65 sats \ 24 replies \ @Undisciplined 5 Jun \ parent \ on: Trump campaign partners with open node bitcoin
If you think I'm on Trump's team, you are very mistaken. I'd love to see him tried and executed for war crimes.
However, if I'm asked to weigh-in on whether he gets treated the same as other past presidents, I'm not going to pretend that he does. The double standard is clear as day.
If we focus on the money we will change all this! We will change the incentives that creates the system the political class exploits!
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Agree!
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He is getting raked over the coals.
But it is over the things that he has done.
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There's a term for this: anarco-tyranny.
It's when the law is only enforced selectively against one group of people while the group enforcing the laws are not beholden to them.
Shit like this used to happen to black people all the time, going all the way back to the implementation of voting tests right after emancipation.
The point isn't whether or not he did anything. The point is that wielding the legal system as a partisan political weapon is extremely dangerous.
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tbh, As a middle aged Black American man, it is funny (both strange and humorous at times) to see white people complaining about our long-standing disadvantages.
It's like oh, it was ok when it was us for 150 years, but NOW it's a problem.
Funny you say used to happen to Black people. This wasn't ancient history!
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Funny you say used to happen to Black people. This wasn't ancient history!
It was not my intention for it to come out that way. The specific examples I was thinking of were more prominent in the past, but I'm not trying to imply that they weren't also more recent and current examples.
Drug law enforcement was the other main example I was thinking of and drug enforcement is thankfully relaxing across the country.
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You're missing the point.
Selective enforcement like this is a huge problem. If he's only being prosecuted because his name is Donald Trump (as many people believe), that is a miscarriage of justice in and of itself, regardless of whether he's guilty or not.
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They arent accusing him of being guilty of things he didnt do.
I actually think this is, at the very least, quite debatable. Many of the investigations into Trump fizzled out and many others have relied on "novel legal theories" (aka he didn't break the crime as it was generally understood when it was written).
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I’m aware, it’s not the only thing they’ve investigated him for, though.
It very much seems like they’re accusing him of everything they can think of and seeing what sticks.
Great! Sorry if I confused you with his talking points. You present them well.
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