• Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world
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    We have been ruled by a corrupt elite, individuals and institutions entrenched in power, who have consistently placed their own wealth, influence, and short-term interests above the collective well-being and long-term survival of the human race. These elites have shaped global systems, economic, political, environmental, in ways that extract maximum benefit for themselves, while offloading the costs onto the masses and future generations.

    Rather than acting as stewards of humanity’s present and future, they have prioritized profit over sustainability, control over equity, and secrecy over accountability. They’ve knowingly driven ecological collapse, widened economic inequality, fuelled endless wars, and undermined democratic institutions; not out of ignorance, but because doing so served their agendas.

    While they built empires on fossil fuels, financial speculation, and surveillance, they dismissed or actively suppressed warnings from scientists, whistle blowers, and communities. Their decisions were not made in a vacuum; they were conscious choices to trade planetary stability for personal gain.

    As a result, humanity now stands at the edge of multiple converging crises. Climate change, resource depletion, social unrest, and technological disruption, all of which were foreseeable and, to varying degrees, preventable. Yet those with the power to alter course chose not to.

    We are not simply victims of mismanagement. We are survivors of deliberate negligence. They’ve turned healthcare into a marketplace, democracy into theatre, and human pain into a line item on a quarterly report. While families ration insulin, children breathe poisoned air, and entire families gulp down cancerous water, they dine in boardrooms and speak of efficiency and dividends. Their success is measured in how effectively they can extract, exploit, and evade.

    We now live in a world where people cry out in pain and are met with silence. Where justice and even care seems so unreachable. The real crime isn’t that Luigi shot a man. The real crime is that they created a system where shooting a man was the only choice he was left with. Only a fool thinks they can exploit people without triggering violence. And only a delusional coward believes it’ll stop after the first shot’s fired.

    Unless the time of self serving leaders comes to an end, the violence will only continue to grow.

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    “Prosecutors say Charles Manson is inspiring others to violence” was never a thing even though it was probably easier to support because they had a solid case with real evidence to put Charles Manson in the slammer.

    This fishing trip about character looks weak

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      Cops couldn’t afford to look incompetent. So they did the usual thing and picked a convenient sap to pin it on.

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        Honestly, the best argument for his guilt is that he seems a rather inconvenient sap. He has rich parents who can help him pay for representation, he’s charismatic and attractive, and he’s overall a pretty sympathetic figure. Pinning it on some poor, crude guy seems easier.

        The eyebrows and the world’s most suspicious manifesto are definitely not compelling, though.

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          Well, they had to pick someone who at least plausibly looked like the shooter.

          Nose is wrong though, too.

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    Luigi isn’t inspiring anyone

    CEOs are awesome at inspiring people to murder CEOs

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      Exactly.

      It is the CEOs and politicians themselves who are impacting people’s lives, not the odd retribution act. That’s just the result of it.

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      The cops are inspiring it too by demonstrating the only justice that Americans can get is vigilante justice. We are on the cusp of a French-style social recalibration.

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        What’s funny is that the same cops are inspiring copycat² weebs (who cosplays a cosplayer?) to receive violence from those that they, in turn, have inspired to act

        (bonus: only the latter was in accordance with their local ordinances and rights.) 🤣

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      I have extremely violent fantasies about the leadership of several countries and corporations. That list grows weekly. Luigi did not cause them; he expressed what I already felt and thought, that basically the only way any of us will see justice done is by taking it into our own hands and being prepared to kill the capitalist class and its enablers

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    Pushing for the death penalty while simultaneously claiming he’s “inspiring others to violence” certainly is a choice. Oblivious to the high likelihood only making him a martyr to a lot of people. A good reminder of just how utterly unimpressive our elites rulers are.

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      Prosecutor: We believe the defendant is inspiring others to violence.

      Judge: That is a serious allegation. You must be able to provide at least one example.

      Prosecutor: Of course your honor. We feel inspired to kill the defendant and will be seeking the death penalty in this case.

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      also labeling as a terrorist, even if they arnt going to charge him as such. they are trying to overcharge to see what sticks , its a common tactic .

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      Oh they are 100% going to find a reason to kill Luigi. The trial will be for show. They are probably talking to Hollywood directors right now trying to figure out how the trial should look.

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    I think homicidal CEOs with zero negative consequences are inspiring people to violence. If there’s never any justice for a class of criminal, someone they’ve harmed will eventually try to balance the scales