• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
    391·
    3 months ago

    So Don Jr is rubbing coke publicly on his gums at a SpaceX launch, yet nobody is coming for him? He is a gun owner.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      138·
      3 months ago

      If you banned amphetamines near the launch pad, nothing in aeronautics would ever get done. Ask anyone in Operation Paperclip.

        • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
          46·
          3 months ago

          I mean, coke is basically an amphetamine with a shittier half life. They’re both stimulants with a dopamine re-uptake inhibitors.

          Coke is just the shittier and less ethically sourced option.

          • Laser@feddit.org
            32·
            3 months ago

            They’re both stimulants with a dopamine re-uptake inhibitors.

            That’s not how amphetamine works. It’s correct for cocaine, but amphetamine promotes dopamine release, it doesn’t inhibit reuptake.

            In the end, both increase dopamine availability… but through different mechanisms and they’re chemically different as well.

            • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
              2·
              3 months ago

              amphetamine promotes dopamine release, it doesn’t inhibit reuptake.

              Amphetamines are also DRI…

              “The following are a selection of some particularly notably abused DRIs: cocaine, ketamine, MDPV, naphyrone, and phencyclidine (PCP). Amphetamines, including amphetamine, methamphetamine, MDMA, cathinone, methcathinone, mephedrone, and methylone, are all DRIs as well, but are distinct in that they also behave, potentially more potently, as dopamine releasing agents (DRAs)”

              Amphetamines are dopamine releasing agents, but they also affect dopamine re-uptake.

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
    312·
    3 months ago

    The gun charge was a sham. Yes, lying on form 4473 (firearm transaction record) is a federal crime. It’s also one that has historically never been prosecuted on it’s own; it’s always used as part of another prosecution, such as bank robbery, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, and so on. You can count the number of times where that’s been prosecuted on it’s own on the fingers of one hand, in part because it really doesn’t come to light unless you’re caught committing another crime while also possessing a firearm that you can’t legally have. The justice dept. was originally going to drop that charge altogether, until pressure was applied from the political right. (Also, maybe don’t write a memoir where you admit to crimes, unless you’re past the statute of limitation on those crimes.)

    The tax charges were pretty legit though. Depending on sentencing guidelines–which are quite complicated–the odds are pretty good that he would have ended up with large fines and penalties, in addition to having to pay the back taxes with interest that he owed.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    81·
    3 months ago

    Except the parts he was convicted of were real.

    That the fascists spread ridiculous lies about him doesn’t erase his ACTUAL crimes.

    That’d what dads who said they wouldn’t are for, apparently.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
    93·
    3 months ago

    It’s ridiculous seeing people upset by this. Like, do these people have any idea of the long, corrupt list of people Trump pardoned?

    I know this is whataboitism, but let’s be real for a minute. Biden sucks, but he’s a saint compared to Trump.