• Rooskie91@discuss.online
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    5 months ago

    I can’t remember where I found it, but there’s a paper or book somewhere that basically states that, in systems of oppression, exceptions to the law for a select elite are not only common, but fundamental to how systems of oppression work.

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      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.

      • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Oh yes, the famous bastions of conservatism surrounding Epstein, like Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, and Woody Allen!

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        As a leftist, I wish others would engage in critical, nuanced thinking instead of regurgitating the same calibre of tired, generic, thoughtless talking points we so often criticize the right for.

        Yes, the right is a monolith all united under the single cause of repressing out groups. You’ve clearly nailed it.

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              Are you reacting to what you typed out, and then typed this instead? I can’t tell what you’re reacting to. My comment? It wasn’t a lot of words, and they have the same meaning they had when you used them. So I guess you were just posturing for the crowd?

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          Nuanced thinking doesn’t win popularity contests. At best, it only really exists in academia, and even then not that often.

          Tired thoughtless ragebait talking points does. Nuanced thinking is the opposite of a ‘rallying cry’ that so many on the left, and the right, use to motivate their constituencies.

  • greenbit@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    “The law” is made up by them. Some of the factions play with “law & order”, some with “power”. The structure is the same. It’s built for the cattle

  • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Breaking News From An Orange Paedo In The Whitehouse:
    “haHAAhaha HAHAHAHA! Hahahahahahahaha.”

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    Heh. Epstein 2007 plea deal granted non-prosecution to his co-conspirators. The prosecution literally said that everyone else involved is above the law.

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        Alex Acosta became the US Secretary of Labor for the Lumpty Trumpty administration.

        On 25 August 2025 the House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to Acosta requesting his testimony in the Epstein file. His name was not in the initial batch of subpoenas the committee sent out in August, which included Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. His testimony was on September 19.[57] During his September 2025 testimony, Acosta said he did not recall any discussions of “potential financial crimes” in the Epstein investigation. In October 2025, Bloomberg News uncovered email correspondence that showed that Acosta’s office did discuss financial crimes and that Acosta was copied on correspondence about it. Records related to the financial crimes investigation were stored in a folder titled, “Money Laundering.”[26]

        Acosta announced that the Trump administration maintained a goal of one million new apprentices. Following Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest in July 2019, on sex trafficking charges, Alexander Acosta faced fresh calls to resign.[82] He resigned as Secretary of Labor effective July 19, 2019.[83] President Trump, standing next to Acosta, said he would have been willing to have him remain.[84][85] Trump said “This was him, not me” and called him a “great, great secretary”.[84][85]

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Trump says no. Trump says it’s okay for people like him to rape kids.

    That’s it. That’s what’s going on right now. Welcome to dystopia.

  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Too bad they have literal zero intention of doing anything else other than complaining

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    5 months ago

    Sorry to go all grammarnacionalesozcialistsk but it’s “No one is too wealthy/powerful for the law to apply to them” or “No one is wealthy/powerful enough to be above the law”. These people are supposed to have English degrees…

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    Oh my god I wish that actually becomes true.

    In a just world, most of this administration would be behind bars. Same with fElon and Bannon and Stone and other people not necessarily in the administration.