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Unfortunately for many of us Americans, there is a substantial contingent of our government that would really like to do away with public schools.

It's far more well resourced, focused, managed, and targeted. A state sponsored gang is always going to be much scarier than one that emerges on its own funded only by the revenue of its actions.

They want to punish him harder than the law would allow so they're charging him with something he clearly didn't do? Am I understanding that correctly?

There are plenty of weird laws out there, but if the state is going to pull tricks like this, then do the laws mean anything or are they just weapons to be redefined at will?

That's true but the way that a federal jury works is very different.

It allows them to choose people from outside of the area in which the crime occurred.

Making it a federal trial jury instead of a state trial jury allows them to charge this single murder against an individual perpetrated by another individual who made no public statement with a much more severe crime than the state laws that he broke would normally allow.

It's also important to note that making it a federal trial makes it less public as there will be no cameras allowed. They don't want him tried in the state of New York because that could legally be televised which is a bad look when you've already got judicial homicide lined up and the trial is purely performative.

Being that they can choose people from all over and that the process of jury selection is even more opaque at the federal level they can make sure there won't be any nullification issues.

The way they are treating Luigi whether or not he's guilty indicates that it's not relevant whether or not he's guilty. They legitimately don't care, this is about sending a message that the poors don't get to fight back.

They charged him with terrorism so a regular jury won't get to make that decision. It will be a federal grand jury of selected stooges, and maybe even a secret court.

Did someone suggest we do that?

Is someone here in this thread suggesting that we should force the entire country further to the right and allow a dictator to return to power?

Did you maybe mean to reply to somebody else?

The solution to America's problems won't materialize if we magically criticize Donald Trump and the Republicans hard enough. There's no magic words we're going to say that are going to change those people. Instead, I would suggest that conversations about criticism of the opposition be separated from conversations about criticism of 'our team'.

The Republicans aren't to blame for the faults in Democrats, and the Democrats are not to blame for the faults in Republicans. The major political parties have plenty of faults and some of those faults they have in common, but they are distinctly different in a number of important ways.

The Republican party can't help America improve. It's not just that the system is rigged against the little guy it's that Republicans don't want to help the little guy. They want to squeeze him harder. The cruelty is the point.

The Democratic party can't help America improve. The system is rigged against the little guy, but literally anybody who wants to try and help the little guy has to come here to this party to make that attempt because the party is at least hospitable to the concept.

The stumbling block of the left is not Donald Trump. He's a symptom of our problem. Our problem is people like Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein who are pathologically incapable of cooperating with anyone to the left of Reagan.

You don't get Donald Trump if you promote Bernie. You don't get Donald Trump if you have real primaries, let the people pick the candidates, and create a pipeline to put rising Stars into leadership positions.

I'm really worried that the deadweight at the top of the party is literally willing to sacrifice democracy to fascists rather than give one inch to progressives.

No response to "Democrats ran a shit candidate who didn't even mention healthcare or taxing the rich, and never won a primary " involves the words 'Trump', 'putin', 'nazi', or 'republicans'.

Donald Trump isn't the problem. The problem isnt that donald trump is so attractive or that the voters are so stupid. That's like blaming fire for drawing an audience or being mad that ice is slippery.

The problem is that Democrats don't want to win if it means a progressive agenda. The function of the Democratic party is to mollify progressives and help ratchet us to the right by providing a fig leaf for the same owner class that does almost all the donating to politics and is literally driving the legislative and judicial agenda of the GOP.

This God fella and his pharaoh lacky need to be deposed it seems.

They are clearly unqualified for the important job of being in charge.

It's like one third as much CO2 as a single container ship on the low end of container ship emissions and comparable to Facebook if you only count Facebook and not the metaverse, Instagram, Whatsapp or anything else Facebook owns and only if you believe the numbers published by Facebook.

The critical hit captured live on national television looked like a cutscene from a new fallout game.

Zucks passing dominates the new cycle for almost 10 minutes before the enthusiasm about a new fallout game completely overshadows him.

A few years later no one's ever heard the name Zuckerberg outside of memes about that one oligarch who got melted by the space aliens shortly after first contact.

It turns out he's the reason they came here, "You can't let those things get established on your planet, clearly your people didn't notice but that wasn't a human. That creature was a mimic and it would have consumed you all if you let it. We're going to station a few folks here in case another one shows up... and you got to clean this place up it's a mess down here. "

Seems more like a live by the sword die by the sword kind of thing. Luigi absolutely should be arrested. Luigi should absolutely be prosecuted. A jury of his peers should absolutely give them a Westworld verdict, "doesn't look like anything to me".

I think that would send a powerful message that the rank and file American public is willing to guillotine a few CEOs if that's what it takes to fix this problem.

I don't care if his job was legal. I don't care if The law is on his side. I just don't care. The law allows people to deny care using an unthinking machine that can't be held responsible all in the pursuit of keeping the money that was paid to the company to provide that care.

Nope, I'm sorry. If you want a recipe for how to be unpersoned, there you go. If we don't call what soldiers do on the battlefield murder I'm going to have a tough time calling this murder.

If using violence to create fear to affect political change makes someone a terrorist, and we wish to apply that definition here, then there must first be examples made of the authority that wishes to impose such judgment. Authority without competence and oversight is just tyranny. The British called the minutemen barbarians, The United States calls its secret police undercover officers or plain clothes detectives. Word games like this start to fall apart when they face any serious scrutiny.

Either that definition of terrorism is overly broad and would include everything from the police in the United States to our "shock and awe" campaigns abroad. Either that or the difference is not that he "used violence to create fear to affect political change" but that his violence did not come as the official order of a government that is allowed to use violence to create fear to affect political change.

If they try this guy like a terrorist then the country should rightfully riot. The appropriate response would be rebellion on a grand scale.

Yet getting hernia corrected is $16,000. $900 barely pays the rent for a month anywhere in the country.

When the cost of living is so high the cost of dying needs to be levied on the ones responsible.

I hope people take to generally withholding human decency from these executives.

This can be an addition to whatever other more invasive measures people might have planned.

Examples:

Instead of holding the door for one of them when you walk through, push the door back into their face and hold it there for a few seconds, Make eye contact like you're looking at an unruly teenager literally covered in shit. It's not illegal it's just rude and upsetting.

Don't put any condiments or napkins or anything like that into their to-go containers. If possible omit any packaging at all. Make them request each specific plastic fork and napkin, do your best to soil all of it.

If you recognize one of them in public, point and yell, "This person works for a death panel and helps ensure Americans die prematurely."

Don't refer to the most HMO CEOs or healthcare CEOs, just call them death panelists, or death panel CEO.

Of course I would never discourage violence against purveyors of human misery, but if you're too explicitly willing to fight back in the ongoing class war you will be de-platformed and treated as if you are an actual terrorist.

If, on the other hand, you wanted to say that Brian Thompson should have gone on living and been allowed to kill as many people as the law would let him then you're perfectly okay and standing on solid ground.

Using AI driven software is willful negligence. Software can't take responsibility so the human operating it needs to take responsibility for the consequences of it. They took down the entire thing they need to face consequences. The hosting provider should also face consequences for overly broad responses to take down requests.

More like " if you are going to be a public nuisance, don't be surprised when plucky adventurers show up to confront you."

Yes, of course he must be prosecuted if he can be found. As a member of the general population I feel as though it's possible that a jury wouldn't convict him and could even find him not guilty. Then he is a free man.

Until his identity is known I shall call him Attaboy Goodman, and if a jury were to convene with me on it, I would be unlikely to take seriously any claim by the state that this vigilantism is somehow more destructive of public order than police murdering and robbing people while ignoring wage theft and corporate crimes.

Oh I recognize that guy, that's Attaboy Goodman!

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