Prosecutors disclosed the indictment Tuesday as they worked to bring Luigi Mangione to a New York court from from a Pennsylvania jail.

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    It’s technically terrorism, but so is literally any crime enforcement. You’re supposed to be afraid to harm others because you’ll be harmed back. We shouldn’t be giving a free pass to the rich, especially when they put their crimes in their resume. We don’t need a trial for that.

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    Because “rich fuck” isn’t a protected class so they can’t charge with hate crime.

    I don’t see how this can stick, there was no intent to cause terror, it was surgically precise. Assassination maybe, if they want to be transparent about who is actually running the US.

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      The Charleston church shooting, also known as the Charleston church massacre, was an anti-black mass shooting and hate crime that occurred on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the Southern United States. Among the fatalities was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. All ten victims were African Americans.

      That white supremacist was not charged as a terrorist either.

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    To me this looks like:

    Criminalizing the victims (who then emulated Batman) of their own predatory system

    Congrats, the world will now probably view all CEOs as real life supervillains

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    I don’t think they realize that this will probably Streisand effect this and everything related to this.

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      DA’s and whoever else has their prosecutorial hands on this are always going apeshit with charges. Stealing a Twinkie from the gas station will get you 8 counts of theft-by-taking and, shit, probably terrorism too if they think it’ll either get you to plea to something and / or they think they can make their name with the case and screw you for living.

      They’re supposed to be finding and delivering justice, but it’s always just cruel idiots trying to prove they’re big, important people. Well. Not always but most often.

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    They’re probably hoping that calling him a terrorist will blunt the public’s support of him?

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    oh man. If that goes through then kinda like copycat killings, we can have copycat terrorisms.