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ulkesh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How is that even legal. Smh.

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  • nomous@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The obvious answer is: because then it would be incredibly easy to target any “undesirable” (who just so happens to be politically active) and come up with a felony to charge them with.

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    • LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This makes sense. HOWEVER. That’s not really what’s happening here now, is it?

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      • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can be upset, that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to outlaw running for president as a criminal. Russia exists as a case study.

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      • mayo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s a problem because it’s not just Trump, it’s whole party that has gone way off the rails. Bundy could run but he wouldn’t win.

        There’s only like 3 rules to becoming president and one is age and other is being an american. The bar is intentionally low.

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    • Lionheadbud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is it incredibly easy to charge people with felonies?

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      • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is if you control the judiciary.

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      • nomous@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes.

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      • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes actually. There’s a book called three felonies a day all about that.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because a president could then simply jail his opponents. If the people want to have a convicted felon as their president, in the spirit of democracy, nobody has the right to tell them that they can’t

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