Please stay alive, Luigi. Regardless of whether what you did is right or wrong, and whether you actually did it or not, everyone needs you there (including both prosecutors and your defense).

Keep your message consistent, and any correspondence with the courts and police vetted by a lawyer so that it doesn’t get misconstrued.

Please have someone you trust by your side 24/7 or a live feed at this point. Please report any detainment conditions that might intentionally drive someone towards self-harm to the public. People everywhere are counting on you.

Yours to make, yours to break.

Yeah, prosecutors are really trying to smear this guy to look dangerous. Try harder. An RF-blocking bag is just to prevent theft, hacking and protect privacy. I’m a bit confident he’s the guy but I can’t say beyond a reasonable doubt given the circumstances and how the police are incentivised to frame anyone.

Since news reports keep jumping around between a McDonald’s customer and a McDonald’s employee offering the tip, every inconsistency will only bolster this guy’s case. I can make guesses that this guy wanted to get caught or was a little sloppy, but if he says otherwise then finding everything including the gun is a little suspicious. Get him the best lawyer in the biz, I’m sure crowdfunding will cover it many times over.

Like the invasions and occupations of Poland and Czechoslovakia were “forward defences” of Nazi Germany, of course.

You’re right but the bar is so damn low right now that a relatively scentless piece of shit is preferable over one baked in the sun for days, the smell wafting into Canada.

I know, WestJet was better but their quality dropped like a rock from 9000m above sea level.

Damascus is Hamascus or something? What’s the rationale this time? Because the disengagement agreement might not be enforced, Syria is free real estate?

Yeah Air Canada is one of the worst now, they give the fewest shits when they screw up people’s plans.

Corporate Media as an RTS player spamming the “cover up class war” button:

Not enough PR materials!

Not enough PR materials!

Not enough PR materials!

When I was on reddit, I got into a habit at some point of replying to standalone comments with just a handful of votes to start conversations and make people feel seen. It appears I’ve still retained that.

Unpopular opinions get super-duper downvoted here but don’t “disappear” as often as on Reddit (not including rule-breaking submissions).

I enjoy talking with the local and Lemmyverse regulars and also with most users. Reddit is so big you get lost in the 10000 comments, however many bots are copying top comments from a past repost you wouldn’t know. Lemmy is a good size now, if anything it should grow out instead of up (revitalizing more niche communities).

Topic niches served well by Lemmy: Linux, being upset at capitalism, Startrek, LBGTQ-friendly crowds on blahaj and beehaw, pcgaming, buying local and quality products (there are fewer suggestions but your average reply is better in quality than Reddit), Woodworking, DIY offgrid living (solarpunk), and a bunch more.

1. Approximately $500k-1.1M per bus if you buy from New Flyer. https://www.masstransitmag.com/bus/vehicles/hybrid-hydrogen-electric-vehicles/press-release/21212587/niagara-frontier-transportation-authority-nfta-nfta-approves-electric-bus-purchase-from-new-flyer

2. Depends on where you live. Start from $100M per kilometre.

• If you are in North America, multiply by 3.
• If you have to go through dense city, multiply by 3.
• If you need to build bridges over a river, multiply by 3, or tunnel under a mountain, multiply by 5 for those sections.
• If your city is full of NIMBYs, multiply by the number of groups that would put forward a stupid reason with the aim to kill the project.

It was whitepeopletwitter, 1.5 years ago. My comment was removed for something not in the sidebar rules, then or now.

Linking other communities (vs. subreddit equivalents). For some reason on my last year of reddit some subs started adding rules against mentioning any r/ s. It’s almost universally encouraged here to spread knowledge and grow small communities.

Already people are at it coming up with reasons not to like this guy. Are we really expecting someone with perfect morals to suddenly come up with a plan to assissinate a CEO, execute it almost flawlessly and flee?

This guy doesn’t have to be my friend. I don’t really care if he admired right-wingers. Honestly almost everyone (including me) will have goofy stuff that you can bring up to discredit them. Are we not allowed to acknowledge the good that has happened since the shooting because this guy’s book review, a deranged college-age tweet, his preppy upbringing or whatever? We can’t acknowledge that authorizations have somehow gotten faster and denial rates plummeted? That a shitty restriction on anesthesiologist time was reversed? A national conversation was started on how strangely focused America media is on covering certain stories and aspect of that story compared to others? That for once the radical left and radical right could somehow agree on something?

These are the questions swirling through my head today. My hope is most people will see through the bullshit, and how to actually effect change quickly is to put real pressure on the top of the organization, preferably through non-violent means, in ways that truly remind them they are not immune from the damage they cause in search of ever-increasing profit.

Certainly. I’m not trying to argue with you about what this guy thinks of himself.

Absolutely, I’m not saying Luigi is MLK Jr. even remotely, I’m just saying that what he thinks is the right thing to do at the moment could be in line with some thinking like that, even if the original action is motivated by something else.

I can’t say for sure whether it is the right decision.

Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for obeying just laws and disobeying unjust laws openly. This could be in the same vein.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/mlk-disobeyed-unjust-laws-state-america-today-requires-we-not-ncna1287569

Of course it could be in vain but I don’t know. For sure I would have liked him to get away undetected. But probably knowing that he would eventually be caught regardless, to do it on his terms while he has a broad swath of support might have been his decision. He already humiliated the police from being able to catch him long enough.

Honestly he was so smart to be able to get away basically undetected. After I reflected on it for a bit, there’s no way he would unintentionally be presenting the same fake ID, manifesto and carrying all the stuff he had. It seems deliberate.

Luigi will be remembered as the one who took on American Healthcare and actually did something about it, even if the full weight of billionaire-owned media and the full force of the law is going to be dumped on him.

Dang. If I were to do something like this I would totally not show up anywhere I wouldn’t usually go for 2 weeks.