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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 18 points 6 days ago

The Epstein class owns the lawmakers.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

there's punishment for being an Epstein client?

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 days ago

as far as i know, there are only benefits.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

only in the court of public opinion

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 5 days ago

That's because the rich make the laws.

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago

If we just belieeeeeeve hard enough the rule of law will appear like Peter Pan

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Well otherwise the republicans will run out of children to fuck. And they can't do it from jail, so...

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Not to mention just using the "wrong" bathroom.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Liberalism: the"rule of law" is just paper idealism that dilutes the will of the people

Marx: Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Libs claim that in the US people are equal before the law?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i think at this point we/they're trying to demand that the justice/criminal-punishment system hold everyone equal before the law because that's the ideal we were all taught (and it's in our foundational legal documents) and it's very nakedly being shown that there is a tiered justice/criminal-punishment system rather than an equal one.

not so much that there is one.

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So you're just demanding the baseline for a normal society.

So why is OP presenting that as something negative, or unworthy of supporting?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Capitalists often use the idea that everyone is equal under the law to obfuscate theor class domination. A genuine society where everyone is equal under the law in theory and practice is worth fighting for, but in the present moment it is all smoke and mirrors.

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think that very, very few people these days believe in this equality (i.e. believe that it exists in practice), "libs" or otherwise.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

That's one of those things that's hard to quantify. I've seen people use that frame of argument before, but not in the last few years.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In searching for something resembling logic in this, one might consider what the common factor is in these two and then one might want to stop considering.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

They want to have more options for children to abuse.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Won't somebody think of the children?

But yes, they do! Believe me, they do!

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

too much so; reading how they had mollify/appease trump with puppies because they didn't have any babies to satisfy him at a party and agreed to always have children on hand in case the situation ever comes up again, will stick with me forever