• himmyguap@lemmy.world
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    Elon knows millions of Americans hate him and are coming for him so he wants every single super-villain free to team up together.

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    I find it funny how people on the right want the cop who shot that lady during the Jan 6 riot to be punished, yet think Chauvin was in the right…like how can you be so stupid…then again they probably don’t care the cop shot her they care cuz he’s black.

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      One cop shot a minority. One cop shot a Republican. To them one one of the victims is considered human. Take a guess as to which.

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        I kind of wish Chauvin shot Floyd instead of the TORTURE he put that man through. Slowly choking the life out of him as he begged for his life.

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    Couldn’t he only be pardoned for the federal level conviction and not the state? Looking at his Wikipedia article, he has a 21 year fed sentence and a 22.5 state.

    But yeah, this is a way to force violent protests and eventually martial law.

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      IIRC, Chauvin made the plea deal on federal charges so that he would do his time in the relative safety of a federal prison.

      Which would mean that if he gets pardoned on federal charges, then he would have to serve out his remaining state time in a state pen… the very thing he wanted to avoid. He would probably be dead in under a month unless he spent the next decade or more in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day (like he did in his pre-trial detention).

      Which would be a crying shame, of course…

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      Maybe it won’t be protests this time and just 30,000 people turning his body into something that doesn’t resemble a human.

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    They’re trying to Reichstag fire up their own Reichstag fire. Martial law in America as a toe dip for their invasion of Canada.

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    Presidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind.

    (Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don’t have to deal with this nonsense to boot)

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      People lose their shit over jury nullification, yet somehow pardons are A-OK

      Pardons should not be a thing, in my lifetime its pretty much only been used for scummy shit.

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    If Trump pardons him he still has 20+years of state sentence to finish, this is a distraction….

    They are about to do the biggest grift ever with the tax cuts for the rich.

    All of this is a distraction

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      Yup, same with the tariffs. Drop the stock market by two percent and as the richest person in the world you’ve just invested billions

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    I can nazi why not.

    I’m sorry, folks. I’m trying a variation on the old adage. I’m terribly sorry.

    Not for that cop, though, he deserves to rot.

  • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
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    The fact that Elon Musk is for pardoning someone who murdered an innocent person speaks volumes. Also, I can’t see how this wouldn’t lead to riots.

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      They want riots so they have a reason to put troops on the streets and “come down hard” to please their base.

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      Why haven’t there already been riots? Of all the reasons to start widespread riots, hasn’t the last 2 months given enough of them?

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        Americans are capable of riots, but it seems to require so marination before some trigger event happens on their soil that causes emotions to suddenly spark.

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    This is the sleight of hand they want you paying attention to. Instead, keep an eye on the other hand;

    Because that is the one doing the damage.

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      The real trick is the fact that both of these do damage, and you can’t afford to ignore either.

      Signaling to the police that the executive branch has your back and will support you when you kill poor black men is going to get people straight up murdered.

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        He also has people’s back when they murder/injure police. So, if you’re a cop, do not take it as a show of support.

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      true, but also, there’s a point that laws don’t really exist anymore. it’s just gang shit. the cops are the gang that want to kill you rather than make a profit off you. there is no legitimacy, there is no reason to respect or obey them, and in fact they will kill you if you do.

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      Elon trying to use this to distract from all the federal firings he’s done

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    Can someone kick off from ketamine? Cos I really hope he just does a little too much one night

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      Yes, but it’s generally folks who IM it who do.

      Matthew Perry is probably the most famous example. But growing up in the party scene, it does happen fairly often.

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        Yeah I wasn’t sure cos I know plenty of people who do it and are always all right for the most part. The effects never appealed to me so I just never partook but it seems like you really have to fuck up bad to be in serious trouble on it

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          Yeah, the IM users are bypassing first pass metabolism. And cranking up their tolerance to unsustainable levels.

          Which makes it a lot more dangerous than for folks who snort or inhale it. So, we don’t hear about many overdoses. Especially if someone is using a mist inhaler from a Dr.

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      Not really. And I wouldn’t pin this behavior on something that has therapeutic use anyway, ketamine deserves better.

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      I mean the plan was always to annihilate people of color like my wife and I. This country has treated our people like shit for centuries and the rest of the world wants us to stay and fight to fix our country. I say fuck that. That’s like saying the German Jews should have stayed to fix Germany and should have started committing acts of violence to fix their country. That was never going to work last century what the fuck makes anyone think it would this century. No the fact is racist whites enabled and did this, we aren’t at fault and we are not responsible to fix it for them. We are going to be part of the brain drain of this country. Leave the whites to sort out their own fucking mess for once.

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        They’ll beat the drums of nationalism, and try to guilt you. If you flee now, the hundreds of years of oppression will have been in vain. You dare turn your back on the failed revolutions of MLK? Malcolm X? Coward, they’ll say. But I say fuck that noise. You owe them nothing. Get out, before it gets worse. You owe it to you and yours to try and find happiness, if you can.

        Edit: This is my 666th comment. I meant to drop it in a christian thread, but I thought I had at least one more. Oh well.

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    Chauvin would join Kash Himmler’s near future SA or NKVD private security detail. The single finger salute goes out to the neo-Nazis and their Government of Putin supporters.