• asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
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    Also among those pardoned was one of the riot’s most recognisable figures, Jacob Chansley, the self-styled QAnon Shaman, who was released from jail in 2023 after serving 27 months of his 41-month jail sentence.

    He told the BBC that he heard the news from his lawyer while he was at the gym.

    He added: “I walked outside and I screamed ‘freedom’ at the top of my lungs and then gave a good Native American war cry.”

    Excuse me what??? What the actual fuck, he was at the gym? These fuckers do not hear themselves and have no sense of irony or shame. Eta: unclear, meant he already has freedoms many don’t and he certainly did not deserve

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    13 hours ago

    She may have been MAGA, but I admire her for having principles and being able to admit to being wrong.

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      13 hours ago

      I agree, but:

      Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 60 days in prison,

      If her sentence was 10 years I wonder if she’d still be taking the moral stand.

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        12 hours ago

        If her sentence was 10 years I wonder if she’d still be taking the moral stand.

        I would recommend that instead of conditionally forgiving her (based on something we’ll never know), we should give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that yes she would.