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[–] [email protected] 146 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Yeah my faith in our justice system has gotten to the point that I can only see one of two potential outcomes realistically happening with Trump's crimes:

  • No justice. We'll dance to this song till the day he succumbs to his decades-long hamburder induced suicide.

  • Vigilante justice. Collectively we don't appear to have the spine for this kind of intervention, but even if we're talking about the one-in-a-million lone wolf type of incident, we have over 300 one-in-a-millions in the US population to choose from, so I'm honestly kinda surprised we don't see this kind of shit more often. (to be clear, this is an assessment, not a recommendation)

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean by "gotten"? US has forever favored the rich white people.

like geez, take a look into your history? Segregation was fine till 60-70s. Killing people in mass abroad is okay and war crimes praised and criminals elected presidents. Funding genocide? bipartisan thumbs up.

Fuck your "justice system"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Most of us don't see that shit growing up. We're indoctrinated through our entire childhood, then slow-crash as we see example after example of a "broken" system... then finally accept that it's not broken, it's working as intended: it's evil.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

US justice depends on what is in your bank account.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Or in Trump's case, what he pretended was in his bank account, and how fast he can commit more crimes to actually find that money

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I've been saying from the start that the prosecution is dragging their feet, hoping he either dies or becomes president, so they don't have to be the ones who established precedent of their social class facing justice.

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[–] idefix 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

We'll see the year of the Linux desktop before seeing justice for him.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Good thing Wayland is finally displacing X11, open source Nvidia drivers are actually getting good, the Cosmic desktop is coming, and usershare is increasing then.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Actually, it's going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience!"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Yeah, so he has the backing of the entire Republican Party, so that basically gives him a pass to do pretty much whatever he wants, forever."

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's almost like the deep state is on his side

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Deep state = billionaires with undeniable bribe money.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Hmm, now which would be more advantageous to my position as someone who unfairly exploits the labour of the masses to amass himself literally billions of times more wealth than said exploited masses; a bankrupt fraudster rapist in legal trouble or someone who isn't that? "

Its fucking crazy the US sort of considers itself a bastion of democracy while not even having direct presidential elections.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electoral_systems_by_country

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College

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[–] ZombiFrancis 29 points 8 months ago

October 1, 2016.

Yeap.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Actually it was super easy, barely an inconvenience.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)

“This is the year guys! This is the year when we put a US President in jail!”

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He still has to pay it. He's been offered a bond which is typical and a small percentage of the total owed paid immediately to prevent further punitive action.

There's literally an industry for it (bail bonds) though arguably there shouldn't be.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bail bonds are an entirely different thing from appeal bonds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Same basic system, pay small for now lose appeal pay all.

And I'm case you didn't know there's an industry around "court bonds" as well.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Can't catch an oiled pig

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