• DarkroomDoc@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    This kid didn’t hack into school systems to change grades- he was extorting millions of dollars from large and small companies to buy drugs and jewelry. I think you are missing the gravity of what he did.

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      25 days ago

      He’s following in your national leaders footsteps of shaking people down for money, its the American Dream, baby.

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          23 days ago

          That is my point. I refuse to be okay with sending a boy to get his behind busted for 20 years for trying to get that bag while the country is otherwise lawless.

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        25 days ago

        “Under no guidance, they can fall into really, really bad habits. Under the right guidance, you can take this generation and use their skills [positively].”

        That’s exactly what I thought when I read this. Or, the right guidance to persecute those who would speak truth to power and expose the G-d-awful truth of who we really are, in our very poor, misguided leadership.

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          25 days ago

          I just can’t imagine being so obtuse as to see the sheer leverage they have over this kid and the fact that they desperately, desperately need technical competence in the US agencies right now.

          They could lean on this kid forever to make him a good little agent, but no, send the twink boy to the assrape box. Rehabilitation? Whats that.

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            25 days ago

            You romanticizing a situation that doesn’t deserve it. Skilled or not- he hurt people for money. He’s not a Robin Hood fighting the evil corporatists or government.