LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]

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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • Partially true, but they also use that astronomical conviction rate to take more pleas than normal. If you’re going up against a 98 percent conviction rate, does it make sense (even if you’re innocent) to take on that 2 percent chance? If you never make it to trial and just plea, you don’t contribute to the conviction percentage. They use this to convince most people getting federal charges to take a plea deal.

    Not defending Adams, wanna make that clear. I just see people mention the 98 percent conviction rate when it isn’t an accurate depiction of the situation. This is carefully picked information to make people feel okay forgoing a trial they have a right to













  • Yeah, Mormons in the early days were very explicitly a full cult. Brigham Young tried to declare war on the US federal government to try to claim Utah as a Mormon state. The mainstream Mormon church was full fundie until around 1900 or so. Not saying they’re not a cult now, but the levels of bad aren’t even comparable. The original Mormonism was a white ethnostate sex cult that tried to separate all their followers from the knowledge of the rest of the nation by changing languages