The sketchy part is not her not getting convicted. It’s that no charges were even filed. I also enjoyed this bit of info from one of the sources regarding the other DUI incident. Prosecutors in Texas have dropped a 2011 drunken driving citation against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton.

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      If you look deep, deep down (approx. 12,500 feet down) I’m sure you can find something nice to say.

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    She really looks creepy. I guess once you’re that weathy you’re relatively isolated from authentic social interaction and start getting a little fucked in the head.

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    Wow, people with obscene amounts of money being treated differently than everyone else. Who would have thought? Did not see this coming.

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    It doesn’t surprise me. Even regular folks who kill pedestrians and cyclists get off easy. This is just one step further because of $$$

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    Just remember: You don’t have to shop at Walmart to support the Waltons. Your tax dollars go to the social programs that many Walmart employees are forced to depend on because Walmart won’t pay a living wage.

    Getting away with murder is only one privilege of being wealthy.

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        That’s part of it, but vehicular crimes specifically are often overlooked, many people aren’t concerned by high numbers of road fatalities, and often resort to victim blaming, as if it’s just a cost of living.

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          Interesting insights about motor vehicles coming from someone on “dmv.social”

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    Not to be an Internet edgelord, but if some billionaire killed one of my family and got away with it, I would make it my life’s mission to hunt them down and make sure they get some kind of justice.

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      You would have a great deal of difficulty just getting near them. Billionaires don’t hang out at Walmart - ironically enough in this case.

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        This reminds me of that movie “Assault on Wall Street” where basically some dude goes on a killing spree and starts murdering a bunch of wall street people. Except, the guy is framed as a hero, which I assume is because it came out not too long after the 2008 financial crisis (~2013). I watched that movie in like 2017, and it felt antisocial and lunatic-ey.

        I wonder if we’re at a point right now where a similar movie about going on a killing spree against billionaires would do well?

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    I knew about this but it’s never made sense to me. If I was a billionaire I’d never drive myself anywhere, particularly not if I was going to be intoxicated.

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      Having to rely on people to do things for you, even if you’re super rich, can be annoying. People that work for you take time off, get sick, so now you need other people to manage the other people to ensure that someone is always available, then you start to dislike some of those people, but managing who is around you all the time also takes effort, etc. etc. You can’t pay your way out of everything. Plus sometimes you just want to do things for yourself, and sometimes you just want to be alone.

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        Intelligence hasn’t been a requirement for being wealthy for some time. We’re dealing with a growing number of mega rich morons now.

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          To be fair, a lot of the mega rich morons, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc are narrow geniuses (with a lot of luck). They’re just not self aware enough to know what they don’t know and they think they’re renaissance men. If the news media was continuously telling me that I was a genius, I might start to believe it too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    fuck this, how would you feel if the pedestrian was your family. how do people deal with tragedy like that without… losing the will to be civil?

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      People like this have money. That creates a barrier between them and "other"people. With enough money you never have to think about anyone below the line.

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        And this is why I dislike the idiotic temporarily embarrassed billionaires most of all. They’re just looking for a way to get away with all of their shitty impulses.

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        The problem is not them having money. The problem is they’re treated differently because they have money. As if laws don’t apply to them just because they have money. Their enablers are the problem.

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      Sadly I’ll bet this happens a lot and it is ultimately decided that it was an accident, so there is no one to blame. Honestly if I was the family I might hope for that outcome because otherwise I would love the rest of my life consumed with hatred for someone rather than seeing it as just fate.

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      To be honest I don’t know. I’m continuously surprised by how few politicians and rich people are shot by people they have wronged.

      Like if it was your only kid or something I don’t know how you hold yourself back in the face of this kind of injustice.