America Will Be Obsessed With Luigi Mangione for a Long Time

Because he's done more to fix our healthcare system than any politician.

I just saw the news that they've charged him with terrorism. It's like they want to keep the outrage going, and give the jury a reason to acquit.

This will probably be taken down, but psychology is what I do so here it is. This is not endorsement this is an explanation as to why there’s different sentiment for this shooting.

This was stated in Trevor Noah’s latest podcast in open discussion. Josh Johnson raises the point. Most gun violence stories on the news, people personally feel threatened. Outraged that they or theirs could be at a music festival, a movie, at school. Most assholes with a gun are killing innocent people, never mind all the other bits. And most are clearly a little “crazy.”

This was targeted, killer on killer, no collateral (death/injury) damage. The CEO had kids that’s the collateral damage. There’s even a lady with coffee who walks on scene then nopes out unharmed.

This isn’t endorsement. This WHY the public as a whole doesn’t seem to mind. The guy who died killed thousands. That solves the innocent part. The killer doesn’t feel threatening to any of us. Because he’s not. That solves the threat. As for sanity, gun arguments aside, the manifesto isn’t unhinged.

And so we find ourselves in an unusual space. Understandably so. This is new.

No I didn’t read the article.

the bullet etchings alone make it a work of art. He picked out the absolute most unloved plutocrat in america. Its very much a masterwork execution at a time when everybody wanted a reprieve from the trump media circus.

Timing: 10/10

Execution: 9/10

Target 10/10

Style: 10/10

We live in a country this happens every day I would take a CEO death over a Sandy Hook every time. I wish shootings weren't as common but it is what it is.

No shit... The gaping hole is the fact rich fucks are all we have to vote for. The President that recently won is the biggest example of undeserved wealth and power ever.

Mangione has tapped into something most Americans share: a deep hatred of our health insurance system and of the profiteers who seem so indifferent to our suffering and death. He has still not been mentioned by Donald Trump, who must realize that Mangione’s fandom has no political boundaries.

Wow even DT can't touch this

Hopefully inspired by.

Most definitely, he isn't the unibomber largely indiscriminately killing people based on some ideological manifesto, he targeted someone in charge of driving many families into bankruptcy if not outright murdering patients with denials, and targeted a problem that many know to be true. They may be trying to rewrite the legacy of the CEO, but he was not "one of the good guys".

Although there is some crossover to the unibomber's manifesto, in the sense that where this would have been the breaking point in societies of the past waiting for a revolution, the new means of control and technology is being used to keep it under control, from all sides, even and specially those that abused social networks to put Trump in power. Can't have the status quo of "[I can] stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody [but not you]" challenged.

The only thing left is for some bootlicker to wack him in jail and claim it's suicide, and Luigi will be more famous than Harambe.

I'd argue that he already is. It would just elevate him from legend to marter.

Is this how the bell riots start? I hope so, I'm tired of waiting.

Reminder that Luigi didn't do it

Hopefully he's the first of hundreds.

Be careful not to say anything positive about luigi because you're certainly going to end up on a priority list of people they are going to keep a lot of surveillance on. It's true, feds are terrified of people who seem inspired by things like this. If you say something really really nice about Luigi, the feds might even send you one of their female undercover agents to be your girlfriend for a while and spy on you.

I've been surprised by how many people are celebrating this guy. Just goes to show how strongly the contempt is felt for the American healthcare system.

I wonder. I still talk about snowden being a hero and I get some yahoo arguing with me. heroes of the millenia.

I'm from Australia and I'm quite obsessed with this, so it's a pretty global feeling.

marketing hirelings will sabotage the narrative with BS to make it go away.

Yeah this may be a bit of a clumsy comparison but he’s giving me John Brown vibes.

My insurance company just sent me a completely coincidental survey about my views towards them. I’m looking forward to going off on them when I have a moment. I’m sure it won’t do much but at least it should be cathartic.

Will it? I'm already sensing it dying down. I think we need a refresher.

id rather people focus on the lessons learned.

as long as this puts fear back into the burgeoise i aint complaining too much though.

Obsess away as long as it leads to more billionaires in the guillotine.

People love a martyr. Our man Luigi has become one, and it's exactly what the cause has needed.

No it won’t

The level of cohesion in opinions since this event is palpable. It should not be ignored.

I know I certainly will be! 😊

Should we be talking about this while we have unidentified drones in the sky??

Edit- well, I was told I didn't need /s on lemmy. Just highlighting the media is already moving forward, we'll hear less and less about the case and it'll fade to time.

I sure hope so.

I’m going to make bookmarks, tshirts, and inspirational posters.

Probably a coloring book too.

hopefully not

I doubt this, just keep McDonald's open and people will soon forget

Just waiting for someone to cry "Olly Olly Oxen Free"

Yeah, America, meaning USA. The rest of the world is tired of hearing it.

It won't last longer than another week!