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i left reddit for good today with their obvious attempt at controlling the narrative like the rest of big social media. long live the lemmy federation

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago

It's not so much the guy they're afraid of, they're afraid of what his actions could spur others into repeating. They're afraid of what can be done to them if multiple people follow suit. And y'know what? Maybe that's what we need now. Enough of us fearing them, and them fearing us. We don't need them. They need us. And it's well past the time to give them a reminder of that. Through force, if necessary. Preferably without bloodshed, but at this rate it doesn't look good. They've shown time and again they don't care about how many of us lose our lives to preventable circumstances, so it's time to MAKE them care again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

They have successfully jailed the alleged killer. They are trying to also imprison the idea he represents.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Luigi Mangione 💚

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Follow the money—because that’s where the power is. The elites crave control, and to grow their wealth, they must control society. Any social group that could challenge their narrative is relentlessly suppressed. Reddit, once a space for free speech, has transformed into what Facebook was—a corporation that bends to their interests. Now, Reddit is just another part of the network they control.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's the Luigi overpowered as can be.

Naw, ever see A Bug's Life where the Crickets only bully the ants because it's to distract them from realizing a thousand ants are stronger than one cricket?

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

Yes but in my version it was grasshoppers and not crickets

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, Trump said that they will push to get the death penalty for drug dealers...

Lock and load, folks.

We're hunting pharmaceutical CEOs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah the banning for upvotes thing was pretty final straw for me. It’ll be a conservative shit hole like Twitter soon enough

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

isnt it already, only allowing some center right content to be on it to "seem balance" but allowing right wingers to astroturf all the subs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

You do bring up a good point

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People up voting Luigi posts got banned? Yeah I'm glad I'm not on there anymore. Lemmy seems like my kind of community. Honestly feels like how reddit used to feel like. Good honest people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

They’re receiving warnings and stuff it’s been pretty fucky the last week with them so I’m out. I’ve heard of some bans for some odd stuff but I suppose some of it is hearsay. Yeah I’m really digging Lemmy it feels much more like the earlier internet where algorithms didn’t dictate everything and you can just find stuff organically

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

upvoting is ridiculous, but from what ive heard another site, Upvoting, in general flags your account if its new on certain subs, i think they are just expanding it to sitewide.

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

No, not because of that guy. Because of us. They are afraid of us. They should be.

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

Not sure. I'm still surprised things are so calm, considering the widespread availability of guns in the population.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

It is amazing how much fear Luigi has put into the establishment.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Reddit Exodus v43, stay tuned everyone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I got banned from late stage capitalism for questioning why they have a hard on for China.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I left reddit for good yesterday as well. To hell with their censorship.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I hear you. They banned me permanently for being pronouncedly anit-Facist anti-Trump anti-Musk. Reddit is a joke. A decidedly right joke.

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

They are afraid of copycats, but they had months to try and stop them by just loosening their strangle hold on society. I heard another exec got offed last month in his home in Oregon. it's starting

[–] LeFantome 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Their strategy instead is to announce wars and terrify every 20 minutes so that the news cycle is too full of other crisis to remember this guy.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Anybody got a wallpaper version of this? LMFAO

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember, they're not threatened by Luigi. They're threatened by the fact that so many people love Luigi and what he stands for.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This. He's basically a martyr at this point.

Luigi reminded the people that we have power. We don't need to be subservient to the whims of corporate interests. We can choose to go a different way. He's in jail but millions of people who are inspired by him are roaming free, any of which could become the next Luigi, and wack some CEO who is devoid of empathy or ethics (which is all of them). Anyone could be the perpetrator, anyone could be the target.

It's like a large chunk of the USA is now part of anonymous. Expect us.

(And for anyone who binds anonymous with 4chan, you don't understand anonymous)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Agree. Agree. Agree.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He’s in jail but millions of people who are inspired by him are roaming free, any of which could become the next Luigi, and wack some CEO

Let's be real, all it takes is one person struck by tragedy who no longer has anything to live for choosing to go out this way rather than going quietly. Maybe their kid was killed in the nth school shooting of the year. Maybe they're dying of cancer due to delayed treatment. Maybe they're financially ruined by medical debt. Like you said Luigi reminded people of what is possible, and there's plenty of tragedies that can be correctly attributed to the choices of the rich that happen every day

[–] [email protected] 182 points 2 days ago (15 children)

This was the straw that broke the camel's back. I remember seeing something a while back on r/coolguides about alternatives for various sites, including Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit. Today, I saw the writing on the wall and decided it was time.

The worst isn't just the Luigi thing, it's that in the future, they will most likely expand it to include any topic that the administration disapproves of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Absolutely. Actually it's already here. I got a permanent ban last week. I suggested that Luigi had the right idea, and that we needed more like him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I still lurk on reddit, mainly on the trans subreddits. But I could see those being banned from the site in a few years.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As always, follow the money. Those in power want more and more money and in order to do so they need to control the population. If there is one remaining social aggregate that can foster sentiment against them, they will come down hard on it. Reddit became a corporation like Facebook and then now they want to add Reddit to the list of social aggregates they control.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

i love how they were scrambling to rein in the conservative audiences of these msms, and social media early on in the manhunt of luigi. the grifters kept quiet for a whole month before they were able to reorient thier strategy to divide "left" vs right again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It's an addiction, like being addicted to heroin. We should have done an intervention long ago, but the addicts are running the show. And capitalism seems to favor and promote the addicts so we have a feedback loop that I fear cannot be stopped.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

He "allegedly" killed one of them. So they should feel threatened.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Strangely reminds me of the Always Sunny episode where they convinced people that a water stain on their kitchen wall was the Virgin Mary, and Charlie started blessing people. On a serious note tho, portraying Luigi Mangione and Donald Trump as saviors seems equally fucked up to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

1 is not the same, trump is treated as a god emperor by his followers, and he can do no wrong despite what he has done. the other being showing what was wrong with the society and backing why he did it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That's why I said "equally fucked up" instead of "the same".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt most people see Luigi as a savior, just a symbol of retribution in a world that lacks justice

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

Yeah I think the two portrayals seem equally fucked up, not equally popular.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

IDK. The guy definitely has saintly vibes about him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago) (1 children)

To me, methodically walking up behind somebody and shooting them in the back seems anything but saintly, no matter how it's compared with the heinous evil deeds of corporate demons. Saintly would be if he convinced the CEO to change his ways and got others to do the same. What Luigi did was just violence people happen to be excusing because it satisfies their own anger, like when your big brother beats up your bully. Not an especially saintly vibe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

Regardless of how the act was done, it was undeniably an act of extreme sacrifice. He threw his life away to bring justice to an evil man who would never face justice any other way. Assuming he is the killer, Luigi did this even though he himself is from a well-off family and will never have trouble affording healthcare. Brian Thompson killed tens of thousands of innocent human beings. Because of Luigi, Brian Thompson will never kill again.

To give your life in the service of total strangers? To sacrifice yourself to save the innocent and punish the guilty? To become a literal martyr? That is the making of a saint.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago

Maybe you're an expert psychiatrist or something, but in my layman's view it was a very typical psychotic outburst, which you're making special because you like the outcome. To each their own.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

Free Luigi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

they should... once you take everything away from somoene, they have nothing to lose... they have to be getting close to that on some of the people on the lowest rungs of surviving

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