r/Political_Revolution • u/EarthTeen • 2d ago
Article America is fucked NSFW
A CEO, who bankrupted and murdered thousands for profit, is killed and terrorism charges are put on the assassin.
A working woman is burned alive, and the police walk by.
In capitalism, the value of your life depends entirely on how much money you make. The USA is such a fucked up country
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u/bernedtwice 2d ago
Murdered tens if not hundreds of thousands. And likely bankrupted millions. Not to quibble but…
And laughed his way to the bank after developing an AI to deny, deflect, depose…really all to debase.
And they want us to think that capitalism can police itself. That’s a fucking lie as old as capitalism itself.
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u/tholasko 1d ago
The book is Delay, Deny, Defend. “Deny, Defend, Depose” was Luigi’s logical follow-up; if they deny and defend, then we will depose.
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u/RamaSchneider 2d ago edited 2d ago
Was watching a clip of Mangioni, and apparently Mangioni is so dangerous that he requires FOUR big burly cops standing directly behind him in the courtroom.
Their There is palpable fear in the air.
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u/EarthTeen 2d ago
Yep. I don't think I've ever seen a case where multiple police officers surround someone like that at a courtroom
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u/SiteTall 2d ago
What "The big boys" fear the most is for someone like Luigi to attain followers like others have up through history: The fear of the wronged ones turn them DANGEROUS to those who let them be wronged = Maybe Luigi is some kind of Spartacus to them
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u/atomicxblue GA 2d ago
Even scarier to them that he is an articulate writer. The written word has the power to spread ideas like wildfire. Look what happened when Martin Luther nailed his thoughts to the church door.
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u/Shoesandhose 2d ago
Mmm the elites fear is such a tasty seasoning. May our passion for this spice dive as deep as the Brits love for Indian spices <3
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u/hujassman 2d ago
Those in power know they're in the minority. If the masses decided to "make changes" there's nothing they could do to stop it.
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u/TotallyACarpenter 2d ago
I think the cops are there to protect him, high profile case and don’t wanna have a jack ruby moment
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u/RamaSchneider 1d ago
They wouldn't have all been facing the person they're trying to protect - they'd be looking for assailants, and this definitely wasn't the case.
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u/Chemical_Knowledge64 TX 2d ago
They’re waiting to kill Luigi. If not at the hands of the state, someone will target him behind the scenes. This is how the powerful operate.
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u/Suuperdad 2d ago
I don't think they are that stupid, but who knows. If they did that they would create 1000 more of him.
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u/Aktor 2d ago
They are precisely that stupid.
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u/hubaloza 2d ago
I'm not sure who the quote is from, but I've been really loving "cleverness pursued them, but they were faster." lately
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u/lokey_convo 2d ago
I mean, we don't know he's the shooter. He plead not guilty, so, not guilty until the state makes a sufficient case to a jury demonstrating beyond a reasonable doubt that he is the shooter.
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u/EarthTeen 2d ago
Which makes this so much worse. Mangione should be having a right to a fair trial and should be presumed innocent until proven guilty, but he's always surrounded by police with assault rifles, the judge has lots of shares in the Healthcare industry and is married to a former Pfizer executive, and Mayor Eric Adams push statements like "I wanted to look him in the eye and state "You carried this terrorist act in my city""
All the while, a man who strangled a homeless man to death is acquitted, and people walk by as a working woman is burned alive
Absolutely sickening
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u/environmom112 1d ago
Really? In this era of persecuting some while making others heros? How about rittenhouse? How about trumblebutt? We don’t know he’s guilty, but he will be judged in the press, we will read what a monster he is for shooting an innocent man. Then the folks who lack critical thinking skills (most of Americans), will soak that 💩up. They must make him the example - can’t have other people following his lead after all.
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u/lokey_convo 1d ago
Look, I don't know who tumblebutt is, but Rittenhouse was on video shooting people, so this isn't the same situation. And people shouldn't lean into or be okay with the media culture of sensationalized criminal proceedings. That degrades our justice system and damages the jury. When professional reports engage in that sort of speculation of preemptive judgement we should speak out against it because it's the right thing to do regardless of the accusation. We shouldn't allow media to sensationalized crime. That's how we end up with stupid photo shoots like this perp walk they did for this guy.
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u/environmom112 1d ago
I think we’re saying the same thing. I was coming from the perspective of how it’s been going, not how it should be going.
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u/freesoulJAH 2d ago
NSFW, please
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u/w3are138 2d ago
In the first photo he looks like a bright spot amongst encroaching darkness. The second photo, well, I guess she wasn’t a CEO. If she was a CEO the cops would’ve used their own bodies to put out the flames. But she was poor so they just let her burn to death.
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u/AccordingMark5944 1d ago
Have they identified her?
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u/w3are138 1d ago
No. I just checked. It seems she was likely homeless so they’re struggling to ID her. No one reporting her missing because no one cared about her is one factor. It’s so messed up. Like being homeless and having to resort to getting a little bit of sleep on the F train wasn’t already bad enough, now you’ve got some guy setting her on fire and she burns to death. Like what the actual.
Apparently both cops and bystanders did nothing, many of them filming on their phones, because of what they’re calling “the Daniel Penny effect”. No one wanted to get involved and possibly have their lives affected.
Although I’m not sure what bystanders could have done considering so much of our clothing is highly flammable these days due to the materials used in fast fashion. Polyester is literally plastic and when it burns it MELTS. I studied textiles in college and one of the ways we test fabrics is by burning a little piece of them or some of their threads. Natural fibers turn to ash when they burn. But not synthetics like polyester.
I cannot express how disturbed I was the first time I saw how polyester burned. It burns fast and it turns into a molten plastic goo. All I could think was my god, what would happen if this fabric caught fire when someone was wearing it? It would melt into their skin. I never used synthetic fabrics in my designs after that and I avoided wearing them as much as possible. These fibers are so pervasive these days it’s difficult to avoid them, and almost impossible to if you’re poor. So many blankets are made of that shit too. It should be way more regulated but it’s not.
Anyway, my point being that If someone tried to smother the flames with a polyester coat it would likely just make it much worse. It would be like trying to put the flames out with a plastic sheet.
Sorry for the rant about polyester/plastic fibers but it was all I could think about when I saw this story. Knowing how pervasive that fabric is bc it’s cheap to manufacture, knowing that she was very likely wearing it, and knowing EXACTLY how it burns really messed with me.
Idk if anyone has any recommendations aside from call for help and/or run to find the nearest fire extinguisher. What more could people have done to help?
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u/Eellliottt 1d ago
Run fast and knock people out of the way, thats another Pulitzer photo that shouldn't exist. Cops got pepper spray, no fire extinguisher, a little different than the deathtraps I build but we get whats left after they hit the stock market to clean it off on some hideouts they're gonna die in, it just sucks
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u/SiteTall 2d ago
That color makes him stand out as a light in a dark room and that can't be intended, right?
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u/MiCK_GaSM 2d ago
We're so close to understanding what we need to do to fix the imbalance.
It could be done in a day.
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u/joeleidner22 2d ago
Yes it would seem the “good guys with guns” that are supposed to save us are more afraid than we are in most instances. Unless the threat is in shackles and they outnumber them 200-1.
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u/Logical_Parameters 2d ago
It's okay, America didn't elect the oligarchs directly into office last month or anything. We would never allow that to happen on the left. We're all good!
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u/Apprehensive_Wolf217 2d ago
Middle class workers escorting the most dangerous man in the world (and not because he allegedly killed someone) to jail at the behest of their ruling class handlers is not having the effect they thought it would.
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u/logancole12630 1d ago
What is that second picture from? It seems like everyone here knows what it is but I've never heard about this?
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u/JuneJabber 1d ago
Extremely horrifying and apparently random attack:
What to know about the death of a woman who was set on fire in a New York City subway train:
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-subway-fire-woman-killed-6af3e72de738ffd19f791b00dcbeb284
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u/Realm117 MD 2d ago edited 2d ago
So do something about it.
Go run for public office, or help a progressive run. Volunteer. Plan and participate in protests. Start or join an activist group. Write to your congresspeople and local representatives. Talk to people. Organize.
Most of all, quit doomposting on reddit. There won't ever be any change unless we quit crying about how awful things are and actually work to enact those changes.
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u/SaltyCarp 2d ago
What’s up with the woman?
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u/EarthTeen 2d ago
Some days ago, a woman was burned alive in a subway in NYC by some psycho. No one stopped to help. A police officer even walked by her, basically completely ignoring her.
She passed away
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u/the_TAOest 2d ago
Growing pains. Yeah I know, this sounds callous. However, I don't see the American juggernaut going down in flames.
Americans will eventually really get the secret to success on planet Earth... And then it's game on
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u/environmom112 1d ago
Whoa he is so dangerous here with cuffs on that they need hundreds of heavily armed pu$$ies to perp walk him.
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u/Enlightened_D NY 1d ago
To be fair had Adams been informed ahead of time he would have made sure he was there with the fire extinguisher in hand
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u/minderbinder141 1d ago
Some things make you laugh and cry. Like look at these human fleshlights with assault rifles and tac gear for one dude in handcuffs
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