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Chelsea's pronouns are she/her.
I'll choose my own language, you choose yours. Manning doesnt choose for me.
your words are disrespectful and childish
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Canada is like the US but lite. Ontario's government just replac car license number plates with blocks of color of the party in power, led by the brother of the former Toronto mayor who smoked crack with gang members, on video, while he was mayor. https://www.google.com/amp/s/torontosun.com/news/provincial/...
Canada is like the US because most of the media consumed by its population is US content. Canada is like the US because the Canadian enconomy is so intertwined with the US when the Dow Jones drops 10% in a day Canadians hurt too. Canada is like the US because Wuhan Fever is killing their citizens too. Canada is different from the US because if one of their citizens gets sick regardless of having insurance they will g…
>Canada is different from the US because even though the Prime minister wore blackface, as far as I know he never grabbed any women by the P000sy!
If you're talking about Trudeau, it took me literal seconds on Google to find the sexual harassment allegations against him.
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#233Her prolonged imprisonment in inhumane conditions is an ugly stain on Obama's presidency. I remember when he campaigned praising whistleblowers and government openness.
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Land of the free, home of the brave.
Especially given its current leadership, I often turn away jobs of more than two times my salary - in USD (I live in Canada) - to avoid living in America. That Trump ever got elected - or was ever seriously considered as a candidate - tells me that enough of the the population is seriously disturbed that I’d like nothing to do with it. And then there’s the war atrocities...
There might be some sampling bias there. It's easy to be a country with few war criminals when you have a relatively lackadaisical approach to prosecuting war crimes. If you just revoke their visa and send them somewhere else, it becomes another country's problem.
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She was granted immunity for testimony. Had she testified, instead of willfully ignoring the court, she would not have been held in contempt.
Hadn’t she already given testimony on the subject in question? If I recall she refused to testify a second time because she had already done so.
My understanding is that she did not, though this gets way into the weeds of the military trial. I can try to dig this up if you're interested (been a couple years since I read about that particular facet).
She claimed a lot of legally nonsensical things on stand so I'm not sure any of it passed any scrutiny. It certainly didn't with the judge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/chelsea-m...
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She was granted immunity for testimony. Had she testified, instead of willfully ignoring the court, she would not have been held in contempt.
Hadn’t she already given testimony on the subject in question? If I recall she refused to testify a second time because she had already done so.
I don't see how that's relevant. Either she repeats the testimony she gave the first time around, or new questions are asked of her as a witness that weren't covered during the first testimony.
Either way, with immunity granted, there's no Fifth Amendment peril there.
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Hadn’t she already given testimony on the subject in question? If I recall she refused to testify a second time because she had already done so.
I don't see how that's relevant. Either she repeats the testimony she gave the first time around, or new questions are asked of her as a witness that weren't covered during the first testimony. Either way, with immunity granted, there's no Fifth Amendment peril there.
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You do realize she was jailed and charged under Obama right? This was the President that was supposed to shine a light on corruption and protect whistleblowers when they first campaigned. The joke here is you think there's that much of a difference. One acts bad and does bad things, the other acts good and does bad things. The only difference is the media loved the last one and hates the new one.
She was convicted at a military trial. Obama commuted her sentence.
But no pardon
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> Also, I don't think it's legal to jail someone over unpaid debt It frequently is, IF the debt is to the legal system.
You cannot legally be jailed for failing to pay a debt, even to the legal system; you can be jailed for refusing to do so, but that requires ability to pay.
Maybe you "cannot" be, but people "are".
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How great must someone's economic prospects be before to earn before it's no longer OK to be homophobic, racist, xenophobic and voting and voting for someone cynically exploit their ignorance? How is their misery somehow a reason that makes them required to vote for not just a Republican no matter what but the worst possible one who is not even a conservative but looks our for absolutely no one's interests on any sid…
The real question is, why are they going to vote for him again despite his failure to deliver on any of his promises, or to display even a modicum of competence at his job? And when, after another four years, the wall still hasn't been built, globalism and automation still haven't been dismantled and the mines and domestic factories still haven't reopened, America's prestige still hasn't been restored, China still ha…
This virus may change that. Until this point unemployment was quite low and the stock and housing markets were doing well. Nearly everything takes a backseat to the economy for American voters, despite what they say.