longjohnjohnson

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[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

I was unaware of this. Thanks for the info!

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

We'll have Palin there, looking out her window, to let us know the second she sees the Russians.

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's my understanding that it's been put to a vote several times there and they've chosen not to join the states. Something about taxes going up.

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

It's what usually gets anyone suffering from a chronic illness in the end.

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There's a difference between net worth, and liquidity. That came out of his liquidity pool.

Edit, not sure why I was downvoted, this is the truth. A lot of his wealth is tied up in loans against his stocks. If you do enough damage, he has to sell more stock to pay that back, eventually over leveraging himself.

It would take a lot to do that today, which is why going after his TSLA sick price hurts him the most right now.

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 days ago

"Trump sucks donkey dick." x25 hours

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Except he never gave anyone $1M, it was donated to republican groups. The whole thing is basically fraud from start to finish.

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Story checks out.

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Typically they have a dependency on something only one browser can do, and rather than using a polyfill or a better browser, force their bad technical decisions onto the user.

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hope not, but yeah, I suspect this will be the case.

The world is fucked, and this is a perfect microcosm of why.

[–] longjohnjohnson@lemmy.ml 65 points 3 days ago (7 children)

It's my understanding that this will make it far more difficult for them to get a conviction/verdict. Going for the death penalty has certain bars to hit during a trial by jury. It's often why prosecutors go after lesser sentences on things people absolutely did the worse versions of. This gives them a much more likely guilty verdict from a jury.

By doing this, they're basically torpedoing the case, as I understand it.

Purely to try and scare people/send a message.

When he's rendered a verdict of not-guilty for the crimes that would lead to the death penalty, but is guilty of something relatively trivial, like "owning an unregistered firearm", this could come back to bite them in the ass.

But who knows. I've been hoping for the judicial system to bite the ass of fascists for almost a decade now, without much luck.

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