25+ yr Java/JS dev
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And that is maybe an ideal outcome. Sometimes the right and necessary thing isn’t the legal thing. If you make that decision on your own, better hope to fuck most people agree. And, if they do, that’s the point of the fucking jury. You done good.
I understand it. You’re in good company. I just can’t be so cavalier about it. If everyone is running around playing Batman, it won’t only be criminals who suffer.
I would be okay with that. He is entitled to a vigorous defense, and if it goes the way of OJ, so be it.
I wonder what the options were. I have really complicated feelings about this, ones I could not possibly boil down to simply acceptable or unacceptable. All I can say is that I do not feel bad about the CEO, and I think Mangione is overcharged because the powerful want to make an example of him, a warning to anyone else considering the same.
At the same time, there is a cost to murdering someone. And sometimes, you are okay paying it. Maybe you feel justified, maybe you do not. Maybe a lot of people think you are. But there is still a cost. The lesson to the powerful is simple: never make taking your life worth the price.
No he doesn’t know about money—he’s a moron.
He doesn’t care about damage to the presidency or the country, only personal damage to himself.
He doesn’t care about approval ratings. Either he’s just going to make himself president again, or he’s termed out. Either way, approval ratings can get fucked in his eyes.
Thus, this whole article is an exercise in futility and dumbfuckery.
That’s what I meant, but maybe I wasn’t specific enough. In modern society, wealth is what makes you more fit for survival.
If you think about it, costs might go down overall, but the difference will be made up by less educated/aware folks getting raked over the coals by predatory practices. It’s a step towards a more Darwinian society.
To you, the evil is Thompson. To someone else, it’s Biden. Or Obama. Yeah we can just go full French Revolution and murder every single one of them, but that’s not a world I want to live in.