• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    If I’m reading this right it’s worse than that.

    You know how when you go to the police to report a stalker or someone threatening you and they just kind of roll their eyes and tell you there’s nothing they can do? And you’re left getting a useless restraining order that’s going to do nothing but feature in the news and trial after you get murdered?

    This is a hotline for rich people to report stalkers and threats specifically to be acted on. But I also wouldn’t be surprised if they whitelist their phones to be at the front of any queue for 911.

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    There are two things that the aftermath of Luigi’s action has made poignantly clear to pretty much everybody:

    • That the vast majority of people no matter their party affiliation and political leanings is feeling the pain and hates the abuses that carry on being committed by a minority of people in our system with total impunity … until Luigi.
    • That the Ju$tice System, the Police and most of the Press, unlike what they claim work for that minority of people, not for the rest of us.

    It’s amazing just how certain parts of the system that are supposed to work for everybody (such as in this case the Police, and in other cases large parts of the Press with their “poor CEO” articles) are pretty much shouting loud and clear for all to hear that “we’re not working for you, we work for the ones that abuse you”.

    Most people just discovered now with this killing of a hated CEO that what they individually felt about certain things was also felt by almost everybody, and then these bought-and-paid-for minions who for decades have been putting a lot of effort in passing themselves as “working for the community” just repeatedly and overtly signal to everybody else their true minion-of-the-rich nature.

    Mind you, as a Leftie who has been skeptical of whose those elements of the current system for decades, I’m happy they’re basically outing themselves and they should keep on doing it so that everybody sees them for what they really are and who they really serve,

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    We need to give our executives the tools they need to protect themselves from these violet threats. Tools like the ability to quickly roll back all machiavellian policies and practices before they can become a real danger to the policy makers.

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    In a sense I suppose you’re right, but now you’ll see it far more readily deployed, even on a whim

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    don’t the police normally setup hotlines for these sorts of things all the time? Including tips for investigations?

    This isn’t a second 911, this is a subsection of 911 intended for threats against people.

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    Remember all that critical theory stuff people were freaking out about a few years ago?

    It’s basically about how society arranges itself to benefit the people who have the power in a society.
    Like how crimes against business and capital are serious crimes, but crimes against workers are usually treated as paperwork errors.
    Compare the number of people arrested for shoplifting as opposed to the number arrested for wage theft.

    Or about how the murder of one CEO gets weeks of media attention and a potential development of new systems by the police to keep it from happening again, but we’ve already moved on from the last school shooting, and our official policy is “yeah, that’ll happen from time to time”

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      The specific example of the health care guy says everything about that too. Deny someone health care and they suffer and die? Or maybe hundreds of thousands of people? No problem.

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      You are totally right but the problem is that the people who could do a revolution are all in front of their cellphone or laptop and they only write, they do nothing. They write on X, they write on Facebook but they don’t do anything else. It’s a mute revolution and the corporate knows that nothing will come of this, since the US have elected Trump.

      All they have to do is enforce law so no other CEO will get killed and learn from all thid and get better at making the people don’t do anything except write on the internet.

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        We still have our bread and digital circuses. But the GOP is rapidly eroding our digital circuses, so it’s becoming easier and easier to pull away and live in the real world. They’re authors of their own misery, eventually.

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        If writing on the internet does nothing, then why did we have to come here to do it freely?

        Luigi Mangione manifesto

        To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.

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    Don’t they make enough money that they can pay their own security or set up their own hotline? Why does the citizens have to pay for it? Maybe their insurance can pay for it since it’s a high risk job.

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      Watch Congress turn bodyguards into something you can get a tax break for, like they did for private jets under Trump’s tax reform. In the end they’ll find a way to make sure we pay for it, not them.

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        Cool. Then the general public should be able to hire bodyguards for their kids in school for massive tax breaks.

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        We don’t pay for it with a tax break. They still pay for it they just get some money back for doing it come tax time.

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          Which is money that doesn’t go into the budget to be used for health care, housing or any of the other things ordinary people need.

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      I’ve said many times the only thing missing between this reality and a cyberpunk dystopia is full-dive VR.

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        Android XR just got announced. And given they have little to no idea how to use it, it is going to be a full on ad space.

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      Where’s my fuckin augs? I want to be able to go to the ripper doc to get sweet upgrades and get hired to do corporate espionage!

      This is bullshit my chooms.