• MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The moment someone starts going all “anti-woke” you know they’ve got something to hide and they are trying to get acquainted with the pardon-dealing industry.

    • cucumberbob@programming.dev
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      13 hours ago

      Pardon dealing industry? In the UK?

      I’m pretty sure only 4 pardons have been given in the last 25 years. 1 was posthumous (Turing) and the other 3 were given to convicts who saved people’s lives while incarcerated.

      I don’t think being anti-woke is going to help anyone get a pardon in the UK.

      I do think it’s a grift, just not convinced it’s a grift for a Royal Prerogative of Mercy.

      • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        I don’t mean in the UK. He probably has done some of that in the US too.

        He could flee and seek political asylum or something. The US has extradition treaties with the UK since 2003, but they are pretty much ignoring all laws and treaties anyway.

    • skisnow@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Yeah. Forcing himself on women was entirely consistent with his public persona, but shifting hard right just to seek cover makes it so much scummier.

    • 3DMVR@lemm.ee
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      19 hours ago

      I need to just stick off other social media, nice that this is the consensus here