• @stoly@lemmy.world
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      I once mentioned to my father that most people are likely felons without realizing it because everyone will have violated a whole slew of laws they are unaware of or that are obscure/unenforced. He, being a conservative, became angry with me.

      • @tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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        I can probably come up with a dozen felonies and goodness knows how many misdemeanors I’ve committed in my life, and I’m definitely not a menace to society.

        None of these are violent or sexual in nature.

        • @stoly@lemmy.world
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          Exactly. The worst thing that most people do as far as common laws are concerned is speeding.

          The real bad things that happen that are rarely enforced is spousal and child abuse, religious abuse, abuse from certain authorities, etc. These destroy lives.

      • @shani66@ani.social
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        810 months ago

        God it feels good knowing we can actually say the solution to the world’s ills out loud here. You’d get banned from Reddit and YouTube for saying the people ruining our planet need to stub their toes.

        • Zamotic
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          910 months ago

          You say that, and poof, 2 hours later that post is mysteriously “removed”.

          • @shani66@ani.social
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            Weird i can still see it. Does lemmy save comments on a per instance basis or something?

            just checked it on a different device, fucking hell. people need to leave .world, its just another reddit and has been since i started browsing lemmy.

            • @JonsJava@lemmy.worldM
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              110 months ago

              Could you tell me the post you’re referencing? I would like to investigate this further for you.

        • @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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          !benjamingetthemusket@lemmy.cafe

          Feel free to say #eattherich rhetoric all you want there. I don’t put up with .world’s blatantly obvious corporate shill shit.

          EDIT: From the modlog, here’s the deleted comment.

          If by breaking laws you mean setting the financial district on fire with executives still in those soulless highrise pieces of shit than yes, it kinda does. Imagine the world without what we are told to call “elite”.

        • @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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          -210 months ago

          I still think it’s you. A lot of foreign actors want the U.S. system to collapse. Maybe you’re not, but your earlier comment sure sounded like it. People are downvoting me bcz they misunderstood what my comment was directed at. I actually agree with the sentiment, but ignoring all of our laws outright is a good way to have no government at all.

          • @tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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            Doesn’t it make you feel like the law is less important when all these rich cunts are breaking laws left and right, that would send you to jail real fast, and no one seems to do anything about it?