"Stygian levers and gears..." -- great wording

Hideous reality. Thanks.

Try filing a lawsuit against a hospital.

"Agree that litigation is a broken but rule-bound grind—most systems are. Reminds me of how Russia’s evacuation of Bushehr’s nuclear staff follows a rigid playbook, even amid chaos. The article below argues it’s calculated escalation, not panic. Worth reading. https://theboard.world/articles/russia-evacuating-bushehr-nuclear-escalation" *(276 characters, URL excluded)*

I tried representing myself in traffic court once. I’m usually pretty well spoken but was reduced to a stammering idiot because I didn’t know the process. Education is never free. Went home, paid my fine and signed up for the group legal plan at work 😂. Got a number in my phone of a criminal defense attorney my local judge friend recommends, just in case. I’ll never again mess with the legal system without competent representation.

I'm faced with several philosophical question: is there justice in a system that the common man is unable to navigate, understand, or withstand? Should he be held accountable to laws that an average person can't even comprehend? Who does such a system really serve? Perhaps justice for those who can afford it? What are your thoughts?

"Lawsuits aside, broken systems like our food pyramid are more deranged, prioritizing grains over meat."

The statutes are easy to comprehend for the most Part. It’s the process that mostly inscrutable

It’s humbling but for traffic court I would have thought the judge would have helped you out more.

"there are powerful mechanisms, Stygian levers and gears, actuating the soulless golem of law at your disposal." Extraordinary clause! Works as a blurb on the back of the dust jacket of the LSAT.

Haha thanks

It's certainly easier with practice. It's easier for us. But we probably aren't average. But there's also the issue of volume. It isn't just a matter of language. We have laws passed with thousands of pages in them, some of which are totally unrelated to the original topic. I don't buy that any average person can know all the laws and regulations they're subject to. Now I don't know necessarily that they should be able to (I'd have a very small government so they probably could), but something like the tax code seems designed to fuck people. And then you have things like Antitrust that's so vague it can be used to convict a business on either side of a case depending how you spin it. At some point you have to ask whether *can* is equal to practical or feasible. If I have to hire a dude at hundreds of dollars per hour just to do basic life stuff without going to prison (work, use my property, start a business, write code, etc), I don't think such a system is just. And then the legal system probably has to become a tangled mess to manage it. That's my retarded non-lawyer take anyway. That's how I feel as a citizen.

If we ever have the opportunity to have a coffee id love to tell you a story about why I'm here :) It's probably not major news to you, but it changed my life dramatically. I don't believe in agencies anymore, they're just gangsters with a license, there is nothing fair, right, correct, or just about the way they operate. I can't speak for the court, but I don't believe the system "lawyers, judges, a jury of my peers" can save anyone from abuse of power and disproportionate application of the law. Other countries just jail their dissidents without the ceremony. The US just has a shaming ritual.

> But! It _does_have reliably enforceable rules and procedures that are part of that busted system that a competent lawyer can leverage for your benefit. At the of a just a few million bucks minimum and a disclaimer that it was likely to end up in US Supreme court.

Not sure what your last sentence refers to but ya unfortunately complicated lawsuits are often impossibly expensive for regular folk.

Lets just say corruption is high, and now I try to write software instead of unlocking vehicle firmware because I probably have less of a chance of landing in federal prison. But too soon to tell. Have a look at the diesel compliance initiative, EPA v PPEI, EPA v Arm Rippin Toys and so on. You'll notice the penalties, values, violation counts are completely imaginary. What you see in public is the same thing we see. You get a paper that says we believe you're guilty of 200 violations, what sayeth you sir? You're never told what they are or what exactly you did wrong. In some of the Alaska cases (i can speak for authoritatively) the EPA involved other federal agencies and were charged with conspiracy to defraud and received actual prison sentences. After raiding their homes and detaining their customers and family members. In one case the judge said because the activity of modifying vehicles causes pollution which affects communities of color disproportionately. Was told the prosecution wasn't even seeking prison time but the judge ruled it. Would love to share more personal details but the parties involved want leave it in the past. Being accused of a crime is nearly as bad as being charged of one. It's risky even sharing these stories with personal involvement because it makes me sound like a criminal. Given enough time I get to share the whole story and people understand but continue about their life. I'm probably the only person still sharing these stories among all of these smaller parties, they just want to go about their lives without being harassed again, and dealing with the restrictions of being felons on paper and many without ever serving jail time.

42 U.S. Code § 7522 Section 3 has destroyed more business, families and lives than I can count or will probably ever know about. That's not "reliably enforceable rule" if you ask me. It's brutally vague on purpose. It's designed to be subjective so they can say what they said to us "We don't want people like you in business". I wish I could have captured that recording to prove my point.

Ask the epa what a defeat devices is. Our council did. And they had no response, because they don't have to.

Just a few months ago the DHS made a twitter post saying "Nah we don't want to do this anymore" and my friends all got phone calls in the morning that said go home you're a free man. On fucking twitter.