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Sending people to jail for decades: the new charade.
-by your local tinfoil hat
Oh what a gotcha. 18 years isn’t two decades. Good job 👏
That sounds like a foreign language.
Is common English foreign to you?
gotcha noun
: an unexpected usually disconcerting challenge, revelation, or catch also : an attempt to embarrass, expose, or disgrace someone (such as a politician) with a gotcha
Used in a sentence:
Totally forgot ten years isn't a decade.
Man, you really got me by the balls.
You're right, please forgive me. Let's put the spot light back on you.
What's this charade the judges are playing by sentencing these people for decades again? Obviously ten or more years is a short time. What's the grift?
The grift is that they need attention there so we don’t realize birds aren’t real. Same reason they have those drones in nyc for Labor Day weekend. They want us to think if they need drones they don’t have birds but the fact is it’s all a stunt. Attention is what it is. Remember, birds aren’t real.
22 years. 2.2 decades. Multiple. Decades. Plural.
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1197202616/enrique-tarrio-proud-boys-jan-6-sentence
Oh boy.
What charade is that?
I think the point is that people perceived your first post as a statement coming from a right wing conspiracy nut. With this post it's clear that you mean that there is a political bias in favour of the defendant.
That's a bit self serving, but also kinda fair.
Got any examples?
Dr King
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sea-lioning
That's pretty funny. Thank you for sharing it
Strong claim for a hexbear to be making. This guy must be a white western lib, right?
That's a bold claim. People such as...?
A bullshit term made up so people can pretend to be victims when other people ask them questions. It's not "sea-lioning" when you come out of your little bubble for a few minutes and nobody has any idea what the fuck you're talking about.