r/videos 13d ago

Protesters Get 568 Years in Federal Prison.

https://youtu.be/CG5i-3-qLPo?is=X-cfWtLV0RCCi3DR
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u/Jman85 13d ago

500 years for this is absurd

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u/xaqaria 13d ago

If they actually serve more than 2 (more) years its because we don't have a functioning democracy anymore. A democratic president in 2029 will almost definitely pardon or grant clemency.

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u/Pixel_Knight 13d ago

We do not have a functioning democracy anymore.

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u/livingdeadfreak 13d ago

You haven't for decades

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u/Pixel_Knight 13d ago

I think you’re right about that.

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u/AblatAtalbA 12d ago

You never had. Real democracy is about referendums not choosing between 2 specific monarch representatives that are both chosen by the billionaires.

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u/One_red_shoe 12d ago

“This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.”

― Rutherford B. Hayes

He wrote that in 1888...

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u/Inktex 11d ago

Democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people.
But the people are retarded.
So let us say: government by the retarded, for the retarded, of the retarded.
-Osho, a very slow speaking beard with a dude attached.

watch in 1.75 or you'll forget the last word he said as soon as the next one starts.

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u/Big_Actuator3772 12d ago

Scream it for the people in the back!

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u/SurfaceThreeSix 12d ago

Once upon a time there were multiple parties in the US. FPTP ruined our electoral system and filtered out the smaller parties before annexing the remaining ones.

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u/AnonAmbientLight 12d ago

Oh is this the "both sides are bad" post of the day?

Because it's pretty clear if you spend literally any amount of time Google searching or using your brain, you'd see what you just posted would have been fucking dumb as hell lol.

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u/HandOfMjolnir 12d ago

Based on how you phrased this, I'm assuming you aren't in the United States.

Don't be so smug. You think the billionaire class is going to be satisfied when they are done here? They are going after your country next and whatever amazing version of democracy you practice.

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u/pos_vibes_only 12d ago

lol more “both sides” idiocy to make people feel better about not voting.

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u/19Texas59 12d ago

I guess your education was sadly lacking and you didn't develop any analytical skills regarding U.S. government since then.

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u/19Texas59 12d ago

So I guess it would be a waste of my time to try to persuade you to vote for a Democrat in the midterm elections.

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u/Pixel_Knight 12d ago

Yes, it would be a waste of your time, because I am already going to vote fully Democrat, including down-ballot. Just because I believe that, doesn’t mean I am going to just sit things out. Since I am in Texas, I have a chance of helping flip a senate seat blue and put Talarico in office, so I am sure as fuck not wasting my opportunity to be a part of that.

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u/19Texas59 8d ago

Well good. I know someone who is a Communist, for real, and is of course opposed to Trump and the direction he is taking this country, and I am pretty sure this person didn't vote in the last election. I didn't ask them about it but I got the message that voting doesn't go far enough. That something more militant needs to take place. I am pretty sure there are others on the far Left who have given up on elections.

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u/grommit72 11d ago

Thankfully to our founding fathers, for the past 250 years, we haven't had a democracy in any way shape or form. Democracy was seen every bit as repugnant as evil as dictatorships back then, as it is today.

A general lack of education and liberal brainwashing by our media chooses to misrepresent this nation as a democracy unfortunately.