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You get Al Capone on the charge you can make stick.

• timcobb 5mo ago
  Right but Al Capone did jail time, here Zuck gets to break and enter into people's homes, take their stuff, then haggle for it after-the-fact, all the while keeping the civilization-domination apparatus that he built using the stuff he stole? That is super not fair. Ordinary people could certainly not get away with that.
  • ethbr1 5mo ago
    The US justice system doesn't start from fair. It starts from what you can prove to the letter of the law. And when you're targeting someone / something with unlimited lawyers, you'd better have ironclad evidence that exactly that happened in exactly the way the claim is written.
    • timcobb 5mo ago
      Okay, sure, but I'm talking about being satisfied. I understand reality and that I may not get the satisfaction I would like. And specifically the example of Al Capone who was, yeah, got for tax evasion, but at least was treated ultimately like the criminal he was.
      • ethbr1 5mo ago
        I mean, he was sentenced to 11 years and served 7 1/2. But untreated (at the time, no penicillin) syphilis turned him into a mental pre-teen after his release, so I guess the universe serves some justice where the laws of the land do not.