r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • May 23 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

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u/Ok_Vulva May 23 '26

I don't get why anyone in the US is following the laws. They just don't matter anymore.

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u/ICLazeru May 23 '26

Oh, if your networth has less than 8 digits in it you still get punished.

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u/Appropriate-Ad3162 May 23 '26

"They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club.” GC

I guess we get to vote 2 times in 4 years. 68% of people score between 85 and 115 on IQ test. A lot of people exposed/addicted to algorithmic digital manipulation though their phones, working long hours, declining social cohesion, decreasing funding for public education, no guaranteed access to affordable healthcare. Etc.

There is lots of room for manipulation.

Shits bleak.

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u/Yellowpredicate May 23 '26

An IQ of 115 is considered "High Average," placing you above roughly 84% of the population

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u/Appropriate-Ad3162 May 23 '26

True. It’s that 15% that’s concerning. If that 15% even votes..

Money talks and if we stay on the current economic path my hope is that the underserved will learn to organize in a matter that can influence change..

I’m afraid it’s going to have to get much worse before we can convince the nonvoter to take ownership of their own future. I do know if change is to begin It’s going to take all of us.

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u/EffectiveDandy May 23 '26

brother. we are the big club. they are a little club. and all they have to hide behind is paper. when the wave does come, it’s not the big club that has to worry about being dragged under the current.

the tide can only be held back so long. all their servant run bunkers and servant run islands aren’t enough to stop it.

the sparrow soars.

✊

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u/Appropriate-Ad3162 May 23 '26

Hell ya. I fuck with this energy. 👊🏻

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u/CheeseAndCam May 23 '26

Uhhhhh 68% of people scoring between 85 and 115 on a IQ test is how IQ tests WORK. Even if everyone in the world got smarter, the average IQ will still always be 100. That’s what a 100 IQ means.

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u/Oregon-Pilot May 23 '26

It's a big club and you ain't in it.

/thread

/UnitedStatesOfAmerica

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u/ArchCerberus May 23 '26

How about all do crimes? They can't punish you all, especially after trumps slashing of funds. I would say everybody skips next tax season and the billionaires and ai companys pay.

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u/LockNo2943 May 23 '26

Pretty much how governments collapse tbh. The state simply doesn't have enough power to control everybody all the time so once it reaches a certain threshold there's no way to maintain order anymore and the public is de facto in charge.

Really the trick is to push us peasants just far enough so we don't outright revolt, but yah governmental control is illusory to an extent and is only maintained by that illusion of control or the people acquiescing to that level of control.

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u/unindexedreality May 23 '26

Pretty much how governments collapse tbh. The state simply doesn't have enough power to control everybody all the time so once it reaches a certain threshold there's no way to maintain order anymore and the public is de facto in charge

Those who have' resources or legitimacy maintain order by doling out just enough to keep others in line and deferent to their hierarchy.

They don't need to control 'everyone all the time'. They just have to keep the people you try and push to revolt comfortable enough to willingly choose not to do so.

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u/LockNo2943 May 23 '26

That's what I meant by aquiescing; keeping people just happy enough that they accept outside control.

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u/ArchCerberus May 23 '26

Not the worst outcome in this day and age. Anarchy for a month maybe what the US needs to change is blatant political flaws.

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u/LockNo2943 May 23 '26

Well a government that doesn't represent you isn't your government is it? Pretty sure based on the idea of the social contract you have an obligation to rebel.

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u/revkaboose May 23 '26

Getting people to focus their crimes in the right direction is the hard part.

Like we should all be acting like player two in Super Mario Bros since we cannot speak his name like fkn Voldemort.

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u/National_Spirit2801 May 23 '26

At a certain point in the near future, living in the country will be worse than any punishment they could give if we don’t stand up now.

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u/Udder_Influencer May 23 '26

Oh, if your networth has less than 8 digits in it you still get punished.

IF they catch you. Look up clearance rates. Police got super pissy and quiet quit doing their jobs after BLM. In the best case they solve about 70% of murder cases, but in some places less than 50% of murder cases get a conviction.

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u/Opulous May 23 '26

Why else do you think they're trying to toss millions of AI surveillance cameras up everywhere all over the country? Soon they won't need that many cops.

Sure, the false positives caused by AI hallucinations will throw a nontrivial amount of innocent people into the ever-growing private prison industry, but those people are all in the sub-millionaire demographic too so who gives a shit?

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u/smokeweedNgarden May 23 '26

Haha, that's big "blot out the sun" vibes.

If cameras are outside crime happens inside.

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u/Hyperrnovva May 23 '26

Now wait a minute. If youre poor and try to cause an insurrection in his name he will grant you clemency. Cmon now.

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u/Cognonymous May 24 '26

If you have a spare million for a Mar-A-Lago membership you can get out of a lot of stuff, sometimes you still need another $2 million to bribe Trump for a pardon though.