• Wilco@lemm.ee
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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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    I think the ultimate goal is martial law, and I think he is unconcerned about what triggers his ability to declare it.

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    This is the sleight of hand they want you paying attention to. Instead, keep an eye on the other hand;

    Because that is the one doing the damage.

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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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    Gotta throw red meat to the racist AF base to distract from how fElon and his Incel Clown Posse is stealing from the American people…

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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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    Elon’s brain got damaged by ketamine usage. At his level of power and wealth, he basically runs the planet and the drugs embolden him to shamelessly call for whatever shits he believes

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    I scrolled all the way to the bottom of these comments, then breathed a sigh of relief.

    Because the comments that I’d see on reddit, the ones all the way at the bottom that show up every time George Floyd is mentioned, weren’t there. I hadn’t even thought about those comments until I got to the end.

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    Presidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind.

    (Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don’t have to deal with this nonsense to boot)

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      People lose their shit over jury nullification, yet somehow pardons are A-OK

      Pardons should not be a thing, in my lifetime its pretty much only been used for scummy shit.

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    Honestly, a part of me wants this to happen because I believe it would cause some serious protests.

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    Elon knows millions of Americans hate him and are coming for him so he wants every single super-villain free to team up together.

  • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
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    The fact that Elon Musk is for pardoning someone who murdered an innocent person speaks volumes. Also, I can’t see how this wouldn’t lead to riots.

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      Why haven’t there already been riots? Of all the reasons to start widespread riots, hasn’t the last 2 months given enough of them?

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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.