• sndmn@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    Good luck finding a jury to convict him of jaywalking.

    Some homicides are self defence.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    The comparison is definitely stupid because this guy planned the whole thing! Its not like he accidentally started a rebellion in an accidentally treasonous way while trying to steal the office of a high government official. Everyone knows the punishment for that is …another 4 years of government.

  • MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    Yes there are double standards but this is the wrong comparison to make that point.

    Most school shooters are minors who are inelligible for the death penalty, and a large percentage don’t survive their own shooting. Either death by cop or suicide.

    I have no love for insurance CEOs or our capital-first justice system, but if you’re gonna make a point don’t leave it open to be so easily picked apart.

  • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Doesn’t make sense to compare a rate of an outcome (without even knowing how often that outcome was sought) with an individual attempt whose outcome is not even known yet.

    When Mangione IS actually given the death penalty, this ‘argument’ will actually amount to something. Dumb until then.

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    7 hours ago

    We’re just going to ignore that school shooters are generally minors and thus not treated the same as adults? Okay then.

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    8 hours ago

    My personal tinfoil hat is that they are seeking the death penalty so he accepts a deal. They are scared of jury nullification.

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      6 hours ago

      That isn’t tinfoil-hat at all. I was reading a news story recently about how worried they are that they’ll have trouble finding impartial jurors, since there’s so much sympathy for him.

  • Hlodwig@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    FFS, it’s not even him, people need to stop accepting he is the killer. He is not, news made sure that pics from the killing footage were buried so people would forgot them, because when you compare them with Luigi, its obviously NOT him… And there is no doubt here, killer is smaller, whiter (like Irish white), slim eyebrows, and less muscle body shape than Luigi.

    Why do people try to make him a martyr, when it is not even the killer.

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    9 hours ago

    I do believe it would be a tactical error on their part to give him the death penalty… make a real martyr

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    9 hours ago

    This you shall offer in the morning and this you shall offer at twilight, a lamb without blemish.

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    10 hours ago

    I love bow this meme gets fact checked and the thesis get tighter.

    Brian Thompson is a parasite, no empathy for them

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    10 hours ago

    Land of Double Standards.

    Pulling an excerpt from George Carlin: “Politicians hide behind three things in this country: The Flag, The Bible and Children. No child left behind! It wasn’t long ago you were talking about giving children a headstart. Headstart, Left Behind. Someone’s losing fucking ground here.”

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      10 hours ago

      The spoke the truth mapr of us were to young to understand but how did boomers miss these money shots.

      They were the audience

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        9 hours ago

        Haha funny man is funny. Ooo my 401k is growing, line go up. What’s on TV?

        Not that it would have made a difference but as far as I know there was no call to action from Carlin. Without that many people just say yup, that’s life, and keep their head down.

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      7 hours ago

      When we have protests large enough to get noticed, we get attacked by the police. Why should the protesters have to suffer? Make the oppressors suffer instead.

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      9 hours ago

      We have the Russian “and then it got worse” do nothing attitude. We aren’t even gonna try to do anything till its far too late.

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      9 hours ago

      Protests within US are limited to major cities otherwise logistics are fucked due to suburb lay out of the most of the country.

      Also, most of are just too docile, it ain’t an issue I til they personally get fucked.

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        8 hours ago

        That’s their point: America never does anything. People love to act like they stand for something, but cower at the slightest consequence or inconvenience.

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          Last time we had a major protest in the city of Chicago, 24 people died. That’s a little more than “the slightest consequence or inconvenience”

          Luigi’s protest was way more efficient. Only one person has died.