Post by @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io

2026-09-28 04:46 UTC

@chiraag@mastodon.online What 'system' are you talking about? Conviction is based on a jury of one's peers, specifically so that criminal trials aren't decided by 'the system'. It's in the DAs interest to win as many easy and high-profile cases, since you make it seem like the the conviction is a foregone conclusion. Both Hegseth and Kavanaugh faced allegations that were never tried. Having no standard of proof, no cross-examination by lawyers, and no discovery process is a poor example to point to say "get away with rape". The only principle I'm defending is that nobody, in any case, gets labelled a criminal before the evidence has been tested. I think this is foundational to liberal democracy. Again, as I mentioned before, NY has no statute of limitations on first-degree rape. Surfacing evidence in a civil case, or surfacing new evidence decades later, which can reopen a criminal suit is, imo, infinitely better than acquittal on weak evidence and closing the door on criminal charges forever. @ShadSterling@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social

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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu 2026-09-28 05:11

@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @chiraag@mastodon.online @ShadSterling@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Not being appointed to a high office because of reasonable doubt is not a human rights violation. There were plenty of other people that could have been chosen, and they chose the worst people.

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@chiraag@mastodon.online 2026-09-28 04:57

@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @ShadSterling@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social The fact that we couldn't even agree that those men don't deserve positions of power is an indictment of our society, though. And that doesn't require a criminal conviction, right? It would just need us to believe those women and not empower those men. And we couldn't even do that. The 'system' I'm talking about is the criminal justice system. The only claims of rape it has taken seriously historically have been those of white women against black men.

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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social 2026-09-28 06:44

@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @chiraag@mastodon.online @QasimRashid@mastodon.social you just implied that to commit a crime and not face trial is not to “get away with” that crime

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