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Another day, another working class hero. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/luigimangione@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8223000

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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Because it is such a high profile case, every level of the bureaucracy wants a bite at the apple. Everyone wants to get in front of a camera and say "We're doing something about it!" to a gaggle of social media influencers and party apparatchiks with press badges.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    So corruption?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Not corruption, per say. This is a fatal flaw of any democratic institution. You need to be seen doing your job or people will assume it isn't getting done. So more and more of the job of an executive level official is marketing yourself.

    Everyone who isn't running around cutting their own promos is setting themselves up for defeat against someone who does.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I'm always defending politicians, so… no, just kidding, I'm not. But I will offer a more sympathetic explanation not from experience, just from my hindquarters.

    If there were three different people in power who are all independently upset about a crime, I could imagine each of them figuring out what the suspect did in their jurisdiction. That’s to fight back personally as well as to have a story for the next town hall when someone includes the crime in a long list of places why $currentCity has gone down the tubes over $longPeriod

    So then have these three separate cases because everyone felt disrespected and wants a billboard, “don’t mess with us“. Maybe it wasn't very relevant that the perp scraped a mailbox while peeling out of the scene of the crime, but is that a reason for the postmaster not to have his friends from the US postal inspection over? :)

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