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This is some serious unprecedented bullshit. Especially when their charge was money laundering. Basically he is making money laundering legal. Go ahead and break the law. Trump will pardon you…
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Oh, I remember Citizens United
At the end of his first term, Trump was selling pardons for $1,000,000. I wonder how much money he charges for a pardon now.
HDR Global Trading, parent company of BitMEX
You’re welcome. Fuck paywalls, and fuck clickbait that buries the actual info behind the paywall.
Thanks! But I could easily read the full article without seeing a paywall in this case
And what was being pardoned:
“In what may have been a first, Trump pardoned a corporation. The company to earn that distinction was a cryptocurrency exchange sentenced to a $100 million fine for violating an anti-money laundering law.”
Setting a precedent of excusing money laundering really does just feel like “I want to destroy the country” with not a whole lot else going on.
i have never known the intercept to paywall stuff?
Add
12ft.io/in front of the URL. It’s a proxy that bypasses paywalls.Never ever worked for me.
I didn’t either. But that was maybe because I was a long time subscriber…
i don’t give them money but i’m on their email list. i just saw a request to donate that i dismissed and it went right to the article.
Same here.
Thank you! I immediately wondered if OP was a shill since s/he also didn’t name the company in the title or summary.
I didn’t realize it was paywalled. I didn’t see it because I was a subscriber.
Don’t post subscription shit
Next time I will paywall remove it first.
There is no paywall. It does require you provide an email. Doesn’t have to be a real email, just email format.
It does require you provide an email.
Yeah, fuck that. Extra unnecessary steps.
I did some testing. The form accepts anything in the format *@*.* so long as each * segment only contains appropriate characters. The domain itself doesn’t need to be real, but the suffix needs to be real.
“a@b.cd” works.
Suffix? You mean the TLD?
Yes, the TLD. Wasn’t really sure if most people would know what a top-level domain is.
Let’s see if he’ll pardon Luigi Mangione or Edward Snowden. 😏
you mean the guy that his DOJ just said they wanted dead?
just fascist tings
Kinda makes sense no? Corporations are people and are treated as such in courts.
If people have death penalty, corporations should also have one
Businesses have been sued out of business before. Not QUITE what you mean, but the ends still the same.
Well, except criminal court where sentencing is a joke because no human is held accountable.
Kill a bunch of people? That’ll be a fine you pass on to your customers.
“A fine is a price” - John Rogers
“Corporations are people driving cars”
If a corporation used self driving cars that’s exactly how an accident would be dealt with….
Since I wasn’t clear at all in my first comment: I’m referring to the fact that people can also get away with murder, as long as they’re driving a car at the time. Very rarely is it much more than a slap on the wrist, but it’s always significantly less than any other form of negligent homicide.
I refuse to parrot the phrase “corporations are people” unless I’m being clearly sarcastic, or add, “the shitty US supreme court has incorrectly ruled that” beforehand.
?? It’s the same in Canada, and the EU as far as I am aware. It’s a pretty normal thing?
