EDIT: The FBI has since corrected themselves and are now treating it as an act of terror.

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    10 days ago

    They really are arguing that murking a CEO has more potential to change things than just about anything else.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Our ownership class and the institutions that obey them in favor of good governance are due full recognition. Should all acquaintance be forgot, the CIA extrajudicial detention and enhanced interrogation torture program was completely developed not because that’s a good way to get intelligence (it’s not) but because some rich people were sore about 9/11 and wanted to see Arab Muslims suffer, whether they were related to the event or not. (Compare and contrast price-tag killings in Palestine.)

    The escalation of charges against Luigi Mangione to terrorism are not due to any evidence, and in fact prosecutors and attorneys general have already weighed in that Murder One will be difficult to prove (NYC has a tightly constrained definition of M1. Assuming they have sound evidence linking Mangione to the crime – they may not – Murder Two is the the most likely conviction.)

    It was noted on the day of the attack that certain hate crime homicides in NYC were ignored in news media. A fellow was shanked for not being sufficiently white by a white supremacist, and that incident is not being considered grounds for terrorism, even though the hate-crime aspects of the incident are already evident. What’s the difference? Mangione attacked someone of the ownership class, and they have influence enough to corrupt our justice system while we watch.

    All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us

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    10 days ago

    what’s the pool up to on whether the actual terrorist in this case is a nazi/trumpling

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      Yeah, these kinds of attacks are almost always fascists. Cars are fascist. Car attacks are dumb/cowardly enough only for fash…

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    10 days ago

    Apparently this doesn’t refer to the New Orleans truck attack, since the FBI is investigating that one as an act of terrorism. Must be a different one.

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      10 days ago

      They are now treating it as an act of terror but the original statement was that it was not an act of terrorism. This changed after the screenshot was taken.

      EDIT: Below is a screenshot of reports at the time, before the FBI changed their tune.