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submitted 10 months ago by Redditsux@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

Taranto, who was found with illegal guns and ammunition near Obama’s house, was convicted of those charges in May. In their memo Tuesday, Valdivia and White, asked a judge to sentence Taranto to 27 months in prison.

Laying out the factual background of their request, Valdivia and White told the court Taranto participated in the Jan. 6 attack and subsequently spread conspiracy theories about it.

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[-] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 75 points 10 months ago

It's quite surreal to live through what will one day be a course on governmental collapse in Europe.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

Please learn from this. It will happen where you live. Look at Orban and Edrogan, as well as the revolving face of UK fascism, and soon Germany. Kill your local fascists before they get power. They cannot be reasoned with.

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People like to think its just one or two countries going through a spell but human rights watch has been banging this drum for a long time, freedoms are erroding everywhere at a methodical pace. Don't let yours go just because someone's elses are going faster.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago

I have been in the mental state of "I guess if I'm living through significant history that people will read about decades from now, I should at least pay attention and appreciate the weight of it, in addition to trying to actually help people" for about two orders of magnitude longer than the duration our brains evolved to handle.

It would be really, really swell if that could stop for a while and not constantly grind in a worse and worse direction.

[-] AngularViscosity@piefed.social 12 points 10 months ago
[-] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I was wondering what you were referring to as 'they', so I reread my comment and it occurs to me I should have worded it, 'a course on governmental collapse, taught in European universities.'

Hopefully that's clarifying.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

I think he's meaning, they are hoping to start ww3 and destroy Europe before we collapse.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Or the likes of Bannon hope to have a fascist takeover of Europe, too. You know, to "save" Western culture while actually destroying everything good about Western culture, disrupting any Enlightenment and bringing about a "dark enlightenment" (WTAF).

[-] pticrix@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

"Anyone caught teaching will be sent to reeducation camp"

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