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[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago
[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word “No.”

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

/thread

No need to scroll further, folks.

[-] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

You know what? Everyone deserves freedom of speech, and threatening healthcare CEOs is not, in my opinion, a breach of it. There is a huge difference between threatening vulnerable minorities and threatening invulnerable minorities.

[-] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Doesn’t a threat have to be credible? As in you can make a threat if you’d like to but it has to actually be a legitimate threat. This isn’t that.

Realistically unless someone says this phrase and has google searches of the CEOs home address, this isn’t a credible threat at all.

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[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 17 points 1 year ago

No, the executives, BoD and major investors do.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 16 points 1 year ago

trump stole 500 million dollars from the state of ny... rapists spend less than a decade

this is a warning to poor people

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the case way back in the day with someone who pirated music getting insane fines and how it was juxtaposed with the relatively small settlement an airline had to pay when its negligence actually killed people.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 year ago

It seems I remember Kim Dotcom ~~listing~~ losing his extradition case, as well.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

She hasn't been sentenced and the maximum for rape is

  • For Aggravated sexual abuse with children: Life imprisonment without parole or any term not less than 30 years

  • For all other Federal Sexual Abuse cases: Life without parole or any other term

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[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 year ago

I hope this case gets some attention too. This is some ginned up bullshit. We can’t let them stomp us into silence.

I’m not celebrating a murder, this is some fucked up shit in many dimensions and I would prefer a different timeline.

But remember we are not children who need to bow our heads and take our scolding.

For-profit insurance companies are liable for the deaths they cause. Full stop.

How’s that for moral clarity?

[-] wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

She should not be charged in my opinion. It wasn’t a credible threat.

What the shootings has done is shown how many Americans are fed up with the current system.

You’re seeing stories from democrat and republicans.

I don’t condone the violence at all but he may have sparked a medical revolution in our country.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Saying (paraphrased) "you're next" is not a threat. It's an observation.

She made no threat.

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[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of Minority Report. Arrested by the pre-crime unit.

Guilty without the crime actually being committed.

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[-] archonet@lemy.lol 12 points 1 year ago

Of course not, but they're going to make an example out of her to deter the rest of the proles.

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[-] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

On the other hand when women complain about threats from stalkers the police do nothing. You might as well delete the word justice from this criminal justice system.

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[-] Etterra@discuss.online 10 points 1 year ago

She's a scapegoat. They arrested her to make a public example of her. Fuck those bastards, set her free.

[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Jury Nullification is my right.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The thing about Jury Nullification is that you have to make it through the majority of a trial. 97-98% of criminal cases (in the U.S.) end in a plea deal without ever going to trial.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago
[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Did she say she was running for the presidency? Because in that case, she could take someone out on main street and she could grab them by the pussy too and nobody would say anything.

She should have tried to purchase a president or maybe purchase the presidency itself for a self pardon.

Joe should pardon her wtf Joe!

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Shit like this is going to happen until us poors remember our place.

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I saw someone else say this, but I hope they start rounding up the incels on Twitter saying “your body, my choice” as credible rape threats if what this woman said is going to be litigated with such fervor.

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 5 points 1 year ago

Rape doesn’t take money from the rich and is therefore not a crime.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So we should start raping the rich?

[-] nixcamic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Eww I was gonna eat that.

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Sounds more like a setup imho

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

When a woman calls the cops because her abusive SO threatened to kill her, they can't do anything about it.

[-] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Two wrongs don’t make a right. She could have said DDD without “you people are next.”

Having said that, if we’re really judging people, and corporations are people, why isn’t the denial of health care seen as manslaughter? 70 people pass every day due to the lack of medical care in America. We have worse outcomes, shorter average life than other civilized countries.

When is a corporation sued for murder & sent to jail? I know it sounds crazy, but that’s the point. These systems aren’t making sense. They lack humanity. This is a bad, morally bankrupt system. Older Americans loves their Medicare: that’s socialism.

I’m so sick of this shit.

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[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

We should erect a giant bronze statue of Luigi. Put it in a road right near UHC's headquarters in Minnesota. Make them all drive past it each and every day on the way to work.

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[-] AprilShowers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago
[-] mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Free speech is for nazis, as far as I can tell

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[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile customer service agents have been hearing much worse than this for decades, actual direct threats not vague comments, and no one ever gave a shit before.

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The US justice system is f'ed up.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

We have a legal system, not a justice system.

[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

She was released and all charges dropped. This was a silly farce by the judge and prosecutors from the jump

[-] Birdie@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's right. She's been released on bond to house arrest; the charges still stand.

[-] bigpapasmurf12@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

She absolutely does not deserve that. Isn't America the home of free speech? I guess not for the plebs!

[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Prosecutors throw the book at people, sentences get reduced by dropping things, aclu better get on this and keep her from getting a stupid plea deal, and fight for free speech

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