Oof he isn’t convicted but the media isn’t saying “allegedly” in headlines for him. Shows how they’re trying to sway public opinion.
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DA says 40 UnitedHealthcare execs got bodyguards, and one dyed her hair after Luigi Mangione killed CEO Brian Thompson
(www.businessinsider.com)
Defense has brought it up multiple times already, it's biasing the jury pool
Was it supposed to be a direct quote from the DA? Even if so, it shouldn’t be in the headline.
Public opinion is already swayed. Luigi Mangione has become a symbol to a lot of people and as such the super-rich want to punish him.
I bet they are more scared of the symbol than they are of the thought that Mangione is innocent and the real shooter might still be free and plotting another hit.
The "real shooter" would only be one person, but a symbol has the power to create 10 or 100 more or to spark a violent rebellion and that they can't let happen.
Innocent or not, it's unfortunately Luigi Mangione they need punished in the most horrific and exemplar way possible.
I guess he's not getting a fair trial, they'll have to jury nullify the shit out of it.
That's actually very surprising - it starts with "DA says" which is presumably their defamation defense, but usually the lawyers wouldn't let that pass.
Maybe there are no editors left working at BI. This was three days ago
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/business-insider-cuts/
Well, I'm sure their new AI editors will protect them against defamation lawsuits going forward...
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after Luigi Mangione killed CEO Brian Thompson
Has he already been convicted?
Terrible headline, but I can only guess that "Business insider" would rather defend a corrupt CEO than the victim of insurance hell.
"DA says"
A little misleading without the quotation marks
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This post either needs to be removed or retitled. Luigi is not convicted and this perpetuates a huge problem in the US of assigning guilt to people through public opinion.
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If that's terrorism then what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?
If they want to have a discussion about labels, it's not gonna go well in front of a jury.
At every step defense should be asking the jury:
If you had been killed, would this be happening? Why are lives valued differently
… what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?
The term I've heard for this is social murder:
… an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.
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He didn't kill anyone though. He's innocent.
I know it's uncooth to dehumanize anyone, but CEOs like Brian murdered (and the rest continuing to murder all day every day) more people than any serial killer in history because they oversaw automating the process of selling the confidence scheme and then murdering the marks when they threatened the profits of the confidence scheme when they got sick.
People like Jack the Ripper and Ted kaczynski were pathetic, inept hobbyists at mass murder next to an American "healthcare" ceo, and it isn't close.
And we don't hold them in even lower regard solely because they do it to get ever richer, which is the only practiced American religion.
As humans go, Brian was somewhere between a serial killer and an even larger scale mass murderer like Adolf Hitler in terms of his practiced inhumanity, maybe he should be dehumanized a little.
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And not a single one of them paused and went "wait, maybe the choices we're making are the problem here?" Instead, it was "keep being evil, but now with bodyguards!"
They know exactly what they are doing and the choice to gun-up says everything about them. There is no other word but "evil".
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That sounds like a "Them" problem and has no bearing on the case Mr. DA
what defendant considered a deadly greed-fueled cartel," Seidemann wrote.
I mean, what are they, then?
Every individual word is true, that is the dystopian reality we live in, but even when true they're depending on it sounding too conspiratorial and therefore not credible. The nerve of these people.
Parasites who deserve to be tossed in a vat of acid?
Why should 40 assholes hiding from someone who is already in custody gave any bearing on his case?
My gf dyed her hair last week, must be a criminal in chains somewhere!
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So how many of the execs said, “This job isn’t worth risking my life for” and quit? How many of them said, “Maybe we should examine how we do business and change.”? How many of them said, “My God. We’re killing people. I’m out.”?
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I mean the easiest solution is not to work for a hostile company and a public enemy/threat.
Those companies, and that one notoriously, kill 1000's so they are a hostile enemy, actively attacking the populace.
Now I know legalese will fancy it up, but shit smells. Can't hide it.
let me guess not one of them decided to have better business practices
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Excuse me, ma'am, I'm looking for a woman that looks just like you but is a redhead. Have you seen her?
"No..."
Damn. Okay. Thanks. gunman walks off, dissapointed
"Whew, glad I dyed my hair."
Good. Something to consider when you're making life and death decisions for other people in the future.
Scared CEOs—finally, a guilt-free fetish.
Allegedly killed
Don't be giant greedy pieces of shit, you won't need body guards.
#MakeBillionairesFearAgain.
They'll do anything to save themselves except for stop being evil.
Sometimes I wonder if those second-tier execs are even more culpable than the CEOs. Like, we expect CEOs to be psychopaths. But those second-tier guys that got a seat further down the table, off the back of a good degree and a few decades of hard work? They know what they're doing is wrong but choose to go along with it anyway because they're just following orders.
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