• Emerald@lemmy.world
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      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

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        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.

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    I love that Adams is there. He literally has no reason to be there other than self promotion. Do you think they discussed the finer points of being indicted federally? Maybe he is trying to get him to ask for a Trump pardon.

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      He is absolutely doing this to appease trump. Dude is getting hit with terrorism charges here to set up precedent for trump to do whatever the fuck he wants.

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      I guess he’s trying to learn more about prison life before he gets his own perp walk.

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    I think they want to intimidate others, but honestly giving him this much of a spotlight should be the dream of anyone thinking about attacking another CEO for attention.

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      They are probably also scared of people trying to free him since he is quite popular. This isn’t generally the case for other suspects.

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        Because their jobs financing is mostly perception based.

        Crime can be at an all time low, but all it takes is a politician to rile up the population about murderers and law enforcement and incarceration will end up getting more money.

        Be seen as being ineffective, soft or incompetent, especially by those holding the purse strings, and people lose jobs to those who will toe the line.

        This is a message to the wealthy “look how seriously we take serving you”

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        This is the same country that tries to fight radicals in other countries by invading, oppressing, and ultimately creating more radicals. Our elite have little understanding of the socially deviant

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          While I’m sure there is no love lost towards healthcare execs from even the police, an uptick of “terrorism” could also be used as an excuse to give even more power to the police as well.

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            Our systems and hierarchies do often support the oligarchy, but that does not mean every single individual supports the oligarchy, or that every single thing our systems do are meant to advance the goals of the ultra rich. Sometimes individuals who participate in these systems do malicious compliance, sometimes they don’t comply at all.

            In this case there could be someone high-up who is empathetic(or a group of empathetic people unaware of each other) whose decisions led to this happening, or this could have just been a dumb decision, who knows.

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            I dont think they need an excuse, they just do whatever they want now. Thats what electing trump is all about, letting them run amuck unrestrained.

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          That’s definitely giving them too much credit.

          They are probably trying to reduce the number of eligible jurors who would acquit him.

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            Insurers fuck cops over too. While I doubt it’s an act of solidarity with the rest of us peasants, it could actually be an enemy-of-my-enemy situation where cops find themselves hating UHC as much as the rest of us.

            How crazy would it be if the next Luigi is a cop?!

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    I mean, Jaquim Phoenix’s Joker did… what? Kill Jay Leno on air? Luigi is definitely in the top 3 Jokers, way above Leto and Phoenix.

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      He also was the center of the riot at the end of the movie that led to Martha and Thomas Waynes dying.

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    Waiting for someone to do a slow mo version of the vid with a soundtrack. Alas, I suck at such things.

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      The better one’s life is, the more scared they are to lose it.

      Enough of the general public is finally crossing the line we’ve been pushed towards for decades.

      France around and find out.

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        The problem with constantly robbing the poor is that the poor eventually run out of things to lose.

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      You know what? If they want to turn him into a martyr, I want to turn him into a saint. St. Luigi of Baltimore. In fact, I want to erect a big statue of him, something deliberately over the top and in bad taste. Like how Dante wrote his political enemies into Hell.

      Think of the classical paintings and statues of St. Michael casting Satan into Hell.

      I want to crowd fund a big bronze statue like this. Except Luigi is St. Michael and Thompson is Satan. Thompson can be holding a scroll that reads “delay deny depose.”

      I say we put a gaudy statue like this somewhere near United Healthcare’s headquarters in Minnesota. Just this classical bronze of their former CEO as the Devil himself, being thrown into literal Hell by St. Luigi of Boston. Make them drive past the damn thing every day on the way to the office.

      The dedication on the plinth can read “In Memory of St. Luigi of Boston. Tear down this monument when Americans no longer die from lack of healthcare.”

      The bastards want to make him a martyr? I say we make him a SAINT.

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        Dope illustration. Change the faces. Change the sword to a homemade silenced ghost gun and change whatever’s being scattered by Michael into pills.

        Edit- looked closer- change the chains held by Michael into him scattering pills and money.

        It’s the start of an idea. I’m no artist somebody run and do it!

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          Yeah there would be a lot of opportunity for interpretation. Realistically you would raise funds and accept proposals from artists. But I do love the over the top classical imagery.

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            We’re the people and I was hoping to inspire someone to make art for the people instead of for money. I wasn’t suggesting someone go get on making a statue!

            But I get it, being an artist is hard as fuck for many reasons, one of which is everyone wants you to work for free.

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        I want to crowd fund a big bronze statue like this. Except Luigi is St. Michael and Thompson is Satan.

        I’d pitch in for it.

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        Trump’s obsession with Hannibal is a thousand times funnier when you realize it’s because he doesn’t know the difference being political asylum and a mental asylum.

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    I saw this on the news and honestly wondered how many cops are required for this prisoner transfer? Because all those people are getting paid to walk a guy past cameras, and they’re probably all getting paid more than me, and there’s SO many of them

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      “Ah, yep, absolutely doing work here. Work, work, work. Dangerous work. Don’t defund us and here’s the evidence to support why.”

      • Multiple U.S. Police Departments Probably
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      Probably overtime for all of them too. These low IQ “heroes” all have boats and RVs which arent going to pay for themselves.

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        Yeah the brownshirts get perks to make them feel better than the proletariat. They rub elbows with the bourgeoisie, and occasionally with the oligarchs, making them feel like part of the in-group. Meanwhile the bourgie think of them as disgusting necessary idiots and the oligarchs think of them as filthy trained dogs.

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      That’s what bothers me. The government is like ‘the memes about him aren’t true, he’s nothing special. It’s just murder’

      Then they turn around and prosecute saying ‘this isn’t just murder! Look at all the memes! This needs to be enforced like the special event it is’

      You can’t have your cake and eat it too. The judicial branch has been downplaying it as a simple murder. One man mad at another man. Nothing more. Cool. Then prosecute it as such.

      The inconsistent words jeopardize the faith in the system. Neo Nazi lynches a man to prove a point to an entire race that they are not safe… Murder, not terrorism.

      Guy kills a CEO over his personal issues with treatment with no master plan or manifesto? That’s a terrorist?

      The public needs consistency or we lose trust in the system.

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        Guy kills a CEO over his personal issues with treatment with no master plan or manifesto? That’s a terrorist?

        Assuming the evidence found is legit and Luigi is the shooter, this is false. He never had UHC and he appeared to target them because they’re the biggest and deny the most.

        The issue is the terrorism charge is about government not private business so the government is telling on itself that it considers private business to be one in the same.

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          Exactly what I was about to say. Just when dude was ready to do the righteous thing, instead of punishing his personal persecutor, he piles pellets into the public’s prolific plan provider.