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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?

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?

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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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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.

(and he probably didn't even get any money, he was just scared to be epsteined after the elections.)

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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well kane in cnc3 did that to the allies, waited till all the "heads of govt" in space and nuked them taking them all at once. its probably some parallel we can draw from.

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dan1101reply
lemmy.world

And the legal system is often a country-club insider system where they protect their own.

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lemmy.ca

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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Spaniardreply
lemmy.world

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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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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It is part of the three strike rule that some US states have. Three felonies and life in jail.

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North Korea maybe. If you drop a picture of dear leader to the ground, might do it.

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vga
sopuli.xyz

You don't get 20 years in jail for littering.

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maybe op was doing it a lot

and/or the litter was plutonium or something

edit: I think the phrasing was intended to be hyperbolic

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I know you don't get 20 years for littering...

But maybe...

Just hear me out...

You should?

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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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lemmy.world

Troll account. Dude's history is atrocious and it's been only one day.

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What, you don’t think “Most book are terrible” is a good take?!

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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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the protests pretty much showed as that. organized, predictable, no wants to ruffle feathers.

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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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lemmy.world

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.

Edit: It basically comes across as an argument for the status quo which is disgusting to any rational, empathetic human being.

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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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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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Lorfanreply
lemmy.world

True but at least I'm saying something. Most people are perfectly fine with the way things are.

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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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all those protests had been ineffective(mostly because its too organized and predictable, with just virtue signalling), 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), as soon as the wealthy knew you wernt going to riot, they ramped up thier propaganda nad culture wars to prevent further potential violence. in times of political crisis, the first to flees are almost always intellectuals.

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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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Because more than half of voters didnt want him to be punished.

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what kind of littering was that extreme, if you were dumping chemical waste, or dangerous things, i can see that?

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Because the kiddy rapers control the most powerful institutions on the planet. This isnt by accident.

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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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When you steal a little they throw you in jail. When you steal everything they crown you king.

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scopsreply
reddthat.com

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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That flew right over my head but with that context should have been evident….duh. 🤓

Thanks!

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You know why. The powers that be places a lot of value on him, and nothing on you. If you are just a debt slave, you are insignificant to the matrix.

Even if you would be rich, you wont get into the club of leading the world unless you sold your soul as well.

Evil runs the world but thats the game here - will you let yourself become evil also, or will you be a hero and stay good despite the system?

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Teflon Don, like Epstein, collected pictures of powerful 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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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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All you have to do is have your lawyer call you a "pillar of the community".

Edit: Oh and be a rich, white, cis man willing to call yourself straight and christian. That part is important.

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It’s about power. Power means you can make other people do things. You can also get away with behaviors, others don’t. 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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Your name was listed in a list of people who littered? Yeah that's 20 years.

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It's pretty easy: is there conclusive evidence? Corollary: can you successfully eliminate conclusive evidence?

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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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lemmy.wtf

They're the puppets in positions of "power" because they're mutually compromised so. The psychopathic circlejerk. Easily played narcissists.

He's their boy.

... And ... they have quotas for filling the prisons there, for legal slavery. Highest prison population of any country in the world. .. "land of the free".

How is the average person ok with this level of hypocrisy in society? Why aren’t they rioting?

Many all pervasive psyops.

Glad I left that industry.

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Whose man, exactly? I traced it, somewhat, to the Black Pope, Arturo Sosa, the 31st Superior General of the Jesuit Order. That's just how I see it.

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