• NoiseColor
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    1612 months ago

    Bizzare. Americans are seriously crazy. It’s a monarchy really, it’s so in your face, like a bad comedy.

    • @Ilandar@lemm.ee
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      142 months ago

      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).

    • @InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
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      No, it’s just that the south hates everything about the rest of America, and have done since we took their slaves away

      They support anything that hurts everyone else, or as they call it: ‘Owning the libs’.

    • @RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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      262 months ago

      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.

    • @Podunk@lemmy.world
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      82 months ago

      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.

    • @AJ1@lemmy.ca
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      52 months ago

      You want martyrs??

      I mean, yeah that’d be cool. What else do we have at this point

  • @Formfiller@lemmy.world
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    532 months ago

    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

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      My current tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory is that’s exactly what they’re banking on. They’ll draw the trial out until right before the midterm election… Then Trump will use the resulting riots to declare martial law and cancel the upcoming midterms, so he doesn’t lose control of congress. After he has cancelled the election, he’ll make a final push to clean house, and will start ousting liberal congress members by accusing them of being riot conspirators.

      The Mangione Riots will be Trump’s Reichstag Fire.

  • @Ksin@lemmy.world
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    412 months ago

    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.

    • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      242 months ago

      Yeah there’s no better reason to use jury nullification than when government wants to kill a guy for political reasons.

    • @InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
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      52 months ago

      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.

  • Tomtits
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    152 months ago

    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

      • @wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml
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        62 months ago

        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 :/

          • @Ilandar@lemm.ee
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            12 months ago

            Ah yes, the “different nose” which is mostly obscured in the top photos and has a giant red circle covering it in the bottom photo.

              • @Ilandar@lemm.ee
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                02 months ago

                Ah, so the monobrow photo is after the security cam photos. How interesting that you tried to avoid telling me this the first time around.

  • Cid Vicious
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    132 months ago

    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).

    • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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      62 months ago

      The previous administration probably wouldn’t take on a random murder case just because the victim was rich.

      • Cid Vicious
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        82 months ago

        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.

    • .Donuts
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      32 months ago

      Can you imagine Merrick Garland saying this?

      Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America,"

      “After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.”

      • Cid Vicious
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        212 months ago

        Not sure how you figure that. Trump is not exactly hands off with the Justice Department.

  • @KarlHungus42@lemmy.world
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    122 months ago

    Seems very short-sighted on their part. They’ve made the penalty for taking out 1 the same as taking out 100. They’ve also highlighted the disparity between punishments for crimes against average people vs the rich and powerful.

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    There’s a guy who killed 23 people in a Walmart in El Passo in 2022. Got charged with hate crimes on account of…he’s openly racist and said that’s why he did it.

    That guy just got a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.

    Nobody should identify the criminal justice system in America as anything else but a mechanism for protecting the rich.