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Prosecutors disclosed the indictment Tuesday as they worked to bring Luigi Mangione to a New York court from from a Pennsylvania jail.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_George_Tiller

That guy that murdered Dr. Tiller was not charged as a terrorist in 2009.

Fucking USA make up your mind.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is logically consistent if you view things from a capitalist christian theocratic perspective.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Or, as the kids say, as an arrogant hypocritical piece of shit perspective.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The Charleston church shooting, also known as the Charleston church massacre, was an anti-black mass shooting and hate crime that occurred on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the Southern United States. Among the fatalities was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. All ten victims were African Americans.

That white supremacist was not charged as a terrorist either.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What an actual joke

I'm not simping for Luigi but charging him under terrorism is quite ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

DA's and whoever else has their prosecutorial hands on this are always going apeshit with charges. Stealing a Twinkie from the gas station will get you 8 counts of theft-by-taking and, shit, probably terrorism too if they think it'll either get you to plea to something and / or they think they can make their name with the case and screw you for living.

They're supposed to be finding and delivering justice, but it's always just cruel idiots trying to prove they're big, important people. Well. Not always but most often.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It means CEOs/politicians are terrified.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That, and they're gonna try and get him sent to supermax if he's convicted, just to kill his spirit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We can only hope he gets a good lawyer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Damn, I was hoping the name would be Mario. Karen will do 👍 Good gal Karen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The fundraiser is up to $120k now. I hope that's enough for a good law firm.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

So, it works? Good to know.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Only enemies of the bourgeoisie are terrorists apparently.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago

I mean, if you consciously, deliberately kill a member of a people to instill fear in the rest of that people, you are indeed a terrorist.

If you are enemy of a group of civilians, you are a terrorist.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're probably hoping that calling him a terrorist will blunt the public's support of him?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

it's not gonna work because nobody sees it that way except the handful of ceos shitting their pants rn

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

To me this looks like:

Criminalizing the victims (who then emulated Batman) of their own predatory system

Congrats, the world will now probably view all CEOs as real life supervillains

Edit:
I don't think they realize that this will probably Streisand effect this and everything related to this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's technically terrorism, but so is literally any crime enforcement. You're supposed to be afraid to harm others because you'll be harmed back. We shouldn't be giving a free pass to the rich, especially when they put their crimes in their resume. We don't need a trial for that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Put crimes in their resumes." I like that. I intend to steal it and use it as my own. It's the highest form of flattery. You're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

😁

I'm also the guy who coined the phrase "if buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing" and I was perfectly happy to be unknown and watch it spread until Louis Rossmann, my hero, credited someone else for it and praised them instead of me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm stealing that one too. You're a genius.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because "rich fuck" isn't a protected class so they can't charge with hate crime.

I don't see how this can stick, there was no intent to cause terror, it was surgically precise. Assassination maybe, if they want to be transparent about who is actually running the US.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

there was no intent to cause terror

Surely you must see how false this is. 100% of the comments praising this have referenced some form of class-based revolutionary fervor, gleeful that the rich will now quake in their boots.

A killing meant to manipulate others by fear is terrorism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

You are ascribing intent. Now prove it in court.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We only have a concept of a decent country

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

oh man. If that goes through then kinda like copycat killings, we can have copycat terrorisms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

terrorism against who honk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

There you go Italians, you ARE a minority!