Not only do the elites get away with doing anything they want, they get away with filming themselves committing crimes and bragging about it openly. The same elites that jail you for buying cunny because it's "immoral" not only don't go to jail for doing the same thing with kids but can get elected to the presidency after getting caught. How is the average person ok with this level of hypocrisy in society? Why aren't they rioting?
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Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 142 pts · 216d
It's cause you're poor.
That's not even a joke. Those scumbags are the single richest people in the world so they can just buy their way outta any legal trouble
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip · 48 pts · 216d
literally. the trump trial just before the elections was the essence of this. the judge said he is guilty and wished him godspeed.
(and he probably didn't even get any money, he was just scared to be epsteined after the elections.)
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 216d
Yup. There are currently ~180 billionaires in the Virgin Islands for a NYE mega-yacht party. Those ~180 people collectively represent ~80% of the entire nation’s wealth.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 216d
.........anyone got a nuke?
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 216d
Seriously, if ever there were a time for war crimes in the Caribbean
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 216d
War crimes in the Caribbean… man the pirates franchise is getting dark
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 215d
well kane in cnc3 did that to the allies, waited till all the "heads of govt" in space and nuked them taking them all at once. its probably some parallel we can draw from.
dan1101@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 216d
And the legal system is often a country-club insider system where they protect their own.
arin@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 216d
Yes, case and point https://www.forbes.com/sites/denizcam/2019/06/14/how-a-du-pont-heir-avoided-jail-time-for-a-heinous-crime/?sh=120a77fb29db
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca · 55 pts · 216d
The problem is you have failed at least one, probably both, of the foundational rules of any capitalist society.
First rule of capitalism: Be rich. Second rule of capitalism: Don't be poor.
Spaniard@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 216d
In other regimes there are three rules: first be rich, second don't be poor, third don't contradict the leader or the party.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 215d
4th, never contradict or critcize copaganda, or militaryganda because you will be seen as unamerican and its twisted to make you look crazy if you did.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 216d
Where the hell do you get 20 years jail for littering?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 7 pts · 216d
That would make the news. I can't find that news.
Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 216d
It is part of the three strike rule that some US states have. Three felonies and life in jail.
AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 216d
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 216d
If you break epa laws when it comes to dumping and emissions maybe
Limerance@piefed.social · 2 pts · 215d
North Korea maybe. If you drop a picture of dear leader to the ground, might do it.
vga@sopuli.xyz · 26 pts · 215d
You don't get 20 years in jail for littering.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 214d
Yeah, all they did was litter one corpse into a river.
tourist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 215d
maybe op was doing it a lot
and/or the litter was plutonium or something
edit: I think the phrasing was intended to be hyperbolic
Zozano@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 214d
I know you don't get 20 years for littering...
But maybe...
Just hear me out...
You should?
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 213d
Depends where.
Zink@programming.dev · 19 pts · 216d
Wilhoit's law:
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
In looking up the exact text, apparently it is often attributed to the wrong Wilhoit, lol.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 215d
Troll account. Dude's history is atrocious and it's been only one day.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 214d
What, you don’t think “Most book are terrible” is a good take?!
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 216d
That’s how the world works and always has to varying degrees. It’s just more obvious at the moment than it usually is.
Btw, “they get to rape kids and I just wanna go to the whorehouse” isn’t the BEST argument, but I guess you’re sorta aiming in the right direction.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 215d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 215d
the protests pretty much showed as that. organized, predictable, no wants to ruffle feathers.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 215d
can you explain this littering thing im interested i love crime
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 11 pts · 216d
Why don't you lead the way?
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but when you ask why people aren't revolting, you should realize that you're sitting at home behind your computer doing the exact same thing right now: a big fat nothing.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 216d
God damn I hate this bullshit argument.
People are looking for leadership in a time of crisis. Saying “well why don’t YOU do it instead of complaining” is just mind numbingly oblivious to how societal change actually works.
You build the movement, then you act. If you act too soon you’re just another revolutionary lined up against the wall and shot. Leadership is required to succeed and very few are capable of that level of leadership.
Edit: It basically comes across as an argument for the status quo which is disgusting to any rational, empathetic human being.
kboos1@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 216d
Act too late and you're lined up to be shot, act too soon and you're just a nut job
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 216d
i am with you. together we will do even bigger nothing!
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 216d
You're probably right, as that is the tendency of most people, to not have to go outside a comfort zone. It's also assuming that's true, and for all you know people who are stating this very thing might also be trying to do local action and failing because they're alone. So rather than put someone down for asking a valid question, we could explore why people aren't doing much of anything overall, and what can be done to change that outside of things getting far worse (which they will, as they have before).
Lorfan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 216d
True but at least I'm saying something. Most people are perfectly fine with the way things are.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 216d
I don't think that's true, but I'm constantly disappointed in humanity and overestimating people's will to make things better, so who knows.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 215d
all those protests had been ineffective(mostly because its too organized and predictable, with just virtue signalling), OCCUPy wallstreet showed as that. riots wouldve definitely caused some sort of change, eventhough trump has threatened to escalate(he was going to do it anyways), as soon as the wealthy knew you wernt going to riot, they ramped up thier propaganda nad culture wars to prevent further potential violence. in times of political crisis, the first to flees are almost always intellectuals.
PrimarilyPrimate@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 216d
They say that it's who you blow.
shittydwarf@piefed.social · 7 pts · 216d
That's a lot to swallow
DrSleepless@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 216d
It’s tough to face
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 215d
Where are you getting 20 years for littering?
Tangent5280@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 215d
Maybe he was littering by throwing away Top Secret Confidential documents on the floor of the Russian Embassy.
Or maybe he was littering by throwing away a strangely shaped metal spheroid on a public street through a stranger's chest cavity.
fizzle@quokk.au · 9 pts · 216d
Because more than half of voters didnt want him to be punished.
HorikBrun@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 216d
The word "privelege" literally translates as "private law," and it means the moneyed class has a different set of laws than you and I. And it's always been that way.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 216d
When you steal a little they throw you in jail. When you steal everything they crown you king.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 215d
what kind of littering was that extreme, if you were dumping chemical waste, or dangerous things, i can see that?
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 7 pts · 216d
Because the kiddy rapers control the most powerful institutions on the planet. This isnt by accident.
PorradaVFR@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 216d
I hesitate to ask but WTH is “cunny”?
scops@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 216d
You're right to hesitate. I've seen it in older novels (70s and 80s) as a euphemism for sex or a woman's genitalia (woman -> cunt -> cunny).
PorradaVFR@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 214d
That flew right over my head but with that context should have been evident….duh. 🤓
Thanks!
zbyte64@awful.systems · 4 pts · 215d
Teflon Don, like Epstein, collected pictures of powerful people doing "embarrassing" things. Unlike Epstein he didn't use a private island, he used hotels that catered to people with power.
1984@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 215d
You know why. The powers that be places a lot of value on him, and nothing on you. If you are just a debt slave, you are insignificant to the matrix.
Even if you would be rich, you wont get into the club of leading the world unless you sold your soul as well.
Evil runs the world but thats the game here - will you let yourself become evil also, or will you be a hero and stay good despite the system?
pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org · 4 pts · 215d
human@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 215d
All you have to do is have your lawyer call you a "pillar of the community".
Edit: Oh and be a rich, white, cis man willing to call yourself straight and christian. That part is important.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 215d
Your name was listed in a list of people who littered? Yeah that's 20 years.
KingBoo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 215d
He's rich and has used his money to gain power.
Most impressively the office of the president.
Shit answer but that's all it is.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 215d
One word, classism.
Limerance@piefed.social · 3 pts · 215d
It’s about power. Power means you can make other people do things. You can also get away with behaviors, others don’t. Money is power. Those with a lot of money have a lot of power.
Money enables you to buy off your victims directly or hire experts to take care of problems or tasks for you. That way you always stay one step removed.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 214d
Because it's a big club, and you ain't in it.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 216d
It's pretty easy: is there conclusive evidence? Corollary: can you successfully eliminate conclusive evidence?
ech@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 216d
https://files.catbox.moe/lkmgdw.mp4
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 215d
you represented yourself and were intransigent, thus the judge gave you a life sentence.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 216d
Rules for thee but not for me.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 215d
Ah he's just more charismatic, you know? You have to give the judge a firm handshake and speak in an obnoxious way, stuff like that.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 215d
same reason clinton was...rules do not apply to rich people in america
Strider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 215d
Money.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 215d
They're the puppets in positions of "power" because they're mutually compromised so. The psychopathic circlejerk. Easily played narcissists.
He's their boy.
... And ... they have quotas for filling the prisons there, for legal slavery. Highest prison population of any country in the world. .. "land of the free".
Many all pervasive psyops.
Glad I left that industry.
msokiovt@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 214d
Whose man, exactly? I traced it, somewhat, to the Black Pope, Arturo Sosa, the 31st Superior General of the Jesuit Order. That's just how I see it.
msokiovt@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 216d
Five words: Je-su-it Or-der, of which he's a low-ranking member of.