New video shows Trump may have violated federal law at crypto event: attorney
New video shows Trump may have violated federal law at crypto event: attorney
A criminal law attorney warned late Friday that a new video appears to show President Donald Trump ran afoul of federal laws when he took the stage at a private dinner event for investors of his meme coin.Daniel Hampton (Raw Story)
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DOJ Abandons Effort to Address Phoenix’s Treatment of Homeless People
DOJ Abandons Effort to Address Phoenix’s Treatment of Homeless People
The Justice Department retracted findings of constitutional violations in Phoenix and five other jurisdictions. Advocates say the move could further embolden cities and police departments to marginalize homeless people.ProPublica
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The GOP says states’ rights matter — unless it’s California
The GOP says states’ rights matter — unless it’s California
Legal experts say Congress misused a federal law to do so, potentially “opening up a Pandora’s box it cannot close.”Joseph Winters (Vox)
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Sure, and free speech matters on campus unless you're anti-Zionist. Freedom of religion matters unless you aren't Christian. Parental rights matter unless you support your child's transition. Fiscal responsibility unless it's the Pentagon or subsidies or tax cuts.
Etc etc
Freddie Mercury had secret daughter, new biography claims
Freddie Mercury had a secret daughter with whom he had a close relationship until his death in 1991, according to a new biography of the Queen frontman.
The book, Love, Freddie, claims the child was conceived accidentally during an affair with the wife of a close friend in 1976.
Mercury is said to have visited his daughter regularly and gave her 17 volumes of detailed personal journals which she kept a secret.
(Rock biographer Lesley-Ann) Jones said she was first approached by B three years ago. She told the Daily Mail: “My instinct was to doubt everything, but I am absolutely sure she is not a fantasist.
“No one could have faked all this. Why would she have worked with me for three and a half years, never demanding anything?”
Freddie Mercury had secret daughter, new biography claims
According to Love, Freddie, Queen frontman had close relationship with child conceived accidentally in 1976Nadeem Badshah (The Guardian)
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Sperm from cancer-risk donor used to conceive at least 67 children across Europe
The sperm of a man carrying a rare cancer-causing mutation was used to conceive at least 67 children, 10 of whom have since been diagnosed with cancer, in a case that has highlighted concerns about the lack of internationally agreed limits on the use of donor sperm.
Experts have previously warned of the social and psychological risks of sperm from single donors being used to create large numbers children across multiple countries. The latest case, involving dozens of children born between 2008 and 2015, raises fresh concerns about the complexity of tracing so many families when a serious medical issue is identified.
“We need to have a European limit on the number of births or families for a single donor,” said Dr Edwige Kasper, a biologist at Rouen university hospital in France, who presented the case at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics in Milan.
Sperm from cancer-risk donor used to conceive at least 67 children across Europe
Case of man carrying rare genetic variant fuels calls for limit on number of children that can be fathered by one donorHannah Devlin (The Guardian)
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Israeli settlers force about 150 Palestinians to leave their West Bank village
Violent Israeli settlers including two under UK sanctions have forced about 150 Palestinians to leave their village in the occupied West Bank, through a five-day intimidation campaign carried out under the watch of the Israeli police and army.
On Sunday morning, settlers established an illegal outpost, consisting of a basic shelter and a sheep pen, 100 metres from a Palestinian home in Mughayyir al-Deir, east of Ramallah. By Friday, dozens of villagers had already moved their flocks away, packed up their belongings and were dismantling the wooden and metal frames of their houses.
Settlers stalked between Palestinian men who worked fast and largely in silence, grappling with the grim reality of leaving the place where most were born and grew up. A child cried as he was driven away on a truck loaded with the family’s red sofas.
Israeli settlers force about 150 Palestinians to leave their West Bank village
Two settlers under UK sanctions among those who carried out intimidation campaign under Israeli authorities’ watchQuique Kierszenbaum (The Guardian)
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U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released
U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed in Alabama immigration raid and held before release
A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid had a REAL ID on him that was dismissed as fake, the man's cousin said Friday.Suzanne Gamboa (NBC News)
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Far-right views among elderly decline with more social interaction, study finds - The Korea Times
Educational background also played a role. Far-right views were more prevalent among respondents with a high school diploma or less at 24 percent, compared to 19 percent of those with a college degree.
Far-right views among elderly decline with more social interaction, study finds
In recent political discourse, the term “far-right” has become increasingly familiar. Once considered a fringe viewpoint, far-right ideas, often characterized by extreme positions, are now being voice...Hankookilbo (The Korea Times)
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I'm going to say something huge.
We are a social species.
If people are raised, or live in isolation they are far more susceptible to bad ideas/ways of thinking/ideologies, & severe mental health issues. (I would know I've lived my own version of COVID for 23 years)
Many rural people can live decades without seeing other vastly different people from them. Espefially if they stay in their home or town without genuinely interacting with people different from them
All this, mixed with boredom of nothing to do in rural, breeding racism overtime, & giving a "rural family" feel to MAGA united them overtime but in worst ways possible
For ones that can be changed they need to be befriended by other white people and shown the truth then gradually introduced to better ways of thinking, and other people
Its a tragedy the country left so many people behind over all these decades. They would have been a lot different if no one was left behind
For the world I don't know how bad it is but hopefully not as bad as our situation
The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
The Trump Administration’s Legal Battle to Cast Immigration as an “Invasion”
The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the far right has been building this case for years.ProPublica
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Trump has dropped the pretense of ethics
Trump has dropped the pretense of ethics
Free plane, crypto dinner, foreign deals: the first family doesn't seem to care how corrupt it looks.Mother Jones
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‘I’m Not Looking For a Deal’: Trump Says EU Tariffs Staying At Fifty Percent
‘I’m Not Looking For a Deal’: Trump Says EU Tariffs Staying At Fifty Percent
“I'm not looking for any deal. I mean, we've set the deal. It's at 50 percent. But again, there are no tariffs if they build a plant here.”Alex Griffing (Mediaite)
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Bukele's dirty secret: He made deals with the worst gangs
A cacophony of right-wing commentators now believes that El Salvador, under Nayib Bukele’s dictatorship, is the “safest” country in the Western Hemisphere. Bukele himself certainly wants us to believe it’s because he’s gone to war with the gangs. They’re all wrong — and disastrously so.
According to El Faro, the country’s most respected investigative outlet, the relative peace in El Salvador is not the result of a decisive war on gangs, but rather, of a secret pact negotiated directly between Bukele’s own Director of Prisons Osiris Luna and his head of the Social Fabric Reconstruction Unit, Carlos Marroquín, and gang leaders, starting in late 2019. He also took on similar negotiations with gangs as a mayor of San Salvador, from 2015 to 2018.
3 Dirty Secrets Revealed by the El Salvador Gang ‘Negotiations’
The El Faro media group reported that the El Salvador government is “negotiating” with street gangs to keep homicide levels low, which may come as a surprise to most except other politicians, who also negotiate with gangs.Steven Dudley (InSight Crime)
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US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation.
The food stocks have been stuck inside 4 U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programmes, according to three people who previously worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development and two sources from other aid organisations.
Some stocks that are due to expire as early as July are likely to be destroyed, either by incineration, using them as animal feed or disposing of them in other ways, two of the sources said.
The warehouses, which are run by USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), contain between 60,000 to 66,000 metric tonnes of food, sourced from American farmers and manufacturers, the five people said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-aid-cuts-leave-food-millions-mouldering-storage-2025-05-16/
...you're just getting this?
But thank God, because biden or Harris would have been worse somehow!
Palestinian faction chiefs quit Damascus amid pressure
Those who have left include Khaled Jibril, son of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) founder Ahmad Jibril, as well as Palestinian Popular Struggle Front secretary-general Khaled Abdel Majid and Fatah al-Intifada secretary-general Ziad al-Saghir.
Washington, which considers several Palestinian factions to be "terrorist" organisations, last week announced it was lifting sanctions on Syria after earlier saying Damascus needed to respond to demands including suppressing "terrorism" and preventing "Iran and its proxies from exploiting Syrian territory".
The factions "did not receive any official request from the authorities to leave Syrian territory" but instead faced restrictions and property confiscations, the first Palestinian factional leader said, noting that some factions "were de facto prohibited from operating" or their members were arrested.
The new authorities have seized property from "private homes, offices, vehicles and military training camps in the Damascus countryside and other provinces", he said.
https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinian-faction-chiefs-quit-damascus-amid-pressure-report
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Lebanon seems like a lost cause. Hezbollah straight rolled over without doing anything when Israel escalated. It was pretty pathetic honestly.
Yemen has filled their role and is stepping up bigtime.
When did Israel ever respected peace deals they didn't after Arab surrendered they continued to destoy Palestinians villages , they didn't during Lebanese civil war , they didn't after 2006 war.
I don't think Hezbollah is done, i think they could recover after a decade or so . Let's see how they will perform during this election. The really pathetic side was the Lebanese army , when Israel strike the hurt of the capital it's no longer about Hezbollah vs Israel
You are right Yemen is the new face of the armed resistance
Israel is still bombing Lebanon and Hezbollah is not retaliating.
Hezbollah had many missiles which they could have aimed at Israel. They did not. They took it and they keep taking it without retaliating.
Hezbollah and Iran were very calm and calculated with their responses initially, but when Israel started mass bombing the capital there should have been a massive response from Hezbollah, which did not come. Israel had free game to do whatever they wanted and they did.
Israel called the bluff and they massively won. They kept shooting and shooting and nothing came back.
Allegedly Hezbollah had thousands of underground missiles ready to fire at Israel.
The problem is that America assigned a new Lebanese president which works together with Israel and the PA to dismantle Hezbollah.
Usually when a certain red line is crossed there should be massive retaliation. When Israel committed their beeper terror attack Hezbollah should have organized a massive counter attack. Instead they allowed Israel to invade Lebanon and basically did nothing to counter Israel.
Even now Israel is bombing Hezbollah during the 'ceasefire' and Hezbollah is not retaliating.
I think that Hezbollah is not allowed a big retaliation by Iran. Iran wants to stall as long as possible so they can build up their nuclear arsenal. A large scale escalation which would give America a reason to intervene could ruin their plan. Hezbollah was probably told to not fire back. Though that's just my assumption.
Uhhh... these assholes are terrorists.
Yeah Italy just rolled over in WWII while Germany fought to the bitter end. Do you think it was better that Germany continued fighting when it was obvious they'd lost because some authoritarian asshole convinced them they should own all of the land they wanted with no more Jews?
Look at the photos of German cities at the end of WWII and look at Gaza. This kind of senseless hatred doesn't accomplish anything other than getting a lot of people killed.
Palestinians are dying because of the hatred of Hamas and it will accomplish exactly nothing.
They definitely are doing many terrorism acts in fact even groups on old colonial countries did like the Mau Mau and Nana Sahib's forces in India. So yeah a terrorist group can still be a resistance group.
Do you seriously believe that Israel is not an occupying force from it's foundation till today and still believe in the whole land belonging to jews? 100 millions died in India to get independence. Don't tell Palestinians what the do against an occupying force
Again Israeli leaders admitted that they wanted the whole land for the beginning and pacific protest was responded with Israeli . So stop with your "if Palestinians was using peaceful methods they would have their state " bs
You can't expect the colonizer dictate the terms, propose bad deals and expect the colonized to accept it. One example is Camp David where Israel’s Foreign Minister and a leading member of the Israeli negotiation team at that time said
If I were a Palestinian, I Would Have Rejected Camp David
Just like Ukraine rightfully refuse the bad deals that Russia is proposing right now
You agree with calling immigrant "invaders"? How about the children on immigrants? You're being 100% consistent with the people that espouse the "white genocide" rhetoric, just you're targeting a different ethnicity.
over 80% of the population of Israel was born there. People have a right to live where they're born FFS. This "colonizer" rhetoric is all about rationalizing ethnic cleansing. The genocide rhetoric is all about normalizing the idea of genocide against Jews. It's obvious you just want to kill Jews, and now because of this kind of rhetoric people are actually killing Jews.
GOP congressman calls for ‘nuking’ Gaza like US did to Japan
Freshman GOP Rep. Randy Fine calls for “nuking” Gaza in an interview on Fox News.
“The fact of the matter is the Palestinian cause is an evil one,” he says, following last night’s deadly shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers who were outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington where an American Jewish Committee event was being held.
“The only end of the conflict [in Gaza] is complete and total surrender by those who support Muslim terror,” Fine says.
“In world war two, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis. We did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese. We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender,” he says. “That needs to be the same here. There is something deeply, deeply wrong with this culture, and it needs to be defeated.”
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Why are KF users being banned?
She only got banned because she was trying to make it seem like the harm Kiwi Farms did was minimal. Which is an obvious lie, Kiwi Farms is one of the biggest hives of villiany and scum; they've done so much harm to those they didn't like for petty reasons. Particularly going after trans people and piling an unending torrent of harassment on them until they either kill themselves or go beyond the reach of Kiwi Farms. Proof of my claim that Kiwi Farms caused harm to the Trans community
She tried to conflate Discord unknowingly hosting mass shooters with being their allies. (I noticed said something along the same lines in a response, as you were trying to take the heat off of Kiwi Farms, sussy). That makes me wonder if this account is a sockpuppet, but I can't say for certain, as there isn't proof of that.
Understanding Kiwi Farms and Its Impact on the Trans Community
Discover how Kiwi Farms fuels hate, provokes real-world harm, and faces constant pressure from the very communities it targets.Richard Myrick (TransVitae)
Eight guilty over Kim Kardashian armed robbery in Paris
Robbery gang guilty of Kim Kardashian heist in Paris
The robbers have been given jail time for stealing millions of dollars' worth of jewellery belonging to the US celebrity.Kathryn Armstrong and James Gregory (BBC News)
JD Vance Declares ‘Era of Uncontested U.S. Dominance is OVER’ In Pro-Isolationist Speech at the Naval Academy
JD Vance Declares ‘Era of Uncontested U.S. Dominance is OVER’ In Pro-Isolationist Speech at the Naval Academy
"No more undefined missions. No more open-ended conflicts. Returning to a strategy grounded in realism and protecting our core national interests."Alex Griffing (Mediaite)
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Even when those foreign countries had very little to do with poor American interests. What we’re seeing from President Trump is a generational shift in policy with profound implications for the job that each and every one of you will be asked to do.
The Trump administration has reversed course. No more undefined missions. No more open-ended conflicts. Returning to a strategy grounded in realism and protecting our core national interests.
Does JD Vance know that we have those missions in those foreign countries that had very little to do with American interest because the richer and more democratic they become, the more stable the country will be, the less we have to be there, the better economically, which will create a new market for our products and align with our human rights interests ???? Tf is he on about lol
You can't lead the world by ignoring it.
Strong alliances and helping fragile states prevent wars that would otherwise drag us in.
When russians enthusiastically share this speech so quickly you're playing exactly how they like you too lmao.
The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
The spending cuts could force many rural hospitals to close. That wouldn’t just be a crisis for rural health care but for rural employment too.The New Republic
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Louisiana becomes first state to use DOGE voter maintenance database
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/64767356
The database combines information about a person’s immigration status and death records in an attempt to keep the Louisiana voter rolls accurate.Sec. Landry visited Washington, D.C., where she met with White House staff, DOGE, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Social Security Administration to offer feedback on the new voter maintenance database.
“Since taking office, I have repeatedly requested this critical data from the federal government to check Louisiana’s voter registration list,” Sec. Landry said.
Fully expecting to show up to the polls on voting day, only to be informed I'm actually dead or an illegal immigrant.
toy_boat_toy_boat
Unknown parent • • •yeeh, my first though was "ooh, that's gonna command a few marches.." fuck
edit - i should be productive and not just cynical. who's arranging the president's birthday concert? do we have springstein? vedder? come on y'all
Drusas
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in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •Asafum
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •What are you going to do, arrest me?
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IhaveCrabs111
in reply to Cethin • • •Voroxpete
in reply to IhaveCrabs111 • • •And you're just going to comply with that?
I for one would still want to call out whats being done, to make a record for future generations if nothing else.
Are you really such a good little soldier that the supreme court makes a bad decision and you immediately reorient your entire moral framework to match?
ccunning
in reply to Voroxpete • • •Vanilla_PuddinFudge
in reply to ccunning • • •Voroxpete
in reply to Vanilla_PuddinFudge • • •A person raising their voice is doing more than a person who chooses to stay silent. Why would you direct your anger at the former rather than the latter?
This idea that anyone "not doing enough" needs to shut up and sit down is exactly the kind of toxic bullshit that fascists want you to consume. They want you to feel that everything has to either be some huge world changing gesture, or it's just not worth it. Life isn't like that. Real resistance isn't about blowing up the Death Star, it's about thousands, millions of tiny acts of defiance that build upon each other. Every time someone says "this is wrong" someone else is inspired to agree. Every time someone shows up to a protest, someone else is inspired to show up the next time. You don't change regimes in a day, and you don't build movements out of nothing. They accumulate, millions of tiny choices gathering together into a vast whole.
IhaveCrabs111
in reply to Voroxpete • • •Voroxpete
in reply to IhaveCrabs111 • • •Resistance starts in the mind. Fascists want you to think the way you're thinking, because if you can't even get to the point of giving a shit about what they're doing, you'll never ever get to the point of actually doing something about it.
Refusing to comply really can be as simple as just choosing to call out their evil, every single time. It's a starting point. It's easy and trite to say that big trees grow from small acorns, but much harder to really understand what that means, to take into your heart the idea that every single word or act of defiance matters, that enough drops really do make an ocean.
I'm not asking you to plan a revolution. I'm just asking you to give a shit. Because the people telling you to stop giving a shit are the ones who want to do terrible things to your country, and they need your passivity in order to succeed.
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in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •Yeah. He breaks laws multiple times a day.
We live in an authoritarian fascist state now.
NOT hyperbole.
ramenshaman
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •It was pretty fucking blatant, actually.
ssillyssadass
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •SoftestSapphic
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •Lol they gonna put him in prison?
We all know what makes this stop.
Somebody has to do it eventually.
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Sc00ter
in reply to barneypiccolo • • •Empricorn
in reply to Sc00ter • • •...and a government organization with the will to do what's right and pursue justice. Do you expect to see that from the people Republicans and Trump put in place??
MisterOwl
in reply to Sc00ter • • •2 very good lawyers had Donald dead to rights on election fraud and stealing government documents, and they both gave up when they realized the law doesn't apply to him. There is no legal thread to keep a grip on that will ever make any difference.
Nobody seemed to care when the supreme court gave us kings again. This is what it looks like.
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Unknown parent • • •Cethin
Unknown parent • • •Sure, but this is about him using the seal in a non-official capacity. Either it's legal because it's an official duty, in which case he doesn't need immunity, or it's illegal because it isn't an official duty, in which case he isn't immune.
Again, nothings going to happen with this regardless. I'm just stating what's going on.
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in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •SPOILER ALERT!
Nothing will happen.
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in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •Again, ping me if something happens.
KulunkelBoom
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •He's not in prison for treason and espionage - it's doubtful he's going anywhere no matter how heinous a crime he commits.
He's..a..fucking..criminal. A criminal is in charge of the law. AND the national piggy bank, but that for another time.
How many of you have criminals as friends? None. You know why? Because they'll lie and steal from you just as fast as anyone else - that's why. And that's trumpski - a lying criminal con man. AND a traitor to the country that gave him everything he's got.
amateurcrastinator
in reply to KulunkelBoom • • •Doxatek
in reply to amateurcrastinator • • •aidan
in reply to KulunkelBoom • • •I know you're making a political point, but tbh, I thought Lemmy would have a better take on criminal justice
Bytemeister
in reply to aidan • • •Equally petty, but I don't associate crime with being a bad person.
Speeding is a crime.
Drug use is a crime.
Evading draconian copyright laws is a crime...
aidan
in reply to Bytemeister • • •KulunkelBoom
in reply to Bytemeister • • •Do you consider them your friends if they steal from you? Lie to you? Lie about you and have you put in prison?
I don't consider drugs or speeding crimes either - but these aren't the crimes I speak of when relating to trump.
And stealing, no matter what you think of copyright laws, is never a good thing... even if done with good intention.
technocrit
in reply to aidan • • •There are better takes but you have to search for them.
lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/abolition@s…
aidan
in reply to technocrit • • •I have massive problems with prisons and by extension policing. I think prisons are the some of the most cruel institutions on Earth. But I am kind of disappointed that that community isn't really proposing anything it feels like. Prisons are cruel and need reform, you don't need to convince me there. The problem is I do think there is a legitimate need for something to protect people, and to separate people who are a serious risk to others.
They say:
But what?
One idea I think, that is a small reform but I think would actually be very valuable in increasing prisoners quality of life: increased internet access. I think the isolation, and the feeling of being trapped within the prison culture, is very harmful. It would also be easier to bring abuse to public attention.
KulunkelBoom
in reply to aidan • • •LadyButterflyshe/her
in reply to KulunkelBoom • • •technocrit
in reply to KulunkelBoom • • •Grow up. Most "crimes" are bullshit and most "criminals" are fine people.
Nobody wants to be friends with Trump because he's a fascist who attacks people both legally and illegally, although there's no conviction/punishment when the rich/privileged commit "crimes".
KulunkelBoom
in reply to technocrit • • •You're probably full grown, like me. You may be highly educated like me also.
That you have no idea of what the U.S. "justice system" entails makes your knowledge of the matter "standard" - as is apparent by stereotypically dumping "crime" into the "it's not really crime" slot reserved for pot smoking buddies, speeders and the like. And yes it's true that the rich buy their way out (criminal) punishment.
Fascism and bigotry aren't crimes... true. Treason, fraud, theft, grifting, lying under oath, and causing the death of millions of people are - and trump is guilty of all of that.
I'm sure neither of us has trump supporters as friends, or even speaking-terms acquaintances, which points out why I said we normally don't have "criminals" as friends.
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in reply to anomnom • • •CircaV
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •So he broke a law. And what’s anyone in the US going to do about it??
Crickets.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
in reply to Cethin • • •Why cant he say that he was speaking officially as the president of the US? He was discussing economics. He wasn't talking about his meme coin.
Mediocre_Bard
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in reply to ChaoticNeutralCzech • • •NotASharkInAManSuit
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •Now, watch as literally nothing at all is done about it, just like his last blatant and obvious felony and just like his next one.
We suck.
LadyButterflyshe/her
in reply to NotASharkInAManSuit • • •NotASharkInAManSuit
in reply to LadyButterflyshe/her • • •I don’t see how that’s relevant, and if anything that is a very rude question of you to ask. I’d suggest you gather your couth and think before asking such inane and, frankly, very stupid and insulting questions, which my username has already answered had you bothered to read it, in the future.
Good day.
Edit: I apologize, I read that backwards. No, of course not, I’m just a regular human in my normal human skin keeping my sweet tasty meats contained inside my body, and I have regular non-serrated teeth that don’t grow back when I lose them attacking seals and such, just like the rest of you. Nothing to see here.
LadyButterflyshe/her
in reply to NotASharkInAManSuit • • •technocrit
in reply to NotASharkInAManSuit • • •No thanks on the nationalist "we". Cultspeak.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_re…
The Hypnotic Language of Cult Leaders and Empty Gurus
Todd Brison (What Makes Great Writing)NotASharkInAManSuit
in reply to technocrit • • •Gammelfisch
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •Lord Wiggle
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •The president has immunity while being in office, was the supreme court ruling right?
And if this doesn't count under the immunity, he just replaces judges and claims he lost faith in the justice system and abolishes and restructures it, just as Hitler did. He already ignored several other judge rulings.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool
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in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •Neuromorph
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in reply to Neuromorph • • •Melvin_Ferd
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •I once heard a radio program that changed the way I think about fire and government control. The program emphasized how central fire has been to human survival and how, over time, society has regulated it to the point of alienation. The program explored how we offload very basic functions to authority in exchange for other benefits. In turn the authority is interested in control of these basic functions. For example, historically, entire cities were built from wood, leading to devastating fires. In response, governments began instilling fear around fire to promote caution: we created cartoon bears warning children not to play with matches and imposed strict fire regulations.
As a result, people became increasingly disconnected from fire. Kids raised on fire-safety propaganda grew up being told they couldn’t burn things on their own property or light a fire without permission, especially in cities. Eventually, the knowledge and instinct to responsibly manage fire faded. Fire became something only officials could control. Today, people panic at the mere smell of smoke, n
... show moreI once heard a radio program that changed the way I think about fire and government control. The program emphasized how central fire has been to human survival and how, over time, society has regulated it to the point of alienation. The program explored how we offload very basic functions to authority in exchange for other benefits. In turn the authority is interested in control of these basic functions. For example, historically, entire cities were built from wood, leading to devastating fires. In response, governments began instilling fear around fire to promote caution: we created cartoon bears warning children not to play with matches and imposed strict fire regulations.
As a result, people became increasingly disconnected from fire. Kids raised on fire-safety propaganda grew up being told they couldn’t burn things on their own property or light a fire without permission, especially in cities. Eventually, the knowledge and instinct to responsibly manage fire faded. Fire became something only officials could control. Today, people panic at the mere smell of smoke, not because of immediate danger, but because we've been conditioned to view any fire as a threat.
The deeper point the program made was about dependence on authority. When we outsource essential survival skills, like fire management or justice to the government, we assume it will handle those responsibilities competently. But what happens when it doesn't? For example, Native cultures used controlled burns to prevent wildfires by clearing dry brush. When governments prohibit such practices and also fail to manage the land properly, fuel builds up and massive fires become inevitable.
This raises a fundamental ethical question: If the government refuses to fulfill its basic responsibilities, do citizens have the right, or even the duty, to reclaim control over essential survival functions?
Freshparsnip
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •DicJacobus
in reply to inclementimmigrant • • •the Mafia has control of the military and the armed branches of the federal government, and has more or less told everyone "the fuck are you gonna do about it?"