• epicstove@lemmy.ca
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    1 hour ago

    Nah, those last 2 would def be given the pass to vote given this current US government.

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      2 hours ago

      To be fair, he’s never been found guilty in court of raping a child. We all know it’s true, but the “justice” system has failed us

  • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
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    Like in the strictest sense, yes she’s not a citizen so it’s ‘foreign’. But it’s not that deep?

    She’s been problematic online long enough for someone to publish an journal article on it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8590827/

    People have speculated the Trump support early in his admin was because she wants pardons for people in her life, or help with citizenship, as she’s had legal trouble in the past too. Or maybe she just likes money? Time Magazine had an article earlier this year about how important celebrity endorsement has become to the campaign, and how Minaj became involved.

    The article contains this passage:

    Her approach changed after a series of unnerving episodes at her Los Angeles home. In 2022 and 2023, her $20 million mansion in a gated enclave became the target of repeated swatting calls: anonymous hoaxes that summoned heavily armed police to her doorstep. Law enforcement has not identified nor arrested anyone in connection with the incidents. (The Los Angeles Police Department said it could not verify details about the incidents without additional information.) The experience was frightening, she says, especially for her young son.

    On X, she sought help from California Governor Gavin Newsom. Through intermediaries, she says, she requested a meeting but never heard back. “He just completely ignored me, with all the money I spent in taxes,” she says. (Newsom’s office did not respond to a request for comment.)

    Another swatting attack happened in April 2025, according to a police report. The episode drew the attention of a cadre of very online Republicans. Among them was Anna Paulina Luna, the former model and Turning Point USA activist turned Congresswoman from Florida. Luna, a close friend of Bruesewitz’s, called Minaj. She then connected the rapper with federal law-enforcement officials and a private security firm she uses. “I was shocked,” Minaj says of Luna’s assistance. “I’d never seen anyone in politics treat me that way.” She began to consider going public as a part of Trump’s MAGA movement. “That’s what made me say that I don’t care to keep this a secret anymore.”

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      “with all the money I spent in taxes”

      And that gives you entitlement how?! You are ONE citizen, with ONE vote, you are no more or less “important” than anyone else. Money should not buy you influence, that it does buy influence is a bug, not a feature.

      In before “it’s a feature, system is working as intended”: imho it’s a bug in the democracy subsystem that is intentionally caused and exploited by how the overarching system was implemented.

      Yes, I’m a software developer.

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        55 minutes ago

        It is a feature though. Its not a big as it is working as intended.

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          If we really want to break it down…

          Democracy is not meant to work that way. The feature-contracts it implements is “one person, one vote” and “rule through a majority of votes”.

          If you are able to break that contract because of how surrounding systems interact with the democracy subsystem, that means it’s a bug or vulnerability for democracy, used as an exploit by the overarching system implementing the democracy interface.

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      That quote is kind of crazy, like Karen yelling at a clerk level of entitlement combined with not knowing what taxes are or where they go.