• @anon_8675309
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    What’s alarming is people have been pushed to the point where they would consider Luigi’s actions justified.

  • @iAvicenna
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    I hope they have nightmares about guillotines

  • @[email protected]
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    Why do they keep framing him as a father as if that should make us feel empathy?

    Osama bin Laden was a father to 23 fucking kids.

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      Unconscious pronatalist bias.

      People don’t talk about it much, but there’s an unconscious tendency to give more sympathy to parents. There’s a million reasons why this happens but I’m not gonna go there.

      The media is pretty heavy handed with this manipulation because it usually works. Any article about a murdered woman mentions if she’s a mother, and if not it’s “she didn’t get to have kids yet.” It gets lots of clicks.

      That CEO is so disgusting that they can’t even activate people’s unconscious biases and the media is panicking because they’ve lost control. It’s kinda impressive and funny tbh.

      Side note - I’m not an antinatalist or anything, I’m just a philosophy/sociology nerd.

    • FuglyDuck
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      The fucking asshoke fucked over and denied care to fucking children with cancer.

      He also fucked over who knows how many other people, many of whom were also parents.

      The all had family. And he fucked then all over without a single moment of regret.

      His kids get to inherit his blood money. So fuck them too.

  • @PugJesus
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    lol. lmao, even.

  • @[email protected]
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    so it’s very alarming, but not so much as to even mention the underlying reason for the rhetoric

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    On top of killing people as his day job, Brian Thompson was also convicted of drunk driving, insider trading, and fraud.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1ha7u3e/comment/m16t6db/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

    Thompson was a rich 3 time loser felon so why was he walking the streets at all? He could have been safe in jail if the justice department did their jobs. That includes you Mayorkas, so thats enough with your complaints.

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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      Jesus if that guy cheated on his wives a few more times we would have had to worry about people wanting him for president

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      I feel like, if nothing else, Luigi chose his target extraordinarily well. Other than being a father, which just about anyone with testicles can do, Thompson doesn’t seem to have done one redeeming thing.

      • Flying Squid
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        It’s only redeeming if he was a good father. Otherwise, he was a sperm donor.

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          Well as he was separated and not living with his wife and kids, I suspect he likely wasn’t a great partner/father either.

  • @eran_morad
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    so fucking learn something from it

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      Mayorkas said […] that he’s “alarmed” by the “heroism that is being attributed to an alleged murderer of a father of two children on the streets in New York City,”

      Luigi is a hero. Brian Thompson got what he deserved, and his children are better off without him.

      he noted that “that’s the actions of an individual, not reflective of the American public and of the democracy in which we live.”

      I guess we’ll just need some more examples. Seems to be comming back into fashion.

      • @wildcardology
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        Imagine what life lessons his children learned from him.

      • chingadera
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        Not reflective? Then why the fuck are you so concerned?

      • @Serinus
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        his children are better off without him.

        That’s certainly not true. You don’t have to dehumanize someone you see as your enemy.

        I recently watched 1917, and ::: spoiler spoilers I’m proud of the way the plane was handled. One can see the necessity of war without dehumanizing the other side. :::

        I’m sorry for his kids. I’m sorry for his family. I can continue to hope for a better way.

        We’ve been through this history enough times. I, for one, would rather not repeat it. If this is the way things are gonna go, it’s going to get a hell of a lot worse before it gets better.

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          157 hours ago

          Dude had no qualms about dehumanizing the people he stole money from and didn’t give life saving treatment to. Just because he could do it from the cover of corporate mandates doesn’t make it any less evil.

        • @BassTurd
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          It depends. It appears he wasn’t really in the picture and has a history of being a piece of shit. Who’s to say that his kids aren’t better off without him, and honestly, probably heavily enriched by his demise?

          Losing a father isn’t always a bad thing.

  • @[email protected]
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    This guy boos at the end when Terrorist Luke Skywalker ruthlessly murders beloved innovator and family man Emperor Palpatine

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    I love that on SNL last night the mention of Luigi on Weekend Update was met with enough cheers that made Colin Jost have to stop and wait for the cheers to die down before telling his joke.

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      I’m not plugged into popular culture or any of that shit. So I’m a bit dumbfounded that this happened. That is very encouraging.

  • Nougat
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    Yeah it is alarming.

    Just not for the reason you think it is.

    • themeatbridge
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      It’s alarming how surprised the oligarchs seem to be. Like they didn’t realize they were the baddies.

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        Nah it’s just weaponized “concern trolling” in an attempt to quell support. I’m sure the red coats used similar language when talking about people like George Washington back in the day too.

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        I expect many of them have spent their lives so immersed in capitalist indoctrination that they genuinely have no idea others view their activities as exploitation and a bad thing. To them, accumulating wealth through whatever means you can is just what you do. And they tend to think that anyone who doesn’t do this is just a bit stupid and hasn’t figured out what life is about. Don’t underestimate their narrow-minded blinkeredness.

  • @xenomor
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    It’s incredibly enlightening that all these pearl clutching fuckers like Mayorkas decry violence and violent rhetoric but see no violence in the way this industry hurts and kills people en masse every day.

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      Even for those who don’t approve of killing the exploiters, this sends a refreshing message of “Maybe we don’t actually have to put up with their shit.” It clearly has them worried that maybe we won’t.