MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoThanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year … for white-collar criminalswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1272arrow-down10
arrow-up1272arrow-down1external-linkThanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year … for white-collar criminalswww.theguardian.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·23 days agoSo you funded criminals and now you’re trying to convince others to fund criminal enterprises too?
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·23 days agoYes. And then dupe idiots into funding me 3x what I paid to fund the criminals originally.
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·23 days agoYeah, you’re the criminal
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·23 days agoCan’t be a criminal if nobody is getting prosecuted.
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-223 days agoOf course it can. Most US presidents are war criminals, even if they haven’t been prosecuted for war crimes.
minus-squareTheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 days agoI’m more refering to the idea that international “law” is effectively a fiction. Which law outside the USA bonds the US president
So you funded criminals and now you’re trying to convince others to fund criminal enterprises too?
Yes. And then dupe idiots into funding me 3x what I paid to fund the criminals originally.
Yeah, you’re the criminal
Can’t be a criminal if nobody is getting prosecuted.
Of course it can.
Most US presidents are war criminals, even if they haven’t been prosecuted for war crimes.
According to whom?
Academics (not judges, yet)
I’m more refering to the idea that international “law” is effectively a fiction. Which law outside the USA bonds the US president