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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

It's pretty disturbing to see this news in the top 10 of a such community. Apparently, many people want to go back to the far-west where it was normal to use the talion law. And since many Luigi's fanboys are treating him as a hero for committing his crime, i wonder who many people claiming he is innocent and has been unfairly accused are just hypocrites.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If the courts had intervened to stop Brian Thompson before his healthcare murder spree then maybe Luigi wouldn't be being prosecuted right now. This trial isnt about luigi, its about covering up the chain of political failures that led us here.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

A single death is a tragedy; A million deaths is a statistic.

Luigi killed a dad, husband, ceo, etc, etc etc.

Brian just inflated some numbers...

I hate how the world works.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is record profits for a health insurance company

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago

Love to see it

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have it on good authority from my son that Luigi was in a haunted mansion that day.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Gonna wanna see the source code on that "Pray" button. I don't think it actually does anything.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

on desktop the button has a counter for how many people have pressed it, so it does something :)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Holy crap! Do we now have the technology to quantify thoughts and prayers?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

we have the technology!

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The real uplifting news is bootlickers getting kicked in their metaphorical shins in the comment section.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Says the one who licks Mangione's boots.

Personnally, i find pretty worrying that vigilantism is so normalized that a murder is qualified as "uplifting", i don't wanna live in a neo-far west where private justice is the norm. And before deifing Mangione, you should have checked his political background, because the guy is openly "anti-woke", that means he likely doesn't care about the political implications of his murder and acted in a pure selfish way.

The amount of fame he got is insane, he even have fanfictions on wattpad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

If the "Bootlickers" are the people outside of the club of the oblivious Mangione fanboys, i'm proud to be one of them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd lick a boot if they payed enough, but they're not. I get that other people are worse off than me, but seriously, what the fuck? The current regime isn't paying. period. I'm angry and I don't know what to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What makes a bootlicker is that they continue to lick the boot even when it isn't paying off in the slightest.

But you are right, there is no longer any reward for participating in society. The wealthy have forgotten fear.

Life under Capitalism was better while there was a sizable Communist bloc on the other side of the world. The fear that the commoners might wake up and make their voices heard by force of violence resulted in all manner of concessions. Unions were stronger, public services were estabilished, workers' rights were signed into law. Then the Soviets showed weakness in the eighties, and the Capitalist class was quick to invent Neoliberalism and begin the slow but assured gutting of all those concessions. While manufacturing consent through the media and convincing people that this was what they actually wanted.

Now we see the end result.

As for what to do about it, I don't fucking know either. Because the only thing that is known to work would require a mass movement of a size that I don't think even can be achieved nowadays. Society is too fragmented. People are too propagandised.

I have basically embraced doomer hedonism. Life will not get better, so I make a point to just enjoy myself as much as possible, I have no intention of breeding more slaves for their flesh-mill, and I personally hope to die young. (to a definition of young anyway, I'm this close to being legally considered 'middle aged')

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (25 children)

How a 30k donation to a murderer counts as "uplifting news"? If anything it's depressing

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Innocent until proven guilty.

Before we engage in name calling for this suspect, know that yesterday was blatantly clear the system is stacked against him to the point where the courts did not Los him to go into PA for another legal procedure.

See the thing here is that they were giving evidence even to MAX for the documentary and not his legal team, who correctly called some of the evidence inadmissible in court.

So before you feel like calling him a murderer see. The facts and wait for the events to unfold.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You have evidence he murdered someone? Why haven't you told anyone?!

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

How's that boot taste?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (5 children)

He didn’t murder anyone.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is no evidence that Luigi killed anyone. Innocent until proven guilty.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You don’t get to celebrate him for doing the murder white also claiming he didn’t do it.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That’s 30 grand to someone who was accused of murder who should be entitled to the best possible defense for such a serious accusation in such a hot political climate.

Under our current legal system, that means they are in severe need of funding to help ensure that the result is fair and just.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Oh, go lick a boot, dweeb.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Why are you lying? Nobody's been convicted of murder.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

They’ve already decided to play judge and jury, and I suspect would enjoy playing executioner.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It’s the best news all day, go back to Reddit corporate shill

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

You're asleep at the wheel.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

this is like saying donating to a guy who killed someone actively killing others is never uplifting news. Sure leave the school shooters alone

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The donation doesn't go to a CEO who has murdered hundreds, possibly thousands of people.

It is going to someone who acted in defense of others. Or who might not be the person who even did that, which is why he deserves a fair trial.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

They're saying that they find due process to be lacking and the prosecution to be political.
Do you think it's depressing that someone would donate money to the defense of someone they think is being inappropriately prosecuted?
If you think they're guilty, you should still want them to get the best defense possible, so that when they're found guilty it's airtight. Our justice system is based on an adversarial model. If the prosecution, with the resources of the state, can't successfully argue that they did it and that their arrest and all procedures were properly followed, do you really want that to still mean someone faces the death penalty?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Luigi's Mansion 2

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Taking out the leader of an evil (corpo) empire is heroism, not subject to murder charges.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (12 children)

What does this mean, exactly? More resources to hire more lawyers or something?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I don't want to dampen the good mood, but even if this is sent anonymously, is there any risk of the information of who is the donor being hacked, especially by corporate overlords who have every incentive to see Luigi and his supporters get punished?

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