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Supporters of Donald Trump gathered outside Washington, DC’s Central Detention Facility to celebrate the release of January 6 prisoners following Trump’s sweeping pardons on his first day in office.

Trump issued “full, complete and unconditional” pardons for 1,500 individuals involved in the Capitol attack, including far-right leaders Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio, whose sentences were commuted.

The release sparked emotional reactions from families and supporters, though critics condemned the move, noting the violent acts committed by some of those pardoned.

The pardons have drawn widespread outrage from lawmakers.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thats what Hitler did too, pretty soon after he became chancellor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't doubt that he was capable of such a thing but I have no recollection of that from the history I've read and a search online and skim of his Wikipedia page isn't providing anything to back that up either. Do you have a source or specifics I can search up to confirm your claim?

Wikipedia is just full of arrests and deaths, not pardons.

It makes it easier to convince friends of the Trump/Hitler parallels if I can back it up with sources.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

That same Tuesday, March 21, an Article 48 decree was issued amnestying National Socialists convicted of crimes, including murder, perpetrated “in the battle for national renewal.” Men convicted of treason were now national heroes. The first concentration camp was opened that afternoon, in an old brewery near the town center of Oranienburg, just north of Berlin. The following day, the first group of detainees arrived at another concentration camp, in an abandoned munition plant outside the Bavarian town of Dachau.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Amazing. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Don’t forget they are not being released in isolation. They have existing networks and just proved their loyalty to the cause.

ProPublica: The Militia and the Mole

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

I hope each one chokes on a cheeseberder. I hope it is excruciating. I hope it is recorded so we can add a laugh track.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fucking laws no longer apply to us either then, fuck these goddamn Nazis

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Oh no they absolutely do apply to you. That's how fascism works!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

January 6th rioters are terrorists who tried their very hardest to stab America in the heart.

It is very important to make sure we all include this central fact whenever we speak about the issue, as a general note. It should be repeated so much that people hear it in their heads as an echo whenever they think about the subject, because it is the truth.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

They were safer in prison. Just release their names and addresses and let freedom do it's job

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Disgusting that this happened, let alone that people are cheering this on. I feel terrible for the police officers that were assaulted that day defending the capitol, only for their assaulters to be celebrated when they were pardoned.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Where's a listing of the names and addresses of those being pardoned?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

There are no consequences for being white pieces of traitorous garbage in America. Jay walk as a person of color and you’re getting 20 years in jail.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's amazing to me how so many in the US aren't bothered about traitors who tried to overthrow their government. Shows how bad things have gotten; presumably enough Trump supporters don't care or somehow believe it was justified!?

From outside, it honestly seems the US is slowly sliding further and further into chaos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

And just like that, vigilante justice rises.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

We aren't bothered because these people will ask be dead within a year of release

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What color will the shirts be?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Well, they've already got underlying militia organizations like the proud boys, oath keepers, and three percenters. I'm guessing this is the end of the stand by stage and the beginning of your right wing death squads.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Enrique Tarrio

We live in a clown world. What would your papás say about this, Enrique?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Of course his cult won’t ask why he didn’t do this 4 years ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Brown shirts get their shirts back"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And the billionaires cheered "Hurrah for the Black Shirts"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How about Biden pardoning his entire family and letting everyone else burn under trump….lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How about staying on topic, ya knob?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It is on topic … forgiving criminals.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How about Republican President Gerald Ford pardoning another Republican criminal Richard Nixon after Watergate?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thats fucked up! The rules dont apply to the rule makers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which ones were criminals?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well he pardoned his whole family soooo….

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So which ones are criminals? You say you are on topic... The topic was the release of the Jan 6 insurectionists. All tried and convicted of various crimes against the country.

Unless you mean to say that they were criminals, but it's ok because Biden also released criminals. To which I would say: which ones were criminals?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The insurrectionist and Bidens family are criminals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And so are the Jan 6 insurectionists?

[–] elflakoinri 3 points 2 months ago

No you arent, you only go to every post and comment this shit to dilude the discussions only with the intention to help a piece of shit