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Douglas Mackey got jailed in the US for political satire. The moral high ground of the US is eroding rapidly.
by gadders 4y ago
Douglas Mackey got jailed in the US for political satire. The moral high ground of the US is eroding rapidly.
- AlexandrB 4y agoCan you please explain which portion of his messages encouraging voters to "vote by SMS" constitute satire?
- gadders 4y agoYou seem unfamiliar as to how memes work. Have you never seen people post "Vote early, vote often"? It's the same as that.
- shadowgovt 4y agoit turns out "it's just memes, bro" is a poor defense against Conspiracy Against Rights charges. > Have you never seen people post "Vote early, vote often"? It's the same as that. If you are aware of an instance of someone being convicted by a jury of their peers of Conspiracy Against Rights for sharing "vote early, vote often," be sure to let us know.
- myko 4y agoThat is factually incorrect: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/31/far-right-influencer-convicted-in-voter-suppression-scheme-00090042 https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/31/far-right-influence...
- gadders 4y ago[flagged]
- mdp2021 4y agoYou are calling it a «meme», the judges recognized it as «fraudulent actions cross[ing] a line into criminality». The color does not count.
- mhoad 4y agoJust in case your not already aware this account you are responding to is very “out there” and hard to take in good faith. It’s just one thing after another of absolutely nonsense points like this.
- mdp2021 4y agoIn that case, dear Mhoad, let us hope that some calls to good sense sooner or later will find a fortunate moment and give the poster some clean sight.
- gadders 4y agoWhat a sheltered bubble you must live in to never come across anyone even vaguely right wing.
- myko 4y agoThe takes you have posted in this thread aren't moored to reality, and have nothing to do with left vs right wing. I hope these comments influence you to reevaluate things, but I am done engaging with you.
- gadders 4y agoIt has everything to do with it. I have posted from a pretty standard right wing perspective. Apparently you have so few people in your life that disagree with you politically that you can't even recognise this.
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- infamouscow 4y agoI think you're forgetting some major facts about that case. FWIW, I'm not on the left or right. My comment history establishes that in spades.
- jimbob45 4y agoIt's possible that Popehat's Law of Goats applies here. Even if Mackey was totally joking about what he was doing, he was still engaged in voter suppression.
- gadders 4y agoThen apply it equally and lock up anyone that has ever tweeted "vote early, vote often" or "Party X votes Tuesday, Party Y votes Wednesday" (when the election is on Tuesday). Of course, with all these politically motivated prosecutions it only goes one way.
- shadowgovt 4y agohttps://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/former-us-congressman-and-philadelphia-political-operative-pleads-guilty-election-fraud https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/former-us-congressman-a...