Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds

• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I feel like we, as a society, should agree on a set of rules and laws, that we adhere to in order to ensure acceptable conduct and behavior.

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Almost like a contract of sorts, one that is socially acceptable…

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• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, but the legal system does not act on the whims of mass adoption.

  Locke andRousseau want to know your location

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  • _LordMcNuggets_@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1000112007

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• pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re omitting the part where she said, “You people are next.” That makes it a terroristic threat.

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  • Euphorazine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “You people are next” is a threat based on your own position of power. A politician saying that, yeah that’s a threat. Some random person saying it someone else, not so much.

    If someone has a recording of an ex saying that to them over the phone, the best you’re getting is a restraining order, if you get anything at all.

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    • krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Obviously a random person is a threat, considering recent events.

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  • xenomor@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Peasant brain mentality.

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    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You seem to forget that mass shootings are an almost daily occurrence in this country.

      Quoting an assassin, then telling a call center worker that they’ll all be next should only ever be taken as a threat.

      If she had said, “Your company’s actions might cause someone to commit further violence,” this wouldn’t have been news, but there is no reality where her statement alone should be taken as just an observation.

      She intended to make the person on the other end of the line and the people they work with afraid, and that’s a crime.

      Those people probably didn’t even directly work for UHC, so it’s not even like she was telling anyone who could remotely do anything about it.

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      • xenomor@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s not a crime to make people afraid. It’s provocative, perhaps rude, usually inappropriate, but not a crime. Your paraphrase is exactly the meaning of what she said. There is so much misplaced outrage in this country and this thread. There are people and organizations actively killing and hurting people, and that all acceptable to the prevailing culture here. It is appropriate to call them out for their awfulness.

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  iirc she didnt get terrorism charges, but she did get charged with some bullshit

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