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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"herp derp jerb creators deserve to be above the law!"

What our robber barons have convinced many to most Americans to believe to spin their greed disease into being somehow noble, and what those robber barons unreflectively believe about themselves.

There are developed nations, which we most certainly are not, that literally prorate vehicular fines as a percentage of income. We would never do that here, because this shithole, including tens of millions of self-hating, deluded fools, believe the person that exploits thousands of laborers for private profit deserves to risk your life doing 90 on main street on the basis of their successful exploitation.

https://www.mic.com/articles/79039/the-untold-story-of-alice-walton-s-dwi-incident

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Is that as high as he can count?

…11, 12, 13, man, camera, tv, Putin….

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

This one time Nazguls tried to look like humans.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 days ago (7 children)
  1. The law applies only to office holders, candidates, campaigns, or to people who buy or sell political advertising.
  2. People and platforms who post and distribute content without exchanging money are exempted.
  3. All the big media firms: tv, radio, ISPs, Internet content platforms, and billboard operators are exempted when they just run someone else's ads. The people who are liable are the ones who place the ads.
  4. The requirement is to include a disclosure message when depictions of a public figure have been altered by technology: Photoshop, AI, deepfake audio, or whatever else. The content itself is not censored, it just has to be noticed that it's artificial.
  5. "Superficial" alterations are exempted from the notice message, for example, changing the color balance on a video.
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

But will they face consequences?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

And so, the era of the illegal meme dealer has begun

About time

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Pssssst... Hey buddy. You looking for some memes? I got the good stuff...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Who are they going to pay to evaluate all the damn memes on the internet? What counts as alteration? Resizing, cropping, other basic photo manipulations that people use all the time? Has a politician ever used images of themselves without touch up?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Specific to the fine: unless it scales with net worth/income.

Also, fuck Republicans.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Ms13 is everywhere they even alter images with their art department mspaint

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Holy shit I didn't know he was part of a gang

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

base fines on income as Finland does for traffic violations

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The rich can always find ways around the law, including income-based fines. See the death of singer Kirsty McColl.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What does the average traffic violation set back the average person in Finland?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Few hundred euros if you’re minimum wage, IIRC

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That's not how averages work

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Disclaimer: Go fuck yourselves.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Damn, from democracy to lèse-majesté in 100 ~~months~~ days, congrats guys!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oops, you're right. 100 months will be the length of Trump's second term.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you really think his body will hold out for that long?

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Oh so a first amendment violation as a law.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (6 children)

You thoughtless person, where’s the disclaimer?! I dislocated a rib laughing at this

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