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  Why do they always look like thumbs?
context: This needs to be  the lead story on every news outlet in America for the next three days. Everyone needs to hear that you go to prison for 16 years for this shit. >
  
  Us govt wanted life in prison.  He got off easy. >
  
  Yeah the judge really threw the booklet at him. >
  
  Pamphlet >
  
  200 word "essay" >
  
  More of a comment, really >
  
  If it was up to me these guys would be deported to Siberia where they belong… BUT 16 years? Hopefully Atleast a decade? I’ll take it man. Fuck these guys >
  
  I'll take it too but imagine if they were a poor African American selling loose cigarettes. Straight to the death penalty!
  Factor in all kinds of good behavior and parole. This dude might do 5 years if he's lucky. >
  
  If it's Federal Prison the most you can shave off your sentence for good behavior is 54 days for every 365. So, my math says he would only get 2.36 years off his overall sentence of 16 years. >
  
  And this is why it works.  Federal sentences only let you shave of 15% of the time for good behavior.
  This isn't a state charge where your out in half the time.
  He also has to serve 5 years on probation after getting out.  The soonest he has his privacy back is about 19 years if he behaves himself. >
  
  Let’s get the guys shooting power stations next. >
  
  I work in the area in WA that's been hit recently. It's so annoying having to deal with all of our computer equipment, servers, security systems, etc.. during prolonged power outages.
  I can't imagine how shitty it is for the people whose homes were hit. This was all done on the same weekend that we had one of the worst ice storms in decades. 
  The cops up here have been on some kind of restricted strike akin to quiet quitting, they're understaffed, and certain legislation up here has made the cops pretty apathetic to actually catching criminals. Hopefully now that this has made national news they'll make it a priority to investigate what's going on. >
  
  What legislation has even affected them badly?  Police budgets keep on rising. The public said “hey stop shooting unarmed civilians” and the whole fucking force decides to ignore crimes like a bunch of useless babies. >
  
  Their budgets didn't rise as much and they didn't like being told what they can't do. They don't want to be accountable. That's basically it. >
  
  
  Their budgets didn't rise as much and they didn't like being told what they can't do. They don't want to be accountable. That's basically it.
  
  This\^\^\^\^
  Their feelings were hurt. >
  
  As a friend of mine put it after I pointed out here in Chicago we just keep throwing money at our cops: "Okay, fine. They didn't defund the police. They defanged the police."
  So all the money in the world ain't enough. We gotta smile and pat 'em on the back, too. No matter what. >
  
  MAGA conspiracists are quite upset about this and trying to deflect on the FBI’s Facebook page. Go check it out for the latest in right wing conspiracies and vitriol against the FBI. >
  
  The same FBI that has been headed by a Republican appointee ever since Nixon? >
  
  Are you telling me that law enforcement is predominantly Republican for some reason? I don't believe you. >
  
  Huh, almost like both attract people with low empathy and sociopathic behavior. >
  
  These useless pieces of shit were going to murder someone that was looking out for their best interests, I’d give them more than 16 years, but I’m no judge. >
  
  With any luck, they'll see the error of their ways by the time they're up for parole and become model citizens again.
  Of course, the same amount of luck would have me winning the Megaball. >
  
  
  With any luck, they'll see the error of their ways by the time they're up for parole and become model citizens again.
  
  Just like the Beerhall Putsch!
  Oh wait. >
  
  Hey, come on, that Hitler guy wrote a book while he was in prison.  Didn't that launch his career as a renowned author? >
  
  An author whose work was notably present in the bedside shelf of twice-impeached former US president Donald J. Trump, I believe. >
  
  Oh, come now.  You think he actually read a book?  At best he had it dictated to him little by little until it was complete, then forgot everything but the title. >
  
  He had to have an illustrated version made.