• Kalysta@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    All they’re doing is making him look like a badass. They need enough cops to suppress Superman if he turned bad.

    The managerial class really is terrified, huh?

    • Emerald@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Damnnn that is one interpretation of drunk driving. "officer, you don’t understand, drunk driving putting everyones life and freedom at risk is what makes us human

      • Zron@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Buying a second house for your estranged wife is very normal. I’ve got tons of very real, normal human friends that buy their wives second houses because divorce would cost more than a second house.

        The person is very human, yes.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    There’s 2 possible reasons to have “military” escort. either…

    1. They must protect the perp from assassination.
    2. They must prevent mob from liberating him.
  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I love this place. Post anything about this on reddit and it’s likely to be removed if it gets too positive or the bots downvote it.

    • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
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      3 days ago

      Reddit let this thing run first week as they couldn’t moderate the sentiment this strong but looks like after that they cracked down.

      Lemmy world news sub was suppressing this very aggressively during that time.

      Mods dropped in in unrelated sub threatening to remove the discussion if we didn’t keep it “civil”

      Some clown ass behavior.

    • Critical_Thinker@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Reddit is a place to promote product. This isn’t product. Give it time and big lemmy servers will turn into reddit, but for now we get to enjoy a safe space.

      • Zetta@mander.xyz
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        3 days ago

        Thankfully, because of the way Lemmy is built, we will forever have smaller communities that don’t turn into garbage like that.

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    I’m gonna steel man this one and state that those officers are there to protect him more than protect others from him. That’s why school shooters have fewer officers escorting them, because who the fuck cares if somebody murders those monsters.

    • ynthrepic@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Terrorism is supposed to be the dogmatic or ideologically motivated killing of civilians, often by those who are willing to die in the process. It’s terror inducing because it could seemingly happen anywhere at any time to any one, and it’s a lot easier to cause harm to others when you’re suicidal and not trying to get away with it.

      Of course, that’s not how it’s routinely used, or perhaps was ever really used by anyone except academics.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      Not even killed, but even just made to think their plundering might have consequences.

    • lud@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      If it’s politically motivated I’m pretty sure it’s terrorism.

      • Kalysta@lemm.ee
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        2 days ago

        Is the second guy who tried to shoot trump being charged with terrorism? Because that was politically motivated.

        If he’s not, Luigi also does not deserve the charge.

      • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        The NY charge calls for a specific action taken against a government entity.

        Unless UHC is part of the government, but corporations as government is Musolini style fascism, and the US isn’t a fascist country, right?

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 days ago

          So, I’ve heard he didn’t actually have UHC. There’s also no confirmation of a denied claim, just the fact that he had back pain. Luigi targeted Brian because UHC was the largest insurance provider in the country, not because he was personally denied a particular claim. The guy was doing long distance hiking and running months before the slaying.

          TrueAnon podcast has a great deep dive into who Luigi was and what his potential motives were.

          He’s got a background in Effective Altruism, he got into the Dark Enlightenment movement, and was involved with a number of Silicon Valley gurus with particularly extremist ideology.

          Far from simply being an unhappy customer, it’s likely he’s a real life “Radical Centrist” who got pilled on far center neoliberal ideology.

        • lud@lemm.ee
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          3 days ago

          I mean he wrote words on bullets (or casings, I dunno) and a manifesto…

          • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            3 days ago

            American soldiers regularly paint imagery and words on the ammunition and vehicles they use to kill people. Are they terrorists too?

              • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                3 days ago

                sigh yes you’re the third or fourth person to make this joke. Yes I agree.

                The point is that nobody calls them terrorists for doing that. Putting words or art on weapons and ammo is considered “normal” as twisted as that is. So Luigi’s doing it does not make him a terrorist.

            • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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              3 days ago

              The military is political. It is literally policy when the military moves. Anything any military does is dictionary terrorism. But terrorism is a nasty word for it so we don’t call it that.

              • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                3 days ago

                I mean I’d agree lol but I doubt this person equates Luigi and the average American soldier painting a bomb. That’s my point. Writing on a bullet case or writing a political statement doesn’t make one terrorist. It’s the violent acts and who they’re directed at any why that determine it.

          • TheFriar@lemm.ee
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            3 days ago

            ….so? How many killers before him have written a manifesto? Are all these school shooters, attacking actual public schools, being charged with terrorism? They’re actually striking out at “the system.” How many white supremacists mass shootings have written manifestos and not been charged with terrorism?

        • Deme@sopuli.xyz
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          3 days ago

          I’d say that yes it was definitely at least partially politically motivated, since it was just as much an attack against the system as it was against the person, but hardly terrorism since there was no intent to scare the general public.

          • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            He probably did intend to scare insurance company executives. I can see calling it terrorism, even if I think he should get off.

            I’ve dealt with back pain, and during the height of my battle with the insurer I absolutely would’ve been tempted to kill the fuckers given the chance.

            • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
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              3 days ago

              insurance company executives

              Yes but they are not civilians, the are enemy combatants so it is fair game.

              Also Luigi if he did it, literally spared witness who is in fact a civilians.

              Terrorism charge will hopefully back fire.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    They sure do love taking and posting pictures of him and then yelling at people to not give him any press. How many pics have we seen of him in custody? They dont want coverage of him silenced, they want to control that narrative. US justice system is a sad broken dishonest state of affairs.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    So when Netflix made a film adaptation of 13 Reasons Why they called in specialists to try and make it tasteful. What happened was they were faxed a list of shit NOT TO DO, only some dumbass in charge of production mistook it for a list of “THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY SHOULD DO! DO IT! IT’LL BE FUNNY!”, leading to outrage from said professionals who then pondered why they were consulted at all if they were going to be so blatantly ignored and a spike of suicides that coincided with release of the thing. Ya know cause glorifying suicide to a bunch of suicidal people is probably not going to end will.

    Anyway, when that guy got fired from Netflix, I’m sure he got hired for the Dark Cabal that writes the talking points for the mass media.

    Because they definitely sent him a list of “Shit not to do, because if you did it it would just make Luigi into even more of a Modern Day Robin Hood” and he proceeded to mistake it for a “Definitely do this, because it’ll totally get people to mourn Brian Thomspon.” list

    • Bysmuth@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      That seems too simplified. Could you point me to where i could read more about this story? Can’t seem to find anything about this advice from specialists

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 days ago

        It was just a joke. The part about them hiring that guy for this spin I mean.

        Netflix really did do the “13 Reasons Why” fuck up

      • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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        3 days ago

        From the fact that the person repeats it in the same comment due to forgetting they already said that joke, we can safely assume it is made up