100%. There's a pervasive sort of belief that laws are discrete, literal things carved into the very ontology of existence instead of fuzzy guidelines enforced or ignored at the arbitrary whims of the legal system which also has no actual obligation to know the laws and whose will is still considered legitimate even when it is directly breaking the law or making up imaginary ones that don't exist but some dipshit cop thinks they do. Like it's just straight up these civic cult brainworms that legislatures are doing some sort of magic ritual to create Law and this then becomes some sort of real and true binding principle to be unfailingly carried out by reliable enforcers.

Dial up that belief even further and it becomes like the civic cult's version of numerology and prophesy through analyzing the holy texts, where they believe so wholly in legal literalism that they start to think it's a magic system and they're wizards who can exploit its literalness and nature of being fundamental to reality to their own advantage.

I mean, some liberals do kinda act as if the world operates like that. The whole "rule of law" shit etm.

I read all of the written opinions from my home state's Supreme Court(it's a weird hobby, I know), which includes any appeals of state bar disciplinary actions. It takes a lot to actually get disbarred, and it's almost always for repeatedly doing things that are cut and dried no-no's, like misappropriating client funds. The bar disciplinary board and the judges who hear the appeals are all lawyers and they cut an incredible amount of slack for this kind of stuff. This argument, while dumb, wouldn't even merit a reprimand.

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Randomly is when I find an event inside of a probability space. By chance is when I find a $100 bill on the ground.

your honor, there's no law saying I can't make a normal distribution with a kurtosis of 1 trillion.

"Your honor, while there may be such a mathematical concept of randomness we can't produce it as such even in the modern computing era. Therefore, all things considered that there is no actual randomness, we cannot say that our chosen winner has been chosen randomly as such. I rest my case."

one of them hopefully won't get in trouble

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The spelling, for starters

Getting a response within 17 minutes on hexbear???

Actual bullshit artists will use a lot of words to try to explain that lobbying isn't just ritualized bribery.

Someone i know who has personal dealings with him says COVID and his trans daughter made him go off the deep end.

Which time?

Sophistry was such a hated practice in ancient Greece that sometimes sophists got stabbed and the local authorities would just look the other way because their bullshit artistry was that repulsive.

It's like a magic trick your Honour, we shuffle the deck of cards, we know where the cards are

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i thought i was just selling premium luxury cardboard boxes handcrafted in a japanese hot spring town how the fuck was i supposed to know there was fentanyl in them

That's how gambling can be both illegal in Japanese prefectures but also pinball parlors are mysteriously across the street from special vendors that will offer cash for the pinball prize items.