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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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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, one of the rules is not committing treason or sedition and yet we’re still here, so that shows you how useful rules are

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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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