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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elon knows millions of Americans hate him and are coming for him so he wants every single super-villain free to team up together.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No. He wants a racial war and Chauvin walking free is a surefire way to start one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This whole thing is giving Manson Family

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I find it funny how people on the right want the cop who shot that lady during the Jan 6 riot to be punished, yet think Chauvin was in the right....like how can you be so stupid....then again they probably don't care the cop shot her they care cuz he's black.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One cop shot a minority. One cop shot a Republican. To them one one of the victims is considered human. Take a guess as to which.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I kind of wish Chauvin shot Floyd instead of the TORTURE he put that man through. Slowly choking the life out of him as he begged for his life.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why not give Zimmerman a Presidential Medal of Freedom while you're at it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ever see the south park episode on that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They treat him like a specialist in "what he does" who's trying to escape his past. Painful looking at state of affairs.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

elon can fuck right off with this bullshit

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

They're trying to Reichstag fire up their own Reichstag fire. Martial law in America as a toe dip for their invasion of Canada.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Frankly, I'm surprised he hasn't already.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Couldn't he only be pardoned for the federal level conviction and not the state? Looking at his Wikipedia article, he has a 21 year fed sentence and a 22.5 state.

But yeah, this is a way to force violent protests and eventually martial law.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

IIRC, Chauvin made the plea deal on federal charges so that he would do his time in the relative safety of a federal prison.

Which would mean that if he gets pardoned on federal charges, then he would have to serve out his remaining state time in a state pen... the very thing he wanted to avoid. He would probably be dead in under a month unless he spent the next decade or more in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day (like he did in his pre-trial detention).

Which would be a crying shame, of course...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe it won't be protests this time and just 30,000 people turning his body into something that doesn't resemble a human.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Chauvin would join Kash Himmler's near future SA or NKVD private security detail. The single finger salute goes out to the neo-Nazis and their Government of Putin supporters.

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