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[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 419 points 1 week 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 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

outrage*

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

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It's a pharmaceutical company. They're no saints, but it's disingenuous to compare them to people who take money and provide nothing but a rubber stamp.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 28 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Did everyone forget about scumbag Martin Shkreli who raised medication prices for no reason other than he wanted more money?

"In September 2015, Shkreli was widely criticized when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price to insurance companies from $13.50 to $750.00 (USD) per pill."

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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 262 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're certainly not being subtle with the class warfare

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 194 points 1 week 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 1 week 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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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 185 points 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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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[–] mercphilby@discuss.online 175 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s definitely a conflict of interest.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 113 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

As Clarence Thomas has proved.

(Sack of shit.)

[–] mercphilby@discuss.online 33 points 1 week ago

As judges always do…

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

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

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 151 points 1 week 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.

[–] poo@lemmy.world 121 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Rich people being shot means nature is healing ❤️

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

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

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 105 points 1 week ago

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

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 93 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ovalofsand@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We are in the second Gilded Age

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago

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

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago

Can't help but be biased here. The facts fit too well. Remember, bias has to do with the perception of poor judgment. We don't need to gamble on it.

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

Doesn't seem like a conflict of interest /s

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[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 47 points 1 week 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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[–] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 1 week ago

This judge needs to recuse themselves from the case.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Yikes. Incredibly messed up.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 31 points 1 week ago

Once against proving we have a two tiered justice system.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Definitely good reason to get them swapped out for a different judge but are they going to oversee the whole trial or just the pretrial?

Also, they were an executive at Pfizer, not an insurance firm.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pfizer isn't exactly in the good graces of the public either.

For profit healthcare is the problem. It's not the doctors, or nurses, or phlebotomists, or pharmacists that are trying to save lives. It's the people who handle the money fucking around with people's lives so they can make more.

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Kill her husband? Send a message?

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's the magistrate judge doing the pretrial hearings, not the trial judge. Not great, but not quite as outrageous.

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