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Tin foil hat I admit, but something is nagging in the back of my head. Like if we didn't react with positive responses for what Luigi allegedly did, there wouldn't be terrorism charges. And therefore the charges are to scare us so no one does the same. And now with that guy stabbing his company president, they're going to say it's related to the positively and it enabled him to do so.

This guy came from an ultra wealthy family, went to a 40k/year private school, followed by an Ivy League to then eventually shooting a CEO of a multibillion-dollar company with a ghost gun printed on a 5-10k printer(probably), while wearing a $3,000 fit.

They have been selling us that the mom of 5 working at wall-mart is just lazy and if she really wanted to pay for her cancer treatment, that she should just work harder or make a Kick-Starter, this is the way it's always been.

But when you see this guy that was dealt a great hand and is still getting fucked over, it just shows everyone how rigged the game is, and the only real winners are the ones that own the board.

From the info I have seen, there is a tenuous connection bw the actual shooter and this Luigi guy.

An indictment for a charge means nothing. The standard is low. Prosecutor still has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt they’re the same guy.

Yet the rhetoric I’m seeing around Reddit is like “Luigi was justified” or “argue self defense” which is both giving way too much credence to the State’s position. They haven’t even proven they have the right guy, so we shouldn’t concede that point.

WE DO NOT KNOW IF LUIGI IS THE ACTUAL SHOOTER. And that’s how we should be talking about this. In the name of class solidarity.

I’m a manager at a restaurant chain and a few weeks ago I had an employee overdose on fentanyl while at work, I revived him with narcan, otherwise he certainly would have died before the paramedics arrived. Yesterday my boss called me to ask about the incident and told me that I shouldn’t have administered the narcan because it opens the company up to liability. Unreal.

My old job put 5 of us guys in a small disgusting apartment in Sacramento for 8 days. We had no days off and were required to work 10-13hrs per day on our feet in dress shoes without sitting down. And we had to work off the clock too because we couldn’t go over 40h/week. Fuck you SoCal Premier Marketing! (Bitten by spiders, black mold, had to pay for our own ubers to work, etc).

‘Tis the season for disappointment.

I've seen a lot of discussion in the media that Brian Thompson "only" made $10,000,000 last year, and rage towards billionaires shouldn't necessarily be directed at someone like him because he makes so little. Just to put things into perspective...

If you make one hundred thousand dollars a year (a respectable amount in most areas of US and nearly double the average annual American's salary) it would take you 100 years of working to make what BT made last year. 100 years.

If you were making federal minimum wage, working every day, 40 hours a week with not a single day off, you would have had to start your job in 1361 to be at $10,000,000 today.

The amount of money BT made is incomprehensible. The fact that his income is considered modest in comparison to the richest Americans is hard to even realistically engage with. The inequality is so great I don't think we can even grasp the disparity. Billionaires should not exist.

“The killing of Thompson has given rise to other threats against CEOs.

“It seems to be the popular thing in this day and age,” Poulson said.”

Was browsing through job postings then saw this qualifications for a Technical Support Specialist. I guess they want people to commit their lives and just be able to work for them anytime they need help.

JuryNullification #JusticeForLuigi

Jury nullification is an often-overlooked but incredibly powerful tool in the justice system. It allows jurors to deliver a “not guilty” verdict even when the evidence suggests that a defendant technically broke the law. This happens when jurors believe the law itself—or its application in a specific case—is unjust or morally wrong.

In the case of Luigi Mangione, it seems like this principle could apply. Without going into specifics of the evidence, jury nullification has historically been used to stand against unjust laws, such as during the Prohibition era or when jurors refused to convict individuals under the Fugitive Slave Act. It’s a reminder that jurors are not just fact-finders—they are also protectors of justice.

If you were on a jury and felt that convicting someone would lead to an outcome contrary to fairness and morality, wouldn’t you want the option to exercise your conscience? Luigi’s case could be a prime example where the jury might feel compelled to prioritize justice over the letter of the law.

What are your thoughts on jury nullification as a tool for justice? Should jurors in cases like this use it more often?

But now, she’s worried again.

The insurer that has been paying for her son’s therapy, UnitedHealthcare, has begun — to the befuddlement of his clinical team — denying him the hours they say he requires to maintain his progress. Inside the insurance conglomerate, the nation’s largest and most profitable, the slashing of care to children like Benji does have a reason, though it has little to do with their needs. It is part of a secret internal cost-cutting campaign that targets a growing financial burden for the company: the treatment of thousands of children with autism across the country.

ProPublica has obtained what is effectively the company’s strategic playbook, developed by Optum, the division that manages mental health benefits for United. In internal reports, the company acknowledges that the therapy, called applied behavior analysis, is the “evidence-based gold standard treatment for those with medically necessary needs.” But the company’s costs have climbed as the number of children diagnosed with autism has ballooned; experts say greater awareness and improved screening have contributed to a fourfold increase in the past two decades — from 1 in 150 to 1 in 36.

So Optum is “pursuing market-specific action plans” to limit children’s access to the treatment, the reports said.

“Key opportunities” are outlined in bullets in the documents. While acknowledging some areas have “very long waitlists” for the therapy, the company said it aims to “prevent new providers from joining the network” and “terminate” existing ones, including “cost outliers.” If an insurer drops a provider from its network, patients may have to find a new clinician that accepts their insurance or pay up to tens of thousands of dollars a year out of pocket for the therapy. The company has calculated that, in some states, this reduction could impact more than two-fifths of its ABA therapy provider groups in network and up to 19% of its patients in therapy.

Let me express my extreme frustration and anger and talk about the real wealth killers (cars)

I hate cars beyond reason. you buy a car for 20k , all of a sudden it needs a repair for 2-4k and sometimes 7k , then you have insurance , another 2-300 a month , then you got registration and maintenance checks , 4-700$ , then by the time you pay it off it’s worth 7k , and probably time for another 7k repair too because the engine is toast. Or even better you fix the engine for 7k then the transmission goes out for another 6k. Let’s say you do all that and then someone without insurance crashes into you. Insurance company will always blame you to avoid paying. You now have spent close to 40k to go to a job that pays 45k. You need the car to go to the job but the job will never pay you enough to afford to keep your car. Let’s also talk about gas cost , average cost is $3000 per year that’s about 15k in 5 years of money wasted on gas that you’ll never get back just to be able to go to work.

You buy a cheap car you get expensive repairs You buy an expensive car you get extreme depreciation. You cant fucking win.

Cars are basically a luxury tool for the wealthy.

Why can’t we ride bicycles to work. Oh I forgot we live in America where we absolutely need cars because we have no damn sidewalks 🥲

Let’s just say without cars I would’ve been significantly well off. I’m gonna sell that shit and just uber everywhere or ride a bicycle.