• @[email protected]
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    518 months ago

    Sounds like great incentive for Zuck to do everything in his power to make sure Trump doesn’t get reelected.

  • @[email protected]
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    48 months ago

    Were was this Trump when younger Trump did LOTS of illegal stuff? Maybe he could have threatened him.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      18 months ago

      It’s pretty much happening now, although the president isn’t the one saying stuff like this, it’s the people prosecuting him.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      28 months ago

      It’s not surprising though. During election season, interested parties both for and against censorship and election interference get more vocal and forceful on the matter.

  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    208 months ago

    I mean we should be doing that if that happens.

    I love that he only manages to be right about something when he’s wrong at a far more fundamental level.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      38 months ago

      Trump legitimately strikes me as “What if the protagonist of the Sonichu comics got elected.” Sometimes

  • @[email protected]
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    138 months ago

    It would be cool with me if both Zuckerberg and Donald went to jail for the rest of their lives.

  • Diplomjodler
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    Last time I checked, the executive didn’t decide about indictments or sentences. But I guess that’s all going to change if Dementia Don wins.

    • Stern
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      Guantanamo Bay has entered the conversation.

      • Flying Squid
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        The argument there was that they were POWs captured on the battlefield, and thus under the purview of the CinC.

        There is no way to make that argument regarding Zuckerberg.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      68 months ago

      Yeah I was kind of curious as to how this story would be spun into a negative story against Trump. Anyone who does something illegal should be sentenced appropriately. Maybe “the president can’t set the sentence” will be the tack with this one?

      • @[email protected]
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        488 months ago

        Yeah I was kind of curious as to how this story would be spun into a negative story against Trump.

        That says more about you than it does about the story.

        Remember when his senior DOJ staff threatened to quit when he told them that a yes-man would be their boss and help overturn the election? Trump’s whole administration was about corrupting the executive branch.

        He is a racist traitor who doesn’t belong anywhere near power; he should be in prison.

        Anyone who continues to support him is a reactionary traitor, too.

      • Flying Squid
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        758 months ago

        If a life sentence is appropriate for interfering with an election, I look forward to Trump’s impending life sentence.

        Because anyone who does something illegal should be sentenced appropriately, right?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          38 months ago

          Fair enough. The “perfect phone call” was actually pretty bad, it’s the one case against him that I think probably has a lot of merit. I was thinking at the time that it was probably illegal.

          • Flying Squid
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            So you think he should be imprisoned for the rest of his life, right? That’s the appropriate sentence? You seem to be agreeing with Trump here.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              18 months ago

              I mean something like 10 to 20 years sounds fair to me if that’s the appropriate sentence (IDK what election interference sentences look like), which would probably end up being the rest of his life anyways

      • @[email protected]
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        You do realize that when Trump says “anything illegal” he really means “anything I don’t like”, right?

        Also, surely you think that Trump should be sentenced appropriately for violating federal law at Arlington cemetery?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          28 months ago

          The logical line of “when the guy I don’t like says anything, he really means what I say he means” is pretty errant and toxic. I cringe when the right does it too, “you can tell a Democrat is lying because they’ve opened their mouth”. It’s stupid and ridiculous.

          IDK what happened for sure at the cemetery, I’d need some footage and to read up on the pertaining law a little before I make a judgement on that.

          • @[email protected]
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            Trump has proven that’s what he means at literally every possible opportunity for nearly a decade. You cannot possibly not have come to that realization without purposefully ignoring it because you like him, claiming it’s some weird partisan issue is certifiably weird.

            He took a campaign photo in section 60 at the cemetery, that is a violation of federal law. You don’t need a video, you’re just giving him a pass because you don’t care what he does or who it hurts.

          • @[email protected]
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            I don’t know if you’ve kept your head buried in the sand for 8 years, but all we’ve seen is Trump proving that he believes any perceived wrongdoing to himself is a crime. It’s a CEO philosophy of fire anyone that disagrees.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              28 months ago

              The US Army releasing a statement that a) what Trump and his campaign did there was illegal and b) that they physically attacked the person who tried to stop them from breaking the law isn’t good enough for you?

              Why would it be? Does the government tell the truth all the time?

      • poo
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        108 months ago

        Diaper Don belongs in prison

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        Yeah, how can the potential next head of state threatening a specific individual with an arbitrary sentence of life imprisonment for some vague charge like “doing anything illegal” possibly be spun into a negative story?

          • Flying Squid
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            I think it’s Trump trying to find a way. In specific, find a way to do something outside of his presidential powers.

            He wanted to “lock her up” with Hillary too. Were you one of the people chanting that? Have you noticed she hasn’t been locked up yet even though he had four years to do it?

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              28 months ago

              Have you noticed she hasn’t been locked up yet even though he had four years to do it?

              I’ll just leave that there. It makes the point I would have made pretty succinctly.

              • Flying Squid
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                The point that he makes threats about imprisoning people and can’t follow through because it’s not within his abilities?

            • Rhaedas
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              And long investigation hearings that she didn’t fall asleep in.

        • HubertManne
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          When did crazy talk become the norm. Was it when trump first ran? Was it before? Its so hard to remember with the constant crazy talk all over.

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    If it would be a life sentence, then Zuckerburg might as well assassinate him.

    (note: this is hypothetical, I’m not advocating Trump’s assassination, I much prefer he win less than 40% of the popular vote and less than 200 EVs, and that he runs again for President in 2028, 2032, and 2036)

  • The Pantser
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    Illegal? Like marking legitimate news stories that criticize Trump as spam to scare away voters from reading them?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      58 months ago

      Haha he is probably referring to acquiescing to government requests to censor stories that could help Trump in an election. Which doesn’t make the most sense because Zuckerberg himself says that he regrets doing that in the past and won’t do it in the future. Maybe he wants to make sure?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          18 months ago

          Sort of? They’re similar but this is in reference to Zuckerberg admitting he colluded with the government to temporarily censor a negative story about Hunter Biden.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              18 months ago

              Yes. And so did Zuckerberg. Did you not hear what he said? He admitted to it this week.

                • @[email protected]OP
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                  18 months ago

                  Not like in a “find the votes” sense, but yes they used their power to sway the election at the behest of the government. There’s no way you don’t know this already.

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        He’s probably referring to some delusion he manifested in his own mind during a ministroke he had while pinching off a particularly fat McD’s turd.

        I will not give him the benefit of the doubt here, you’re only assuming he’s referencing reality.