I’ve nothing against communists in general or I wouldn’t have signed up on lemmy.ml, but now that I take a look it appears that u/dessalines does maintain a “socalism faq” that includes quite a lot more apologising for Stalin than I would’ve expected and what appears to be some Uyghur genocide denying among many other objectionable things. It looks pretty bad, although I suppose there’s some good stuff in there as well.
To be fair, the political views of reddit, twitter, and facebook management are probably just about as far from my own.
Those factors are what help identify a “tankie”, among other things. Communists are cool, but apologia of atrocities is not an inherent tenet of communism, despite what some people on the sketchier parts of Lemmy would have you think.
OP is saying they’ve heard people claim it but hasn’t seen evidence. They’re wondering if anybody has some, because otherwise they’re treating it as a rumor.
It was Trump Jr and Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign manager.
Robert Mueller investigated the incident for the Justice dept. He concluded Jr. was to dumb to know what he was doing. This isn’t plausible because he had Manafort advising him.
They called someone during the meeting, probably Donnie Sr, but it hasn’t been proved.
Manafort was convicted on charges but I don’t think they were related to this incident.
Mueller obviously intended to never prosecute anyone in the Trump family.
Pretty much because all these indictments are also bringing up stuff that happened a few years ago. It’s clear that it just takes that long to do the whole process, and maybe they had to wait until after he was president anyway. So I started thinking about all the other shit he did, and this one stood out as one of the worst.
I think the gist is Mueller investigated Trump and the shady Russia stuff and had enough to charge him with obstruction but did not due to DOJ policy (to not charge a sitting president). He laid out a plan for congress to do something about it, congress impeached but the GOP controlled Senate blocked it.
So I guess some of that could be dug up? But there are bigger fish to fry now, considering the current indictments.
You’re right that the DOJ didn’t charge him (as sitting president) from Mueller’s report, but he was not impeached for that matter. The impeachments were for 1) soliciting foreign interference, and obstruction and 2) incitement of insurrection.
Congress did not impeach based on the mueller report.
Congress impeached because of the IG report based on the NSC whistleblower report of the Zelenskyy call, where Trump attempted to blackmail the president of Ukraine to do him a favor in exchange for him approving the sale of a shipment of javelin missiles.
And then again because he led an insurrection against the government he was leading to prevent peaceful transition of power on January 6.
Report concluded that there might have been illegal activity, but he doesn’t have authority to do anything about it, so he referred his findings and those that had power to do anything about it didn’t.
His boys were essentially found “too dumb to crime” because of a weird requirement of knowing that it was illegal to ask for it, also, they didn’t assign monetary value to the potential info, so it wasn’t a crime…
And one of the main people who put an end to it was then-Attorney General William Barr. He basically said “Mueller says Trump didn’t obstruct” when Mueller’s actual report basically said he can’t say for certain either way (obstruct or not) and provided a mountain of evidence that could be seen as obstruction. Most legal professionals see Mueller’s report as “we can’t say he’s guilty without charging and convicting, so we’re just going to say the door’s open and hand over the evidence.” Barr’s interpretation was complete bullshit.
The other giant elephant in the room is charging a sitting president with a crime. It’s never been tested in the US whether it can actually happen or not, but there are a lot of strong arguments against. The damage that can do to a country is extreme… I see it as a matter of absolute last resort. One that’s more likely to come after impeachment and removal unless absolutely necessary. And that’s one ugly situation that’s basically showing complete dysfunction to the world.
To be fair, complete dysfunction isn't new. Absolutely nobody in the world would be surprised, the whole US government has shut down at times because of squabbling about the budget.
Linus tend to shoot his mouth. Luckily, he has Luke and Yvonne to kick him down a peg. I believe that Luke made Linus back down during the Trust Me Bro controversy and Luke will do the same here. Knowing Linus, he will probably even make a new video on this matter that will rake in 2 million views and profit from it.
Came to say the exact same thing. Both benefit form it because here we are talking about it, so there’s no down side for either of them. And you’re right he’ll make a video, get 2 million views and bank.
I think ‘shitting on’ is a bit of an exaggeration, it was a passing comment from a technical guy during a tour that didn’t mention GN and was in response to a question about why they’re building this setup and how it will be different.
I think they were likely thinking of GN, but I didn’t read it as quite so ‘aggressive’.
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