Comment on Performative Perp Walk

• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The military is political. It is literally policy when the military moves. Anything any military does is dictionary terrorism. But terrorism is a nasty word for it so we don’t call it that.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In some instances, absolutely.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, yes. But folks here aren’t ready for that conversation

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah I mean it’s obviously trumped-up bullshit in his case, they’re making a point of throwing the book at him any way they can because the owners got their jimmies rustled

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• TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It happens occasionally:

    apnews.com/…/shootings-michigan-4e1a14622ed8c5a6b…

    edition.cnn.com/2022/10/24/us/…/index.html

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are all these school shooters, attacking actual public schools, being charged with terrorism?

    There’s little need to up-charge school shooters. Many of them are killed on sight. Those that are captured (Dylan Roof, for instance) get life without parole or the death sentence.

    But in NYC, a single murder without a terrorist motive only gets you to 2nd Degree Murder. That means you’ll be out in 15 years. The “terrorism” addendum is necessary for life without parole sentencing.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, but the charges should fit the crime not be selected to ensure the desired outcome

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There is no objective measure of criminal conduct. It’s all malleable. Prosecutors and judges and juries ultimately make these decisions case-by-case. And the results can be heavily weighted by wealthy, socially influential private interests who want to see an example made of a particularly offensive or terrifying individual.

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