r/nottheonion • u/ArgentineBeauty • 19h ago

Reese Witherspoon Chosen as Jury Foreman After Jurors Thought She Went to Law School Because of Legally Blonde

https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/reese-witherspoon-jury-duty-mix-1763528
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u/Orion14159 19h ago

Most of them vote too.

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u/Tooulogyh 18h ago

Oh we know! Trust me we can tell who voted.

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u/foo_fight3r 16h ago

Most of them vote too.

And ALL of them can be jurors. Decide someone's fate.

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u/Vorpalthefox 9h ago

pretty sure the lawyers picked out who to keep of the jury pool, so alot of this is lawyer decision to keep them

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u/breakupbydefault 15h ago

And that's how we ended up with Trump

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u/bluris 18h ago

Maybe democracy isn't our best option, shame it beats the others we came up with. 

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u/Orion14159 17h ago

Yeah we really are depending on people making good decisions and having literally any critical thinking skills.

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u/gsfgf 4h ago

If only elections had a Henry Fonda to put his foot down when people were being too fucking absurd lol.

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u/-Fergalicious- 15h ago

Really need to stop allowing that honestly 

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u/Orion14159 15h ago

I'm not into disenfranchisement, but maybe serious penalties for disseminating provable outright lies for social media platforms and traditional media networks would be a start

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u/-Fergalicious- 14h ago

Nah i want disenfranchisement at this point. The pendulum swingith