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BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• D_C@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are the chances that these people will get pardoned, etc, when(if) normality returns?

  Also what’s the chances that the judge who handed down these long and unfair sentences will get any repercussions for being so obviously corrupt?

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  • ReHomed@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly 50/50

    You can’t really bounce back from the bullshit that has just ensued immediately, it’s also kinda apparent to your average leftist that the democratic party is kind spineless as fuck when it comes to the right, so to have judges IN TEXAS MIND YOU bounce back from their previous decisions? Not gonna be too easy

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it's also kinda apparent to your average leftist that the democratic party is kind spineless complicit as fuck when it comes to the right, so to have judges IN TEXAS MIND YOU bounce back from their previous decisions? Not gonna be too easy

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  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sanders joined ABC News’s “This Week,” where host Jonathan Karl asked if there was anything Trump has done right.

    “I think cracking down on fentanyl, making sure our borders are stronger,” Sanders replied. “Look, nobody thinks illegal immigration is appropriate, and I happen to think we need comprehensive immigration reform, but I don’t think it’s appropriate for people to be coming across the border illegally.”

    While the senator agreed with Trump on strengthening the country’s borders to protect citizens, he disagreed with the president’s mass deportation plan.

    “He wants to deport 20 million people who are in this country who are undocumented,” Sanders said. “Well, you do that, you destroy the entire country.”

    “Because I got news for you, Trump’s billionaire friends are not going to pick the crops in California that feed us. They’re not going to work in meatpacking houses,” he continued. “That’s what undocumented people are doing.”

    Given that this is as far left as US politicians get, I’d say unlikely.

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      "We need those slaves to be working in conditions so abysmal, even our own disposables won't work them!"

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      • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Deplorables*

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    • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …What’s wrong with his position, exactly?

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      • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because people are not ‘illegal’ for crossing an imaginary line on a map.

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      • RichardNixos@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “cracking down on fentanyl”

        The War on Drugs is well-documented to be a racist pretext for mass incarceration and violation of 4th Amendment rights, etc., (see The New Jim Crow for example), so Sanders is either a useful idiot or complicit.

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      • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You removed, or stupid?

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  • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unlikely. The US executes people when there’s so much new evidence after sentencing pointing toward them not being guilty that the original prosecutors plead for them to not execute. The Dem establishment’s complaints against ICE are mostly just procedural; they just argue for things like more transparency for these detention centers, not their abolishment.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The last time that a Democratic president was in office for a federal execution was Lyndon Johnson.

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      • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Snarling wolves and smiling foxes.

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  • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope they stand a good chance for an appeal based on the jury selection fuckery

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  • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A full pardon? Maybe for some of them, especially the zine guy, but the guy who actually shot the cop, unlikely. No democrat would want the optics of that.

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    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even the cop shooter should be fully pardoned.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cop shot first. The guy who shot him did so in community defense.

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    • humanamerican@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gotta commute that absurd sentence tho

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think a President can pardon a state crime, so you need a blue Texas Governor for starters.

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• brezel@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the US is now soviet russia. the whole western world is sad :/

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  • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The US has more prisoners than any country to ever exist. You’ve been worse than the soviet union for basically all of your history in those regards.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At least Soviet Russia wasn’t run by a handful of billionaires

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    • brezel@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it is now.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Meh. USSR was still worse. US is now on its way to being Russia 2007.

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• gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean to give full context, that protest did end with a cop getting shot.

  But the sentences are still wildly excessive including 30 years to someone for carrying a box of magazines.

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How many years were did shooters of Pretti and Goode receive?

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    First off, the shooter claims that the cop was about to murder an unarmed protestor.

    But more importantly, it was just one person who shot. Collective punishment is literally against the Geneva Convention.

    Imagine getting a 50 year prison sentence because you were peacefully protesting at a place where someone else shot a cop.

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    • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know reading comprehension is not great on this site, but I’m in no way shape or form making an argument the protestors were in the wrong. Literally just providing context.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s cool that you were able to get that snarky remark in, but I was not disagreeing or arguing with you.

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• grandma@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow this completely flew under my radar wtaf

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  • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How is this surprising to you, grandma? America does American thing American-ly.

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