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[-] boomzilla@programming.dev -2 points 6 days ago

The sad thing is the rat will get their money if Mangione is convicted (and he most probably will even if he's just a scapegoat). Even if the responsible office will block the reward, some CEO will jump in and hand him way more than the 60k. Maybe they'll fabricate it into a heatwarming christmas story with some sad background stories of the rat and how they're now able to pay off the mortgage of their parents home or something.

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 403 points 1 week ago

Columbine kicked off an epidemic of school shootings because of the attention it got. Some people need a focus for their misery and I am not ashamed to say that I would rather see heartless corporate executives fear for their safety instead of school children gunned down as they hide in a closet. Just putting that out there.

[-] Dohnuthut@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago

I am glad to know I'm not alone in this line of thinking!

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 70 points 1 week ago

Hello lonely young men with something to prove, have you seen how much positive attention Luigi got

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[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago

It really would be a strange kind of uniquely American poetry if our school shooting problem inverted itself into a megacorp CEO shooting solution.

[-] CaptSneeze@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago

If a few more CEOs gets off’d, they’ll ram gun control legislation through congress faster than Trump can wolf down a Big Mac.

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[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 225 points 1 week ago

This is why you don't snitch. The powers that be don't care about you, have no intention to do right by you, and will actively look for ways to avoid you after they are done with you.

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 171 points 1 week ago

...and all that came of the whole affair was a bunch of bad reviews for a McDonald's, which were promptly deleted by the corporation controlling all data.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 171 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, there was a lot more that came of this (unless you're specifically referencing the snitching part).

  • It's made business execs afraid.
  • It's shown the working class how to have solidarity.
  • It's been a rallying cry for how much the people hare the current system.
  • It's given us a martyr.
  • It’s taught the would be school shooters that they’ll get lots of positive attention for redirecting their targets towards those deserving. They’ll get labeled a folk hero, they’ll have people trying to send them money for their legal defense fund, they’ll get their name in the history books. They’ll get everything they ever wanted out of their act of violence.

And I'm sure there's more.

[-] psoul@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Maybe the “let me fuck shit up and shoot up my high-school” crowd doesn’t really care about being remembered as heroes but what would I know.

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[-] leadore@lemmy.world 156 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This thing about them not getting the promised reward needs to go viral so in the future whenever someone's thinking of turning someone in to get the reward money, they'll know they're highly unlikely to get a damn thing.

[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

It's gone viral on several meme pages I follow on Facebook...

Also if this employee doesn't get rewarded for the tip-off that led to Luigi's arrest, what kind of message is that going to send to the public about law enforcement? It's just going to reinforce the already-growing ACAB narrative and make people distrust the police even further....

Heck, the very real possibility of being publicly outed, shamed, harassed and threatened for being the one to rat on Luigi, and not getting the promised $60,000 reward could end up radicalising more people.

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[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 116 points 1 week ago
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[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 99 points 1 week ago

Wait for the next step: the franchise fires the employee because of several 1 star reviews and death threats

[-] Ithorian@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago
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[-] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 96 points 1 week ago

The owner class and their government muppets are flexing right now as if they want to inflame tensions.

Or are they not reading the room?

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 107 points 1 week ago

They have learned over decades that they can do whatever the fuck they please. They don't need to read the room, nothing is gonna happen to them anyway. Also, the public just voted their mascot into the White House for 4 years despite 34 convictions, so they are truly invincible and they know.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 85 points 1 week ago

I hope that McDonalds has “class traitor” graffiti on it

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[-] qx128@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago

Did they seriously not give the snitch the bounty? Can anyone provide official news story on this?

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago

Iirc they never actually pay the reward in almost every reward poster for one reason or another.

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[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago

Anyone have a citation about the rat not getting the money? People keep saying that, but I haven't seen a single article posted about it.

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[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 week ago

is there news source for "fuck right off about that reward, bud"?

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