It’s going down. I’m yelling timber.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

-Adam Smith

The 180 is befriending Russia and Backstabbing NATOs former allies.

Comment by user einkorn made hours before yours. Maybe you blocked him.

I hope one day we mature as a species and abandon militarism. It’s a VERY faint hope. Until then, yes. Build your own.

“Rationale”

We give them far to much credit. They are creatures of instinct, not reason.

He is being guided to by those close to him.

A) Russia B) Israel

Let’s not pretend a lot of Russian Jews didn’t end up in Israel. There is a lot of overlap for Epstein’s kompromat operation to leverage Trumps 180 of America.

No, sorry, I got the spelling wrong. It slobluntu. My mistake. A portmanteau of slobbery blunt to you.

Don’t buy weapons from unreliable actors.

Thats when the person to your right hands you a slobbery spliff during puff-puff-pass.

Russia’s motto: …and then it got worse.

A little late bud, but welcome to the party.

I claim full control of all of uninhabited Siberia on behalf of the New Mongolian Empire.

The grid could under real leadership. Your vampire squid parasitic infection is the problem here.

I did not have “Trump - Climate Change Warrior/Eco-Terrorist” on my 2026 disaster bingo card.

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.

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.