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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word “No.”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

/thread

No need to scroll further, folks.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course not, but they're going to make an example out of her to deter the rest of the proles.

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

Except that's not how that works. She's going to be a martyr instead.

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

There is zero chance anyone in a power position in the US can grasp these terms and their real life ramifications.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This reminds me of Minority Report. Arrested by the pre-crime unit.

Guilty without the crime actually being committed.

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

If her crime is threatening then that actually is what she did, in the past.

The punishment of 15 years is just way over the top

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

That's not what she did. There are legal standards for what constitutes a threat, and what she said isn't one.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She was released and all charges dropped. This was a silly farce by the judge and prosecutors from the jump

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

I don't think that's right. She's been released on bond to house arrest; the charges still stand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Long live freedom of speech!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US justice system is f'ed up.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

She absolutely does not deserve that. Isn't America the home of free speech? I guess not for the plebs!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

They are going to argue it's not protected under the true threat doctrine.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Free speech is for nazis, as far as I can tell

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the freezer, next to the peaches.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Ah, so basically next to the freeze peach; got it :)

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