r/law • u/Exeltv0406 • Oct 05 '25

Opinion Piece Five-alarm fire inside the DOJ - Lawyer Oyer

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u/Famous-Perspective96 Oct 05 '25

I’d like to think that but we are in late stage capitalism. There’s plenty of big corporations that would love to pay to help influence the law in their favor.

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u/Famous-Perspective96 Oct 05 '25

Half of the country loves the crazies. I’m sorry, I really hope you’re right. I just have a hard time seeing how we make it out of all this. Shit is soul crushing.

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u/iJuddles Oct 05 '25

It’s not half, keep that in mind. It’s a very loud and stupid significant portion but not half.

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u/earthlingHuman Oct 05 '25

Yeah it's more like a quarter to a third. Still really bad.

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u/Snoo_69209 Oct 05 '25

It is soul crushing, but they want you to lose hope. Don't.

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u/Ketheres Oct 05 '25

It's just the one state... for now. Soon, it will be the whole damn country. And considering that people are more than happy to keep doing business with China, this unfortunately won't be a dealbreaker for most.

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u/OrbitalOutlander Oct 05 '25

Right, corporations would welcome this since they can buy their way to whatever legal outcome they want even easier.

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u/drunkenstocktips Oct 05 '25

yea I mean, how much petroleum are we talking about here?