• @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    Is it hard time in prison though? He trafficked them across state lines, meaning it goes to a federal court which makes it eligible for pardon

    I could be wrong, but I thought it went federal soon as it crosses the border

      • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        221 hours ago

        Hard to compare the actions of a pedophile and the Russian asset he pardoned before. But yeah, one might look worse to the public. Not like he needs to care about what the public thinks anymore.

        • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          120 hours ago

          Even dictators have to care. There isn’t a military in the world that can stop a million angry peasants.

          • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            20 hours ago

            Nah, just has to have the media to sell it so there are a million angry peasants to counter those million peasants, and most of them not able to see how they would be able to feed themselves in a week if anything actually happened.

            Edit: Sorry, just being contrary today it seems.

            • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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              219 hours ago

              Yeah and if I’m mad it’s not at you. The reason though that countering one crowd with another doesn’t work is that all you’ve done is create a civil war at that point. The idea for any leader is to avoid a crisis of legitimacy so bad that you have to deal with an angry mob in the first place.