• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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      21 hours ago

      It’s bizarre to see somebody believe that not only will a former Olympic athlete be sentenced for touching paint but to honestly believe he could be beaten into brain damage and die from it.

      Chances are the guy walks away scot free and then sues the US Government.

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        Sure it’s bizarre to see somebody believe that, but it’s because it is so easy to believe with all the shit going on, not because it’s something difficult to believe.

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          Given the post, these comments, and that comment score I think it isn’t unrealistic to believe it’s just a bunch of fucking Tankies trying to normalize North Korea.

          Like yeah, the Trump admin is shit, and would have spiraled out of control if there were no resistance, but it ain’t fuckin North Korea. It isn’t even as bad as China.

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        21 hours ago

        More things that you wouldn’t have thought possible in polite society have been happening in recent years.

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            No no, see, these folks don’t count the genocide of millions and the people who suffered under street executions, illegal detention, and the destruction of families, for centuries because those people deserved it for being born wrong. Now it’s happening to white people! Can you believe that? My stars! Never before! Unprecedented!

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        Wait until you find out what the current regime and its supporters thinks about being able to sue for violating the constitution.

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          Frankly, I don’t care what the buffoon thinks.

          We took his name off the Kennedy building, we’re suing comanies for AI racial bias, we blocked his DOJ from collecting trans medical records, and we just told his ICE to fuck off from immigration hearing locations.

          The courts aren’t completely corrupted yet and they are still in charge.

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            The courts aren’t completely corrupted yet and they are still in charge.

            You sure about that? I’d lto have faith in the rule of law, but the trump admin is increasingly ignoring court orders, despite the public wins you mentioned.

            I really feel like we’re going to see the admin trot out the apocryphal Andrew jackson quote of ‘the courts have made their decision, let them enforce it’ in the next year or so.

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                And yet US citizens are still being abducted, killed, disappeared, and sent off to random countries. But sure, let’s all cheer about them removing his name from the Kennedy building lmao. What a joke.

                (All in the name of immigration control! If only those us citizens had just sued the government I’m sure they’d still be alive!)

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                  All fair points, but the person in question is an American native born citizen, so the ICE have no power here.

                  Also, US Citizens have sued and have shut down immigration detention facilities including the largest “Alligator Alcatraz”.

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                    Except that ice has been detaining and killing native born Americans? There has been so many articles about keeping American born citizens in horrible conditions, and then dropping them off in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night during freezing cold nights. Would you like some? Or are you just going to say “That’s okay, because technically they’re abiding the courts”

                    I did not know that about alligator alcatraz, that is actually very nice to hear about. It wasn’t brought down because of who they were housing there, but that is besides the point.