I really feel for all the prosecutors who worked so hard to catch these criminals.
Is this humor?
Anthony Levandowski Pardoned
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#312Levandowski but not Snowden or Assange. Sigh.
> Levandowski but not Snowden or Assange. Sigh. Snowden and Assange have no value in the market economy. Lewandowski, on the other side, has some interesting skills
And Lewandowski hurt Google, which makes him a good guy according to Trump.
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#314Most of these are people accused of various drug crimes (many nonviolent). As much as I hate Trump, I support that. The worst one was this: Paul Erickson – President Trump has issued a full pardon to Paul Erikson. This pardon is supported by Kellyanne Conway. Mr. Erickson’s conviction was based off the Russian collusion hoax. After finding no grounds to charge him with any crimes with respect to connections with Russ…
Just to note - they specifically added those other commutations to elicit your exact reaction: "Some look shady, but it's mostly good".
I think you're assuming they are more competent/smarter than they really are.
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#315I think it's really important for society as a whole that there exists the rule of law and not the rule of law for the poor only.
This is just another blatant example of where being rich and having connections puts you above the law. Sadly this isn't an isolated case.
Take Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort. Both plead guilty and both were somehow granted home detention due to the pandemic
What Levandowski did was egregious. You walk out the door of a company. You take nothing. That's it. You don't own nor are you entitled to any of that work product. It's pretty simple.
I'm not surprised to see Peter Thiel on that list. His politics are pretty appealing. I don't know most of the other names on that list who supported the pardon but that's not a list I'd want to be associated with, personally.
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
As much as I disagree with some pardons, I think the negative effects of looping in Congress would outweigh the positive. Sometimes pardons are politically unpopular even when they are right or justly merciful. Pardoning someone who embarrassed the government, for instance -- I can easily imagine a majority of Congress choosing to deny Chelsea Manning's commutation. It's a bit of a parallel to the "better a hundred g…
What if the president pardoned literally... everybody. I wonder what would happen. Maybe he got drunk and wrote something down and handed it to somebody. It's such a simple action, nobody can stop it, he can't take it back when he comes to his senses. Would the system even respond to it? Would they just open all the federal prisons?
> What if the president pardoned literally... everybody
Or worse, had someone murder his political opponent and then pardoned him? This sort of thing was unthinkable a few years ago, but no longer.
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#317Levandowski but not Snowden or Assange. Sigh.
I don’t know what the current going rate is; we’ll see if Joe Exotic met it. Supporters of Snowden and Assange have only a few hours to get the cash together.
Interesting perspective. What else besides cash would you suspect to be influential?
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
A SCUBA diver here. Apparently we are all racist while submerged.
Context matters in almost all human communication. And humans are pretty good at negotiating context. Scuba divers won’t lose the symbol. But scuba divers also don’t protect a bunch of people posing with Richard Spencer and making the gesture.
> And humans are pretty good at negotiating context.
In politics? I think people are pretty bad at understanding context about people they see as having different values. The way you handle uncertainty is to fill in the blanks with prior knowledge, also known as bias. When someone has a bias against the person, that turns quite ugly.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
We can't let trolls and white supremacist steal the ok symbol. We must fight back. The problem is that whoever makes the the first step will get called a white supremacist, so nobody want to volunteer.
No, I'll volunteer. It's a stupid conspiracy theory, and I have nothing but contempt for it. I use it all the time, and always will, regardless of context or the presence of gullible idiots around me.
Why do you insist and insult the people who are agaisnt the racist people who call out the symbol. If the symbol is so important to you then your fight should be with the actual white supremacists who have co-opted the symbol and not the people who don't let racists get away with recruitment/trolling/owning the libs by flashing their co-opted gang sign.
It's like you being furious at black people because your great grandparents used to always win their Halloween contest with their pointy hat ghost costume and you're not going to let stupid guillable people keep you from wearing it at parties.
Re: Anthony Levandowski Pardoned
#320Levandowski but not Snowden or Assange. Sigh.
Snowden is earnest, so he won't get one. Assange won't, because Donnie doesn't think he'll be useful again.
Assange has a knack for getting his hands on a lot of dirt. Trump is arrogant and short-sighted enough to believe it will never be dirt on him?