• @MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    281 month ago

    Presidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind.

    (Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don’t have to deal with this nonsense to boot)

    • @madcaesar@lemmy.world
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      People lose their shit over jury nullification, yet somehow pardons are A-OK

      Pardons should not be a thing, in my lifetime its pretty much only been used for scummy shit.

  • subiaco
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    61 month ago

    Well it’s pretty clear musk is a piece of shit like trump

  • Elaine Cortez
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    291 month ago

    The fact that Elon Musk is for pardoning someone who murdered an innocent person speaks volumes. Also, I can’t see how this wouldn’t lead to riots.

  • @Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    81 month ago

    Chauvin would join Kash Himmler’s near future SA or NKVD private security detail. The single finger salute goes out to the neo-Nazis and their Government of Putin supporters.

  • halyk.the.red
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    Nazi child of apartheid encourages elevated racial tensions, more at 11.

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        They’ll beat the drums of nationalism, and try to guilt you. If you flee now, the hundreds of years of oppression will have been in vain. You dare turn your back on the failed revolutions of MLK? Malcolm X? Coward, they’ll say. But I say fuck that noise. You owe them nothing. Get out, before it gets worse. You owe it to you and yours to try and find happiness, if you can.

        Edit: This is my 666th comment. I meant to drop it in a christian thread, but I thought I had at least one more. Oh well.

  • @rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    Hell yes! Get Chauvin out of Club Fed and right into GenPop of the nearest state prison. That’ll work out GREAT for everyone. Except Chauvin.

  • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    Gotta throw red meat to the racist AF base to distract from how fElon and his Incel Clown Posse is stealing from the American people…

      • @VubDapple@real.lemmy.fan
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        91 month ago

        “But of those hapless who were snared by Melkor little is known of a certainty. […] Yet this is held true by the wise of Eressëa: that all those of the Quendi that came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty and wickedness were corrupted and enslaved. Thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orkor in envy and mockery of the Eldar, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes. For the Orkor had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of Ilúvatar; and naught that had life of its own, nor the semblance thereof, could ever Melkor make since his rebellion in the Ainulindalë before the Beginning: so say the wise. And deep in their dark hearts the Orkor loathed the Master whom they served in fear, the maker only of their misery. This maybe was the vilest deed of Melkor and the most hateful to Eru”

  • @himmyguap@lemmy.world
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    231 month ago

    Elon knows millions of Americans hate him and are coming for him so he wants every single super-villain free to team up together.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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    521 month ago

    A possible motive is to push the power of the executive. If Trump can somehow seize this power, there’s nothing that can stop him.

    That or just trying to embolden the police, but I’m guessing it’s even worse than that.

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      I’d say it’s to embolden police and violent racists, in hope of helping encouraging their race war to destabilize the country so that they can divy it up.

      The interesting lack of forethought from the oligarchic billionaires is that their billions mean nothing without the US dollar and NYSE. The majority of their hoards of wealth are not backed by anything tangible that could be of use in the event that the US dollar ceases to be relevant. I suppose that this kind of thought isn’t likely to occur to sociopaths that were born with platinum spoons in their mouths.

      • WatDabney
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        Yes - just as with the DEI controversy, the main point is just to fan the flames of racism.

        The 1% understand that the US is approaching a breaking point. Things are going to shit, and people are going to start looking for someone to blame for the ugliness and horror and death to come.

        And the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the 1%.

        And of course, they don’t want us to see that. So they’re doing everything they can to divide us against ourselves.

    • @wirebeads@lemmy.ca
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      371 month ago

      A gun. A gun can stop him. They work well. American has more guns than people, and a second amendment designed to stop this nonsense when needed.

      It’s needed.

  • @reidand@lemmy.ca
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    231 month ago

    If he gets pardoned I hope that will push the Americans harder to overthrow these sycophants. On the other hand it could be to try to trigger something so Cheeto Mussolini can crack down on the protests with violence.

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      There will be mass protests, looters will take advantage of these times. Martial law will be declared in those places and never given back. Nothing would make them happier

      • If the United States commits their military to enforcing martial law on their own soil then it’ll be more difficult for them to escalate their current economic wars into actual wars.