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[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

that judge will be a biased pos. it is unavoidable with his relationships. this is the wrong judge if you want true justice.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 151 points 5 days ago

There were 24,849 homicides in 2022.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

Almost none of them, if any, likely required a nationwide manhunt.

Not one of them required an escort of 30 police officers plus a helicopter to the courtroom.

As far as I can tell, none of them were charged with terrorism.

And now he's getting as biased a judge as he could possibly get.

If we're going to start charging murderers with terrorism, let's start with the cops.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I guess conflicts of interest just aren't a thing anymore.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Nothing to be avoided anymore. Something to seek out.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 418 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Country wide outage at the corruption involved with the health insurance

Health insurance industry: we can make it worse

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

outrage*

Also, not an insurance company. He worked for Pfizer.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago (15 children)

Pfizer is a med company. They negotiate with insurance. They work together to fuck us over.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 194 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I knew they were going to try him in a kangaroo court, I just didn't think they'd be this obvious about it.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 85 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The justice system probably assigned the judge randomly. It's just finding a judge without wealth is impossible ... which in and of itself is a problem.

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[–] Juigi@lemm.ee 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

America can you not be corrupt for one single moment please

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 78 points 5 days ago

you people clearly don't know what you are talking about. "conflict of interest" only happens if it conflicts the interests of billionaires

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 261 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They're certainly not being subtle with the class warfare

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[–] mercphilby@discuss.online 175 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That’s definitely a conflict of interest.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 113 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm sure the judge will recuse themselves to avoid any appearance of impropriety... ^/s^

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 5 days ago

As Clarence Thomas has proved.

(Sack of shit.)

[–] mercphilby@discuss.online 33 points 5 days ago

As judges always do…

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 185 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.

I need the bootlickers to show up and tell me it's just coincidence.

The whole damn thing is a show. They are terrified. The book they usually play by isn't working. What will happen? The amount of support Luigi has is astounding. It's even a topic I tested the waters with at work and these people I work with make a decent living.

America is waking up. I feel it.

[–] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 77 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 63 points 5 days ago

That's literally what it's taken in the past. It took the fear of communism to really get unionization accepted in the US. In other eras it's taken the threat of invasion by external powers.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 days ago (14 children)

I genuinely think that they'll have a hard time finding an impartial jury.... I think that at this point, pretty much anyone who doesn't live under a rock has heard of him and has an opinion on whether he should be found guilty.

Regardless of which way you fall on that particular topic, you're biased, and that would exclude you from serving on the jury.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

I thought the same thing about the Trump trial, but they legitimately turned over rocks and found the most oblivious Americans living under them. There are evidently tons of people out there living in their own little bubble, completely untethered from the news media or even just casual conversations with strangers and probably have no idea who Luigi is right now. The news might not be able to reach them, but a jury summons from the state can, and the prosecution is going to hunt for these individuals specifically.

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[–] resetbypeer@lemmy.world 172 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A certain fair and unbiased trial he's getting..../s

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[–] poo@lemmy.world 121 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Rich people being shot means nature is healing ❤️

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This should be an automatic forced recusal.

But it wont be, because the billionaires and CEOs are scared, and don't care about the appearance of propriety. They want Luigi sacrificed on an altar to instill fear and intimidation into those that might follow his example.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Luigi's lawyer can (and will?) push for a different judge. I know the justice system in the US sucks but if you don't even give a chance to the rules it'll never be able to do anything right

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

the CEOs control the DOJ.

Only way hes getting a fair trial is if the jury is made up of people who have pointlessly lost loved ones not to disease, but to health insurance companies saying treating the disease was too costly and denying it.

Which wont happen. They won;t let anyone that has anything even remotely negative about health insurance or millionaires become a juror

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 52 points 5 days ago (3 children)
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[–] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 5 days ago

This judge needs to recuse themselves from the case.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 105 points 5 days ago

This is the sort of thing judges are supposed to recuse themselves over.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Remember remember!

The 4th of December

A CEO dies all alone;

On the street he was lain,

cold, pale and in pain,

thousands of deaths that he own.

The decisions he'd struck,

Layers removed from the slaughter,

Were a shareholder's treat,

Your dead mother or daughter.

Those investors all wait, on that cold winter morn,

Still unawares of profit potential they'd mourn,

Poking at hotel breakfast, bored looks on their face

As was Brian's when he denied and delayed at great pace

Endless growth, deposed, on behalf of us all

Luigi didn't do it, we were hiking in Nepal.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 113 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Surely she’ll do the right thing and recuse herself from the case.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 46 points 5 days ago

She won't, and don't call her Shirley!

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 93 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"conflict of interest" was old speak from the dark ages.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 75 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I would think it might be excusable if this were a straight-up murder charge, which is mostly facts and evidence based. However, if they're charging him with terrorism, which is much more subjective, doesn't that make this a serious conflict of interest?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago

No. It's inexcusable. Even if he pooped on her lawn she should have no right to be legally judging him.

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[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 72 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't seem like a conflict of interest /s

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Justice for Luigi is going to sail away with Judge parker at the helm.

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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 52 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 47 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I’m going to nitpick here. The main reference for this Yahoo/daily Beast article is OP. That’s not corroborating.

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 14 points 4 days ago (33 children)

Say what you can about communism, but you clearly see that capitalism is so much worse.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (6 children)

lol and I say this as someone who grew up in Soviet occupied eastern europe. Trust me, there are very few systems worse than communism, well at least, that version of it.

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Kill her husband? Send a message?

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