are correct
Almost like tone doesn’t come across in written form for all the people reading it, maybe we should develop a form of tonal punctuation to show satire in forums like this.
Can’t… tell… if you’re being sarcastic right now… There’s no way for me to possibly know
The interrobang is purportedly for indicating sarcasm, though I and other people generally only use it as a silly “?!” ligature.
Personally, I still believe that if satire can’t be detected, either it’s shitty satire, or your audience is too dense to understand it even if they recognized it.
I can’t seem to find anything about it being used to indicate sarcasm at all, only as an exclaimed question to express surprise, and is the same thing as the symbols next to each other as you used in example.
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Huh. Must just be me remembering things that never happened, then.
If we want a reasonable effort from them, we might want to not overwork them so hard. Maybe just, y’know, hire more.
Frankly though, if we’re going to make them basically do paid residencies now, why don’t we make them work as public defenders? Would solve our problem, and they’re young, fresh grads, so you don’t have to pay them as much yet anyway.