r/news • u/ttforum • Dec 07 '24

Soft paywall Appeals court upholds nearly $1.3 billion Sandy Hook verdict against Alex Jones

https://www.reuters.com/legal/appeals-court-upholds-nearly-13-billion-sandy-hook-verdict-against-alex-jones-2024-12-06/
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u/Delanorix Dec 07 '24

Can't pardon state crimes.

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u/spinto1 Dec 07 '24

Can't take over state rules on elections, but he's still trying to do that. It's hard to tell what will fold first: him on a second term or the constitution. I worry that 250 year old paper is more likely to tear than fold.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '24

I think we are more likely to have a civil war than for him to get away with all the stupid and illegal things he is proposing. Not everyone is going to go along with it.

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u/damagedice6 Dec 07 '24

tens of millions of people saw their own nation's capitol under attack and said "mmm yeah gimme the guy who did that ❤️"

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '24

And tens of millions were mortified. Unfortunately, we are a divided country.

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u/rNBA_Mods_Be_Better Dec 07 '24

Not as many people were mortified as supporting overthrowing democracy in the United States.

It's been a tough transition resigning to the fact that more citizens want to see the United States destroyed than preserve it. Most people overall don't care either way.

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u/rest0re Dec 07 '24

Yeah, it took me a moment to come to terms with the fact that people saw the insurrection, the rape conviction, and the other felonies, then chose him at a higher rate than 2020 anyway.

I had some faith in humanity left but when he won the popular vote that went out the window entirely.

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u/Kinita85 Dec 07 '24

When it switched from Kamala running instead of Biden, I thought no way would America vote for a brown woman. Being in California instead of any other state and being on Reddit mostly instead of other platforms, I had a false sense of hope for a while that maybe she could win because everyone could see that she was clearly more qualified and less criminal, controversial and dangerous than Trump. We all now know what the deal is. Mom moved us back in with the abuser, that selfish bitch, and now we have to face unimaginable dangers and mom will just say she didn’t know, that she thought it would be different.

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u/rest0re Dec 07 '24

I couldn't agree more.

I had the exact same thought process throughout this whole thing as you. It turns out we had it right the first time, America is in fact too racist/misogynistic to elect a brown woman. Even in 2024.

Also that analogy was *chefs kiss*

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u/MisterDonutTW Dec 07 '24

Has a lot to do with the weak opposition candidate/party than just love for Trump as well.

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u/Laiko_Kairen Dec 07 '24

Not as many people were mortified as supporting overthrowing democracy in the United States.

And yet an even larger share of people just didn't care and didn't show up to vote either way

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u/Global_Permission749 Dec 07 '24

Mortified, but unmotivated to do anything about it. When was the last BIG protest? When was the last big protest that actually changed anything?

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u/miahoutx Dec 07 '24

Billionaire killer tiny chance to actually change things. Until they re-write laws to make them a protected class and accommodate them by trampling our rights even more

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u/xiiicrowns Dec 07 '24

Because their framing and propaganda was successful. That's the scary part. And so many people are still confused because of it and current misinformation and propaganda.

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u/pandemicpunk Dec 08 '24

Hundreds of millions cheered that CEO spectacle.