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Trump Attorney Tells Judges Presidential Immunity Would Even Cover Assassinating Rivals, Selling Pardons (themessenger.com)
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U.S. presidents cannot be prosecuted for selling pardons or assassinating political rivals through SEAL Team Six, personal Trump lawyer John Sauer argued Tuesday.

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[–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

If you are a history buff, read up on the aventine secession on Wikipedia.

The TL;DR is that in 1924 Giacomo Matteotti, a member of the house of representative who was outspoken against Mussolini, was killed and no charges were brought forward. That even is what transition Italy from a semi-working democracy to a one-party dictatorship.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    He was littered‽

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I really hope thats a typo and not some new tik tok shit like unalive

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I hate that people are starting to actually use these censor-bypass words in real life… makes adults sound like children!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    So, kinda like how all slang and colloquial language sounds at first? Not like prefixes aren't a part of our language either.

    Besides, there's plenty of words that get changed or replaced because what society considers offensive changes.

    We don't use "cripple", "retard", or many other words.

    In other news, unyoung man diswhispers at cloud

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I get what you’re saying, but in this case it just has this… dystopian corporate essence to it. Instead of getting off these shitty platforms that censor words and idea, people just find ways around the censors while still using the platform. Platform keeps making out like gangbusters, society gets dumbed down a little more. It kind of reminds me of what people in China have to do to talk shit about their govt without getting in trouble, which is… not the direction we should be going.

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