• @[email protected]
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    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.

    • Cruxifux
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      Yeah. I agree. I know the news media has agendas to push, but stretching like this is counterproductive to starting or encouraging a movement.

    • ditty
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      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

    • Lenny
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      Wait did you post this before the DC one tonight?!

  • @[email protected]
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    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?

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      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

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        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      Brian Thompson has not yet reformed at his phylactery. Industry experts speculate his phylactery may have been destroyed in the California wildfires.

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      There are whole genre dedicated to court cases and legal speculation, news reporting also gets ramped up to 11 when celebrities are involved.

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      “Plenty of space on pavement outside NY Hilton for other billionaires to take a snooze” might work!

    • @[email protected]
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      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!

    • @finitebanjo
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      What the world needs more of is Bernie Sanders, not convicts.

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            But the user above said:

            What the world needs more of is Bernie Sanders, not convicts.

            That is an appeal to authority fallacy.

            Legality =/= Morality

            Not everyone convicted of crimes have necessarily done an immoral act.

            The American Revolution were rebels committing treason against the British Empire, yet, because they won, they are hailed as heros in the new America. Imagine if they lost, they would be the “convicts” the user above were describing.

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              it may be true that he isn’t currently a convict, but he is most certainly going to become a convict, so it’s not entirely factually incorrect, just misrepresented.

              you can call it an appeal to authority fallacy, but unless you’re going to overthrow the government, you must quite literally, appeal to the authority.

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                Even if he’s convicted, we still wont know if he’s the perp or some scapegoat.

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                  Believing he’s a scapegoat requires you to also believe the fbi is incredibly competent, and were able to find a person wearing similar clothes as the perp who also happened to be in the same general area who also hated CEOs and then blast his face across the media then let him go for 4 days before picking him up in a different state.

                  Not to mention if the “real” killer struck again, the whole charade falls apart in the worst way.

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              Maybe… maybe not

              epstein was a pedophile, nobody cared that he died.

              But if Luigi dies under suspicious circumstances, he could potentially become a martyr and spark more copycats.

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              11 month ago

              i mean… you aren’t wrong, he could die. Whether or not that actually changes the fact that the government wants him gone and out of the public, idk.

      • @Randelung
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        They had a Bernie, he didn’t work, so they needed a Luigi.

        Aka peaceful revolution, violent revolution and such.

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        Ah you mean the guy who sold out to Hillary. Yea we definitely need more sellouts with beach houses.

        • Drusas
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          You mean the guy who WAS sold out to Hillary.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • @IzzyScissor
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      Why not? They did that for Hunter Biden’s laptop.

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        And Hillary’s emails, the 2020 election, the border “crisis” etc. They just keep shit on repeat until it its no longer useful

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      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.

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      “List of other people we think Luigi Mangione would like to kill” would be a good start.

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        You could probably start a tiktok trend if you make it cool enough.

        • @Fedizen
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          US public also has goldfish memory. Its a wonder anyone bothers to even make new movies.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

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      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.

      • @JustAnotherKay
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        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

    • @MrMcGasion
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      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.

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    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.

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      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….

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      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!

  • @Limonene
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    You should label your images if they are AI generated.

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      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?

      • stebo
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        Not that hard at all. Though these days a lot of Google images results are also AI generated. I’m not even sure if the image above is real or not.

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      You should label your comment if they are made by a bot.

    • FenrirIII
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      Honestly, why do you care?

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              you’re choosing to interpret it negatively. you read to much into it. I tend to interpret ‘honestly, why do you care’ as someone who honestly wants to know why the other cares. Why would it not be that? It makes a lot of sense to me to ask this question, because I don’t see the relevance of something being AI or not in the context of a meme.

                • FenrirIII
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                  I was asking honestly. Why do they care? It’s a meme community. Why does using an AI image to get a message across matter? Why do they care?

                  You are reading way too much into it.

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      i mean clearly we don’t need a label to recognise them

  • @[email protected]
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    He’ll be back in the news when he goes to trial. He’ll really be in the news if jury nullification happens.

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      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.

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        I have a feeling that the real killer used a life like mask of Luigi. The dude is just a patsy. The real killers probably found some randoms Facebook account and decided to frame him. If you look at the security footage any novice can see that it was a governmental assassin. A professional hit to make it look like a grassroots uprising.

        I can 100% say that Luigi isn’t going to make it to trial. They’re going to kill him in jail and say he died due to some medical problem or he killed himself.

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      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.

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    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.

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      That’s a parade I would join.

  • @manorexia
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    I heard he was being held in another castle.