UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 9 hours ago:
It’s a bit like far-left or far-right, except it manages to get bipartisan approval.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 12 hours 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.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 14 hours ago:
I mean, yes. But folks here aren’t ready for that conversation
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 14 hours 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.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 14 hours 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.
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 15 hours ago:
The concept of a “peer” has been fast and loose for a long time. All-white upper-class juries sentencing poor black men happens to this day.
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 15 hours ago:
I mean, we’ll see if he even makes it to trial or if he has an accidental-in-his-cell whoopsie doodle suicide.
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 1 day ago:
Dylan Roof did get charged with hate crimes and was convicted on all 33 counts, leading to a death sentence. Stacking terrorism charges on top of that would have been pointless.
Mangione, by contrast, is getting charged in a state without capital punishment. You need the terror charge to make this a First Degree Murder case. Otherwise he’s looking at parole after 15 years.
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 1 day ago:
It’s been curious to see the number of major media pundits doing the “Wonder how long his pretty little face will last in prison?” jokes while his fellow inmates are vocally supporting him
Really lets you know which side everyone is lining up on.
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 1 day ago:
The degree to which the jury pool is going to be stacked with people tied to the finance and insurance industry is going to send eyebrows through the ceiling.
- Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds 1 day ago:
He bagged himself a rich man north of Richmond!
Excited to hear his name included in the remix.
- Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds 1 day ago:
If Brian Thompson had been a black man on the subway, Luigi Mangione would be a right-wing celebrity right now.
- Comment on Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks 2 days ago:
Step 1: Hire staff
Step 2: Train staff to do job
Step 3: COVID! Oh no! Everyone work from home.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Fire staff to save money.
Step 6: Profit.
- Comment on Anon like lava lamps 2 days ago:
Posts in Greentext
Text isn’t green
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 2 days ago:
Most of the drones in Ukraine are the size of a DJI Phantom.
The US manufactured drone weapons that have been coming over for the last two years are significantly larger than the DJI Phantom.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 2 days ago:
Listen, you’re not entirely wrong. If you’re into GILFs, you can do a lot worse.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 2 days ago:
Someone with fishing line, a soldering iron, and a box of cheap pellets can make a net that will take out all commercial drones
I would love to see the Rube Goldburg Shotgun you think you’ve invented and watch you try to fire it (from an extremely safe distance). Please post that shit to YouTube and share it, because god damn dude. Fishing line and cheap pellets shoved down the barrel of a shotgun for the purpose of butterfly netting an MQ-1 Predator?
Lolz. Lmao, even.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
And almost no one talks about it.
Most people don’t care to entertain the confusing, fantastic claims.
‘red, glowing UFO the size of a football field’ hovering at low altitude over US space launch base in California - in event witnessed by over half a dozen military personnel
Crazy how nobody thought to snap a picture.
Something is going on.
People are blowing smoke up your ass is what’s going on. But because they’re lying to the faces of a bunch of incredulous Congressional hacks, it’s supposed to be something we take seriously.
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 3 days ago:
Oh definitely. But I’ve noticed that America’s failure to impose post-Soviet neoliberal capitalism on big parts of the periphery has resulted in more and more countries getting flagged for embargo and sanction. This has resulted in neighboring countries forced into some hard choices - Germany losing access to cheap Russian natural gas, the Philippines and Australia alienating itself from economic superpower China, Mediterranean shipping coasts skyrocketing after the Gulf of Aden becomes a free-fire zone due to the Americans’ ongoing feud with Iran.
The Cuban embargo can only function if it is isolated from the rest of the Caribbean nations. But putting all of Latin America on the shit list just means they trade with each other while you effectively embargo yourself.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
You’ve countered that drones can fly higher than an actual shotgun range.
Yep. They can.
I’ve also noted that a lot of these sightings are of airplanes, satellites, and stars.
Also you can use door breacher rounds, or slugs in a pinch, to blow apart door hinges and locks.
I’m sure Betelgeuse is terrified.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
I’m simply making observations, suggesting you draw your own conclusions, and putting up a stall that reads “Magic Alien Killing Bullets $500/round”
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 3 days ago:
Notice how capital can cross borders, but people can’t?
Well… some capital. Don’t try to order anything from Cuba or Venezuela or Russia and expect it on your doorstep any time soon.
Possibly Mexico, Canada, or China soon too, if the Trumpies get everything they’re asking for.
And the citizens in a poor country can’t move to a wealthy country to earn better wages.
Best example of this I’ve ever seen (other than Israel/Gaza, which is really more of an interior border) is Haiti/Dominican Republic. The fact that they’re all on the same island but one half looks like the fucking Korean Demilitarized Zone to keep the other side out is bleak af.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
Go check out Larry Hogan’s blurry picture of five of the brighter stars in the night sky.
These drones are absolutely 100% real extraterrestrial menaces, abet several hundred light-years away.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
A quick Google search shows birdshot has an effective rang on the order of 40 - 50 yards.
Show me a shotgun with an effective range and I’ll show you a drone with a higher flight deck.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
Its shotguns.
Using a gun with a 25’ effective range against a device hovering 50’ off the ground sounds not terribly effective, though.
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- Comment on Looking for answers 3 days ago:
Chicken, egg
The police trace their roots to military officers, cattle rustlers, and plantation overseers.
The conception of police-as-civil-servant intent on discouraging violence rather than initiating it is a very new one.
- Comment on Looking for answers 4 days ago:
The US is a successful country and has almost always been at war.
The areas of the US that are most successful are those most insulated from social conflict. Areas that are subjected to state violence through overpolicing or are left to flounder in the face of industrial abuse, mafia violence, or unchecked domestic violence do much worse. Comparing Ferguson, MO to neighboring St. Louis illustrates this dynamic. One neighborhood is alternately brutalized by the city police and left exposed to domestic crime, dragging its socio-economic state into the gutter. The other is judiciously policed and socially supported by state and private largess, resulting in a far healthier and happier population.
Britain at its peak was holding 10s of countries at gunpoint.
And those countries suffered immensely. Meanwhile, Britain itself endured pockets of chronic crime and substance abuse specifically in areas that hosted military bases and other enclaves. The country saw an explosion in wealth inequality during its economic peak. Victorian England was a hellhole for the Dickensian proletariat.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 days ago:
China’s a great example of the Peace Dividend in action. You get a generation or two of peace and the country explodes with riches - both physical infrastructure and flowering culture.
Then warlords start poaching the wealth of the nation and the country plunges down into poverty, famine, and epidemic, immolating decades of social process.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 days ago:
There are entire Game Theory textbooks dedicated to grappling with the question of when and how one engages in violence. Because broadly speaking, violence is bad. The destructive social forces inhibit socio-economic development, degrade global quality of life, propagate disease, and cause catastrophic shortfalls of critical goods and services.
Whether you’re working at the micro-scale of domestic abuse or the macro-scale of the bombing of Hiroshima, you’re talking about a gross net negative for everyone involved.
But if a detente is one-sided, or a violent actor is free to act uninhibited, there are huge immediate rewards for looting and pillaging your neighbors, pressing ganging people into forced labor, and seizing neighboring property at gunpoint.
