this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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Luigi Mangione

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A community to post anything related to Luigi Mangione.

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/r/FreeLuigi, POPNYC, and 27ForLuigi are gathering birthday wishes, fan art, memes, and messages of support for Luigi Mangione.

Space in this project will be limited but your inclusion will be guaranteed if you donate $27 to Luigi's defense fund in honor of his 27th birthday. #27forLuigi

The deadline to submit a message or photo will be April 18, 2025 at 11:59EST.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

This seems ethically gray. essentially you pay a premium fee to be on the website. The fact that it's a donation seems even more problematic because it does seem like it could be a legal issue for the defense fund. I hope these people contacted his lawyers about it. Additionally, people on r/brianthompsonmurder pointed out the fact that people with little to no money won't have as much of a chance of being included (because they are picking and choosing who gets to say happy birthday??). "While donations increase the likelihood of your message being included, our goal is to feature as many messages as possible." So people who can't pay that much.... what? This feels weird and immoral to me. Perhaps the donation should be suggested in lieu of the card, but not a premium tier??

And the fact that they are not being transparent with how they are getting site to luigi is really weird. Will he even ever see it? A guy who wants things to be transparent and is against classism, is anti-capitalist. It's really off and doesn't feel right.