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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm torn.

It's bad to pardon family, but at the same time, I'd fully support pardoning a random person who had a no-prison plea deal the judge threw out after the defendant admitted guilt.

Especially when the crime that resulted in a jail time sentence is one that's almost exclusively used as an add-on for violent offenders. Any person with a medical Marijuana card and a gun or who ate half a gummy at a friend's house in a state where it's legal while their gun was locked in a safe at home has committed the same crime.

But it also looks bad for him to pardon his son, and Trump's sycophants will absolutely cling to this.

[–] AgentDalePoopster@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I agree with you that the sentencing was incredibly unjust and clearly politically motivated. I'm just incredibly frustrated that Biden is not doing anything that's useful to Americans during his last few months in office.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unfortunately Biden is known for packing up the slavery prisons with people who in any just country shouldn't be there and keeping them there for the profits of corpos. In this light him pardoning his son is even worse than just nepotistic abuse of power.

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[–] auzy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For civilians, posting revenge porn like mtg did during congressional hearings would be highly illegal and any judge would take that into consideration. Judges are a lot more lenient than people think and he broke the law, but he is the only one who ever had Congress use revenge porn on...

It is also crazy they spent millions investigating Hunter Biden because they found nothing on Biden himself

If MTG didn't fiddle herself over Hunter every night and post his dick pics everywhere, sure, Biden shouldnt have done it

But, they did.

The harsh reality is, that Biden should be able to sue for damages, but he can't do that

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[–] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

You have to vote for democrats even if they're openly genocidal because at least they're not corrupt the-democrat

[–] Kieselguhr@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ve been trying to say this I don’t ever want to hear republicans complain about people again Unwritten rules are out the window maybe-later-honey

The double standards on this are driving me mad, good on him tbh maybe-later-kiddo

I'm gonna grab a lot of popcorn 🍿 when Trump supporters suffer under the upcoming tariffs smuglord

umm, how about just having standards?
Why wouldn't he pardon others with the same charges?

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[–] denial@feddit.org 25 points 2 days ago (6 children)

In the end, if people aren't willing to vote against fascism, you cannot prevent it by establishing new rules (or in this case breaking the old ones).

[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

You can’t vote your way out of fascism but you can certainly vote your way into it.

Maybe one of these days the liberals will fucking learn from history.

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