• meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    Donations flatline then skyrocket? Classic propaganda machine narrative. First they paint Mangione as a martyr—convenient—then “anonymous benefactors” magically revive the coffers.

    Wake up, sheeple: this isn’t organic support. It’s either bots laundering oligarch cash or the deep state stress-testing narrative elasticity.

    ”Legal defense funds” = Patreon for white-collar theatrics. Mangione’s either a pawn in their chess game or the sacrificial lamb. Either way, grab popcorn.

    Democracy’s a rigged carnival, and we’re all just clowns paying to watch.

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      None of that is real. Health care companies have been abusing the population pretty hard for a very long time. They kept rolling dice until they crapped out.

      People hate them enough that a lot of people actually support or at least approve of what he did. Its not much more complicated than that.

      Why would you be able to launder money by donating it to a random dudes death penalty defence fund?

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      idk if a Mario brother is the right person for that.

      donate to BJ Blazkowicz instead.

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      No, but you might be able to set up a betting pool. If you just happen to win, make sure you have an alibi.

      But seriously, don’t do that. The person who originally thought up that, who I wont name because his name and the name for this thing are probably weighted heavy in the spider bots, was a student who landed in jail twice for tax evasion. Like, the second time happened immediately after the first.

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        I’m sure his ultra right wing family is just throwing money at his defense.

        If someone is trying to help; I don’t care what family they come from.

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          They probably are. As long as they aren’t gay rich white families will pay for most anything for their kid…

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    I know it’s exited the news cycle, but I still remember this was a big thing for the left and right to both agree on supporting. I’d very much like to prompt Trump for his opinion on the man to force him to take a side.

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      Best to not remind Trump that Luigi exsist. Don’t need him falling out a window with the cameras off and the guards napping.

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        Haha you think trump is deciding anything still. Didn’t you see how they had to walk back his Israel comment?

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      prompt Trump for his opinion on the man anything to force him to take a side.

      That’s how you get banned from the press pool.

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        Wait … how is that link working?? kbin.social has been offline for months.

        Edit: Ohhhh … the name of the community at LW is “eattherich@kbin.social” - now I see.

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          No, you’re right the 1st time. It’s eattherich, hosted at kbin. It’s a weird side effect of federating. The original instance hosting the comm is gone, but all posts and comments go into the local instance first (in this case, Ozma’s posts to .world) to be federated back to the main instance (kbin). Since kbin is gone, that federation ain’t happening, and nobody from any other instance can view the content from their home instance. But you can directly view .world’s local copy of what it thinks the instance should look like, which contains all of Ozma’s contributions.

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            This is super cool

            I don’t think we’ve yet witnessed the full benefits of the distributed nature/federation.

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      I’m not smarter in the law, but I remember the OJ trial. Just because all the evidence points to the obvious conclusion doesn’t mean that the result will be as you expect. Did the police do everything by the book, or is some of the evidence they’re relying on tainted? Did a cop worry the evidence wasn’t going to be enough and plant some more? Was he caught? Did they forget to read him his rights before interrogating him?

      The trick with legal cases is that the prosecution basically has to avoid making mistakes, and it’s up to the defense to find a mistake they made. One major difference between a public defender and an extremely expensive legal team is the number of flaws they can find in the prosecution’s case before they run out of time.

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      There is absolutely no way. That jury is going to be tampered with more than any you’ve ever seen in history.

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      Aside from the nullification and hung jurys, there’s a good chance for a mistrial from them parading him around and letting everyone in the US know he fought for them.

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      I’m not good at law but I have heard from people smarter than me that there are chances for at least a hung jury (I think could be retried) and there’s also another option called jury nullification, where the jury essentially says, “yeah we know he is guilty but we don’t agree with the law in this case” and acquits.

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      No. He’s going to die in prison. I’m not happy about that fact. I’m just telling the truth. Just like there’s zero chance Charles Manson ever gets out. There’s zero chance Luigi gets out.

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        Might happen. Then when a sensible government gets in, somewhere down the line, we pardon him and make him secretary of HHS

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    Then slowed… then surged… then slowed… then surged… then slowed… then they had some orange juice and a muffin… and now they’re surging again.