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[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 74 points 1 year ago

tbf accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt, so I feel like Nixon should at least have a little bit of a bar there.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago
[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

If you weren't charged, but make a legally binding admission of guilt, have you committed a felony?

I feel like this is like, something they teach in some extra credit course at law school lmao

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

It says "charged," not "committed." Every president has probably committed felonies.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Ah, you're right, it does say 'charged'.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I don't know, I'm not sure William Henry Harrison had time to commit any felonies while president.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I can't even fathom how many Andrew Jackson must have ranked up.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Not sure I'm concerned with Noam "Genocide isn't a big deal when Socialists do it" Chomsky's take.

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I see this posted a lot, but the only thing I've ever seen sourced of Noam saying anything like this is more "be wary of when the United States reports things that align in its imperial interests" rather than the oft-repeated "genocide good"

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Chomsky is famous for Holodomor apologia

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Idk maybe but when I asked for a source what I saw was much more "beware America" instead of "Stalin did nothing wrong"

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Beware America for making the Soviet union starve out ethnic Ukrainians they saw as undesirables, which isn't genocide because I don't like America"

  • Noam Chomsky, probably.
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