• 3volver@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Good now that he’s a convicted felon he can’t run for president just like you can’t vote, right? …right? Fuck this system.

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      6 months ago

      Eugene Debs ran for president from prison. He got 3.4% of the vote.

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      6 months ago

      Fuck trump, but convicted felons have to be eligible for office to prevent abuse. If all it took was a felony, any opposition leader would just have some nonsense charges brought against them to make them ineligible.

      This was also a key motivator of the war on drugs: criminalize the drugs that black people and anti-war protesters used, and they can be stripped of their voting rights.