Comment on Performative Perp Walk

joel1974@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it’s politically motivated I’m pretty sure it’s terrorism.

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  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The NY charge calls for a specific action taken against a government entity.

    Unless UHC is part of the government, but corporations as government is Musolini style fascism, and the US isn’t a fascist country, right?

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  • mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But is it politically motivated?

    He was pissed his claim was denied.

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d say that yes it was definitely politically motivated, since it was just as much an attack against the system as it was against the person, but hardly terrorism since there was no intent to scare the general public.

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      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He probably did intend to scare insurance company executives. I can see calling it terrorism, even if I think he should get off.

        I’ve dealt with back pain, and during the height of my battle with the insurer I absolutely would’ve been tempted to kill the fuckers given the chance.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So, I’ve heard he didn’t actually have UHC. There’s also no confirmation of a denied claim, just the fact that he had back pain. Luigi targeted Brian because UHC was the largest insurance provider in the country, not because he was personally denied a particular claim. The guy was doing long distance hiking and running months before the slaying.

      TrueAnon podcast has a great deep dive into who Luigi was and what his potential motives were.

      He’s got a background in Effective Altruism and was involved with a number of Silicon Valley gurus with particularly extremist ideology.

      Far from simply being an unhappy customer, it’s likely he’s a real life “Radical Centrist” who got pilled on far center neoliberal ideology.

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      • Lyricism6055@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wtf is far center?

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean he wrote words on bullets (or casings, I dunno) and a manifesto…

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ….so? How many killers before him have written a manifesto? Are all these school shooters, attacking actual public schools, being charged with terrorism? They’re actually striking out at “the system.”

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ‘Terrorism’ is just a word for anything the state doesn’t like.

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  • Kalysta@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is the second guy who tried to shoot trump being charged with terrorism? Because that was politically motivated.

    If he’s not, Luigi also does not deserve the charge.

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Was the first guy charged?

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      • Kalysta@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No he’s dead.

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cause they only care when rich scum are terrorized.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who controls the present now controls the past.

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• ynthrepic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Terrorism is supposed to be the dogmatic or ideologically motivated killing of civilians, often by those who are willing to die in the process. It’s terror inducing because it could seemingly happen anywhere at any time to any one, and it’s a lot easier to cause harm to others when you’re suicidal and not hoping to get away with it.

  Of course, that’s not how it’s routinely used, or perhaps was ever really used by anyone except academics.

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not even killed, but even just made to think their plundering might have consequences.

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