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[–] samus12345 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you weren't charged, but make a legally binding admission of guilt, have you committed a felony?

I feel like this is like, something they teach in some extra credit course at law school lmao

[–] samus12345 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It says "charged," not "committed." Every president has probably committed felonies.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Ah, you're right, it does say 'charged'.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't know, I'm not sure William Henry Harrison had time to commit any felonies while president.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I can't even fathom how many Andrew Jackson must have ranked up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure I'm concerned with Noam "Genocide isn't a big deal when Socialists do it" Chomsky's take.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see this posted a lot, but the only thing I've ever seen sourced of Noam saying anything like this is more "be wary of when the United States reports things that align in its imperial interests" rather than the oft-repeated "genocide good"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chomsky is famous for Holodomor apologia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk maybe but when I asked for a source what I saw was much more "beware America" instead of "Stalin did nothing wrong"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Beware America for making the Soviet union starve out ethnic Ukrainians they saw as undesirables, which isn't genocide because I don't like America"

  • Noam Chomsky, probably.