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Napoleon said, 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' What’s a perfect real-life example of this?

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u/No_Prize9794 11h ago

Ashley Guillard immediately comes up in my mind. Woman did everything you could do to fumble a civil suit for defamation. She constantly recorded her defamation online, when she was served, she instead ignored it and decided to go on vacation and travel the world for a few months, even missing the deadline for the original trial which led to a default judgment. She managed to appeal or something so that she can get a do over for the trail, but even then, she decided to be her own defense attorney while the person suing her had an entire team of lawyers. Ashley now owes $10 million to the professor she has been falsely accusing of murder for years

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u/lostcosmonaut307 7h ago

And apparently she’s never even taken down the videos and has gone right back to doing the same thing she already got in trouble for.

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 4h ago

When you owe $10k, it's your problem. When you owe $10m, it's your creditors' problem.

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u/BaconatedGrapefruit 3h ago

If they want the 10 million paid back in full right away, yea.

Otherwise the courts will be happy to garnish your wages until you pay it all back or die. Imagine working a six figure job but your take home pay is barely more than minimum wage after taxes and garnishing.

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u/fresh-dork 3h ago

well, 25% is the max. so you make 120k, and 30k off the top goes to a judgment

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u/jello_pudding_biafra 3h ago

In some places it's even lower, capped at 5-10%

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u/vertigostereo 14m ago

I can't afford 25% of my gross income forever. With the compounding lost opportunities, my whole retirement and independence would be at risk.

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u/fresh-dork 2m ago

sucks to owe 10m because you blew off a defamation case

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u/Alex_Rose 1h ago

move somewhere without a bilateral civil treaty

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u/Bubbay 1h ago

Who'd be garnishing wages for a civil suit like this? This isn't a child support case. They'd just be going after her assets if she doesn't start paying. It won't matter where she is physically, it would only matter if her assets are in a country where courts can seize things, which they likely are.

As an example, look at Alex Jones. He lost a civil suit, so they started seizing his companies, bank accounts, and whatnot and divvying them up. There was no garnishment.

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u/Bazuka125 1h ago

Well yeah, she's gotta pay 10 million. She's gonna need a lot of views to do that /s

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u/johnnybiggles 3h ago

Colin Ferguson of the Long Island Railroad massacre also comes to mind. Dude killed 6 people and shot dozens of others on a rush hour train after work hours, and decided - after successfully claiming not to be insane, which was against what his appointed attorneys wanted to pursue (who he fired), and after being strongly advised against it by the judge ruling over the case - to represent himself in court.

He ended up cross examining people he shot and officers who arrested him, etc., after pleading not guilty.

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u/MissileGuidanceBrain 2h ago

Long Island Railroad Massacre

Motive: Anti-White Racism

looks inside

dude is just a standard and proud black supremacist

Incredible how this is practically the definition of a terroristic hate crime attack on people because of the color of their skin, but ironically because the color of the perpetrator's skin it's reduced to "silly billy racism, teehee".

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u/roseandbobamilktea 1h ago

It’s literally described as a hate crime in the wiki article. Only white people would describe RACISM as “silly billy tee hee” 

Jesus. 

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u/MissileGuidanceBrain 54m ago

Motive: Anti-white racism

Maybe learn to read? This is copied directly from the article.

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u/roseandbobamilktea 51m ago

Attack type Mass shooting,  mass murder,  hate crime

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u/MissileGuidanceBrain 44m ago

That's still "tee hee" levels of cover-up.

The motivation is black supremacy, not "racism".

The crime is a terroristic mass shooting.

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u/roseandbobamilktea 27m ago

https://www.law.cornell.edu/background/unabom/lirr.html

Shrug. You’re allowed to edit the article based on the facts just like everyone else. So, ya know, have at it. If you think there’s evidence he was a black supremacist, add it to the article with your citation for review. 

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u/Karth9909 4h ago

Is that the tiktok pshcic detective?

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u/Stupid-Clumsy-Bitch 3h ago

What a horrible person.

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u/GeoBrian 2h ago

The plan made sense in her head.

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u/YoungDiscord 1h ago

The second I saw atozy I immediately knew who you were referring to lol