• @Formfiller@lemmy.world
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    641 month ago

    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

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • @lumony@lemmings.world
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      81 month ago

      Incels should honestly be targeting country clubs instead of elementary schools.

      The ruling class plays a much bigger role in why they’re incels than school students do.

      • @Formfiller@lemmy.world
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        11 month ago

        They’re not smart people. This would require the ability to critically think and reason with facts. They’re brainwashed by the billionaire backed right wing propaganda machine. Women/brown people=bad. Billionaires/White Men =good

  • @Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

  • Tomtits
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    201 month ago

    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

          • @Ilandar@lemm.ee
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            11 month ago

            Ah yes, the “different nose” which is mostly obscured in the top photos and has a giant red circle covering it in the bottom photo.

              • @Ilandar@lemm.ee
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                01 month ago

                Ah, so the monobrow photo is after the security cam photos. How interesting that you tried to avoid telling me this the first time around.

      • @wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml
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        101 month ago

        Wow. There’s a huge disparity between the brows on those two. No matter how blurry the first pics are, the thickness of Luigi’s brows would be noticeable. The person in that camera footage definitely doesn’t have thick eyebrows like Luigi :/

        • @lumony@lemmings.world
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          11 month ago

          I agree with this assessment.

          I cannot convict because I do not believe this person is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

  • NoiseColor
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    2121 month ago

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

    • @Ilandar@lemm.ee
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      191 month ago

      It’s a monarchy really

      Yes, this is actually a much more helpful way to think about Trump’s approach to presidency. Here is Dr David Smith from the United States Studies Centre explaining this in a recent episode of PEP (excellent in-depth American politics podcast from Australia).

    • @InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
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      No, it’s just that the south hates everything about the rest of America, and have done since we took their slaves away

      They support anything that hurts everyone else, or as they call it: ‘Owning the libs’.

    • @RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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      321 month ago

      Start the campaign now for President in 2256. Wouldn’t want the judges to look politically biased, they’ll have to hold off on sentencing until after the election.

    • @Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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      381 month ago

      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.

        • @DaleGribble88@programming.dev
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          Now you’re asking them to commit perjury - which is also bad. (In case anyone reads this and decides to try their best poker face)

          • @null@slrpnk.net
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            71 month ago

            Now your asking them to commit perjury

            Only if they specifically ask “do you know about jury nullification?”

            • @DaleGribble88@programming.dev
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              31 month ago

              No, they usually ask something like “Do you have any personal beliefs that would prevent you from returning a guilty verdict involved with this type of crime?” - seriously yall, this shit isn’t hard to look up and is usually posted right alongside explanations for what jury nullification is. Frankly, I doubt anyone reading this is rich enough to pull the “you didn’t specifically ask about jury nullification therefore I technically did not commit perjury”-card.

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                31 month ago

                Well at least now I know it’s effectively illegal for me to be on a jury for the rest of my life. So that’s cool.

            • @DaleGribble88@programming.dev
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              11 month ago

              No, you swear an oath to answer honestly during the jury selection process. The lawyers will ask if you have any moral or ethical concerns that would prevent you from convicting the accused - ie you would be willing to engage in jury nullification. If you say no, but you actually do intend to nullify, then you lied under oath and could be found guilty of perjury at that point.

          • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            111 month ago

            Now you’re asking them to commit perjury - which is also bad.

            Only if they get caught and punished for it. Laws exist to discourage bad behavior, which lying in service of justice isn’t, so in this case breaking the law is the morally correct thing to do.

            Like shooting a billionaire or the CEO of a predatory corporation.

            • @DaleGribble88@programming.dev
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              01 month ago

              Sure, whatever, but lying under oath during the jury selection process is a crime called perjury. Morale correctness aside, I’m just trying to keep folks out of jail my dude.

  • MochiGoesMeow
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    661 month ago

    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

    • @Podunk@lemmy.world
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      121 month ago

      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.

    • @GreyAlien@lemm.ee
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      nah we already have sanders and aoc it’s enough, we still want to conserve decorum /s

    • @RainbowHedgehog@50501.chat
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      421 month ago

      Luigi Mangione has been the only thing uniting the left and right in the US. This is one of the few things that has managed to break through Fox News propaganda. Killing a legendary hero isn’t the win the GOP thinks it is.

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        The left and right really need to understand priorities.

        It’s fine to disagree on culture war bullshit, but let’s put our differences aside and focus on the common enemy first.

    • @AJ1@lemmy.ca
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      61 month ago

      You want martyrs??

      I mean, yeah that’d be cool. What else do we have at this point