• Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    He’s not wrong. There is absolute immunity for Trump friendly crimes, also known as presidential pardon.

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          7 days ago

          Also Trump literally illegally kidnapped a head of state to the U.S. And we’re supposed to pretend the first thing they did was not simply… Move the murderer somewhere out of state where they couldn’t reach him even if they tried (which they won’t because no blue state has the balls to meaningfully stand up to Trump)?

          I mean, realistically that guy could twerk in front of the Minnesota Capitol with some ICE buddies to back him up and giant sign saying “I did it” and Minnesota still wouldn’t do shit.

          “State’s rights” are exactly like the “2A rights”. They only serve conservatives, whom the law protects but does not bind.

          This is not just me being salty BTW. I am trying to get across the point to anyone reading this that if your plan to bring back U.S. Democracy relies on the Constitution playing in your favor, you’ve already lost.

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    Is the murderer absolutely immune from a person who wants to take revenge?
    Yeah, ok, the murderer may never meet his legal and justified consequences but will the Nazi government of america always be there to protect him?

    Now, obviously, ;⁠-⁠);⁠-⁠) , I’m not saying a person should find this guy and do unto him what he has done unto others. Nope. No way…

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      This is a perspective that the leadership in general should keep in mind.

      They are relishing in ignoring laws and treaties and just opting out of consequences. Generally people understand that honoring laws and elections leaves the populace broadly with a sense of justice even with misdeeds and the punishments are, generally, pretty light. Even the light punishments satisfy people.

      Continually flaunting these mechanisms and denying people a civilized path to feelings of justice and being heard is a dangerous thing.

      It’s why the control bounces back and forth between two sinilar political parties, most people get a sense of “my team won” or “my team will probably win next time” and this placates people. To decide to nope out of these conventions is to invite great risk.

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    8 days ago

    Oh you misunderstand, he knows the law well. He just knows how to use it as a tool to protect the elites from accountability and as a bludgeon to punish the people for non-compliance, as well as how to make sure that never gets flipped.

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    8 days ago

    Thiel went to Stanford law ….I think a lot of these evil morons prove that these Ivy League schools are crap

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        100%. I think I did college every possible way (except ivy league). First two years at a small liberal arts college, left because tution went way up and scholarship stayed the same. Three yeara at a big univeraity, where i switched majors and graduated with a bunch of useless paper in time for the 2009 financial crisis. Never found a career and went back to community college for a focused degree. All had good and bad aspects but community college i thought was the best learning experience.

        Part of that may have been due to already being loaded up on gen ed credits, so i could focus on just the degree classes. It was also the fact that the teachers were real people who had experience in the field rather than career academics.

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      Seems like those schools were successful in teaching them how our legal system works and how to use it to advance their own goals. Seems like the only thing they didn’t learn is ethics, but their understanding of our legal system is pretty solid.

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        8 days ago

        They’re literally out there committing crimes against international law and the constitution every day

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          And they’re getting away with it because they understand how the legal system works (or doesn’t).

  • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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    jesus fuck im allowed to get the types of immunity wrong im a dipshit. this is just embarrassing im gonna go tease my ivy league educated sister