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    Must be nice to be able to have a tantrum in court, yell at the judge, and then just be able to walk out.

    I encourage everyone to try it sometime.

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        Freedom to be in jail fries.

        *jail depends on tax bracket

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      Terms and conditions: Offer valid only for white or orange. Participant must be a republican or identify themselves as a republican. Offer not valid for women, children, and people of color other than orange, and poor. Don’t be poor.

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        He might be one of half a dozen people who could get away with that in a US federal court.

        I wonder if Elon could get away with it.

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        The judge is trying to prevent any pretext to getting the case thrown out on appeals. It’s bullshit but having all this hard work go up in smoke because a brainless judge higher up found a tiny fault in an unprecedented case would be horrid.

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          What a piece of shit system that cannot treat people equally… Fucking farce of a country.

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            While it’s very stark, I doubt you’ll find many countries treating their billionaires the same as their workers.

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                  It’s the natural implication of downplaying the seriousness of something. Saying other countries suck too is not only what-about-ism, but is directly diluting the seriousness of the offense.

                  “Everybody does it” is classic children’s logic and a fallacy.

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                    I think you are looking way too hard into it based on whatever preconceived issue you have.

                    Nothing you said has any baring on this particular issue.

                    Absolutely no one here has said what’s going on is good.

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                    I think the statement is more of a “It’s difficult to avoid this problem” than an “it’s fine because everyone does it”

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          Jokes on us: like police do all the time, if a judge wants to “find” such a fault - maybe by citing precedence from a thousand years ago? - then they will. Ofc there is no reason to make it easy on them.

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            frankly, i’m shocked they haven’t tried to cite the Magna Carta yet.