In December, Luigi Mangione was arrested for shooting health insurance executive Brian Thompson. Last week, Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, announced that she was seeking the death penalty. It’s a highly unusual announcement, since Mangione hasn’t even been indicted yet on a federal level. (He has been indicted in Manhattan.) By intervening in this high-profile case, the Trump administration has made clear that it believes that CEOs are especially important people whose deaths need to be swiftly and mercilessly avenged.

  • Banana
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    1115 days ago

    Billionaires do deserve to die for being billionaires though.

    You can’t amass that type of wealth without being responsible for human suffering en masse. It’s impossible.

    • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc
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      515 days ago

      yeah I think this distinction is important. we don’t need to kill the working professionals who saved money and invested wisely throughout their careers. many of those people will eventually be millionaires, but like, ones of millions.

      once you get to hundreds of millions it starts to look like there was no possible moral way to arrive at that.