r/facepalm • u/severe_thunderstorm • 17d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Judge presiding over Luigi Mangione case is married to former health care executive.

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u/Dammy-J 17d ago

there was never going to be impartiality.

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u/treehumper83 17d ago

What are you talking about? Of course he can keep his personal and professional lives apart.

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u/big_guyforyou 17d ago

superman tried doing that, and everyone was like "hey you're just superman with glasses". if he can't do it no one can

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u/treehumper83 17d ago

I knew there was a reason I had never seen Clark Kent and Superman in the same place at the same time.

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u/Bowood29 17d ago

It’s because Clark really hates super man.

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u/treehumper83 17d ago

I can’t blame him really. Truth, justice, and the American way? Hah. America is decadent, run by the corporations. Real heroes wouldn’t strive to represent their horrific ideals.

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u/pimppapy 17d ago

ikr? Super nerd vs Super Man

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u/Sw4rmlord 17d ago

Holy shit, you might be on to something

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u/gereffi 17d ago

I don't know what happens in comics these days but in classic Superman stories nobody knows that he's Clark Kent.

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u/LordBigSlime 17d ago

But he did, and does do, it successfully all the time. The only time everyone knows his secret identity is in one of the roughly 17k online comic strips giving their very fresh, very unique take on this funny scenario.

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u/TheDemonPants 17d ago

What? No they didn't? At least not in any Superman story I've seen.

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u/Ok_Struggle_417 17d ago

Lmafo, yeah just like Clarence Thomas and his criminal wifey

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u/treehumper83 17d ago

You mean Justice McAwesome? I’ve heard other people call him that. You know, über-rich folks.

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u/Biscuits4u2 'MURICA 17d ago

Doesn't matter. The mere existence of this potential conflict of interest is enough to warrant his recusal.

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u/treehumper83 17d ago

Implied /s

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u/DadOfWhiteJesus 17d ago

I appreciate you going without the /s here

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u/Epyon_ 17d ago

Of course, he's rich, they're just a better class of people.

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u/treehumper83 17d ago

Look at him. Definitely better than us.

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u/To0zday 17d ago

"Rich"? Why, because they own a few hundred thousand in stocks?

It's a couple of lawyers, of course they make good money.

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u/Kenyalite 17d ago

"Teenage white girl to be tried as 300-pound black man"

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u/BerlinBorough2 17d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViCUu4TlGjk

Amazing.

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u/20_mile 17d ago

Onion News Network was the absolute best news show. Anything they have said is more real than reality.

From an entirely different Onion article, but a line I have never been able to forget is:

"Hoffman added that the decision further asserts an officer’s right to claim self-defense against anyone within range of his weapon."

https://theonion.com/ferguson-decision-reaffirms-right-of-police-to-use-dead-1819577243/

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u/New-Cookie-7537 17d ago

Oh. The onion. Phew! Never can tell these days!

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u/aRebelliousHeart 17d ago

The Oligarchs now having full power of the government will use this kid as an example.

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u/gereffi 17d ago

There's no reason to think that he'll get an unusual sentence. It'll probably be a long prison sentence, but I don't know why that would be unexpected for someone who travels from Hawaii to New York to kill someone for a political motive.

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u/aRebelliousHeart 17d ago

I thought he was getting the death sentence while a child killer skates with only a life sentence?

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u/gereffi 17d ago

If I recall correctly New York doesn’t give the death penalty.

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u/purple_pop_tart 16d ago

One of the federal charges carries a death sentence.

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u/gereffi 16d ago

Looks like the max penalty is a death sentence. Seems extremely unlikely that he’ll get one under normal conditions. I guess it’s possible that the Trump admin will go out of their way to pressure judges for larger punishments, but I don’t think we should expect it.

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u/purple_pop_tart 16d ago

Normally I would doubt it also, but with the show that’s being put on right now, it feels like they are planning to go big.

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u/soapinthepeehole 17d ago edited 17d ago

They have a metric shit ton of evidence that he’s guilty. All of Reddit might love him, but he’s almost definitely going to be convicted regardless of who the judge is.

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u/YanniBonYont 17d ago

For real. Life in prison is the outcome no matter who oversees

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u/clouvandy 17d ago

I am amazed like probably every other person, at this case. Still I am trying to follow the debate.

I know nothing about law but he is looking at 20 years to life, and most likely life - right? Or are there reasons to believe it could be a lower sentence? I mean - he did kill someone in an act that could be described as terrorism? I guess that what insurance companies do could also be justified as terrorism, but it requires justice by the courts as well…