A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 other people for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s some powerful malarkey they’re on. Almost enough to make me think the Union lost the civil war when the Confederates were brought back in. Stuff like this is how it’s been coming back to bite us.

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      1 year ago

      The inability of the good to do seemingly “evil” things for the sake of good will be the downfall of humanity.

      Example: imprisoning a psycopathic narcissist who thinks they can literally murder someone and get away with it. Good people should be OK with such a person losing freedoms!

      • SCB@lemmy.world
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        Pretty sure the person you’re talking about is Trump, in which case he’s facing almost triple-digit felonies, so how exactly are people not OK with imprisoning him?

        I’m not seeing the “inability of good” here.

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          Well it’s taking a long-ass time to get him behind bars, plus, he’ll still be able to run for president from prison.

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          Remember: It’s been almost forty months since a literal insurrection attempt and literal sedition where people died.

          The inability of good has already happened: He’s had years of working with Republicans to plan the next attempt.

          Even the FBI has openly admitted investigations were hamstrung.

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            Hamstrung and yet here he is with 90+ indictments.

            The federal government generally prosecutes high-value cases slowly, so they make sure they have a case they can win.

            You not seeing things happening doesn’t mean things aren’t happening. The system is in motion and once begun it doesn’t stop.

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              Hitler got arrested within 3 days of his coup attempt, and got a trial in 4 months time. He was in jail five months after his coup attempt.

              He was pardoned by his friends after spending just a year in jail.

              Getting Trump in jail is not the end of this story, it doesn’t fix everything. It would be a first step, and the US is still not there.

              • SCB@lemmy.world
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                These are wildly different situations and Trump is no Hitler

                • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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                  1 year ago

                  Keep making excuses for people failing to execute on the promises of equality and justice.

                  It really goes to show how much you believe in America’s “all men are created equal” to just shrug your shoulders at a literal traitor having years of freedom.

                  • SCB@lemmy.world
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                    TIL the government “failing to execute” is when you have 91 felony charges

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      There was a reason that in some conflicts you don’t let anyone walk away, cause embers buried deep can simmer for generations and pop out and burn you alive