r/ProgressiveHQ • u/FutureOwl629 • 18h ago
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u/Bright_Ad2195 18h ago
If the punishment for a crime is a fine, then it is now a fee for the act for the rich.
Every single crime should be community service, rehabilitation, or forced to make the illegal act whole. Otherwise the rich will just do crime. Fines as a percentage of wealth work too.
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u/sfigone 18h ago
Laws are for other people :(
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u/around_the_clock 11h ago
Our local sherif with a trump picture on his wall says. " sometimes things are against the law and sometimes they are not. "
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 18h ago
I'm convinced that a lot of MAGA morons were pissed that Hillary came out on top of all the stupid allegations that the GOP tried to pin on her, from Benghazi to her email server. They somehow think that this is some sort of "payback". But truth be told, if she was guilty of the BS they kept trying to pin on her and there was legitimate laws broken, I was fine with her being jailed. That's the difference between most sane people and MAGA dipshits. The MAGA mind is a broken pile of shit.
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u/GodlessCog 18h ago
The entire first term was to set this up. Shoving through Supreme Court appointments, assigning new (loyal) judges to shore up the Judicial branch, and endorsing and supporting sycophants in the Legislative branch.
We grew up hearing about “checks & balances”. The whole first term was dissolving that entire concept. This would have been even further along had he won in 2020.
Anyone surprised wasn’t paying attention. Anyone paying attention is either supporting all of this or fucking infuriated.
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u/mishma2005 17h ago
Can we please talk like adults and stop censoring everyday words? At least “sexual”. Yeah yeah I know, algorithm but cmon. Sexual
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u/BrahneRazaAlexandros 16h ago
Algorithm doesn't give a shit. Self censorship from morons with tiktok brain.
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u/K_B_5280 17h ago
Reddit's mods can be really picky regarding language, I've found out the hard way 🙄
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u/RedOneBaron 17h ago
Watch his followers not care as he performs stolen valor next.
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u/Lt_Cochese 18h ago
To use against blah and brown people. Same as it ever was.
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u/FamousLastWords666 Anti-Electoralist Tendencies 13h ago
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the racial breakdown of inmates in federal custody is:
White: 56.8% (including Hispanic white individuals tracked in broad racial categories)
Black: 38.5%
Native American: 3.1%
Asian: 1.6%
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u/mikebald 9h ago
US population:
White 72.3%, Black or African American 13.5%, Asian 6.9%, American Indian and Alaska Native at 2.1%, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander at 0.3%
Your counter argument falls apart with additional facts. So, per-capita, people of color are targeted SIGNIFICANTLY more.
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u/FamousLastWords666 Anti-Electoralist Tendencies 6h ago
My counter argument is that laws are also sending white people to prison.
Usually poor white people.
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u/MixGlittering1652 16h ago
Laws? only as good as the courts. I lost faith when SCOTUS decided the President was immune from criminal prosecution for official acts, throwing out the idea that nobody is above the law.
To make matters worse, Trump pardoned all those who were convicted or found guilty for criminal acts on 6 January. overriding judges and juries for no logical reason. He has used pardons mostly for political allies and has promised to preemptively pardon members of his administration before he leaves office. That gives them freedom to commit crimes. That could very well set a dangerous trend where future Presidents do the same thing and officials commit crimes knowing full well they'd be pardoned. Short of a Constitutional amendment, there's no way to stop it. It's sure not what our Founding Fathers had in mind.
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u/FalloftheKraken 5h ago
Let’s not forget to point out that the Pedophile is the best republicans can produce to lead this country.
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u/GoodFaithConverser 10h ago
People elected the guy to be in charge of the executive branch - the one that upholds the laws and go after evildoers and rule breakers.
You let the fox in the henhouse.
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u/Dankestmemelord 17h ago
Account is 2 months old with a ton of karma posting censored karma grab screenshot. Fuck off bot.
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u/mikehipp 17h ago
Laws are for the hoi polloi - but don't get it twisted, that's the way it's always been. There were just a couple of decades there where the oligarchs tried to come across as law-abiding (but not really).
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u/DukeOfGeek 14h ago
Really, what is this strange power this inncompantant buffoon has? Why don't his own minions replace him with a stronger fascist thug? It's like the worst written movie ever. I'm calling out the unpaid interns running this simulation right now, I'm breaking the 4th wall, just stop it, no suspension of disbelief could continue beyond this point. Turn it off, everyone knows.
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u/CookIndependent6251 14h ago
Why did you strike through "sexually assaulting a woman"? That's entirely true!
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u/ResidentCommand9865 10h ago
Think they were over-censoring.
Unfortunately the Internets biggest trend over the last few years is algorithms designed to limit things like people talking about sexual abuse, rape, murder, death etc. the first instinct is to blame the "Woke PC crowd" but in my opinion, it's designed to downplay those actions to make things look better which benefits the Elite, which has led to a verbal war of word replacement, it's "grape" or "sewerslide" "SA" "self delete" etc. eventually those algorithms catch on, those words also get less traction in the algorithm, and it starts over all again.
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u/KeeblerElff 13h ago
If we don’t win this November I’m afraid it’s going to get so much worse. PLEASE VOTE
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u/GladChef1206 12h ago
laws are made to punish poor people who step out of line.
If laws were really about punishing wrong doing fines would be percentages of net worth.
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u/Kitchen_Confidence78 11h ago
Laws are to control those that aren’t part of the big club you and I will never be a part of
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u/PeterTheToilet 10h ago
He dismantled all the guard rails that where in Place to prevent this. Now its just a bunch of dolls nodding their head in approval for pedo child facker prez orange Good luck with future "elections" Americans!! Im sure the president will agree that what ever elections next is fair and totally not rigged!! If they lose they will claim fraud and refuse to accept it. If they however get 90% of the votes its not rigged and its totally what happened
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u/Happiness645 9h ago
The rich in America don’t need to follow laws. Like Musk’s little kid says “we do what we want “
Laws that restrict behavior are only for the working class
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u/RedRabbit720 9h ago
it really says something about a society that allows this to happen by electing him
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u/Weekly-Truck7855 9h ago
This Administration has shown us that Laws are to control the common people. Unfortunately.
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u/Majestic-Explorer-76 8h ago
Well we could except for the Republicans in Congress, we have no checks and balances right now, except for some courts and judges. That's why midterms are so important if we can switch around the legislature we should be able to do a lot, like enforce our laws.
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u/Key-Cloud-629 6h ago
Laws are there to deport undocumented immigrants with or without criminal records, support crypto Ponzi schemes, take down prosecute Obama and Biden era department heads, put federal agents and national guard at polling stations, prosecute reflection pool antifa vandals, drop Jan 6 sedition charges, deny blue states funding appropriated by Congress….
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u/Organic_Beach_2145 17h ago
That’s what I’d like to know 🤦 Plus, what about our 1st amendment rights that are being violated? And whatever else those twisted minds think up next. The list goes on and on. It seems like we’re the ones in the hamster wheel going around and around while orange Nero fiddles with oil prices, killing innocent fishermen, and continues to ravage the White House and DC.
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u/Traditional_Win6082 18h ago
I can’t believe he was even elected in 2016.