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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago

This judge needs to recuse themselves from the case.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (21 children)

Say what you can about communism, but you clearly see that capitalism is so much worse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Communism lifted an illiterate nation of serfs into an industrial and atomic super power in, like, 50 years.

Which is to say just as bad as capitalism but approximately four times faster.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It was also responsible for the highly anti-intellectual culture that existed and still continues in said country today. So it swings both ways.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Anti-intellectual cultire fixated on higher education? I'm not saying that we don't have collective mental disorders. Maybe during Stalin(see Doctors' Case, cybernetics and genetics), but generally no.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Home of the Whopper.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Justice for Luigi is going to sail away with Judge parker at the helm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Maybe this is a good thing? I'm not super familiar with american justice system but isn't his case is mostly betting on jury acquitting or using jury nullification or at least taking him to strong settlement? Having a judge like this would definitely sway the jury in Luigi's favor.

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[–] [email protected] 191 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I knew they were going to try him in a kangaroo court, I just didn't think they'd be this obvious about it.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The justice system probably assigned the judge randomly. It's just finding a judge without wealth is impossible ... which in and of itself is a problem.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kill her husband? Send a message?

[–] [email protected] 172 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s definitely a conflict of interest.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm sure the judge will recuse themselves to avoid any appearance of impropriety... ^/s^

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

As Clarence Thomas has proved.

(Sack of shit.)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

As judges always do…

[–] [email protected] 413 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Country wide outage at the corruption involved with the health insurance

Health insurance industry: we can make it worse

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[–] [email protected] 183 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.

I need the bootlickers to show up and tell me it's just coincidence.

The whole damn thing is a show. They are terrified. The book they usually play by isn't working. What will happen? The amount of support Luigi has is astounding. It's even a topic I tested the waters with at work and these people I work with make a decent living.

America is waking up. I feel it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I genuinely think that they'll have a hard time finding an impartial jury.... I think that at this point, pretty much anyone who doesn't live under a rock has heard of him and has an opinion on whether he should be found guilty.

Regardless of which way you fall on that particular topic, you're biased, and that would exclude you from serving on the jury.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

I thought the same thing about the Trump trial, but they legitimately turned over rocks and found the most oblivious Americans living under them. There are evidently tons of people out there living in their own little bubble, completely untethered from the news media or even just casual conversations with strangers and probably have no idea who Luigi is right now. The news might not be able to reach them, but a jury summons from the state can, and the prosecution is going to hunt for these individuals specifically.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The 65+ crowd view him unfavorably, so I expect the jury to be a bunch of 65+ people

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

An unfavorable view is still bias. The defense would reject any juror that shows significant malice towards the plaintiff.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I've spoken with friends about this is Denmark, and we all read the news with great pleasure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Correct. And I strongly suspect they are wildly pumping out news about him to narrow the juror pool to people who do live under rocks.

The other option is that jurors lie about their bias, which opens them up for legal consequences.

His defense, in any case, has a very difficult task - they need to be able to somehow communicate him being innocent against stacked charges OR paint him light that the rest of us see that leans them towards Jury Nullification.

My hope is that potential jurors hide their bias, which isn't easy, but gives him the best chance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The other option is that jurors lie about their bias, which opens them up for legal consequences.

That's almost impossible to prove, and almost never prosecuted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

There are plenty of nevers and almost nevers with this case already, so it's not unreasonable to worry that there might be more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

They're trying to use fear to spin a story against this guy. They're going to use fear when telling them about lying under oath.

They're going to use fear the whole way, it's their only weapon.

It's why they are so afraid. A lot of us see through it, and see their real fear.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago

That's literally what it's taken in the past. It took the fear of communism to really get unionization accepted in the US. In other eras it's taken the threat of invasion by external powers.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Rich people being shot means nature is healing ❤️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Life, uh, finds a way

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[–] [email protected] 258 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're certainly not being subtle with the class warfare

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

They haven't been since they got raked from COVID-19 and shutdowns tanking their stocks in 2020. So they price gouge with inflation and shrinkflation, keep prices high to make up the difference and fuck us over. Then they keep the prices artificially high, raising prices on entertainment, force people back to the office, and use those as talking points to tank democrat campaigns.

They've been openly at war for the last 5-years or so. Just like Gaza, you can only trap people in misery for so long before they lose just enough to make it worth fighting back with violence. We're on the cusp of that backlash and I have a feeling the next 4+ years are gonna see the blowup.

[–] [email protected] 172 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A certain fair and unbiased trial he's getting..../s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

That was the magistrate. Whether the trial will be biased is something we don't know yet.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 days ago

This is the sort of thing judges are supposed to recuse themselves over.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"conflict of interest" was old speak from the dark ages.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Surely she’ll do the right thing and recuse herself from the case.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I would think it might be excusable if this were a straight-up murder charge, which is mostly facts and evidence based. However, if they're charging him with terrorism, which is much more subjective, doesn't that make this a serious conflict of interest?

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