• tacosplease@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Luigi’s supporters want to make an example out of Thompson so the next suit that fills his role thinks twice before choosing profit over healthcare.

    If the legal consequences are minimal, then it encourages future actions by others or at least supports the semi-unspoken threat that it is likely to happen again if the ruling class keeps fucking around.

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      There are an infinite number of suits to fill that role unless we make changes to the system of laws and create new routes for finances to go towards covering healthcare.

      Where there is profit to be made legally, there will always be people willing to do so.

      Luigi’s supporters advocate for actions that do nothing for us.

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        3 hours ago

        You seem to not understand the deterrent effect of being the target of a murder while somehow fully understanding the deterrent effect of being the target of a murder trial.

        I’m having a hard time interpreting that position as anything but a bad faith argument.

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          I seem to not see the deterrent effect of being the target of a murder because there demonstrably is no measurable effect.

          Promoting Luigi as anything other than a guy who killed another guy is a bad faith argument. People should go donate to Bernie Sander’s organization to elect young competent progressives, or give to a children’s hospital instead, do some actual good. Luigi doesn’t need your money, he has his own.