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[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 45 points 3 days ago

Sounds like Luigi's perceived actions created jobs and fostered better health for the community at large.

Someone put this man in government

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 312 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Oof he isn’t convicted but the media isn’t saying “allegedly” in headlines for him. Shows how they’re trying to sway public opinion.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 118 points 4 days ago

Defense has brought it up multiple times already, it's biasing the jury pool

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days ago

Was it supposed to be a direct quote from the DA? Even if so, it shouldn’t be in the headline.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Public opinion is already swayed. Luigi Mangione has become a symbol to a lot of people and as such the super-rich want to punish him.

I bet they are more scared of the symbol than they are of the thought that Mangione is innocent and the real shooter might still be free and plotting another hit.

The "real shooter" would only be one person, but a symbol has the power to create 10 or 100 more or to spark a violent rebellion and that they can't let happen.

Innocent or not, it's unfortunately Luigi Mangione they need punished in the most horrific and exemplar way possible.

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's actually very surprising - it starts with "DA says" which is presumably their defamation defense, but usually the lawyers wouldn't let that pass.

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[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

40x~$75$/hr = $3000/hr they're willing to spend instead of giving you insurance you paid for

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Apparently they did start approving more right after it. And now they are getting sued by blackrock, a majority shareholder, for hurting profits. As much as I dislike these CEOs, the system breeds them to be this way. And there will always be more to take thier place. But holding them accountable will also mean that doing the right thing becomes good for the shareholders.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 163 points 4 days ago (7 children)

after Luigi Mangione killed CEO Brian Thompson

Has he already been convicted?

Terrible headline, but I can only guess that "Business insider" would rather defend a corrupt CEO than the victim of insurance hell.

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The sad thing is that I am sure they will pass the cost onto the customers.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

Good. They should live in constant fear.

Industrialized social murder should be a dangerous profession.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

what these execs do to the American public is more worth of a terrorism charge than anything mangione ever did.

Keep them afraid.

[–] Bouzou@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

They systematically made millions of people fear for their lives. I'm glad shared that for a moment.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 98 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This post either needs to be removed or retitled. Luigi is not convicted and this perpetuates a huge problem in the US of assigning guilt to people through public opinion.

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 140 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Luigi Mangione killed CEO Brian Thompson"

Objection, baseless speculation.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Luigi Mangione allegedly killed CEO????? Are we just dropping that now????

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Well, the quote is from a district attorney, so they are pushing their narrative.

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[–] Therobohour@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If your job requires armed professionals and costumes,you shouldn't be in business

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[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 50 points 4 days ago (3 children)

So how many of the execs said, “This job isn’t worth risking my life for” and quit? How many of them said, “Maybe we should examine how we do business and change.”? How many of them said, “My God. We’re killing people. I’m out.”?

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago

Nah if literally murdering people for profit didn't stop them then really nothing will. These people are sociopaths that only see the career ladder.

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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

So, the options are "not milking the sick for profit" or "getting bodyguards"

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 61 points 4 days ago (2 children)

He didn't kill anyone though. He's innocent.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 46 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I know it's uncooth to dehumanize anyone, but CEOs like Brian murdered (and the rest continuing to murder all day every day) more people than any serial killer in history because they oversaw automating the process of selling the confidence scheme and then murdering the marks when they threatened the profits of the confidence scheme when they got sick.

People like Jack the Ripper and Ted kaczynski were pathetic, inept hobbyists at mass murder next to an American "healthcare" ceo, and it isn't close.

And we don't hold them in even lower regard solely because they do it to get ever richer, which is the only practiced American religion.

As humans go, Brian was somewhere between a serial killer and an even larger scale mass murderer like Adolf Hitler in terms of his practiced inhumanity, maybe he should be dehumanized a little.

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[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't be giant greedy pieces of shit, you won't need body guards.

#MakeBillionairesFearAgain.

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[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

So you're saying that whoever Luigi is taking the wrap for is a job creator?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 9 points 3 days ago

I like how they say this as if it was a bad thing. As if the general public would have sympathy.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago (4 children)

If that's terrorism then what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?

If they want to have a discussion about labels, it's not gonna go well in front of a jury.

At every step defense should be asking the jury:

If you had been killed, would this be happening? Why are lives valued differently

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[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 4 days ago
[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago

That sounds like a "Them" problem and has no bearing on the case Mr. DA

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

They'll do anything to save themselves except for stop being evil.

Sometimes I wonder if those second-tier execs are even more culpable than the CEOs. Like, we expect CEOs to be psychopaths. But those second-tier guys that got a seat further down the table, off the back of a good degree and a few decades of hard work? They know what they're doing is wrong but choose to go along with it anyway because they're just following orders.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Why? Have they done something to make them feel like they were a target?

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Did they consider not being evil shitbags?

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

And not a single one of them paused and went "wait, maybe the choices we're making are the problem here?" Instead, it was "keep being evil, but now with bodyguards!"

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Good. Something to consider when you're making life and death decisions for other people in the future.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Have you ever tried not being an asshole?

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[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

All these news reports saying that Luigi killed a guy or used a 3D printed gun. As far as I know, Luigi did none of those things and that that is for the courts to decide. Further, I’ve seen plenty of posts online of people saying that he was at the bar with them when the whole thing happened.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

what defendant considered a deadly greed-fueled cartel," Seidemann wrote.

I mean, what are they, then?

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[–] RandoMcRanderton@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

Excuse me, ma'am, I'm looking for a woman that looks just like you but is a redhead. Have you seen her?

"No..."

Damn. Okay. Thanks. gunman walks off, dissapointed

"Whew, glad I dyed my hair."

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