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context: Oh good! Fuck those traitors. >
  
  Going to prison for nearly two decades to own the libs. >
  
  Yup. I feel owned alright. Lol >
  
  "Jurors convicted Adam Fox of scheming to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 in what federal prosecutors described as a threat to American democracy."
  and still other threats to democracy walk free. >
  
  “Mr. Fox, who lived in the basement of a vacuum shop where he had worked, was a leader of the sprawling plot to take Ms. Whitmer” 
  Sounds like a plot of Criminal Minds >
  
  Man and he through his future away for what? Idiot. >
  
  That is a long time in prison for “plotting” something. Without even attempting it?
  Edit: I am not defending the kidnap-plotters in any way by the way.
  (Also, weird we don’t a separate word for kidnapping an adult or kidnapping a kid.) >
  
  "something" = Kidnapping.   
  Kidnapping & insurrection.   
  He got off easy. >
  
  How do they tell the difference between intense cosplay fantasy crap and actual “plotting”? >
  
  In this case he did weapons training and actually scouted the home while discussing with others how they'd do it.
  The scouting is full stop over the line. >
  
  Yeah agreed there. >
  
  There's usually some step that goes from talking to some sort of physical action that's the determining factor.   
  There's also USUALLY a requirement that the person who did it has to come up with the idea to some degree and push for it. There's been a few cases where it turned out the person was working with what turned out to be an undercover FBI agent and the prep actions the person took were pretty much at the instigation of the agent.   
  That gets a bit iffy since a lawyer could argue that without the agent pushing them, they never would have gone that far.   
  But we really don't have entrapment as a thing anymore in the USA so I'm not sure how that works. >
  
  Thank you! This is the actual type of response/answer that I was actually looking for!