this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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Luigi Mangione

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imo, this is proof of how scared the corpos are of letting him become a figurehead of the fight against them. I love it.

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

Nobody is asking the parasite's opinion on this topic.

Luigi is an American hero and the corpo is the enemy of the American people.

You have to be a brain dead NPC not to see these self evident facts.

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[–] infectoid 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh you mean Mario’s brother‽

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

Green Mario

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

you mean waluigis other brother.

[–] Shapillon 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who's that Luigi Mangione?

Have you heard about my best pal Louis Bigeater?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Shapillon 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could I bother you for an explanation? I tried searching, there are a lot of results for the Atellan Farce/Oscan athletic games, but I feel I'm still missing context to get the reference.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Luigi comes from the Latin name Lodovicus

Mangione is Italian for "big eater" or a glutton. Manducus is Latin for glutton. Both are derived from mando, to chew.

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

❤️ Thank you!!

[–] logi 5 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

Luigi is a hero

[–] [email protected] 220 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That's weird because Luigi didn't kill anyone. He's innocent.

If I wanted to promote violence, I'd praise the still unidentified murderer of Brian Thompson.

[–] AtariDump 133 points 2 days ago
[–] Madrigal 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yea the whole thing smells like a stitch-up. Cops couldn't afford to look incompetent or let their massive manhunt drag on too long, so they did their usual thing and picked a vaguely plausible target and build a narrative to pin it on them.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just stop using reddit to talk about chads like Luigi.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That too pretty much. Other than some niche topics I don't use it anymore. Hopefully as lemmy grows those will have better options here too.

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I’m here because Reddit has turned to shit. They post a rule about upvoting violence will get you banned, so upvoting a comment that says FREE LUIGI will get you banned but upvoting a video of someone getting stabbed to death or a human being turned into red paste will just be another day at the office. Let’s be real here, they only want to silence specific people without saying out loud who they want to silence.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

I just migrated from Reddit today because a post showed a compilation of things that were removed or banned because of “violence”. It included a story about peaceful protestors at a anti Tesla rally were being arrested, a protest for women’s rights outside of blizzard, a post saying trump is trying to start war with Greenland…

They are using it as an excuse to make Reddit fascist, take down any anti-government-backed bullshit.

[–] roguetrick 29 points 1 day ago

So you're saying a site with a history of posting videos of women getting hit "deservedly" is being disingenuous when violence is directed at the powerful? Say it ain't so.

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[–] brucethemoose 87 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] AtariDump 90 points 2 days ago (6 children)
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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Look just because I'm in the middle of a LM/Waluigi slashfic doesn't necessarily mean I'm inciting violence. There's violence in it (Wario is an insurance exec, Luigi gets a power star, runs over Wario who explodes into coins) but I can hardly call that inciting violence. Where could someone get a power star in this day and age.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I found an article here for anyone else looking for a source that's not just a clickbait image.

This kind of thing has been a long time coming, it's why I started looking into decentralized social media in the first place. It actually feels less dangerous today than it did before the plague of GPT bots that make everyone wary of whether they're reading something written by a human or not.

I left facebook for diaspora in the early 2010s because I felt like an algorithm could influence my opinions too easily. If I see a bunch of my friends voicing one opinion, but all of my friends who voice the opposite opinion don't make it onto my feed, that will influence my own opinions regardless of how mindful I try to be about that. I was kind of addicted and it took strength to delete my account.

I started looking for reddit alternatives a couple years later for similar reasons. I'm really glad lemmy has finally taken off but things had to get a lot worse for that to happen.

[–] Cryophilia 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Don't forget, you're subject to the same content manipulation here. Mods of many communities are biased if not outright propagandists. The echo chamber is very real. It just isn't as centralized due to the nature of the technology.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I actually don't really care about "content manipulation" per se, I'm just trying to avoid astroturfing. Every online community has moderators. I'd prefer that the moderators are people, and people have beliefs and viewpoints that they might want to push.

If Jerry the mod from Minnesota is removing posts that don't align with his beliefs I don't give that the same weight as when it's done by a multibillion dollar corporation whose belief is more profit. If fifty mods are influencing my beliefs in the exact same direction without coordinating with each other, maybe I was actually inclined to believe that in the first place. It's coordination that makes it dangerous, and there really isn't a return-on-investment for astroturfing a community of a few thousand users.

You could make an argument that this is a reason to be wary of admins of big instances like .world, but I'm skeptical even that has enough users yet for astroturfing to be worth investing in.

I actually think lemmy took off because the "content manipulation" the devs/admins were engaging in through the early years prevented it from becoming a toxic environment. Almost all the other alternative platforms were focused on minimal moderation and they became awful places as a result.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But what about Green Mario, who allegedly unalived a healthlord in Minecraft?

[–] Cryophilia 6 points 1 day ago

This whole "avoid the censor by using euphemisms" thing that gen Z does is fucking annoying. Stop. Don't use any platform that is censoring you.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 63 points 2 days ago (8 children)

The next names to be banned are Washington and Grant. Both used violence.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago

They are banning people for up voting Luigi, even.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago

Luigi is becoming more powerful as a folk hero figure by the minute.

[–] Fingolfinz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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