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These government gooners literally cannot comprehend why people live this guy and hate them. It'd be funny if it wasn't so irritating that these are the assholes in charge.
It also helps that Luigi looks fine af. Like not even kidding I’m sure that’s a big part of the support too lol.
Given the success He should start his Presidental run right now. ( I want at least to see this movie )
A president once said “ I could shoot someone on fifth Ave. and not lose any votes”
turns out, it's a pretty good campaign move.
Turns out it only matters who he shoots.
I could shoot someone on fifth Ave. and not lose any votes
well, he hasn't shot anyone, but he is responsible for many many many deaths.
Eugene V. Debs moment
critics as in boomers, and politicians.
“It’s horrible when anybody has their life cut short by another person, especially when it could have been prevented,” Beard says on Luigi. “But the same logic has to apply both ways, right?
“Preventing people from getting the healthcare that they need – that you and your company have access to and could provide them, but don’t do so because it would threaten your business model – that’s an act of violence, too,” Beard says.
Hello based department, we got a candidate here for you.
"Luigi" in reference to the name of his podcast not the person Luigi Mangione
Not just the healthcare they need, but also healthcare that they pay for.
No, I pretty much supported him the moment it was clear that the CEO toppled over from a pre-existing condition called "being vulnerable to lead projectiles."
Only 9mm too, what a nerd. Back in my day, we were expected to have built up an immunity to 9mm by high school.
According to RFK the best way to get immunity is for everyone to cop a 9mm lead projectile, instead of using any form of preventative measure.
honestly, coddling the human body about gun shots is making us weak as a people. we'll never get over this pandemic of gun violence if we keep natural compensatory measures from kicking in.
I hear nowadays if you can't tank a 5.56 to the chest by 8th grade they hold you back a year.
His treatment caused about . 02% of the support for him.
United Heaths treatment of the rest of us caused the rest.
I support him even if he's innocent.
Well, also the fact that he looks literally nothing like the dude from the security camera stills, the police have been bungling every single step of the evidence process since before they "caught" Mangione, annnd finally all the work theyve done to preprejudice the public into thinking he did it by organizing documentaries demonizing Mangione while being too busy to provide the details of their "evidence" to Mangione's legal council (which they are legally obligated to do!)
Exactly, if he allegedly murdered the CEO of an organization that doesn't profit from the death and destruction of it's customers then the public reaction would be completely different regardless of any perp walk PR stunt.
For profit insurance glorifies violence, not resisting it
Who would'a thunk cops are really bad at reading the room?
Cops will shoot your dog for barking then wonder why people think they’re assholes
They read the room they cared about just fine. They wanted to let rich people know they'll always go above and beyond for them, and they did.
"Okay guys, we've got an attractive man with a huge amount of public support behind him regardless of guilt. How can we not turn him into a martyr?"
"Hannibal Lecter walk?"
"Yeah that won't backfire at all!"
it is exactly the bane and superman perpwalk.
lol what could they possibly expect him to do that necessitates having multiple men with rifles?
While they didn’t need to go overboard like they did, the threat model is reversed. They are worried about what other people might do to him.
Ie: attempt to free him.
The optics the recently indicted (and later hastily pardoned) mayor being one of the guys perp walking the sympathetic suspect probably didn't help them either.
he was currying favors for a pardon from trump.
Right? Most corrupt fuckin cop, there strictly for his own photo op of course, escorting a political-divide-spanning legitimate American folk hero. Seems like a pretty predictable response to me.
What they don't seem to realize is that Mangione himself isn't all that important. Whether they kill him or successfully vilify him, in a few years people won't be thinking about the man himself all that much. Their continued hardship will be what they think about, and as long as it's the capital class's fault, the anger will keep growing.
This isn’t about a man anymore. It’s about an idea.
I hope the jury nullifies the charges, but he’s become a symbol for the common people of America because he acted on the fury and frustration that hundreds of millions of us feel. You can’t really kill an idea once it gains hold in the minds of that much of the populace.
The shooter is immortal with or without Luigi. The shooter showed us they bleed and they’re scared and stumbling now to stay in control.
They have to sit and marinate with their mortality now. It scares them knowing they aren’t that different from us