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    5 months ago

    He has the right to be judged by a jury of his peers, and it appears as if his peers agree with his actions.

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      5 months ago

      “Friedman Agnifilo would ask potential jurors where they reside in Manhattan and where they get their news sources from to determine their political leanings,” Kerwick said.

      I mean, he is from a wealthy family, but there’s still not going to be many working class people in Manhattan.

      I think people are expecting too much from the jury.

      It’s going to be a bunch of insanely wealthy people who will 100% want to remind everyone the rich are untouchable

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            You have it backwards. 100k in Manhattan is not wealthy, let alone insanely wealthy. 11k is insanely impoverished, even if you live in the middle of nowhere.

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              I was living with about 10k CAD/y for a few years when I was single and I was mostly fine.

              Granted, this was in the 2010s. And of course I wasn’t in Manhattan, as you can guess by the currency.

              Now, I’m making about 70k CAD with a family (sole provider) and I’m just staying afloat.

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              I’ve had multiple injuries at work (and a few from sports) so am unable to do my former labor-type jobs. I’m also over 65 so retraining is out of the question.

              Worked minimum wage positions most of my life so have no savings and currently live in a rooming house.

              There’s lots of us out here scraping the bottom of the barrel just to survive.

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                That really sucks, and I’m genuinely sorry you’ve had to deal with all that. $100K USD can be eaten up very quickly depending on your city’s cost of living though. I’d imagine someone making $100k USD in Manhattan would be barely scraping by as well

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                  100K in Manhattan is nothing. My father was a principal earning $150K and still could barely get by in the city.

                  When apartments run total 40K annually, 100K is just a step above poverty wages.

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      5 months ago

      “As this man’s peers, you must be the judge of his actions.”

      “Ok”

      “Wait, not like that”

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        Yup. The article mentions that the prosecutors have a problem, but the U.S. people certainly don’t.

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    I thought they put the terrorist charge on him precisely to avoid requiring a jury as part of all the rights privileges we surrendered post 9/11 in the name of… Pffff… National security.

    National security being hilarious considering the CEOs are still walking the streets free, murdering citizens for profit having never not being actively sucked off by legislators that passed the patriot act and similar legislation.

    The murderous Shareholders are already inside the house. They own the house. You can barely afford to rent it from them.