• PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Are we calling Luigi a murderer but not the healthcare CEO, who killed thousands of people for money and would otherwise have gotten away with it scott-free?

    Or are we just expected to “trust the process”, where republicans prosecuted a man for failing to pay taxes after he backpaid because he was the president’s son and they were desperate for dirt on him? The one where the SCOTUS declared that the president was immune from prosecution for “official acts”, and testimony on the president’s motivation for those acts was not permissible evidence (so Trump could have SEAL team 6 unload a machine gun into the senate while yelling “I AM CORRUPTLY SEIZING POWER” and be unable to be sued for it)? (See, killing senators is legally okay because the senators can impeach him after he shoots them all dead)

    Despite what mainstream media pretends, Martin Luther King would not have succeeded without Malcolm X in the background, showing what would happen if the system just refused to ever give an inch. Gandhi succeeded in his protests because Indian citizens outnumbered Britain 10 to 1 and everyone knew it, and they knew if Gandhi were stonewalled forever then the revolutionaries would turn India into the UK’s Vietnam at best.

    • Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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      1 day ago

      Are we calling Luigi a murderer

      Yes, yes I am. He walked up behind a guy, pulled out a gun, and shot him in cold blood. Because he was mad. That’s fucking murder, bruh. And the jury will think that too and he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars–no matter how much Lemmy likes him.

      Luigi didn’t start a revolution. Thousands of people won’t line the streets trying to eat the rich. No matter how much you all want that. :)