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Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon by zarzavat on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:20PM (#42797042)
Luigi is a symptom of an overly inactive justice system, if you don't prosecute crimes then some people take the law into their own hands (as a matter of fact). Preventing vigilantism is why having a working justice system is important to a functioning society.

DPR is according to his defenders a symptom of an overly active justice system prosecuting crimes that shouldn't be prosecuted. Though I'm not sure I personally agree with that.

OJ was just a crook.

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Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon by jdminhbg on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @04:22PM (#42797661)
The Luigi some people have constructed in their minds is a symptom of an overly inactive justice system. The Luigi of real life is the symptom of a man suffering a psychotic break.
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Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon by doctorpangloss on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @04:55PM (#42797939)
See, you are one of the people who feels about Luigi Mangione what some people felt about OJ Simpson. You’re getting it. You can read about how some people talked about OJ Simpson’s supposed innocence, it is exactly the same energy.
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Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon by UniverseHacker on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:14AM (#42804813)
Almost nobody thinks Luigi Mangione or Ross Ulbricht are innocent, or were falsely accused. Neither of the 3 cases are remotely comparable beyond being "people charged with crimes that there is some public sympathy for."

Most people seem to think Ulbricht was guilty, and deserved to be found guilty and go to prison, but that the full sentence didn't fit the crime.

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