• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    “Trump spent only about 20 minutes at the jail before heading back to his New Jersey golf club. Before boarding his private plane at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport, he repeated his claim that the…”

    Fuck that, abolish the social classes, equal standards of justice for all.

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    Whadaya bet he was in his bathroom, maybe with boxes of documents but never mind that, practicing different faces late into the night. Oh joy.

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    Wait, this just crossed my mind.

    I remember reading somewhere that in the US, a convicted fellon loses their voting rights. If this is true, then how can a fellon be eligible for public/political office?

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      First of all, he is not yet convicted. Second, the people who wrote the law based it on people of their time, and considered politicians as men of honor. They simply did not foresee current-day politicians - the slimy assholes that cheat, lie and deceive just to get or stay in power that they don’t use to serve the people but only to enrich themselves and their cronies.

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        “How about we add a law that convicted criminals can’t run for presidency? Just in case people vote for them?”

        “Hahaha, you crack me up!”

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      Running for office and voting are unrelated things with separate criteria. You can be president if you are a natural born citizen over 35 who has lived in the US for at least 14 years.

      You might have been thinking that losing voting rights entails losing citizenship, but that is not the case.

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        I’d say that the standards for holding office should be higher than the standards for voting for who holds said office.

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          They should be the same, really. Democracy’s core principle is that people are equal. If you’re eligible to vote, you should be eligible to hold office.

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            I’m fine with felons voting, even from prison. I’m not fine with felons holding the highest office in the government.

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              I’m fine with someone convicted of having some drugs on them or getting an abortion in the holding the highest office.

              Illegal is not a character judgement.

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          I think the reasoning of the founding fathers was, that political imprisonment should not hinder the democratic process, otherwise someone running for office could be detained for something and be removed from the election when someone in a higher position does not want him/her to participate.

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          That’s fine, I agree.

          But the law says otherwise. Just goes to show not all laws are just.

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    I’ve seen so many joke iterations of this mugshot already. Finally someone links an article about the source material.

    Such perfect timing also. We have AI on point. Looking forward for more iterations