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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by mmooss on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @02:41PM (#43550100)
> The next Democrat candidate could recapitulate Trump’s January 6th pardons by promising to pardon anyone who burns down Teslas.

I hope you are not comparing those things - one trying to overthrow democracy and killed people, the other vandalism that damages cars.

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @02:41PM (#43559961)
> hope you are not comparing those things - one trying to overthrow democracy and killed people, the other vandalism that damages cars

One can compare things without equating them. In this case, yes, I am comparing them. (In the end, both have—to date—been nothing more than destruction of property and trespassing. Getting killed being an idiot isn’t the same as killing people.)

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