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[–] Juigi@lemm.ee 1 points 6 minutes ago

America can you not be corrupt for one single moment please

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 points 1 minute ago

Not happily married, I hope.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I guess conflicts of interest just aren't a thing anymore.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Nothing to be avoided anymore. Something to seek out.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Remember remember!

The 4th of December

A CEO dies all alone;

On the street he was lain,

cold, pale and in pain,

thousands of deaths that he own.

The decisions he'd struck,

Layers removed from the slaughter,

Were a shareholder's treat,

Your dead mother or daughter.

Those investors all wait, on that cold winter morn,

Still unawares of profit potential they'd mourn,

Poking at hotel breakfast, bored looks on their face

As was Brian's when he denied and delayed at great pace

Endless growth, deposed, on behalf of us all

Luigi didn't do it, we were hiking in Nepal.

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

"I swear, officer, that I didn't kill that judge. The fact that my search history indicates an interest in 3D printed guns, and I own the works of Karl Marx, AND I was wearing a free "Free Luigi" shirt doesn't prove anything."

[–] QaspR@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm not so sure this would be considered a conflict of interest.

Don't get me wrong; it's egregious, but I don't know if it actually is a COI.

(Not a lawyer).

[–] allo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 hours ago

removed by mod AND ALSO deleted by creator

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 147 points 1 day ago

There were 24,849 homicides in 2022.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

Almost none of them, if any, likely required a nationwide manhunt.

Not one of them required an escort of 30 police officers plus a helicopter to the courtroom.

As far as I can tell, none of them were charged with terrorism.

And now he's getting as biased a judge as he could possibly get.

If we're going to start charging murderers with terrorism, let's start with the cops.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago

you people clearly don't know what you are talking about. "conflict of interest" only happens if it conflicts the interests of billionaires

[–] uis@lemm.ee 16 points 21 hours ago (12 children)

Say what you can about communism, but you clearly see that capitalism is so much worse.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Judges don't have conflicts of interest in communism?

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They don't have additional benefits of owning insurance company everyone else doesn't. And neither there would be insurance companies anyway.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Former healthcare exec != Owner

But let's imagine it did, and there are no owners. Lower stakes don't correspond to lower conflicts.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 9 minutes ago

... You say every citizen has conflict of interests with... with... with who exactly?

[–] samokosik@lemmy.world -5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Okay, move to Cuba or North Korea where they still try to pursue communism and where they still have not realized how broken system it is. You will surely enjoy life there :D

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You think North Korea's godking is the accurate administration of communism...?

[–] Strykker@programming.dev 1 points 22 minutes ago

So far every "attempt" at communism has resulted in some form of dictator, so it's not surprising that the idea of communism leaves a sour taste for a lot of people.

It really doesn't help that there are communities that look at the Russian outcome of communism and claim that was a good result.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Cuba seems like a decent place to live tbh, especially given the circumstances that we've imposed on them.

They have some of the best healthcare and doctors in the world.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

lol and I say this as someone who grew up in Soviet occupied eastern europe. Trust me, there are very few systems worse than communism, well at least, that version of it.

[–] Llewellyn@lemm.ee -1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Free medicine is nice, though. Not very high quality sometimes, but still better, than bankruptcy after ambulance ride.

Free high school education is a good option too.

[–] samokosik@lemmy.world -4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Will you develop medicine for free? Will you do 8+ hour long surgeries for free? Will you teach children at school for free?

Nothing is free, buddy. If sth appears to be free, it’s only because someone sponsors it.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Will you develop medicine for free?

Medicine development is almost completely done in Universities with tax money, pharma company budgets are almost completely marketing. So yes, we already do that

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

It always seems to skirt people by that basically none of the early development is done out of the lust for knowledge and progress by private companies. They see promising work/studies and make it into mass market products that can proceed through clinical trials.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 hours ago

Yeah if I can't get a yacht out of the deal why would I even bother trying to cure cancer? It makes no logical sense.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Justice for Luigi is going to sail away with Judge parker at the helm.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Maybe this is a good thing? I'm not super familiar with american justice system but isn't his case is mostly betting on jury acquitting or using jury nullification or at least taking him to strong settlement? Having a judge like this would definitely sway the jury in Luigi's favor.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

It's unlikely that Luigi's defense will be allowed to inform the jurors about the judge's conflict of interest

[–] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 1 day ago

This judge needs to recuse themselves from the case.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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