Bizzare. Americans are seriously crazy. It's a monarchy really, it's so in your face, like a bad comedy.
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).
But what if he runs for office? Then he can't be convicted, right?
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.
Lol imagine thinking these freaks give a fuck about being hypocrites.
Maybe we should put the prosecutors to death instead.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
Not to mention, the minute it happens, the government will carpet the skies with observation drones in the name of safety
Oh, we're not supposed to condone violence against monsters who hurt others for greed here either? Well, dang. What if I do though?
Technically it’s not a rule of Lemmy but the instance rules that forbid this.
We are indeed owned by the billionaire class. It’s their country. We live in it.
https://beyondcourts.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/Jury-Nullification-Toolkit-English_0.pdf
Everyone should read about jury nullification and spread it everywhere.
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.
You want martyrs?? 'Cause that's how you get martyrs!
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.
Saint Luigi Mangione
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.
nah we already have sanders and aoc it’s enough, we still want to conserve decorum /s
Nullify.
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.
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.
I’m sure that will be as corrupt as everything else this administration touches
Yeah there's no better reason to use jury nullification than when government wants to kill a guy for political reasons.
Federal juries are way, way easier to tilt towards the prosecution, and the judge has far more power, even assuming he isn't a Trump appointee.
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
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).
Democrats and Republicans alike banded against Luigi. It’s Citizens United talking.
The previous administration probably wouldn't take on a random murder case just because the victim was rich.
This was a high profile case that was all over the news for weeks. And frankly it looks like a slam dunk for the prosecution. The Biden Justice Department absolutely would've brought federal charges.
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
Yup, they got the wrong guy.
What's this?
Spot the monobrow?
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 :/
They are going to give him a laptop, right?!?
The state wants to keep its monopoly on violence.
Oh hell no
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