A short while back I saw a comment on Lemmy mention something along the lines of how opinion pieces are the best/only place that they go for their info... And it had a ton of upvotes.
Anything I could do to make sure my heir continued on with my vision would not be guarunteed, and it would only be temporary. As the saying goes, you're putting all of your eggs in one basket, from one ruler to the next.
A more permanent solution would be to overhaul the current system and setup checks and balances so that no one person could have too much power.
You could divide up power between an Executive Branch, a Legislative Branch, and a Judicial Branch. Then you put in place like-minded groups of people in each of those branches and voilà.
I think, at this point, anything the health insurance companies do that actually looks good, will make us jump to that conclusion.
This isn't a trolley problem. Killing CEOs is not going to save any more lives or "fix the system" in any way.
There's no guarantee that the new CEO will be better or worse, and if they feel threatened enough they'll just hire security.
Doesn’t sound like much more than acknowledging the process and signing the form by the judge. Is that art?
Judging by the picture in the article, the judge wasn't just a passive participant who was standing nearby and watching, or sitting in an office and signing a document.
It was definitely happening a lot more in the other news posts about this subject. But those modlogs were nuked once the other posts were removed.
Depends on where you live. There's a very similar case in Germany from 2 years ago compared to what's going on now.
In Germany a cop was murdered and someone posted on Facebook: "Not a single second of silence for these creatures."
The courts have ruled that even "liking" a comment/post like that could be a crime.
https://winfuture.de/news,131418.html
Edit: since the post is locked...
Ah, sorry about that, I figured that you would use some translator tool on it if you wanted to verify my source.
I ran it through a few different ones but DeepL seemed to handle it best:
Tap for full translation.
Social media has been nothing new for a long time, yet courts are still dealing with issues related to it. Or rather: hate speech is and remains a huge issue. Now comes a question: is a simple "like" already punishable?
Yes, at least according to the Meiningen Regional Court. In a recently published decision, the regional court found that even a like can be a punishable offense. Specifically, this is the case if the liked post contains punishable content.
The case in question is the double murder of a police officer in the district of Kusel at the beginning of the year. At the time, a hunter and poacher reacted to a vehicle stop with lethal force. The crime was also a major topic on social media, with an overwhelming majority of people expressing shock at this double murder.
But not exclusively: one Facebook user wrote in a post "Not a single second of silence for these creatures". At least one user liked this post and for the Meiningen public prosecutor's office this was already a criminal offense (it is not known whether and how the original author is being investigated, but it can be assumed).
According to the Berlin criminal and media lawyer Ehssan Khazaeli, who was commissioned by the accused, the Facebook user had "made himself liable to prosecution both for denigrating the memory of deceased persons under Section 189 StGB and for rewarding and approving criminal acts under Section 140 StGB", as the lawyer writes in a blog post (via Tarnkappe).
Is a "like" already "condoning"? An extensive search was carried out against the person who pressed the "Like" button, and the authorities gained access to the accused's home, vehicle and cloud storage. Khazaeli criticized the decision: "By liking a post, it remains clear that it is the post of another person - there can be no question of 'taking ownership'," said the lawyer.
Khazaeli went on to say that a like is not a "personal mental statement", and certainly not an endorsement of a crime. "The post is linked to the culture of mourning and the funeral service for the two police officers, not to the murder as such. You can and should find that distasteful, but it is not relevant under criminal law," says Ehssan Khazaeli.
The lawyer intends to lodge a constitutional complaint against the decision in the coming months: "It's not about the individual case, but about the fundamental question of whether simply liking something on social media can be a criminal offense."
The other post had it just as bad if not worse before it was removed entirely.
I tried to bring up the point that a system where we kill CEOs because we don't like their business practices isn't going to fix anything and the downvotes immediately poured in.
Either this is just the way that a lot of people on Lemmy think, or there's some concerted effort/psyop trying to stir discontent among the users here.
For a bit there I was doubting if I even wanted to be associated with Lemmy anymore, but at least it looks like the mods have been cleaning up the worst comments.
Is anyone else bothered by the last panel where they suddenly switch places?