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  • It shocks me to see people defending this.

    It shocks me that you did not 100% realize a year ago that this was exactly what was going to happen. It was a bullshit witch hunt charge that was only prosecuted because Hunter Biden was a high profile person.

  • My point still stands that he is going to not have anything happen, again, because he is a nepo-baby, fuck him

    What actually happened is that the only reason he was prosecuted was because he was a high profile person.

    Hunter Biden was not above the law in the case. He was below the law.

  • sometimes you just forget to pay $1.4M you owe in taxes

    That's not what he was convicted of. It was for buying a gun. That's a bullshit witch hunt. If it was for tax evasion I would be more upset.

  • That was no "both sides" thing. The crimes that Treason Trump is guilty of are very serious. Our democracy has been seriously hurt by him not getting punished, it is just something that is not immediately obvious, like a rotted out board. Nothing that Hunter Biden did remotely rises to that level.

  • I knew all along that Biden was going to pardon his son after the election. It doesn't surprise or bother me. The firearms charge he was charged with was something that likely wouldn't have been prosecuted if he was a regular person. I thought the tax evasion charge was much more serious but he wasn't charged on that.

  • It has nothing to do with health. It is literally impossible to use a system like reddit/lemmy over the long term and not get hit with rando-bans that come out of nowhere and are completely unavoidable.

    I'm not talking about getting a legit ban where you break the rules of the sub. In that case it is pointless to do "ban evasion" because you will likely repeat the behavior that got you banned. I'm talking about when you get a completely unavoidable and random ban. You WILL get those if you use a system long term.

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  • Now consider that forex traders often leverage at 1:500 margins. You get to buy massive positions with currency pairs, and even the tiniest fluctuations can provide massive profits or instantaneous ruin.

    Yikes. I would have never considered that doing this would be anything more than a wild gamble. It is a good thing that you only lost pretend money.

  • I’m afraid thats not entirely true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegate

    It is entirely true. No superdelegate can vote in the initial primary vote.

    They are a private entity and can run primaries however they want.

    Subject to the DNC charter. They are bound by the DNC charter in the same way that the government is bound by the Constitution.

    they successfully argued that they can elect canddates in a smoke filled back room if they so chose

    They argued they could change the DNC charter, which it technically true. The USA how the power to change its Constituion, but it is still bound by it.

  • Okay but there must have been some actual reason that you didn't state. The actual reason could not have been the reason you stated, that "she seemed fake". Because nobody could be stupid enough to have that as their actual reason.

  • I don’t understand what attacking the user for sharing their feelings gets you. It’s the vibe that enough voters shared

    Because voting or not voting based on a "vibe" is the single stupidest reason anybody can have in making a voting choice. It is based on the idiotic idea that you are doing the candidate some sort of favor, rather than doing yourself a favor, by voting for a good candidate.

  • That doesn’t remove the toxic mod.

    There is no way to remove toxic mods. That's why you have to work around them.

    How many alts and sock puppets do you think the average person should have? This doesn’t sound healthy

    You only need one at a time. I use to spin up an entirely new reddit account whenever I got a ban on any sub. That's what you can do on Lemmy.

  • Elected delegates from a primary that most voters were never even aware of?

    How can anybody not know there is a primary held every 4 years?

    This was almost two months before voting started! Oh, and Bernie actually did come in second.

    Wow I checked and you are right. Bernie did come in 2nd in delegates! Harris was apparently 2nd in the polls but she did drop out before any of the primaries.

    Still, the fact that Harris was the Vice President made her the obvious choice of the 2024 delegates after Biden dropped out.

    Bernie split the progressive votes with Warren (who quit campaigning but inexplicably refused to drop out) so Biden won.

    Warren not dropping out ticked me off too. But it wasn't necessarily the reason Biden won. I think he got more than Sanders and Warren combined.

    Does any of that sound like democracy to you?

    After Biden dropped out, having the elected delegates chose the nominee sounded like the most democratic option and the only option in line with the DNC charter. You had a better option?