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Should we be talking about this while we have unidentified drones in the sky??

Edit- well, I was told I didn’t need /s on lemmy. Just highlighting the media is already moving forward, we’ll hear less and less about the case and it’ll fade to time.

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I don’t see the military worrying about it, so its not foreign military or aliens.

New Jersey also have eyesight problems and commonly misidentify planes as drones.

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Love it

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman? No, it’s a drone!

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1 point

We can talk about more than one thing.

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Yeah, we can talk about more things than one. Besides, drones don’t bother me as much as getting healthcare.

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Its probably just as likely the drones are coming from the military base and theyre running tests/trainings at night so no one can get a clear image of what they actually are.

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Yeah, the Military Base says officially nothing is happening. Fox News took this as “You Don’t Know?! WE DON’T KNOW WHOSE DRONES THESE ARE?! AND BIDEN IS DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT??!

You’d think those anchors would be frothing at the mouth with how stupid and angry they pretend to be.

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Despite the outrage at Fox News, nothing unusual is happening with Drones. There are some new, very recently FAA approved, flying vehicles being tested by several startups and there is some drone activity above military bases that the military doesn’t acknowledge the existence of because that is how you get court martialed.

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Given the USA spends more on its military than the rest of the planet combined—no, you can be happy in the knowledge that your government decided it wasn’t worrying enough to obliterate

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Technically not the truth… The USA was responsible for about 37% of total global spending on military in 2023, and is the largest single spender (in US$ equivalent) globally. However, as a percentage of GDP the USA doesn’t even make the top 15. (and if you’re talking about a nation’s spending priorities then the percentage matters more than the $ value)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest_military_expenditures

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$916 billion = US military budget, in 2023.

Just think of all the good that could be done with that money…

Poverty-reduction, environment-restoration, water-health, high-speed trains, global-aid…

When will we be angelic?

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No.

They’re a distraction from the class war occupation.

The for profit media has seen this minor story as their escape from the news cycle their owners are scared of.

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No it won’t. America will have forgotten by next week.

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Not if something happens again.

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1 point

True but no one else has the balls.

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If the trial is televised/streamed, it could be an OJ type thing that keeps going.

But… probably, yeah.

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3 points

Just keep it up

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No it won’t

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This whole story is ripe for conspiracy theory. Comparable to Epstein’s arrest and suicide from back in 2020.

Even if the national media wants the story to go away, you’re going to have Luigi enthusiasts popping up on the social fringe for years, if not decades.

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Exactly. We are a society where innocent children are gunned down in their classrooms every other day. And for once, finally, one of the gunman actually decided to smite someone who deserved it. If you’re at the point of being willing to throw your life away in an act of murderous violence, why die a villain, when you can die a hero?

We should be building statues of Luigi.

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I can’t wait to see the NPR article titled “Luigi Mangione was [aquitted/convicted/excuted] years ago. Why do week keep hearing his name in comment sections?”, and I’ll see this NPR article like 5-6 years from now.

Epstien died ~5 years ago, yet I still keep seeing people talking about him.

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Reminder that Luigi didn’t do it

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Oh you know who did?

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I’m still waiting for his bullet proof alibi to emerge. So far, the closest I’ve gotten is some mumbling about a false flag and “big news coming, watch this space”.

Feels like the “Luigi is a fall guy” folks stumbled half drunk out of a “Sandy Hook Was Crisis Actors” convention.

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Even if you have irrefutable evidence it was him, it wasn’t him.

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That’s conceptually backward to how our justice system (on paper) determines guilt. It has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Luigi did it. Nobody else needs to be convicted or even accused for Luigi to be determined to be innocent.

And there are some good reasons to doubt from what we’ve seen as the public. The cops said they found his backpack in NY but then also found him with his backpack. The pictures don’t quite match. It doesn’t make sense for him to keep incriminating evidence on him in a McDonald’s. There’s a lot about it that stinks.

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16 points

Luigis can’t melt steel beams?

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We support him, even if he’s innocent.

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243 points

Because he’s done more to fix our healthcare system than any politician.

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He can fix us.

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I wouldn’t say fixed as things are the same way as they are, but reminded us how every day we are fucked by oligarchs.

This is a weird time as we just elected them, just look how many billionaires are in trump’s cabinet picks.

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as we just elected them

That’s because the system is rigged. We can only ever choose between one rich person and another.

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You can’t compare Harris and Trump in that regard whatsoever

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I mean, Anthem did back down from that stupid policy about time limit anesthesia

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To fix is not the same thing as fixed. He’s done more towards fixing the problem. This said, it’s very important to reiterate, as you have, that nearly NOTHING hss still been accomplished.

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We need more Luigis for some more fixing.

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