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Luigi Mangione shouts a message to the American people on his way to court:

“This is completely unjust and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience.”

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

My boy did nuthin wrong

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

The corporate media is in the manufacturing business...

[–] [email protected] 342 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Please stay alive, Luigi. Regardless of whether what you did is right or wrong, and whether you actually did it or not, everyone needs you there (including both prosecutors and your defense).

Keep your message consistent, and any correspondence with the courts and police vetted by a lawyer so that it doesn't get misconstrued.

Please have someone you trust by your side 24/7 or a live feed at this point. Please report any detainment conditions that might intentionally drive someone towards self-harm to the public. People everywhere are counting on you.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Has a comment ever been so close to an eternally echoed prayer as this?

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Epstein was killed because he knew things and was still a threat to the rich. Luigi doesn't have anything to say that would hurt the rich anymore. In fact, killing him in prison would be incredibly short sighted by the rich - they need to stop the rest of us from mobilizing in his honor - which killing him out of revenge would not accomplish. The same news sources that tried to make us care about the evil assassin and helpless CEO will now try to character assassinate Luigi and make him a pariah. He can't galvanized a generation if he's a weirdo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

This makes me think of a fact I heard the others day; the reason "heretics" used to be burned was so that there was nothing left to have as artifacts to be worshipped.

Ie the ruling class was trying to avoid martyrdom of the burned.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What he did was right. Yes, much like how Hitler's death would've been sad for Eva Braun had she still been alive, Brian Thompson's death is sad for those who survive him, but the world is a brighter place for it.

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[–] [email protected] 287 points 1 week ago (32 children)

They don't want him in front of a jury.

Regardless if it's him or not. They cannot afford him to get acquitted.

But they can't martyr him. That will be a death sentence to the US.

This isn't going to end well for anyone. This guy has shown a much darker picture of the US to us that we all know too well.

[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Imho, as painful as it is, avoiding an economic civil war at this point does more harm than good over time. It kicks the can down the road until their side exclusively can use humanoid robots to fight their battles for them, and that just means get in line and die until collapse.

The alternative is even darker, our non-wealthy children being judged by AI as to whether the potential profit/loss of healing them is greater or less than their remaining projected exploitation value to the owners.

And that's just in Healthcare. Our entire economy has become this sociopathic.

This is silent slaughter. No one should confuse quiet with peace. We haven't had peace for a long time.

They don't care if only the top 5% is free on the backs of the 95%, they don't see the bottom 95% as human at all. I don't think society should continue under that bargain. It isn't worth it. No one is free until everyone is.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is silent slaughter. No one should confuse quiet with peace. We haven’t had peace for a long time.

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." -- MLK Jr.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Reminder that MLK was silenced because he was getting further into advocating economic equity, a bridge too far.

I think the FBI killed him. It's an objective matter of historical record they tried to blackmail him into committing suicide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_letter

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago

His family proved in court that the government killed him, but every judge in criminal courts refused to let the case go to trial, so it was only a civil court case. But the judge was convinced by the evidence and found the government guilty and dues were awarded.

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're setting him up to be too scared to face trial, so he killed himself. They talked about how much he was shaking since he got approached by police, he's pissing himself apparently. Dude is gunna get killed so he can't talk on the stand. The last thing the oligarchs want is for this guy to have more of a platform.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (38 children)

Well the swine killed George Floyd.

If they kill him, protest is the only thing working class can do practically so gonna need to hit the streets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Something tells me the protest would be far less organized and far more violent.

If Luigi is killed cities will burn

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As measured, obtainable, and realistic as your goal is, I fear it will be ineffective. Protesting is practical, safe, and easily ignored. One CEO gets popped, and suddenly there's murmurs, unified, across the political spectrum. The elites need to know the sheer terror of writhing masses, wielding blunt and rusty tools, awash with unabated malice.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 week ago (11 children)

American police once again showing to us how unfit for the job they are.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago

Media will now work hard to turn him from hero to zero.

They gotta protect those sponsor dollarsp

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 week ago

The US is disgusting. I hate this country so much.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Obviously they want to make an example. They'll drag him through the mud in court, reveal that he was sexually deviant, claim he cheated on tests in school, played video games, played d&d, worshipped Satan, on and on. Then, when they've dragged the court out long enough to bore people, they'll execute him publicly and call it justice.

They won't epstein him, too obvious and likely to generate martyrdom. Killing him like a "common murderer" shows that "the system works" and that the machinery of the state's actions are natural and inevitable.

Or maybe they'll try to just lock him away forever and get him to write some books to make the prisons a little more money. Works for serial killers, and sales of "How to murder a CEO" will help to defuse revolutionary sentiment by recuperating the murder as an exotic one-off situation. He's gonna get simple-ricked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That's a great fantasy, but New York doesn't have the death penalty, and he didn't commit a federal crime. He won't get the death penalty, he'll likely get first degree murder and serve 30-life assuming they can show he targeted the actual victim and it wasn't just the first person he saw that looked like they might be a UHG executive.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago

"Altoona pizza is gross and weird!"

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (23 children)

Here's my guess as to what's going on. We all knew that the picture they posted of his face last week was a different dude. Half the internet was saying that. But Luigi realized it looked like him and skipped out of town so he didn't get in trouble for something he didn't do. That would explain why he looked sketchy when he was in the McDonald's. Dude was probably shitting his pants. He was just trying to get out of town before he got falsely ID'd as the culprit. He's been saying that they planted evidence on him which totally makes sense. What are the fucking chances he had literally every piece of evidence on him that they needed when he was just at a fucking McDonald's?

This just sounds hella suspicious. But I guess they found the scapegoat they were looking for.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

This is just motivated reasoning. Someone thinking "Oh no, I look kinda like that guy! I'm fucked!" seems incredibly far-fetched to me.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (25 children)

So they did arrest the wrong man. How long before they "sucide" him?

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (5 children)

In his mugshot they put him in a vest reserved for people who are a suicide risk. He is definitely going to get Epsteined

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