• edible_funk@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Trump has been found by a court to have raped women. Not criminal court but he is an adjudicated rapist.

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      6 days ago

      I understand why this case was civil and not criminal so you don’t need to explain that to me but I feel like in most situations civil liability is treated with way less seriousness than criminal guilt, because of the burden of proof being different.

      So in this case Trump being liable is proof of his crimes but for others people might say that we can’t say they are guilty, only that they are liable because the higher burden of proof could not be met (or else there would be a criminal conviction).

      My point isn’t that either man is innocent of the accusations but that people are treated differently depending on how people feel about them.

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        6 days ago

        What you feel like isn’t relevant. The judge said based on the preponderance of evidence that Donald Trump was in no uncertain terms a rapist. There’s plenty of publicly available proof despite his lack of sex crime convictions.

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          6 days ago

          The use of the word feel in the phrase “I feel like” when it proceeds the description of a recollection should be read as “my recollection is”.

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              I don’t understand? I did use the correct words according to how I speak english. It’s not possible to always avoid misunderstanding because there are so many different dialects, so I’m happy to clarify my meaning. It doesn’t make the first way wrong?

              I don’t know what a sock puppet is?