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Re:Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918 by tshaddox on Saturday November 26, 2022 @01:59PM (#33755507)
It’s not clear to me why one ostensibly democratic mechanism (the criminal justice system) should automatically be overridden by other ostensibly democratic mechanism (an election).

It seems pretty clearly undemocratic to me to say that you get out of jail if you win an election (or that the justice system somehow applies less to you if you’re an elected official).

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Re:Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918 by perihelions on Saturday November 26, 2022 @02:09PM (#33755588)
One's direct and one's second-order indirect. It'd be like the bash shell saying you can't do something as sudo because a config file you edited last year overrules it.

Democracy is root.

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