• @Caradoc879
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      1711 months ago

      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.

      • Pistcow
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        1011 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 months ago

          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.

    • @NAXLAB
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      711 months ago

      I’m convinced it was sarcasm

        • @EmpathicVagrant
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          111 months ago

          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.

          • @SheeEttin
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            311 months ago

            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.

            • @EmpathicVagrant
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              111 months ago

              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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              • @SheeEttin
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                211 months ago

                Huh. Must just be me remembering things that never happened, then.

            • @EmpathicVagrant
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              211 months ago

              Here’s an idea I just invented, let’s end any satire with “/s” so everyone who reads it can be in on the fun and so controversial things aren’t encouraged by the confusion!