[–] 20 points 1 year ago

Americans like their punishment based justice system generally, it’s why you always see people scoffing at literally decades long sentences as “not long enough” so it helps American families who believe in punishment based justice because the person is being punished. It’s cultural

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Just got mail today from them saying they’ll be looking at my disability claims… I had a double lung transplant and need expensive meds for the rest of my life, but if they find I’m not disabled anymore I have no idea how I will be able to afford my anti-rejection meds especially because the criteria they listed was very vague like “condition has improved” which absolutely can happen while still being disabled

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    This goes all the way back to Lincoln who’s primary reasoning for deciding to start a civil war was we couldn’t let states decide if they would or would not be slave states, slavery was wrong this isn’t an option - now “slavery” has a bigger and more nuisanced meaning but I essentially his decision to disallow states to choose on such important subjects, to not be united is being removed

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They also hope to commit “paper terrorism” like the sovereign citizen movement, which is weirdly similar to the Moldbug/Peter Thiel plans, to choke out the US justice system with paper work and grind it to a halt while maintaining plausible deniability on their end

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    They’re all worried they have to pay for their own militaries now and moving the budget around to reflect that. Germany doesn’t believe Western Europe is safe from Russia. Not being able to subsidize nearly your entire military because the US has “got you covered” is a big budget issue

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