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[–] 212 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Bizzare. Americans are seriously crazy. It's a monarchy really, it's so in your face, like a bad comedy.

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    [–] 158 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But what if he runs for office? Then he can't be convicted, right?

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  • [–] 131 points 1 year ago (27 children)

    Maybe we should put the prosecutors to death instead.

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  • [–] 121 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    Obligatory, I do not condone violence per lemmys rules, or whatever.

    Agreed. This might be the only method to save us. Rule of law doesn't work, we are owned by the billionaire class. Bring out the guillotines for these bootlickers. Might be the only way we get free.

    Free Luigi.

    Fuck this aryan Pam bondi cunt and these prosecutors.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    I'm still waiting for people to get mad enough to use drones for political violence. Like shit, Ukraine can make an effective FPV for like 50 USD from what I've seen

    Imagine if Luigi dropped a grenade on this dude while just sitting in Central Park.

    It's gonna be a good time.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    I kind of hope that will have the bonus effect of making the ownership class ease up on return-to-office. Sure, have your executive meeting in-person. Oh shit, someone flew a drone in and it exploded, shooting nails everywhere and killing half the c-suite? Shit. Anyway. We'll be working from home until at least they clear the blood out of the carpets.

    (Though realistically, they'd make workers go in physically while being remote themselves. But maybe someone will bomb their house. No mercy for the ultra-rich.)

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Drone warfare is politically agnostic. If it can be used by a Luigi against a healthcare CEO, it can be used by far-right extremists against progressive politicians, pride parades, or Black churches. I'm not very jazzed to live in the world of Slaughterbots.

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    You know they'll disqualify anyone who might even hint at knowledge of jury nullification from the jury pool. They'll be selected on their ability to convict solely.

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  • [–] 89 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    You want martyrs?? 'Cause that's how you get martyrs!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Have you seen how long it takes someone to get through death row? If convicted, he will sit for 20 years. Far far beyond the current political discourse.

    If he gets convicted, that will be a stink for a while. But by the time they kill him, he will be a distant memory.

    Martyrs die when the timing is optimal. If it isnt the right time, they are just a name on a gravestone. And we have plenty of those.

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    I would love to be a juror in this case.

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    [–] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Evidently Pam Bondi has financial lobbyist interests for the GEO group. They own a bunch of private prisons and mental health facilities.

    I wonder if we could get creative to bring down the profits of this group in retaliation of her idiotic direction.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO_Group

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    [–] 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This administration is too stupid to realize they’re sitting on a powder keg? By all means light the match…..let’s see what happens

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    My current tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory is that’s exactly what they’re banking on. They’ll draw the trial out until right before the midterm election… Then Trump will use the resulting riots to declare martial law and cancel the upcoming midterms, so he doesn’t lose control of congress. After he has cancelled the election, he’ll make a final push to clean house, and will start ousting liberal congress members by accusing them of being riot conspirators.

    The Mangione Riots will be Trump’s Reichstag Fire.

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    [–] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's seems pretty damn ballsy of them since unless they are extremely confident in the jury selection it's practically guaranteed to result in a hung jury if they know that finding him guilty will result in the most severe verdict.

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    [+] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Even if the actual killer stuck again, hitting another CEO and then confessed on live TV for both murders, people would still think (and I can say the name here) that Luigi is guilty.

    Y'all are mental across the pond

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Not at all surprising and it wouldn't have been any different under the last administration. From the whole "rule of law" perspective you can't really not go after somebody who committed premeditated murder on film just because his target was someone that people didn't like. What the jurors decide to do is a whole different can of worms (although if you ask me to make a prediction, I think they most likely find him guilty).

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    They wanna make martyrs now?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    They are going to give him a laptop, right?!?

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  • The state wants to keep its monopoly on violence.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago*

    There’s a guy who killed 23 people in a Walmart in El Passo in 2022. Got charged with hate crimes on account of…he’s openly racist and said that’s why he did it.

    That guy just got a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.

    Nobody should identify the criminal justice system in America as anything else but a mechanism for protecting the rich.

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    Seems very short-sighted on their part. They’ve made the penalty for taking out 1 the same as taking out 100. They’ve also highlighted the disparity between punishments for crimes against average people vs the rich and powerful.

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