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[โ€“] popcap200@lemmy.ml 133 points 2 weeks ago (34 children)

I literally don't care about the Hunter pardon. Trump pardoned Russian spies. I think pardoning a child for a dumb drug offence is fine. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 124 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I care that he's not pardoning people in immigration detention. Instead he just pardons his crackhead son and leaves.

[โ€“] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yup he could on the way out make dreamers and none criminal migrant citizens but nope. Remember it's a small club and we ain't in it. Also shows Democratic leadership is happy with any outcome of elections because they still come out on top regardless. Did Nancy Pelosi's or Obama's life become more difficult because of the election? Nope. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are still going to get their beachfront Villas in Gaza. So they never really try to win.

[โ€“] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hakeem Jeffries is still the main Democrat who directly backed and supported Eric Adams in his bid for NYC Mayor and when asked about the indictment said this:

We need Eric Adams to be successful as mayor because he is the mayor

Jeffries is just another Pelosi and was picked because he doesn't care either. He won't apparently try for better just enough to make sure they keep as much power as they can.

[โ€“] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He can't blanket pardon people. He would have to do one for each person.

[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

He could still pardon them all, it's not like his hand would cramp from signing too many papers! Go through, one by one, and pardon them all.

And all the people on federal death row, that Trump is going to kill.

And all the people with federal marijuana charges.

And people like Leonard Peltier and Julian Assange while he's at it.

What's stopping him?

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[โ€“] davel@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 weeks ago

Forty-five years of neoliberal salami slicing via lesser-evilism is how we got to this place.

[โ€“] Chulk@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I think pardoning a child for a dumb drug offence is fine. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

His son is hardly a child at 54 years old. Biden is also responsible for thousands of people behind bars because of "a dumb drug offense".

I don't think that Trump should be the bar for morality and ethics in this country. It's lazy to bring him into this conversation.

[โ€“] popcap200@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

You're right. I should have said "his son" instead.

[โ€“] uranibaba@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

His son is hardly a child at 54 years old.

I'm sure parents always will see their children as children, no matter their age.

[โ€“] Chulk@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm specifically talking about the silly framing of "a child" rather than "his child"

[โ€“] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

And America has proven nobody cares except the Democrats who don't vote for high horse reasons son who cares.

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[โ€“] nialv7@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

there are so many other people's children in jail for dumb drug offences...

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[โ€“] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

All drugs should be legal.

We all know humanity will refuse to unclench our collective butthole regarding capitalism during our lives. At least let us get high as fuck on whatever we want while we wage slave to barely make it.

Perhaps it's more about the working class suffering then it is about money and power. Remarkable if that's true.

[โ€“] Grapho@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

Tell Biden drugs should be legal to his face he'd have you enslaved at your nearest private prison. This is how little of a shit he gives about criminals and their upbringing. He should have kept that same energy, but as always, rules are for the poors.

[โ€“] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[โ€“] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes.

Making drugs illegal doesn't stop use. It just makes it essentially impossible to know you're getting a clean supply that isn't laced with something else, or accidentally 100x as strong and it kills you. Plus it does nothing to address why these people felt the need to turn to these highly addictive and deadly drugs. If anything it makes the problem worse.

[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If everything else was legal, people would stop dying from drugs laced with fent.

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[โ€“] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

Drugs should be legal, driving recklessly with guns while high should definitely not be legal. I don't think Americans deserve to die for walking around despite how much I hate their country.

[โ€“] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

No they should not be without the other support networks in place. BC in Canada decimalized and it made shit worse. You need the support infrastructure in place to help people with addiction also.

[โ€“] Aqarius@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[โ€“] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Does "an offspring" sound better? A "progeny"!?

If you can't deduct that they mean HIS child then I'm sorry but you're why disinformation is so effective.

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[โ€“] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It does seem pretty banana republic-y

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