None of the 23 was a millionaire.
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The parents I no longer speak to probably have around 1mil if you include real estate. The fact that they think "tax the rich" applies to them in any actual life changing way is a laughable mindset that actual billionaires use to keep the upper-middle class in line / helping them oppress the rest of us. We'll need to break that mindset to fully dismantle this shit since they comprise a large number of local low-level bureaucrats. If you don't either figure out how to get them on your side or come up with suitable replacements (harder than you'd think) it's actually quite difficult to create any kind of functional new social system, which generally just leaves a power vacuum open for either more or continued dumbfuckery.
Real estate is ALWAYS part of wealth. Most people want to tax wealth starting at 500k, so your parents will pay it 100%. But here's a trick, wealth estimations will be done by the government on an annual basis and will change based on who's in charge. One year you might have 1m wealth and next year you might have 2m out of thin air. Because wealth is not money, it's an imaginary number.
P.S. And it's more like your parents don't speak to you, because you are a 13yo kid in an adult body.
My wife had this 3D DS ever since we met. This is how I feel and we need more Luigis. We need to free him. Fuck that DOJ.
I'm certainly not the 1st, or thousandth person to say it....we have a legal system, not a justice system. Luigi showed us all a flash of a justice system.
It’s been pretty clear for sometime that in the US laws don’t apply equally to everyone.
Serial killers like Ted Bundy, state charges. Even though he crossed several states. Yet this has federal charges for some reason.
"For some reason". I'd go with "For removing a useful tool of the Oligarchs"
There were two immigrant teenagers murdered in NYC the same day as Thompson. Nobody cared in the slightest.
Obviously not. As we've already ascertained from OP, one murder of a rich is worth more than 23 murders of non-white commoners. A mere 2 non-citizen commoners isn't going to make them blink an eye.
They should. But when the Supreme Court is corrupt, this is what happens.
It's all courts, let's not pretend it was different for most people 10 years ago.
But the Supreme Courts dictate lower courts
Yes I know, but (1) most lower court actions and decisions are never reviewed by SCOTUS and (2) it's not like the lower courts were doing great and every once in a while SCOTUS overturned them. This has long, long been a been a very consistent and pervasive problem in the federal courts. It's not as simple as "SCOTUS pulls the strings of the lower courts," quite far from it.
I didn't say they pull the strings. I said they dictate it. They set precedence. Which is huge in the interpretation of law.
Yes I know, I'm a lawyer lol. I'm just saying that, in effect, lower courts split frequently, and even when they ostensibly don't split they interpret SCOTUS decisions in sometimes very different ways.
How many non-billionaire’s lives are equal to one billionaire’s life?
If you had less than 24 I have bad news for you.
Depends on the net worth of the non-billionaires. You get even more if you go after those with negative values/s
To play Devil's advocate, the bottom one was offered a plea deal. That's different than not pursuing the death penalty.
And why was that not offered to Luigi?
They think they have a solid frame-up
"Montoya (DA) said he supports the death penalty and believes Crusius deserves it. But he said he met with the families of the victims and while some were willing to wait as long as it took for a death sentence, there was an overriding desire to conclude the process."
NPR news
This is the problem
You can throw a man that pleads guilty in jail for 90 consecutive life sentences and be "over"
Now, to see if he really did it and deserves the death penalty...yeah going to have to take a lot longer to just make sure....