• Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Reasonable doubt is not a low bar, and you can’t bypass it by just believing. Yes, we need evidence to support accusations. People are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.

    Not that this would ever go to a criminal trial, because at this point the only way Trump is facing justice is if half the government is heading to the gallows along with him Nuremberg style.

    That said, it doesn’t take much for allegations against Trump to be credible. If we just believe the shit Trump himself has said unprompted he’s a sexual predator that molests women and peeps on under age girls. There’s a reason a jury found that he probably sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll despite having almost no evidence of the specific incident. He’s made it abundantly clear how he treats women, and it doesn’t help that he got caught in obvious lies.

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      Not that this would ever go to a criminal trial, because at this point the only way Trump is facing justice is if half the government is heading to the gallows along with him Nuremberg style.

      I accept your proposal. Shall we begin?

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        If bread and circuses ever go dry for enough people in America. There will be. But I worry about what will result from that if it happened now. There is no class consciousness here. It needs to be built.

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          I’m currently visiting the US (for work, not by choice) for the first time since 2006- you know what the worst part is?

          I’ve been here four days, and if I didn’t intentionally seek out international or reliable news media, I would HAVE NO IDEA that anything had changed. It’s so fucking insidious how benign this garbage can look if you’re not paying close attention. I’m honestly terrified at how fucking normal everything seems, given what’s happening.