Not only do the elites get away with doing anything they want, they get away with filming themselves committing crimes and bragging about it openly. The same elites that jail you for buying cunny because it’s “immoral” not only don’t go to jail for doing the same thing with kids but can get elected to the presidency after getting caught. How is the average person ok with this level of hypocrisy in society? Why aren’t they rioting?

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      Maybe he was littering by throwing away Top Secret Confidential documents on the floor of the Russian Embassy.

      Or maybe he was littering by throwing away a strangely shaped metal spheroid on a public street through a stranger’s chest cavity.

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    Because the ideas of responsibility, accountability, integrity and honesty is a joke to all of them. They pretend to be scared of repercussions for their actions but once they’re on the brink of doing yet another law-breaking action, they throw their arms up and do it without a care. It’s because they can afford it, if not wealth, then just power.

    Trump is also a murderer of negligence, 350k people died under his watch while fumbling a pandemic. So he’s a murderer and a rapist.

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    All you have to do is have your lawyer call you a “pillar of the community”.

    Edit: Oh and be a rich, white, cis man willing to call yourself straight and christian. That part is important.

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    Teflon Don, like Epstein, collected pictures of power people doing “embarrassing” things. Unlike Epstein he didn’t use a private island, he used hotels that catered to people with power.

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    Ah he’s just more charismatic, you know? You have to give the judge a firm handshake and speak in an obnoxious way, stuff like that.

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    It’s cause you’re poor.

    That’s not even a joke. Those scumbags are the single richest people in the world so they can just buy their way outta any legal trouble

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    Wilhoit’s law:

    “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

    In looking up the exact text, apparently it is often attributed to the wrong Wilhoit, lol.

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    The problem is you have failed at least one, probably both, of the foundational rules of any capitalist society.

    First rule of capitalism: Be rich. Second rule of capitalism: Don’t be poor.

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      In other regimes there are three rules: first be rich, second don’t be poor, third don’t contradict the leader or the party.