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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 52 minutes ago

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

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 43 minutes ago

Nothing to be avoided anymore. Something to seek out.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 15 minutes 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 1 points 10 minutes 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 21 minutes 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 1 points 1 hour ago

removed by mod AND ALSO deleted by creator

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 144 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.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 15 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 points 59 minutes ago

Judges don't have conflicts of interest in communism?

[-] samokosik@lemmy.world -3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes 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.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 points 55 minutes ago

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

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago

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 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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 -2 points 1 hour ago

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 5 points 1 hour ago

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 52 minutes 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 1 points 58 minutes 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.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Communism lifted an illiterate nation of serfs into an industrial and atomic super power in, like, 50 years.

Which is to say just as bad as capitalism but approximately four times faster.

[-] samokosik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, USSR became a superpower where most areas were without toilets…

[-] Asetru@feddit.org 7 points 8 hours ago

But was it communism? Or was it labour camps and dictatorship?

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

They're the same picture.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 24 points 16 hours ago

Heard someone say that their grandparents who left the USSR during the collapse in the early 90's told them something along the lines of "not everything the Soviet government promised us about communism was true, but everything they told us about capitalism is true."

[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

I don’t think any of the nations who call themselves “communists” can actually be considered communist. Hell, most of them are pretty much dictatorships, which is the farthest you can get from communism.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

If were gonna start arguing semantics though, then what is pure capitalism? As even the US has limits on what capitalist shenanigans they draw the lines on. Ie policies like antitrust laws, which are explicitly to prevent monopolies, because while capitalism strive for monopolies, monopolies also usually kill the market so...

The answer is obviously socialism when defined as the government owning or regulating the means of production, meaning just regulation is enough no need to own them.

Communism doesn't work yet because we can't seem to plan resources use for large economies as efficiently as organic markets do it.

But unregulated markets just destroy themselves, end up overexpensive enshittified adfests trying to push subpar products to you that won't last you even the walk home.

Capitalism is like the cancerous form of market economies.

And communism has historically been about as healthy as the vegan diet of a nutritionally uninformed anemic teenager. Its not bad as an idea, but market economies just work better when they're properly regulated.

I'd definitely argue with you that countries like China aren't actually communist.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/capitalism-with-chinese-characteristics/CECD36DB2C3623DEE4670F7897BAA3CB

[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 6 points 13 hours ago

It was also responsible for the highly anti-intellectual culture that existed and still continues in said country today. So it swings both ways.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 2 hours ago

Anti-intellectual cultire fixated on higher education? I'm not saying that we don't have collective mental disorders. Maybe during Stalin(see Doctors' Case, cybernetics and genetics), but generally no.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 73 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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 2 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 45 points 23 hours ago

This judge needs to recuse themselves from the case.

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 51 points 1 day ago
[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Home of the Whopper.

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