A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

    • @[email protected]
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      So what you’re saying is you’re OK with some weirdo come to your house harassing you and your family?

    • Flying Squid
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      Oh they’ve always been okay with it. They used to publish the names and addresses of abortion providing doctors and nurses back in the 90s.

  • @[email protected]
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    So who wants to place bets on when people involved in the trial start to get bumped off?

    I would comfortably place a $10 bet that either one of these jurors, a prosecutor or a judge will get attacked or killed by a right wing cultist and/or one of Trump’s or Bannon’s hired goons by the 2024 election.

  • @[email protected]
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    If those were BLM activists, they’d have a SWAT team breaking down their door within minutes of posting this.

    • @[email protected]
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      "The lack of political leadership on the right to denounce these threats — which serve to inspire real-world political violence— is shameful.

      Charge every Republican politician who fails to publicly denounce them as an accessory to whatever crimes get committed against these grand jurors.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      202 years ago

      Trump supporters were “using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur” in posts online.

      How to get your ass kicked by A/V professionals, 3D animators, and pirates… all in one fell swoop!

      • @[email protected]
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        122 years ago

        Uh, I think those that are inclined have already acknowledged this. The others are very likely a lost cause, if this recent spate of reporting hasn’t convinced them that Trump is a freaking manipulator and crook. Where do we go from here? I don’t know how so many extremists could possibly just, you know, stop being so extreme. Naively, a civil war could fix the issue, but that is the last thing we need–war is never the answer.

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            82 years ago

            It is crazy that this isn’t a United States problem, either. All one has to do is look to Australia, Canada, and the UK to see that fascism is rampant. I’m looking for those brightest minds, because I’m certainly not one of them.

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            The next step is breaking away from them completely and building an alternate economy they’re not allowed to participate in. Left only banks and stores and whatnot.

            If you all don’t, the right will simply take over the institutions you think will serve everyone fairly and boot you out of it, just like they did the judiciary.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      Advance Democracy noted that Trump supporters were “using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur” in posts online.

      Classy as ever

      • Raging LibTarg
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        The instant I saw the word “RIGGERS” in his bitch ass post yesterday, I knew exactly what it actually meant. Just more dog whistling fog horn blasting racism from The Cheeto Mussolini. 😡

  • El Barto
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    312 years ago

    This could be either a great time to be an FBI agent - or the worst time.

    • yukichigai
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      Imagine becoming a fed because you want to uphold the law and chase down bad guys, figuring you’re going to be tracking down drug dealers and human traffickers and mafia goons, and instead you get tasked with running down Karen and Cletus who decided to firebomb a house based on something they read on RealTruthPatriotNewsDaily-dot-net.

      • @[email protected]
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        72 years ago

        A guy I work with has a masters in engineering degree, graduated with honors, went to a school that is world known for engineer was telling me how he spent two days sorting out the parts numbering scheme in the database. He has to do it twice because upper management changed their mind after he finished the first time.

        Your dreams and mileage may vary.

        • @[email protected]
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          112 years ago

          Just heavy sighing, the sound of liquor being poured into a glass at 9am and every so often, a truly exasperated “fuuuuuuuuuck!”

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          The FBI agents I feel for are the ones that have to go on sites like 4chan or whatever other social media sites the rightwing thinks is safe.

          F4 Not a crime, not a crime, not a crime, not a crime

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          F4 Wait! Ok never mind. Not a crime…

          Then once a week they finally get Jethro or Jayden the basement dweller.

  • @[email protected]
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    692 years ago

    Sadly, predictable.

    Equally sad and Equally predictable, this (and the ensuing harrassment) will have the approval of the Republican party.

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    I looked at the indictment last night and noticed it included the names of the grand jurors. I dropped my head into my hands, knowing this was inevitable. I don’t understand why the names weren’t reacted.

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        702 years ago

        It prevents loading the jury to get a specific outcome. That said, it should come with protection or a delay or something.

        • @[email protected]
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          292 years ago

          Not saying it is, but showing me, a regular citizen, these names convinces me the jury wasn’t loaded? Does the defendant have no role in Grand jury selection?

          • @[email protected]
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            392 years ago

            No, the defendant doesn’t. This isn’t a trial jury, it’s the Fulton County Grand Jury. The GJ sits for an extended period (maybe a month, someone step in and correct me if I’m wrong) and listens to cases brought by the prosecutor. The GJ job is to decide if the prosecutor has enough of a case to indict. It seems in this case, she did.

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              That’s generally right. In Fulton County they sit for two months. There were two different grand jurys here, though.

              There was a Special Grand Jury who met for 8 months and investigated the specific crimes related to the Trump case. They issued a report in January detailing all of the evidence that they heard.

              In GA, though, a Special Grand Jury can’t issue an indictment. The report was passed to a normal grand jury who heard all of the evidence, then issued the indictment. That grand jury was first seated on July 11th.

              source

      • athos77
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        252 years ago

        I didn’t know that. I wish they had a process for applying to redact, for cases like this :(

        • peopleproblems
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          Pretty sure grand Jurors are professionals in most if not all common law states.

          A couple of the peoples titles on the list pointed me towards that they are.

          Edit: I’m pretty certain I’m wrong. There’s something else I must be confusing it with

    • @[email protected]
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      There’s all kinds of laws like this that are super old, and really harmful in modern life. Like name changes having to be published in the paper, and home ownership being public information. Sorry trans people, if you want to legally change your name, you have to be out to everyone! And don’t even think about buying a house if there’s someone you don’t want knowing where you live, like an abusive family member or ex!

      They’re left over from times when information was harder to come by, and they absolutely need to be changed, but our governments are bad at legislating for modern problems

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        Unfortunately, while you’re citing lots of very valid cases of innocent people being victimized, I also think that the trail of information that follows people is very important for systems of justice.

        Imagine criminals getting away with white collar crime, having changed their name to make it more difficult for people to publicly scrutinize them.

        I can’t quite imagine what protections might make sense to keep trans people safe, and it’s hard for me to think about which group should be prioritized. Of course, ideally, we’d live in a world where anyone retaliating to someone’s gender transition would be headed for a hard time themselves.

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        72 years ago

        Home and land ownership is public in most countries, it’s an important thing to have transparency on.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        🤔 Is it possible for an abuse victim to buy a house through an LLC to avoid that problem? How does that work for real estate businesses?

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          It is actually! I have a friend who’s dad is extremely libertarian (despite having been a marine?), And he bought his house under an LLC for pricacy’s sake. I’m sure it would work for less crazy reasons as well

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            22 years ago

            There needs to be a nonprofit that helps victims set up such things so they can hide from their abusers.

          • @[email protected]
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            Interesting. I wonder if you could buy a home zoned for single family, sell it to a LLC that you run, then rent it out to two families (if one is your own) since it is now commercial rental.

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              From what I’ve read, living in a house you buy yourself makes it lose most of the protection of an LLC, because you have “pierced the corporate veil”. All it really ends up doing is protecting your identity

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          12 years ago

          In that case our government has failed to do this. Who owns your mortgage? It was repackaged into a mortgage backed security with thousands of owners. Who owns that commercial property that has been sitting idle for thirty years? Owned by nested shell companies.

          Another reason why mortgaged backed securities should be criminalized.

  • pizza-bagel
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    Yikes, I hope these people’s entire family has some sort of protection. It’s normal for them to attempt to kill anyone they don’t like.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      for a week? Then they are thrown to the wolves. Of course it isn’t like the movies where one is some vet special forces guy and he takes out every threat to his home. It is more like some regular person being yelled at by their employer because people are calling and cussing.

      Just read up on what happens to regular folks who get doxxed.

    • 0110010001100010
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      Unfortunately, probably someone getting hurt or killed. To the GQP the political violence is a feature, not a bug. I hope I’m wrong.

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          Sadly, it reminds me of something I read in a book about a series of event’s when a certain person became reelected in europe in the 30s-40s.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      282 years ago

      Even easier: just reassign the guys from his detail to protect those people, until there’s nobody left to cover his entourage.

      • @[email protected]
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        172 years ago

        Give the people Trump trusts with his life to the people he likely wants to be silenced? Good idea.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          Better yet, redeploy the ones on Trump and put new ones on the threatened!

          You know, shuffle the cards around, same impact.

    • krolden
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      Yeah I wanna know. I bet they’re protected by cloudflare