• Cliff@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    She got convicted of embezzlement of public money. By a court. Not by another political party.

    • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
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      28 days ago

      Yep but that’s what Putin also says before throwing people in jail.

      Courts can be corrupted and if that happens, an open election is the last chance before full dictatorship ensues.

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        28 days ago

        What you are suggesting is even more dangerous though. Law immunity for politicians is even worse

      • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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        28 days ago

        And your evidence for the bold claim that the French justice system has been corrupted enough to fabricate and enter false evidence and land a conviction?

        What about evidence that french media freedoms have been suppressed so badly that every single news agency has been intimidated into not revealing leaked evidence of fabrication?

      • Zentron@lemm.ee
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        28 days ago

        Bro, are you fighting this with whataboutism and false equivalency ? Troll detected opinion rejected

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          27 days ago

          It’s not whataboutism if it’s on the same topic. I just raised a very real example where this is problematic.

          In the near future, I bet we will see the same in America.

          And what in this is false equivalency? We’re talking about banning criminals from elections, right?

      • quack@lemmy.zip
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        28 days ago

        Holy mother of false equivalence.

        So what’s the alternative then? Just let politicians get away with crimes and elect them anyway? Because that doesn’t seem to be going too well for the US.

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        25 days ago

        Except in her case, it’s been proved that she’s been embezzling. Your argument makes no sense, you’re comparing two completely different situations.