• OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
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    “Prosecutors say Charles Manson is inspiring others to violence” was never a thing even though it was probably easier to support because they had a solid case with real evidence to put Charles Manson in the slammer.

    This fishing trip about character looks weak

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      Cops couldn’t afford to look incompetent. So they did the usual thing and picked a convenient sap to pin it on.

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        Honestly, the best argument for his guilt is that he seems a rather inconvenient sap. He has rich parents who can help him pay for representation, he’s charismatic and attractive, and he’s overall a pretty sympathetic figure. Pinning it on some poor, crude guy seems easier.

        The eyebrows and the world’s most suspicious manifesto are definitely not compelling, though.

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          Well, they had to pick someone who at least plausibly looked like the shooter.

          Nose is wrong though, too.

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    Pushing for the death penalty while simultaneously claiming he’s “inspiring others to violence” certainly is a choice. Oblivious to the high likelihood only making him a martyr to a lot of people. A good reminder of just how utterly unimpressive our elites rulers are.

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      Prosecutor: We believe the defendant is inspiring others to violence.

      Judge: That is a serious allegation. You must be able to provide at least one example.

      Prosecutor: Of course your honor. We feel inspired to kill the defendant and will be seeking the death penalty in this case.

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      also labeling as a terrorist, even if they arnt going to charge him as such. they are trying to overcharge to see what sticks , its a common tactic .

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      Oh they are 100% going to find a reason to kill Luigi. The trial will be for show. They are probably talking to Hollywood directors right now trying to figure out how the trial should look.

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    Luigi isn’t inspiring anyone

    CEOs are awesome at inspiring people to murder CEOs

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      Exactly.

      It is the CEOs and politicians themselves who are impacting people’s lives, not the odd retribution act. That’s just the result of it.

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      I have extremely violent fantasies about the leadership of several countries and corporations. That list grows weekly. Luigi did not cause them; he expressed what I already felt and thought, that basically the only way any of us will see justice done is by taking it into our own hands and being prepared to kill the capitalist class and its enablers

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      The cops are inspiring it too by demonstrating the only justice that Americans can get is vigilante justice. We are on the cusp of a French-style social recalibration.

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        What’s funny is that the same cops are inspiring copycat² weebs (who cosplays a cosplayer?) to receive violence from those that they, in turn, have inspired to act

        (bonus: only the latter was in accordance with their local ordinances and rights.) 🤣

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    No - a corrupt and malevolent system that provides grotesque and entirely undeserved privilege for a sociopathic few at the expense of the many is inspiring violence.

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    Insurance companies purposefully putting bureaucratic delays and hurdles in the way of their dying customers getting life-saving treatments in order to generate record profits, essentially letting their customers die to avoid paying for their treatment, is what has, and will normalize violent acts.

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    sure daddy… nobody is buying this fake news.

    if you got a case, prove it, bitch

    this prosecutor is pathetic. there is not single dead ceo since perp did the good work.

    wtf is it talking about?