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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 97 points 4 months ago

If the courts had intervened to stop Brian Thompson before his healthcare murder spree then maybe Luigi wouldn't be being prosecuted right now. This trial isnt about luigi, its about covering up the chain of political failures that led us here.

[-] Spaniard@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A single death is a tragedy; A million deaths is a statistic.

Luigi killed a dad, husband, ceo, etc, etc etc.

Brian just inflated some numbers...

I hate how the world works.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is record profits for a health insurance company

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 77 points 4 months ago

Love to see it

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 71 points 4 months ago

I have it on good authority from my son that Luigi was in a haunted mansion that day.

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 56 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The real uplifting news is bootlickers getting kicked in their metaphorical shins in the comment section.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I'd lick a boot if they payed enough, but they're not. I get that other people are worse off than me, but seriously, what the fuck? The current regime isn't paying. period. I'm angry and I don't know what to do with it.

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What makes a bootlicker is that they continue to lick the boot even when it isn't paying off in the slightest.

But you are right, there is no longer any reward for participating in society. The wealthy have forgotten fear.

Life under Capitalism was better while there was a sizable Communist bloc on the other side of the world. The fear that the commoners might wake up and make their voices heard by force of violence resulted in all manner of concessions. Unions were stronger, public services were estabilished, workers' rights were signed into law. Then the Soviets showed weakness in the eighties, and the Capitalist class was quick to invent Neoliberalism and begin the slow but assured gutting of all those concessions. While manufacturing consent through the media and convincing people that this was what they actually wanted.

Now we see the end result.

As for what to do about it, I don't fucking know either. Because the only thing that is known to work would require a mass movement of a size that I don't think even can be achieved nowadays. Society is too fragmented. People are too propagandised.

I have basically embraced doomer hedonism. Life will not get better, so I make a point to just enjoy myself as much as possible, I have no intention of breeding more slaves for their flesh-mill, and I personally hope to die young. (to a definition of young anyway, I'm this close to being legally considered 'middle aged')

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[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 53 points 4 months ago

Gonna wanna see the source code on that "Pray" button. I don't think it actually does anything.

[-] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 25 points 4 months ago

on desktop the button has a counter for how many people have pressed it, so it does something :)

[-] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

Holy crap! Do we now have the technology to quantify thoughts and prayers?

[-] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 12 points 4 months ago

we have the technology!

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[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 4 months ago
[-] Meowie_Gamer@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Luigi's Mansion 2

[-] Fitik@fedia.io 15 points 4 months ago

How a 30k donation to a murderer counts as "uplifting news"? If anything it's depressing

Innocent until proven guilty.

Before we engage in name calling for this suspect, know that yesterday was blatantly clear the system is stacked against him to the point where the courts did not Los him to go into PA for another legal procedure.

See the thing here is that they were giving evidence even to MAX for the documentary and not his legal team, who correctly called some of the evidence inadmissible in court.

So before you feel like calling him a murderer see. The facts and wait for the events to unfold.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago

You have evidence he murdered someone? Why haven't you told anyone?!

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

How's that boot taste?

[-] alliswell33@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 4 months ago

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[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

He didn’t murder anyone.

[-] tastetheplague@sh.itjust.works 28 points 4 months ago

Oh, go lick a boot, dweeb.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why are you lying? Nobody's been convicted of murder.

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 23 points 4 months ago

It’s the best news all day, go back to Reddit corporate shill

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 months ago

You're asleep at the wheel.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

this is like saying donating to a guy who killed someone actively killing others is never uplifting news. Sure leave the school shooters alone

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

The donation doesn't go to a CEO who has murdered hundreds, possibly thousands of people.

It is going to someone who acted in defense of others. Or who might not be the person who even did that, which is why he deserves a fair trial.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago

They're saying that they find due process to be lacking and the prosecution to be political.
Do you think it's depressing that someone would donate money to the defense of someone they think is being inappropriately prosecuted?
If you think they're guilty, you should still want them to get the best defense possible, so that when they're found guilty it's airtight. Our justice system is based on an adversarial model. If the prosecution, with the resources of the state, can't successfully argue that they did it and that their arrest and all procedures were properly followed, do you really want that to still mean someone faces the death penalty?

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[-] ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Taking out the leader of an evil (corpo) empire is heroism, not subject to murder charges.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't want to dampen the good mood, but even if this is sent anonymously, is there any risk of the information of who is the donor being hacked, especially by corporate overlords who have every incentive to see Luigi and his supporters get punished?

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

What does this mean, exactly? More resources to hire more lawyers or something?

[-] liquidthex@reddthat.com 9 points 4 months ago

When the government fails to protect us, and corporations won't protect us, we must take it upon ourselves to engage in self defense. Luigi did nothing wrong.

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