• @Tgo_up@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    1556 months ago

    How tf can killing a single person with a handgun be classified as terrorism?

    • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1066 months ago

      Because they don’t like him.

      I mean Dylan fucking Roof shot dead 9 black people and they didn’t consider it terrorism.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        46 months ago

        Dylan Roof did get charged with hate crimes and was convicted on all 33 counts, leading to a death sentence. Stacking terrorism charges on top of that would have been pointless.

        Mangione, by contrast, is getting charged in a state without capital punishment. You need the terror charge to make this a First Degree Murder case. Otherwise he’s looking at parole after 15 years.

        • @sean@lemmy.wtf
          link
          fedilink
          English
          2
          edit-2
          6 months ago

          This sounds like a legal playbook for would-be assassins. Kill at the cost of 15 years with parole max

    • @Dasus@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      656 months ago

      “They’re making us CEO’s afraid, terrified even, so he’s clearly a terrorist. The implication that the working class could actually fight back against the systemic oppression we inflict on them? That’s horrifying. We can’t allow them to believe they could ever fight back. Make an example of this person.”

      The rich assholes or something

    • Meursault
      link
      fedilink
      386 months ago

      Crimes against the ruling class are more harshly punished than crimes against the plebs.

      • @TheFriar@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        56 months ago

        Our most sacred 21st century nobility. Guess we’ll have to cut their taxes to show our deference

      • GladiusB
        link
        fedilink
        26 months ago

        They used to be terrified a lot more often when history was closer to JFK, Mussolini, Lincoln, and the French Revolution. When the leaders really thought the punishment for bad leadership was their ass, they gave a shit more.