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Anastasis

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  1. I wouldn't hate playing in a band with Twice. We don't always agree. He would probably frame it less generously than that. But I do respect his perspective and posts. Most of the rest of y'all are real fucking clowns.
  2. Sums your post up.
  3. Right, why commutation makes sense here. And if you ring him up on new charges based on sidis' amazon reading list in front of a jury of his peers, so be it.
  4. which thread is that?
  5. Biden said that he wasn't going to pardon Hunter. Media ran with that, until he did. Preemptive pardon for Fauci backdated to 2014 is ridiculous, and even moreso when Jake Sullivan announced a new inquiry into Covid origins like 24 hours earlier. The second paragraph is projection Brisket. Take a step back.
  6. Yeah, I think that we are on the same page on this one.
  7. I saw the clip from the Libertarian convention at the time. I didn't actually think that Trump was going to follow through with it. I am not particularly offended that he did. But do note that he modified the commitment from a commutation to a full and unconditional pardon, which I do not really agree with.
  8. You said it was proven beyond a "shadow of a doubt", sorry if maybe I thought were talking about legal context in an exchange related to a pardon for legal convictions. Come on sidis. I don't honestly why you are tilting here. But its a pervasive problem, I understand. I think about drugs a lot. It's kinda my gig. I do not favor putting people in jail for non-violent drug offenses. I think that the markets should be legal and have reasonable, evidence- and reality-based regulations. He's been in jail for 10 years and paid like $190MM in fines (not sure what valuation of the bitcoin that is based on). I don't care if he is white black from eanes or whatever. If proven in a court of law that he ordered hits on people or something else, I am ok with locking him up forever. But your amazon reading list isn't going to move the needle for me. Y'all wilding.
  9. Love it when posters try to tell me what I think. Just strawman shit. There use to be posters here that thought that strawman argumentation was the major problem with teh CR. They were right then, and it is true now.
  10. Right, so just a waste of oxygen.
  11. Y'all lawyers don't even believe in the underlying principles of your own profession. Ethics is a moving target based on who you are advocating for and little else. That is all quite clear. The projection of all that taints this board given the disproportionate representation here.
  12. LOL. I thought you were better than this. You give me an amazon link after stating that he was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt for murder for hire. Like 5 seconds googling shows that to be nonsense. Appears that his sentencing was influenced by the charges you reference, which were not demonstrated "beyond a shadow of a doubt" in court, which is what some people got particularly worked up about. The disconnect between the sentencing and the actual charges. Without going down the rabbit hole on this one unless you are able to actually engage substantively, I will say my position would be that a full and unconditional pardon is too broad, and that a commutation of the current sentence to time served seems appropriate. If someone wants to take up the murder for hire charges and put him back in prison after actually proving those charges in a fair court trial, so be it. Try to be less of reactionary clown moving forward sidis.
  13. Like I said, I don't really have a strong basis for an opinion on that one, but it was framed initially as "beyond a shadow of a doubt". If you want to provide some links that provide the evidence without a lot of editorializing, I would like to read them.
  14. Can you please unpack what this is supposed to mean?
  15. I am not sure that I have a fully formulated opinion, other than this was a commitment that Trump made during the campaign, was not clear would be fulfilled, and he fulfilled it today. But I am interested in unpacking it. I am not very knowledgeable about his case. Can you please elaborate on "have been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to have hired people to commit murder". I haven't dug into this one, but my understanding is that he was not ever charged nor tried on that? Is that not accurate?
  16. Ross Ulbricht has reportedly been pardoned.
  17. It's amazing and mystifying that we have put our space program capabilities into the hands of a Nazi.
  18. Did a little mixed grill gyro rotisserie the other day, lamb and chicken. This is relatively easy and very yummy. Sub out the lamb with pork butt and this is a very low cost meal that will put leftovers back in the fridge for a few more passes.
  19. He has TS clearance without compartmented sensitive information and special access program permissions. There was a write up about this in WSJ a while back. Musk’s current top-secret clearance gives him access to some national-security secrets, but he lacks special authorizations that the government requires of most SpaceX employees who work on classified programs, according to the people familiar with the matter. Those employees—more than 400—have permissions for what is known as “sensitive compartmented information,” the government’s term for need-to-know secrets about how intelligence is collected and where it comes from, one of the people said. A smaller number of SpaceX employees have access to secrets the government deems even more sensitive called special access programs.
  20. Also horrible politically motivated pardons. Do you see anybody here defending them? Or is this just whataboutism? Now imagine how much worse those pardons would be if they were also pre-emptive, broad, and post dated to cover actions back to 2014.
  21. I was prob on a camel or american spirit kick at the time.
  22. And if they tried us all for misplaced commas we, would all hang.
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