• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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    51 minutes ago

    Need to get him out of there ASAP. Hopefully the inmates got his back so the guards don’t get him 1 on 1

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        Scenario where legal team is able to pull something off:

        Brave man gets best legal defense imaginable because of donations

        Gets off or small sentence

        Shows crazy people and billionaires this could happen again and people will help the suspect out

        ???

        More progress is made.

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          This reminds me of the fine Lemming that keeps posting something like “Things will not improve until the rich meaningfully fear for their lives”

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          Luigi’s family Father is Rich

          Luigi made 6 figures with his tech job and his multiple ivy league engineering degrees

          A lot of these fundraisers probably dont even end up used for his defense, some are scams

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    I know it’s exited the news cycle, but I still remember this was a big thing for the left and right to both agree on supporting. I’d very much like to prompt Trump for his opinion on the man to force him to take a side.

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          I bet more cops and bootlickers agree with you than not. My stance doesn’t promote any authority at all, it’s as simple as “pointless murder is wrong, doesn’t help us”.

          EDIT: BTW that user is a fucking Tankie so it’s extra ironic.

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            Luigi’s assassination absolutely had a point, and had immediate results in BCBS rescinding/delaying their plan to cut anesthesia allowance for people during surgery. Luigi directly saved thousands of people from unnecessary suffering with just one targeted attack. Imagine what a more widespread action could accomplish.

            I’m betting you’re a cop. You’ve got the same blind loyalty to the law, paired with a lack of moral compass.

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              BCBS announced those changed before the assassination, they also stopped suing over medical debts the year prior, got any others?

              Also, even if Luigi did somehow change that and not the countless other people including the governor going after them in court and on social media for the year prior, it would have saved people from potential debt, not death and not certain debt.

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                  Ah wait hang on wrong link, 1 moment

                  Theres like a million articles talking about this story after UHC happened so it’s taking a minute

                  GOT IT! https://www.rochesterfirst.com/new-york-state/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-to-cap-anesthesia-coverage-after-certain-time-frame/

                  It was published Dec 4th talking about “last thursday” which would be Nov 28th!

                  Ah but the article was updated on the 6th…

                  You know what, I might have been misinformed about this, it’s possible that the changes took place on Dec 5th, all the paperwork being written up, board meetings held, and filed less than 24 hours after the assassination, although I still doubt Luigi had as much to do with it as the Governor saying “Outrageous. I’m going to make sure New Yorkers are protected" just before that. And also those bad policy changes were announced in late 2023 or January 2024 but also never implemented due to criticism they received then as well.

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            I agree that cops have no place here. If They wanna lick boots and circlejerk eachother about how just their unjust system is they can go to reddit or Twitter.

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      And thus the lord said: “Get really pissed off reading books and news, then kill people you’ve never met before instead of doing literally anything else to actually change the system that causes the problems you were angry about in the first place” Amen.

      EDIT: /s is mandatory

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      There is absolutely no way. That jury is going to be tampered with more than any you’ve ever seen in history.

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      Aside from the nullification and hung jurys, there’s a good chance for a mistrial from them parading him around and letting everyone in the US know he fought for them.

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      I’m not good at law but I have heard from people smarter than me that there are chances for at least a hung jury (I think could be retried) and there’s also another option called jury nullification, where the jury essentially says, “yeah we know he is guilty but we don’t agree with the law in this case” and acquits.

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      No. He’s going to die in prison. I’m not happy about that fact. I’m just telling the truth. Just like there’s zero chance Charles Manson ever gets out. There’s zero chance Luigi gets out.

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    19 hours ago

    Then slowed… then surged… then slowed… then surged… then slowed… then they had some orange juice and a muffin… and now they’re surging again.

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    I think by now we can all verify there were no positive impacts from what Luigi did, so there is absolutely no benefit to funding his legal defence: it’s just throwing money away to scammers and lawyers that his rich family could already afford anyways.

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      There might be more Luigi, if people know they will have their lawyers funded. Then things can change.

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        I mean if a drone can take out a firefighting plane, why not a corporate jet? You don’t need 1000 Luigis. You just need need 1000 people who can follow through on a plan that will make the wealthy afraid.

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            DC has a lot of sewers. Would be a shame if it backed up.

            Strikes that ground airplanes also have historically caused congress to cave.

            Closing car roads in favor of pedestrian only streets also make it harder for police and rich people to fuck with people. Part of being rich is security caravans. Reducing motor vehicle access makes rich people feel less safe. Consider lobbying local politicians for more walkways and removing unnecessary thru streets.

            There are a number of wealthy communites. They have infrastructure going to them. You can legally file complaints about that infrastructure. As well as other things.

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        Things didn’t change with 1 Luigi, won’t change with 10, would hardly change with 100, and you’ll never get 1000.

        1 Luigi could have made real change by participating in politics, instead he threw away his life and his rich boy education. The money in his backpack when he was caught alone could have completely changed people’s lives instead of buying a margarita machine for the precinct.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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          You have to have a good education to realize how fucked we are.

          I listened to a clip a minute ago on the radio of dumbass Trump and his dumbass supporters from the show he made on inauguration day, signing orders, and the one withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord stuck out to me. “Could you imagine Biden doing this?” Raucous applause. “This is going to save $1,000,000,000,000.” Raucous applause.

          No, I could not imagine Biden doing it, because it’s fucking idiotic. The world is burning. The air is turning to poison. Only cutting greenhouse emissions in half will provide any hope of anything resembling social stability over the next several decades and the only way to do that is to reign in the dozens of corporate poluters who are responsible for such desolation. It will save a trillion dollars for corporations, which savings they will absolutely not pass on to Trump’s gullible, stupid supporters, but in fact they will use to live lifestyles marked by even more greenhouse emissions, yachts and air travel. Even the capitalists who are self aware enough to see what’s coming will use their savings to build lavish prepper bunkers and hoard medical technology. When shit hits the fan, and MAGA rubes are chanting “let us in” outside the bunker while wild fires close in, maybe as they suffocate and burn to death they will realize they should have done more.

          One good looking kid with an education going into politics isn’t going to overcome the power structures that have these donkeys cheering wildly for the missteps towards their own demise. You have to have the education to know that we are past that. Their kids will be dying of small pox, and they’ll still be blaming their grief and anger on the woke left and diversity, equality, and inclusiveness, on immigrants and the unhoused. The oligarchs own the government and the media. Only the people at large can depose them, one by one. We have all these mass shooters looking for infamy, maybe after Luigi they will see they can get actual fame, adoration, if they choose a culpable target instead of rooms full of innocent kids.

          I think that’s what Luigi’s supporters are saying.

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            I can pretty much guarantee you most of Luigi’s supporters are not the most educated bunch.

            One kid with an education going into politics does a hell of a lot more than one random murder that makes the board of a random company play musical chairs for a few minutes.

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      i’ll bet if you knew that making these posts put your life in imminent danger, you’d stop making them.

      see how that works?

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      A ratfucking healthcare CEO whose killed far more people with his greed and indifference to human suffering was erased from this planet.

      I see that as a net postive.

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        A ratfucking healthcare CEO that pushed a few people into debt while redistributing wealth for covering the healthcare costs of a very large majority of planholders.

        Who was immediately replaced by another healthcare CEO doing the exact same thing.

        I see that as nothing but 1 more corpse on the pile.

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            Nobody has any real numbers. Some people say UHC denies 30% of claims, KFF say UHC denied 17% of costs, NyTimes say they denied more private care than medicaid plans, and the exact costs of the denied claims per person is completely unknown.

            UHC is worse than the competition, but they’re still worse today and nothing is improving.