I'll be nice for once and say this is a not bad thing he didn't have to do
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Same. Let it be known by the libs that I do actually give their politicians credit when they do good things. This is unequivocally good.
The guy is enthusiastically bankrolling a genocide, he deserves nothing but the wall.
I didn't say he's a good person. I said this particularly action is a good thing. I'd still support trying him at the Hague for all the other bad things. Critical support and all.
Showing how deeply caring and kind hearted he(sevenskalls) is by offering the acknowledgement that a good thing happened when it's not even deserved.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
You can give someone credit for doing something good, but still hate them and think they're bad people. Hitler was a vegan and pro animal rights in some regards, that doesn't make him not Hitler.
Hitler wasn't actually vegan, but yeah
Hexbears forgetting the concept of critical support the moment an American does something.
it doesn't apply to the imperialists lol
Nah, fuck that. This should be the absolute minimum. If a president can just do this, he should do this for literally every single person who ever gets a death sentence.
actual human people are apparently not going to be executed that the following admin would almost certainly accelerate the process to kill. it's a good thing. it's not ENOUGH by any means but it is at least the correct direction of travel unlike pretty much every other Biden admin thing other than labour (which was also Not Nearly Enough). it goes without saying he would still get the wall. I can in fact hold both of these thoughts in my head at once just fine.
See tankies he did reduce harm after all 
I love how the presidents only do like one or two good things and it's always on the way out. So it gives them 4-8 years to just be a complete ghoul.
The usual practice is to pardon a handful of people to improve the optics of pardoning cronies and rich campaign donors. They call them "packing peanuts", the people they pardon to protect the ones they really wanted to give them to.
federal death row
It's just so cool that we have this. Very normal country.
I bet you they ran out of kill juice and that's the real reason this is happening.
When Trump was leaving office last time they literally went on a McKilling spree and McKilled thirteen people.
The number of federal death sentences carried out under Trump since 2020 is more than in the previous 56 years combined, reducing the number of prisoners on federal death row by nearly a quarter.
National Academy of Sciences Reports Four Percent of Death Row Inmates are Innocent
Study from 2014. Four fucking percent!
Four percent is too high for a false incarceration rate, let alone death row. Evil country.
A 4% false incarceration rate would mean that 1% of all prisoners across the entire globe are Americans that didn't commit a crime.
Joke of a country.
Studies estimate that between 4-6% of people incarcerated in US prisons are actually innocent.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country on the planet. If each state were a country, Georgia would rank fourth in incarceration. These rates are not explained by higher levels of violent crime.
Data from the Georgia Innocence Project
i mean it's cool when it's billionaires but 
would never
I couldn't pardon Marcellus Williams because he was guilty, Jack
Because the president can't pardon state crimes.
Sure, but the president has a lot of power he can use to control a governor. Both through the legal powers of the presidency and extra-legal methods like sending them a picture of their spouse taken by a predator drone.
The president could send in the military if he wanted to. All this "federal government can't" is BS and has been since the whiskey rebellion.
Ah well nevertheless
Oh, I thought it applied to all felonies
I have an ugly suspicion about the 
aspect of this. But admittedly I haven't checked on that fully and could be wrong.
There were fourty people on federal death row, only three left after the pardon: the Boston Marathon bomber, the Charleston church shooter, and the Boston synagogue shooter. So basically everyone except the mass murderers.
Huh.... Pretty cool actually.
Huh. I stand corrected. I guess I just automatically assume that everything Biden does is tinged with racism, I should not have assumed in this case.
Given the state of the average American prison, you never know...
it woild be funny if he posthumously pardoned brian thompson for killing thousands of people
He's in the wrong side of the class war for Biden to pardon him.
Congrats, you can suffer until your natural death.
There's no middle ground with this freak, it's either a blood bath or peace and love. Pull out of Afghanistan -> genocide in Palestine.
I don't think biden's admin wanted to pull out of Afghanistan.
Why would they want to stop that sweet money to defense contractors??
Yeah, he probably begrudgingly did it after Trump cornered him into it. But he could have stopped it and he didn't. I'm just glad it got done.
Trump started the afghan pullout
Those individuals will have their sentences reclassified from execution to life without the possibility of parole.
He didn't pardon them, he just changed their sentences to life in prison.
Maybe he's having that moment of clarity before death
nah he's just doing this to fuck with all the other people on death row who are gonna still be murdered by the government
There are three left and Trump is gonna kill them.
did less than the bare minimum. congrats