Huh? Isn't he entitled to the best defence he can get?

Innocent until proven guilty, remember.

Poor guy.

Imagine qualifying as a lawyer - spending years learning the legal system and full of hope and promise. You're going to change the world and make it a better place. Your life is spent working your way up in seniority until you land the ultimate case - prosecuting an ex president for fraud and corruption. You expose the lies and illegal manipulation and prove them beyond reasonable doubt. And against all odds, you win! Best day ever. Everyone slapping your back and telling you what a great guy you are, so clever, and this piece of shit is really going to get his comeuppance.

And then, despite knowing that they're voting for a criminal, half the voting people of your country still elect him into office, knowing full well that he's going to continue being the same awful human being that you proved him in court to be.

Justice, the system you've spent your life believing in and working for is pushed aside. The sentence is reduced to nothing - less than a starving person would get for stealing a loaf of bread to feed their family.

How the fuck do you continue after that?

How can you believe in any system that lets that happen?

Obviously he couldn't, and I respect that. I'd be heading into the woods to get away from everyone.

Elsewhere on Lemmy today;

Germany warns Russia may be preparing attack on NATO

Both of these cannot be true.

Aww, that's sweet. A real modern day love story.

They're being shaken down. Same as Mark Zuckerberg being summoned to a meeting with Trump and the next day paying $1m to the same fund.

I'm betting these meetings went something like, "You don't want a president as an enemy, do you? Cough up."

And don't think of it as a tax on the rich - it's not going towards the benefit of the American people. It's extortion.

Religion is more powerful in countries with low education standards.

With the US government actively dismantling its education system, this is part of that bigger picture of wanting a dumber population so they're more easily controlled - through fear.

A shame to see America go so regressive so quickly.

Find a way?

Piracy is a way. Thanks for the tip.

"They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

Logic's not so strong with this one, eh?

Tuberculosis is also carried in unpastuerised milk. The US currently has the largest outbreak in its history.

Elsewhere on Lemmy today;

Russia has depleted its tank stocks: the industry is not covering combat losses

Both of these cannot be true.

I prefer rap music by white artists because it's less likely to feature the N word.

I don't think using porn is abnormal, at least by the definition of normal.

One problem with outside bins is that the wildlife is naturally drawn to them and the contents can be damaging to them as well as desensitising animals to people, plus things like squirrels and birds will pull rubbish out of the bins and spread it around.

The building industry is incredibly conservative. There will be doubts with this about its durability - nobody wants to have to build something again.

Thank you and the admin team, past and present, for their time and care.

I'm going to need a really, /really/ small violin.

It's technically impossible, so a pretty pointless discussion.

And it's dangerous too. Even if they legislated them off the major platforms, there's a million other ways to communicate online. Hundreds of DMs, talkers, games, live chats, streams, even IRC still exists. And pushing them into the darker corners makes it far more likely for them to be exposed to coercive and controlling types. Extremism, child abuse, bullying, suicide encouragement and so on.

You should do this for other countries too. America isn't the only country with an idealised view of what other people think of them.

• My house was built in 1960
• My car was made in 1974 (A land rover series 3)
• I go to sleep listening to podcasts on a Sansa MP3 player from 2000 that I've used every night since.
• My body, issued in 1971.

You can bet the Five Eyes are already redacting what they share with the USA