very_well_lost @ very_well_lost @lemmy.world

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Oh good... just in time for Trump to take over and declare war on birds.

I suspect Merrick Garland is about to find out just how political the DOJ can be...

🎶 One hundred and ninety nine bugs in the code, one hundred and ninety nine bugs! 🎶

🎶 *You take one down, patch it around, six hundred and forty-eight bugs in the code!*🎶

This should really be illegal under the sixth amendment which is supposed to guarantee a speedy trial.

Very well said.

Cynicism is just another name for consent.

Bad news? It's only bad news if he gives as shit, and clearly he does not.

2016 called, it wants its headline back.

Yay...!

quietly sobs

Sadly for every Manchin and Sinema we lose, we gain a Fetterman.

Neoliberalism needs to just hurry up and die already so we can build an actual labor party in America.

Sounds like they overpaid... Haven't they heard they can just donate $1 million to his inaugural fund like all the other oligarchs are doing?

Honestly, I think even that is being too generous.

Really? Dude seems like a pro to me.

He has 30+ years of criminal defense experience, and clearly has some media training (which let's face it, that's going to be critical in this case in particular).

The guy has even successfully appealed the PA supreme court. What more are you looking for in a defense lawyer, exactly?

Who exactly do you think voted for Trump? lmao

What the fuck?

The thing is, most people aren't celebrating this as "murder", they're celebrating it as self-defense.

Imagine someone walks into your home and starts waving a gun around, threatening to kill your kids. It's completely uncontroversial that in that situation, you have a right (perhaps even an obligation) to defend yourself and anyone else in immediate danger.

Now imagine instead you're in a hospital room, and your kid has an autoimmune disease that's shredded their lungs. A ventilator is the only thing keeping them alive while they wait for a lung transplant. The same guy comes in, but instead of waving a gun around he says he's going to unhook the ventilator. Why is this different? Why do you have a right to defense in one situation and not the other? Sure, CEOs aren't literally walking into hospital rooms and pulling plugs, but Charles Manson didn't walk into homes killing people and we all agree he deserved to be convicted of murder. They're directing subordinates and directing systems to kill people, on purpose.

The working class is under siege by people who are willing to sacrifice our lives in the interest of corporate profits. We have a right to defend ourselves.

In all fairness, those pictures are what, eight days old at this point? I'm willing to bet Luigi hasn't had a whole lot of opportunity to pluck his brows since then.

To paraphrase George Carlin: they call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

I wouldn't take a "not guilty" plea as evidence of much.

Pleading "not guilty" is the only way to get in front of a jury, which is probably the best chance he has at this point — both in terms of staying out of jail and in terms of boosting his message.

A trial will inevitably become a media circus, and a media circus is great if your goal is bringing attention to your particular ideology.

Here we see the illusive pedant in its natural habitat

Here we see the illusive billionaire in its natural habitat