Never stop talking about Luigi

The next court date has been set for February 21.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/us/luigi-mangione-arraignment-new-york/index.html

As much as I'd like to believe it's a conspiracy, news organizations make money from clicks. There isn't much for them to monetize between now and February 21, so they're focusing on more immediate stuff.

If they can get good photos and text from the next court date, Luigi will get more coverage.

Edit: there have been like five plane crashes, one US inauguration, and major US wildfires since his last court date.

Great points. Knowing the public is favorable towards Luigi, media outlets will definitely want to capitalize on any developments and opportunities to report on him since it'd generate clicks
Wait did you post this before the DC one tonight?!
- I meant all the ones around Xmas, but yeah.

What would the news headline be?

Luigi Still In Custody While Waiting For Hearing

or

Mangione's Attorneys Presumably Working Hard

or

Brian Thompson Still Dead

News doesn't tend to report when things are the same as they were yesterday. If his lawyers aren't talking to the press, and the prosecutors aren't talking to the press, and the trial won't start for another month, what exactly are the reporters going to report on?

I would love to see the headlines if this was the norm.
President Carter Still Dead, We Confirmed
Obama Not President, Maybe Enjoying Retirement?
Epstein's Suicide Not Being Investigated
Actually any headline of something not happening sounds super suspicious lol
- It would be nice to have a week of that kind of news just to get a break from the current doom news.
  It sometimes happens during summer holidays, when journalists have nothing to write about.
- As long as actual reporting went on afterwards it would be an upgrade
  1+1=2
  S(1)=2
Brian Thompson has not yet reformed at his phylactery. Industry experts speculate his phylactery may have been destroyed in the California wildfires.
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’
Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!
- The windows to my apartment can't be opened :(
There are whole genre dedicated to court cases and legal speculation, news reporting also gets ramped up to 11 when celebrities are involved.
"Plenty of space on pavement outside NY Hilton for other billionaires to take a snooze" might work!

The world needs more Luigis

You're not wrong

They can’t demonize Luigi, so they’re trying to erase him. The media is seeing the limitations of their power against popular anger. They have to be terrified.

Meanwhile, the guy who actually shot the CEO is probably living off the grid in a cabin somewhere.

Meanwhile, the guy who actually shot the CEO is probably living off the grid in a cabin somewhere.
I still haven’t seen anything that links Luigi to the footage of the shooting. I don’t know how anyone looks at that footage and is like “Yup. That’s the same guy”.
If the eyebrows are thicc, you must acquit.
- But Luigi had a burner gun and a manifesto on his person a whole week after the crime! Of course he did it. Why would anyone discard their burner or do literally anything with their manifesto after a statement like that? Lmao
- 🧤

This is kind of a disingenuous take. What do you expect the news to do? Every morning 1 hour of "We are still pre-trial, no new evidence..." What piece of news persists for months and months after it happens, especially something as "self contained" as a murder.

Why not? They did that for Hunter Biden's laptop.
- And Hillary's emails, the 2020 election, the border "crisis" etc. They just keep shit on repeat until it its no longer useful
Yeah, I had the same reaction over the summer when people rediscovered the 2016 lawsuit that accused Trump of raping a 13 year old. Everyone was like, "Why is no one covering this???" Because they did. Eight years ago. Nothing new happened, it just got picked up by social media again.
"List of other people we think Luigi Mangione would like to kill" would be a good start.
- You could probably start a tiktok trend if you make it cool enough.
- Every day? You overestimate the attention span of the American public

Sorry, I was distracted, can you say that again
Unfortunately, it's kinda just how our courts work. There really isn't anything "new" to talk about his case until his next trial date on February 17. Not that there aren't some conversations we all need to have about it, and how people feel about what he allegedly did. But right now everyone is distracted from that by the horse loose in the hospital. Hopefully at some point that trick stops working on us.

You guys need a hero that doesn't suck. I mean he didn't even hit a real oligarch. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos don't give a fuck what happens to Brian Thompson. All the oligarchs were so scared of being branded as oligarchs that they responded by all getting together and having a public bukkake session with Trump as he eviscerates what little public healthcare system there is. The Christ meme is accurate - because worshipping him doesn't do shit.

Going after the bigger ones would have been harder. The impact of his success with Thompson might inspire further action, which wouldn’t have happened if he had tried and failed with Trump or Musk.
It’s kinda fascinating for years how “freedom of speech” online has given people free rein to talk about slaughtering queer people and women, but it’s the billionaire talk that gets moderated….
He (allegedly) didn't get the ones we all wanted but he showed people the path and that puts the shits up the rest of them!

You should label your images if they are AI generated.

You should label your comment if they are made by a bot.
- I think they did.
Label it how?
- The body of the post.
Honestly, why do you care?
I didn't even notice until your comment. That's such a weird image to have an AI make; how hard is it to google 'billboard in a city or whatever' and run with the first result?

Billionaires own all the media so it's not surprising.

That's not really it, it's just another money thing. Outrage gets better numbers.
- Why not both?

He'll be back in the news when he goes to trial. He'll really be in the news if jury nullification happens.

I'm praying that it will either be jury nullification or a full-blown acquittal since I have some doubts that he is the one.
It would actually be better if it turned out he was actually innocent. It means the actual killer got away completely scot-free.
Just so everyone is aware, if jury nullifies this trial we will see the Supreme Court decide that nullification is no longer legal and is a criminal offense.
That is where the country is right now.

Free Luigi. Patron saint of all of those denied for stupid reasons, including my friend who had to have his necrotic gallbladder removed last week, and one of those shitass insurance companies denied his hospital stay, because apparently your gallbladder should fall out of you itself or something.

Dicks out for Luigi 🍆🫡

That's a parade I would join.

Free Luigi!

And Wario!
Stupid autocorrect changed it to Mario...

I heard he was being held in another castle.

No, two weeks is our attention span and that’s stretching it.

He got charged December 9, and lets be real, there were other orange skinned bits of news that the average asshole was more interested in then him by them.

People have a stronger reaction to negative emotions, hence articles that promote fear or anger do better than ones that provide information only, or make people feel good. It's called the negativity bias, if you wanted more information, though it's not specific to news cycles.

Medias are afraid of getting Luigi'd

I mean also people get bored and this was never going to spark some kind of revolution like people here imagined. It’s just the media moving in the newest thing like they always do.

News has always had a short attention span. I doubt that in this case it's in any way related to the specific events. It's just the usual.

Lllllllllllitterally

luigi was not on the news because he killed someone but because he caused the share price to drop. the share price has recovered since. as simple as that.

Luigi mangione is gone from the Internet
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My brother in christ your instance is part of the reason for that.

such a dearth of real life billboards we had to ai generate one huh

ah well

No. It's just the news cycle. People forget quickly. This is no more special than anything else.