• FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    The tv talking heads, with such class, were frothing at the mouth with excitement about Luigi getting beat up and or raped in jail.

    Turns out the average person fucking loves the guy and what he stands for, prisoners doubly so.

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    24 days ago

    I don’t understand the pageantry behind all this. We all know this will end one of two ways. Either he’s found guilty and killed, or he’s set free and the powerful have him killed anyway.

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    24 days ago

    Jokes on them, I only read Luigi articles to fawn over the pictures

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      25 days ago

      The only thing they give a shit about is sending a message that the privileged class is untouchable and not to be messed with. Look no further than how lax they’re treating the guy that popped those Minnesota congresspeople, the rich are in a different league and must be revered as such.

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      25 days ago

      On paper they should care about the truth. Also on paper their KPIs usually involve conviction rates and numbers.

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        This one is way too high profile to be about conviction rates. Also likely the big shots in the office that hound the people about conviction rates will take on the case themselves because they want to be on TV. And since they don’t normally do any work, they might fuck it all up, like what happened in the Alec Baldwin case.

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    25 days ago

    Well, good luck. /s

    The stupid bastards would have a hard time throwing a stone anywhere in any American city without hitting someone who’s been fucked over or had their family damaged/destroyed by an insurance company.

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    The most important aspect of this that I think most people are missing is that they are specifically trying to bias the public into thinking he definitely did it. There is no “allegedly” in how they’ve treated him, they are actually using the positive public sentiment about what he did to continue to build the idea that it was definitely him and we don’t need to go to court to prove it. The public loving Mangione and believing he definitely did it is actually in many ways beneficial to their case. It helps solidify the idea in the general public eye that “he did it” before any court case has looked at the facts.

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      I definitely don’t. He’s a hero because he’s innocent and stood bravely against abusive treatment by the state. Too much fuckery for me to believe even hard evidence presented before my eyes. We know when we’re being fucked with.

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          That’s why making sure potential jurors are educated on jury nullification, how it works, and how to not be prematurely dismissed as a juror is so important.

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              Basically it means that you can return whatever verdict you want as long as you don’t say something stupid like “I don’t actually believe this by the way.”

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                  24 days ago

                  You don’t believe in the public being part of the decision making about which laws are just? That’s part of democracy.

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          Find one person, and I mean one that isn’t skewed by knowing the context of the case. Jury nullification is the correct course when it’s very, very clear that the prosecution is acting in bad faith. I have no idea the facts, I do know the prosecution is lying about the narrative because we’re not stupid.

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              They choose a pool of jurors randomly. You don’t need to pretend to be uninformed until you’re in the room (unless you comment under your real name), where they select the actual jurors after each side has excluded some

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      Innocent until proven guilty, but if you say anything about that they’ll probably nix you from the jury pool so if you get selected just act dumb

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    My tears for the healthcare system have been denied due to a pre-existing condition of not giving a dam for the rich. Long live Luigi!

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    They have been since it happened. And it just doesn’t work. No one is more deserving of street justice than millionaire/billionaire ceos. Especially if their wealth is built on denying healthcare to others.

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    I think everyone who has debilitating back pain, to the point that you can’t walk or get out of bed, and gets denied treatment by United Health Care knows why he had to kill the CEO and then bike across town so quickly that the police couldn’t catch him.

    It is just a good thing that McDonald’s cashier noticed who he was when he showed him his driver’s license- a totally normal and everyday thing that happens at McDonalds - otherwise he would have gotten away with it.

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      Leaving his front tooth in his burger wrapper was the clincher. Luigi Mangione is also missing that same front tooth. The blood sample matched as well, Luigi’s black eye was confirmed to be the source of the blood. If he couldn’t do the crime, he shouldn’t have beaten himself up and left dental records.