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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

After those six months, we need you back out on those streets running over cyclists and subsidizing our dying domestic auto industry, you hear me?!

  • Judge in this case after doing his sentencing

/s

[–] diptchip@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I imagine he'll face the consequences for the rest of his life, regardless of how the "justice" system handles it. Honestly, I'd be surprised if he lived 10 years before something happened to him. The victims had families.

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[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

I guess he can’t be an uber driver for the county jail?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Interesting hypothesis. I'd love to peruse an executive summary of your research methodologies.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's short for bananas banana republic. As in the law is fucked up, or it isn't followed. USA has become a banana republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic

I just though I'd shorthand it, because there are so many news stories that show this, that it's exhausting to respond to them individually.

[–] cannibalkitteh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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