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PuellaBona t1_ivq6lfd wrote

Satire is protected under the 1st amendment

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Rustybot t1_ivq70kr wrote

Correct. And if you know anything about satire, you know that it often, predictably gets confused for truth.

He was arrested, not convicted. The charges were dropped.

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PuellaBona t1_ivqdfep wrote

Funny, you say arrested when he had a fucking swat team bust in his house. Let's not pretend this shouldn't have happened in the first place.

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Rustybot t1_ivqigno wrote

Yeah, but if you reduce the headline to “Sherrif’s office slightly abuses power by enforcing marginal transgressions for personal BS reasons” this would stuck in the pile with all the others. This is the core of our police system.

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