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    I can nazi why not.

    I’m sorry, folks. I’m trying a variation on the old adage. I’m terribly sorry.

    Not for that cop, though, he deserves to rot.

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    They’re trying to Reichstag fire up their own Reichstag fire. Martial law in America as a toe dip for their invasion of Canada.

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    They just want to cause riots. Trump and Elon are agitators.

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      I agree. This is just intended to cause civil unrest to distract from everything else they’re doing to tear America apart.

      But also, Musk is a Nazi.

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      This. I’m convinced at this point they’re attempting to instigate riots so they can declare material law and seize full control over the US government.

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        I know it a typo, but declaring it, would be the last step of making material law the ultimate authority. Taking Capitalist Fromm late stage to endgame.

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        They are the clowns of the circus. Half the US is trying to figure out who the ring master of the circus is … instead of looking for the guy who owns it.

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    A possible motive is to push the power of the executive. If Trump can somehow seize this power, there’s nothing that can stop him.

    That or just trying to embolden the police, but I’m guessing it’s even worse than that.

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      A gun. A gun can stop him. They work well. American has more guns than people, and a second amendment designed to stop this nonsense when needed.

      It’s needed.

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      I’d say it’s to embolden police and violent racists, in hope of helping encouraging their race war to destabilize the country so that they can divy it up.

      The interesting lack of forethought from the oligarchic billionaires is that their billions mean nothing without the US dollar and NYSE. The majority of their hoards of wealth are not backed by anything tangible that could be of use in the event that the US dollar ceases to be relevant. I suppose that this kind of thought isn’t likely to occur to sociopaths that were born with platinum spoons in their mouths.

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        Yes - just as with the DEI controversy, the main point is just to fan the flames of racism.

        The 1% understand that the US is approaching a breaking point. Things are going to shit, and people are going to start looking for someone to blame for the ugliness and horror and death to come.

        And the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the 1%.

        And of course, they don’t want us to see that. So they’re doing everything they can to divide us against ourselves.

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    Couldn’t he only be pardoned for the federal level conviction and not the state? Looking at his Wikipedia article, he has a 21 year fed sentence and a 22.5 state.

    But yeah, this is a way to force violent protests and eventually martial law.

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      Maybe it won’t be protests this time and just 30,000 people turning his body into something that doesn’t resemble a human.

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      IIRC, Chauvin made the plea deal on federal charges so that he would do his time in the relative safety of a federal prison.

      Which would mean that if he gets pardoned on federal charges, then he would have to serve out his remaining state time in a state pen… the very thing he wanted to avoid. He would probably be dead in under a month unless he spent the next decade or more in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day (like he did in his pre-trial detention).

      Which would be a crying shame, of course…

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    Can someone kick off from ketamine? Cos I really hope he just does a little too much one night

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      Not really. And I wouldn’t pin this behavior on something that has therapeutic use anyway, ketamine deserves better.

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      Yes, but it’s generally folks who IM it who do.

      Matthew Perry is probably the most famous example. But growing up in the party scene, it does happen fairly often.

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        Yeah I wasn’t sure cos I know plenty of people who do it and are always all right for the most part. The effects never appealed to me so I just never partook but it seems like you really have to fuck up bad to be in serious trouble on it

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          Yeah, the IM users are bypassing first pass metabolism. And cranking up their tolerance to unsustainable levels.

          Which makes it a lot more dangerous than for folks who snort or inhale it. So, we don’t hear about many overdoses. Especially if someone is using a mist inhaler from a Dr.

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    If he gets pardoned I hope that will push the Americans harder to overthrow these sycophants. On the other hand it could be to try to trigger something so Cheeto Mussolini can crack down on the protests with violence.

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      There will be mass protests, looters will take advantage of these times. Martial law will be declared in those places and never given back. Nothing would make them happier

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        If the United States commits their military to enforcing martial law on their own soil then it’ll be more difficult for them to escalate their current economic wars into actual wars.

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          I still have hope in our military. I sincerely hope they’d never follow those orders. I have infinitely more respect for the army than the police.

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    I find it funny how people on the right want the cop who shot that lady during the Jan 6 riot to be punished, yet think Chauvin was in the right…like how can you be so stupid…then again they probably don’t care the cop shot her they care cuz he’s black.

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      One cop shot a minority. One cop shot a Republican. To them one one of the victims is considered human. Take a guess as to which.

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        I kind of wish Chauvin shot Floyd instead of the TORTURE he put that man through. Slowly choking the life out of him as he begged for his life.

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    Was he convicted federally, or is Musk just generating distractions for the news media?

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        State charges might have been dropped due to the federal convention so he could possibly still have a state trial

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          If the charges were dropped then I don’t think they can be re-litigated. That would be double jeopardy.

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              Why? Dropping the charges would be a court decision so it’s on record that a charge was raised and then dropped. That’s still a court outcome.

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    Chauvin would join Kash Himmler’s near future SA or NKVD private security detail. The single finger salute goes out to the neo-Nazis and their Government of Putin supporters.