All the ingredients are there and it won’t take much to put it all together.

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    11 months ago

    Idk this whole Donald Trump thing kinda tells me we’re already fucked on that regard.

    Kinda hard to claim we’re punishing corruption when he’s still in the court systems almost a year after his failed coup

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      11 months ago

      I’m so sorry to do this to you. It’s been almost three years, January 21-December 23. The pandemic fucked everyone’s sense of time though.

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          It literally happens constantly to me. I used to have a pretty good greater sense of time, and I can still remember/estimate pretty well when things happened until 2019, but time’s a weird black hole after that

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        I guess my main point is “intent matters” doesn’t apply equally.

        Common crime intent means nothing in most courts. Like in some states if you perform a crime and someone dies regardless of if you were involved with their death in anyway you’ll be charged with murder just for simply being there.

        Meanwhile a corporation can poison it’s customers and because it wasn’t completely obviously intentional* they barely even get a fine.

        *I say it that way because they know damn well what they’re doing and know that even if they get fined it’s cheaper to just pay the fine and keep breaking the law. Looking at you McDonald’s.

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      11 months ago

      Courts take time.

      Ignore Trump for just a minute. The average court case takes years in many cases. Isn’t that insane? Speedy trial is a joke.

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        It only takes that long if your in a position of authority though.

        Meanwhile as an average citizen a cop can just decide to arrest you, make up a bullshit story and your in jail without bail that day.

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        Speedy trial is a right that you have and can invoke. However, it almost always screws the defense. As such, everyone waives it.

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          11 months ago

          and that is a fair point. I feel often we have people over charged for bullshit crimes and then drag them through the system for years.

          I am a conservative, so if I am saying that then you know the system is really out of whack.