Since 1979, they have been killing Americans. They have been killing their own people. They have been slaughtering people in the name of religion. It is time for that to end.

Sorry, which government were we talking about again?

No way. How many people have died for “national security” vs betting markets? Even as we speak…

Fuck national security.

They should just go after the politicians who have engineered this insanity. No one will be too upset.

Wow, the mass arrests have really promoted a wonderful sense of solitude!

It’s fascist vs antifascist now. The rest is distractions. There are young and old on both sides of this fight.

Paraquat is probably the single most toxic herbicide on the market and it should absolutely be banned.

The bubble can’t pop until there’s sufficient housing, or a major economic collapse.

It’s almost like decision-making might be impacted after the country’s entire leadership structure was murdered.

But seriously I think there is a strategy here, which is causing Maximum economic chaos and pain the hopes that Trump will chicken out. It’s not a bad short term strategy but angering other nations may come with longer term downsides.

The courts usually give an obscene amount of deference to the police. In a high profile case like this it’s possible they’ll be slightly more by the book… but usually they wrote the book to allow police to “reasonably” violate our constitutional rights, so that only goes so far.

But yeah unless they ruled it inadmissible, the lapse in custody probably won’t matter. The average juror is hopelessly naive and thinks cops are just pure-hearted goody two-shoes who would never do anything wrong.

Yeah that’s my concern. The courts and the police are besties and they usually have each other’s backs unless something happens that’s so blatantly criminal that they can’t find a way to excuse it. Imperfect custody of evidence doesn’t sound that way to me, but I’m no expert.

The good news for Luigi is his case has a lot of public scrutiny, which can force the courts to behave a bit better in some cases.

You’re saying the backpack was ruled inadmissible? If so that is certainly a big deal, maybe bigger than possible jury nullification.

However again, I have not been following all the twists and turns so I don’t know what other evidence may have been uncovered since the arrest.

Ah well I haven’t followed all those details. Prosecutorial incompetence is always a possibility.

Right, and I think we are seeing increasing cases of jury nullification, especially for civil disobedience against ICE. However, the reality is that Lemmy is a bubble. Luigi and his alleged murder are nowhere near as popular among the greater population as he is here. So that’s why I think the chance of a hung jury is higher than nullification. Hung jury can happen if there is just one or a few people who refuse to convict. But jury nullification requires unanimity. There’s bound to be at least a few law & order boomer types on the jury. But only time will tell.

Not guilty seems very unlikely based on the publicly available evidence. I could see a hung jury happening though, as there are a minority of people who strongly want him to go free.

I can’t even imagine. MAGA was already losing their minds in 2016 with wild predictions that Obama would not leave office, despite there being no indication of it whatsoever.

But I thought a few murders was all that was holding us back from a spontaneous revolution? /s

Most apes are awesome. I can think of a few I wouldn’t miss.

C’mon, surely someone with access wants to leak that shit.

God damn he got old.