Maybe it’s time to float rewriting the pardon powers so there’s checks and balances that can’t be abused, because you know if one did it more will do the same otherwise. Invalidate his pardon power, invalidate his pardons, crimes committed by those in office should not be pardonable, etc.
I think they meant the top part–“not wanting to ruin someone’s life” should apply to non-harmful acts, but in some people’s minds rape isn’t “as” harmful as having your life ruined or something…
Put it on the ballots at the local (city, county) level. Measures don’t begin with elected officials, they begin by figuring out the prerequisites to put measures on ballots: in some places you need petitions with enough signatures by common people for a measure to be considered, the prereqs vary per locality.
Simulated Intelligence
I think because people are the same no matter what platform they’re using and you’ll end up with the same kinds of arguments, trolling, or derailing everywhere. But they already have platforms they’re on for those, so why switch?
Lemmy would have to be pretty different and because humans are the same everywhere, I’m not really seeing that difference.
I see it somewhat when browsing contents in other languages because the culture is different enough to lend itself to different contents, or at least different arguments that are less tiresome than what I see on English platforms…
Meh. Who cares about these monetary judgements, they don’t change anything. I want to see metaphorical heads roll (people jailed for this.) Fines have no consequences whatsoever.
The regret and embarassment won’t last long past orange’s dying. Watch them jump onto the next puppet, the problem isn’t just the current figurehead, it’s always been who’s behind him actually driving the machine, and the 77M idiots who supported him and who are your neighbors, because they bought into what orange represents and they will defend the next one by comparison (won’t be hard to find a more mentally competent dude than 47…)
Yep, the people who support/supported him are still around. The work is never done.