How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Lorfan@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

Not only do the elites get away with doing anything they want, they get away with filming themselves committing crimes and bragging about it openly. The same elites that jail you for buying cunny because it’s “immoral” not only don’t go to jail for doing the same thing with kids but can get elected to the presidency after getting caught. How is the average person ok with this level of hypocrisy in society? Why aren’t they rioting? I CAN’T EVEN GOON BUT THEY CAN RAPE? FUCK THIS.

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Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s cause you’re poor.

That’s not even a joke. Those scumbags are the single richest people in the world so they can just buy their way outta any legal trouble

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- 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Those scumbags are the single richest people in the world so they can just buy their way outta any legal trouble
  
  literally. the trump trial just before the elections was the essence of this. the judge said he is guilty and wished him godspeed.
  
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- mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yup. There are currently ~180 billionaires in the Virgin Islands for a NYE mega-yacht party. Those ~180 people collectively represent ~80% of the entire nation’s wealth.
  
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  - Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    …anyone got a nuke?
    
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- dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  And the legal system is often a country-club insider system where they protect their own.
  
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  - arin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yes, case and point forbes.com/…/how-a-du-pont-heir-avoided-jail-time…
    
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cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The problem is you have failed at least one, probably both, of the foundational rules of any capitalist society.

First rule of capitalism: Be rich. Second rule of capitalism: Don’t be poor.

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- Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  In other regimes there are three rules: first, be rich, second don’t be poor, third don’t contradict the leader or the party.
  
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  - Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    4th, never contradict or critcize copaganda, or militaryganda because you will be seen as unamerican and its twisted to make you look crazy if you did.
    
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vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You don’t get 20 years in jail for littering.

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- Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, all they did was litter one corpse into a river.
  
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- tourist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  maybe op was doing it a lot
  
  and/or the litter was plutonium or something
  
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- Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Depends where.
  
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RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Where the hell do you get 20 years jail for littering?

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- ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That would make the news. I can’t find that news.
  
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  - Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It is part of the three strike rule that some US states have. Three felonies and life in jail.
    
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- PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If you break epa laws when it comes to dumping and emissions maybe
  
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- Limerance@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  North Korea maybe
  
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Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Wilhoit’s law:

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

In looking up the exact text, apparently it is often attributed to the wrong Wilhoit, lol.

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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Why aren’t they rioting?

Why don’t you lead the way?

I don’t disagree with what you’re saying but when you ask why people aren’t revolting, you should realize that you’re sitting at home behind your computer doing the exact same thing right now: a big fat nothing.

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- CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  God damn I hate this bullshit argument.
  
  People are looking for leadership in a time of crisis. Saying “well why don’t YOU do it instead of complaining” is just mind numbingly oblivious to how societal change actually works.
  
  You build the movement, then you act. If you act too soon you’re just another revolutionary lined up against the wall and shot. Leadership is required to succeed and very few are capable of that level of leadership.
  
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  - kboos1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Act too late and you’re lined up to be shot, act too soon and you’re just a nut job
    
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- Lorfan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  True but at least I’m saying something. Most people are perfectly fine with the way things are.
  
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  - CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Most people are perfectly fine with the way things are.
    
    I don’t think that’s true, but I’m constantly disappointed in humanity and overestimating people’s will to make things better, so who knows.
    
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- Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You're probably right, as that is the tendency of most people, to not have to go outside a comfort zone. It's also assuming that's true, and for all you know people who are stating this very thing might also be trying to do local action and failing because they're alone. So rather than put someone down for asking a valid question, we could explore why people aren't doing much of anything overall, and what can be done to change that outside of things getting far worse (which they will, as they have before).
  
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- 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  i am with you. together we will do even bigger nothing!
  
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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  all those protests had been ineffective, OCCUPy wallstreet showed as that. riots wouldve definitely caused some sort of change, eventhough trump has threatened to escalate(he was going to do it anyways).
  
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Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Troll account. Dude’s history is atrocious and it’s been only one day.

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- Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What, you don’t think “Most book are terrible” is a good take?!
  
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CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s how the world works and always has to varying degrees. It’s just more obvious at the moment than it usually is.

Btw, “they get to rape kids and I just wanna go to the whorehouse” isn’t the BEST argument, but I guess you’re sorta aiming in the right direction.

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Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Why aren’t they rioting?

The same reason you aren’t.

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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  the protests pretty much showed as that. organized, predictable, no wants to ruffle feathers.
  
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nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
can you explain this littering thing im interested i love crime

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Where are you getting 20 years for littering?

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- Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Maybe he was littering by throwing away Top Secret Confidential documents on the floor of the Russian Embassy.
  
  Or maybe he was littering by throwing away a strangely shaped metal spheroid on a public street through a stranger’s chest cavity.
  
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PrimarilyPrimate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
They say that it’s who you blow.

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- shittydwarf@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s a lot to swallow
  
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  - DrSleepless@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It’s tough to face
    
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fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Because more than half of voters didnt want him to be punished.

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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
what kind of littering was that extreme, if you were dumping chemical waste, or dangerous things, i can see that?

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WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
When you steal a little they throw you in jail. When you steal everything they crown you king.

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HorikBrun@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The word "privelege" literally translates as "private law," and it means the moneyed class has a different set of laws than you and I. And it's always been that way.

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Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Because the kiddy rapers control the most powerful institutions on the planet. This isnt by accident.

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PorradaVFR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I hesitate to ask but WTH is “cunny”?

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- scops@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You’re right to hesitate. I’ve seen it in older novels (70s and 80s) as a euphemism for sex or a woman’s genitalia (woman -> cunt -> cunny).
  
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  - PorradaVFR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That flew right over my head but with that context should have been evident….duh. 🤓
    
    Thanks!
    
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1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You know why.

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pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Because the ideas of responsibility, accountability, integrity and honesty is a joke to all of them. They pretend to be scared of repercussions for their actions but once they're on the brink of doing yet another law-breaking action, they throw their arms up and do it without a care. It's because they can afford it, if not wealth, then just power.

Trump is also a murderer of negligence, 350k people died under his watch while fumbling a pandemic. So he's a murderer and a rapist.

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zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Teflon Don, like Epstein, collected pictures of power people doing “embarrassing” things. Unlike Epstein he didn’t use a private island, he used hotels that catered to people with power.

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KingBoo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
He’s rich and has used his money to gain power.

Most impressively the office of the president.

Shit answer but that’s all it is.

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Limerance@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s about power. Money is power. Those with a lot of money have a lot of power.

Money enables you to buy off your victims directly or hire experts to take care of problems or tasks for you. That way you always stay one step removed.

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Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
One word, classism.

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altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Your name was listed in a list of people who littered? Yeah that’s 20 years.

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human@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
All you have to do is have your lawyer call you a “pillar of the community”.

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msokiovt@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Five words: Je-su-it Or-der, of which he’s a low-ranking member of.

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ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Because it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
you represented yourself and were intransigent, thus the judge gave you a life sentence.

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FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ah he’s just more charismatic, you know? You have to give the judge a firm handshake and speak in an obnoxious way, stuff like that.

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