• PugJesus
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    752 years 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.

      • PugJesus
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        202 years 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

        • @[email protected]
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          282 years ago

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

          • @son_named_bort
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            72 years ago

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

          • @afraid_of_zombies
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            62 years ago

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

            • @SCB
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              02 years ago

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

              • @abbotsbury
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                12 years 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
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                  12 years ago

                  Chomsky is famous for Holodomor apologia

                  • @abbotsbury
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                    12 years ago

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