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‘Hannibal Lecter’ treatment of Luigi Mangione ‘backfired’, says fundraising organizer
(www.theguardian.com)
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These government gooners literally cannot comprehend why people live this guy and hate them. It'd be funny if it wasn't so irritating that these are the assholes in charge.
It also helps that Luigi looks fine af. Like not even kidding I’m sure that’s a big part of the support too lol.
I agree. Lemmy seems unable to grasp this. He looks like a super nice, ordinary guy that you'd like to hang out with.
He probably is, but what about all the other people who don't look like him? No one talks about jury nullification for their cases.
Exactly. Ugly people would have a much much different experience. It gets ignored.
I hope this is what you meant. Because I agree with that.
I still love what he did (or didn’t do) a lot though. I appreciate his actions a lot.
But I mean, girls (and boys haha) are literally sending him nudes to the point where it’s too much for the officers to handle so they needed to limit it.
That tells me everything.
That's pretty much what I meant.
The core criticism of Jury Nullification is that it's dependent on the jury's feelings towards the defendant.
12 people might agree that Luigi shouldn't be punished regardless of what the law says, but is that just as likely to happen for someone who's ugly, or from a minority, or even just socially awkward?
Spoiler: No.
It would not be the same. But I hope he does not get death penalty. That would be so unfair. Even if he killed the CEO or whatever… some people literally deserve to be killed. And that guy was one of them.
Edit. I also hope his death was slow and painful. I hope he suffered a lot. Oops.