There's a zero percent chance either one of them sees the inside of a jail cell.
Believing billionaires will face consequences is practically a mental illness these days.
Delusional disorder ☑️
Mueller Time, baby! This time someone in authority is going to actually arrest and imprison some rich asshole, for real! We promise! Look at these memes!!!
Look we can blame that fact that he appointed zealots like Barr with a fuck ton of corrupt powers to protect him.
If he didn't have any shield he would have been fucked
Fucking hell just thinking about Mooch, Barr and Sessions again is giving me fucking anxiety
Sure, but maybe she could get money for damages. Apparently she was living in poverty prior to the Olympics, like a lot of other Olympians from developing countries. Having to do sex work or rely on money from their family and community is pretty common, unfortunately.
Ok, so this IS the Daily Mail, they're notoriously shit reporters. That said:
Please please please please please please please
I don't think there is anything false with what they said, it's just stating the punishment for the crime. Now, whether those punishments actually happen is the question.
In a perfect world, this would happen. In reality, nope. But let's enjoy the fantasy, for a few minutes, of wealthy shitheads having consequences.
The fantasy could be a reality if we collectively agreed that we demanded it.
Credit: Sidney Harris
The French did something about it, a few hundred years ago. Just saying.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Yeah, people are acting like this is up to chance - rich people throw money at their problems, and so long as someone is willing to spend their time catching it instead of doing their job, it works. It's going to work. The 5 year sentence is for poor people they want to get rid of, not for rich people they want to profit from.
But let’s enjoy the fantasy, for a few minutes
I'm so tired of living in a fantasy world.
Jail time... no fines. Fines mean nothing to these people... jail time!
I'm not sure, I don't care about fines, but I think Imane Khelif would deserve some compensation for what they put her through.
So, a jail sentence and generous damages payed to the victim would be an ideal outcome from my point of view.
That would be a civil suit that would need to be brought separately.
Agree, but you know that's about as likely to happen as Trump serving time. The legal system likes money as much as everyone else.
I wish Joanne had gone the Enya route and finished Harry Potter and the Writing Quality of Diminishing Returns, disappeared with her wealth into the highlands, did some occasional projects, and just never spoke again. Maybe some occasional rumors would pop up about her having a panda ranch that she kept for demolition derbys or something weird. She can go suck a railroad spike.
Seriously. She has been such a massive disappointment. The fact that she feels like she has to be actively hateful, makes it all the worse. Just shut the help up and enjoy your gobs and gobs of money.
I'm sure I'll regret asking this, but what is it she has actually done? Every time I've asked people seem to spout off how she's pure evil, said evil things, and then backed it up with nothing. The only thing I think I've ever seen from her is that she wants to protect woman.
No, that’s a totally fair question!
This article summarizes some of the transphobic shit she has said. Here’s another one. She likes to say that her beliefs are feminist and meant to protect women, but really what she does is denigrate trans women and meanly argues that they can never be “real” women. It’s bigoted, hateful, and not what most people would expect from a “lefty” author.
I would love that as much as anyone, but does anyone here seriously believe this will happen?
Five years is the maximum sentence, which a person with no prior convictions should easily be able to avoid. Even if the case was brought against a regular person, I doubt there would be jail time. Musk and Rowling can naturally afford the best lawyers, and Rowling has gone radio silent from what I heard. So, fine is easily possible, but jail time is highly unlikely.
She's deleted like 30 posts and hasn't made any in a couple weeks
Imane might have won gold, but her greatest victory is getting JKR to shut tf up.
Musk? no way.
Jk mold? Maybe but unlucky
And nothing of value will be lost.
Literally, they don't produce anything. They would probably accumulate more wealth while in prison. In my ideal society the judge would hit them for a percentage of their net worth.
I'm not sure how I feel about cyberbullying being punishable with jail time
Harrassment and defamation are real charges regardless of whether they happen online or not
I am sure. It's caused suicides.
Same with “SWATing”, giving every asshole access to the internet has caused real physical harm to many people and should be punished severely.
Be careful. Suddenly JD Vance couch memes are illegal, cause it’s making fun of someone for something with no basis in reality.
Sometimes I think the Right has a point about how sensitive we are... But, only sometimes...
Fines should be based on net worth. That fine is a joke for them.
Nobody is going to jail. Sorry to burst your bubble. Just find comfort in knowing they will likely cost themselves millions, needlessly.
There was a very nice bit in the TV show Emma:
"She should be able to come and go as she pleases, not as the fucking Daily Mail pleases! Pardon my language."
"It's alright. I've heard the words 'daily mail' before."
This is a fine line, be careful! But that old hag is hateful.
Lock them up!
We all know this will never happen, but a guy can dream...
How does the jurisdiction even work there? A UK citizen and a SA/Canada/US citizen get prosecuted for cyberbullying of an Algerian citizen? Don't get me wrong, they deserve it, but this feels like a "careful what you wish for" type of thing.
It's almost like these borders we have are stupid and arbitrary and instead we should have a global system of justice to handle these cross border crimes.
But hey. Nationalism.
You're advocating people be tried for speech crimes by an international body that they didn't vote for and can't fire through an electoral process. Seems like a great idea that totally won't backfire.
Says who? I made a broad statement and you're assuming specifics to be mad about.
All around the world, crime is defined very differently. What would a global system of justice look like?
If only the law would apply to the rich and powerful... if only, if only...
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