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[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 35 points 14 hours ago

I just saw the news that they've charged him with terrorism. It's like they want to keep the outrage going, and give the jury a reason to acquit.

[-] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

They've charged Brian Thompson with terrorism for what he did - or at least caused - to tens of thousands of people each year?
Finally they start to make sense!

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Most life insurance policies don't cover acts of terrorism.

I'm just saying....

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago

Not guilty. You can only murder human beings. Brian Robert Thompson willingly relinquished his humanity a long time ago. What Luigi did was more akin to using bleach to treat mold in the bathroom. Killing a living thing? Yes. Murder? Certainly not.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Daniel Jackson: It’s obviously fighting to survive.

O’Neill: So do bacteria!

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Oh, one Luigi damaged your world? Institute health care reform, or we'll send dozens of them, one after the other!

God. How was SG1 so damn good? Every few years I do a rewatch of the whole franchise. It's a masterpiece.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Trek is my usual background show but I’m currently on a SG1 rewatch. It’s funny to see so many people from Trek show up in various roles, I think Hammond of Texas would fit perfectly as a statue in front of Starfleet Academy as a model of humanity’s ideals regarding exploration of the stars. Given access to advanced healing technology, both O’Neill and O’Brien would be busting heads to ensure everyone got a fair shake, they’d both despise a CEO like this one

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

My theory is that once you have a role as a main character in Star Trek, you're pretty much stuck in sci fi. The exception to this is if you were already a well established actor prior to Trek. So Patrick Stewart could go back to high theatre, but Colm Meaney ended up mugging Atlantis for a little C4.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Ha! I’d forgot about that one, my favorite role of his outside engineering was the DEA asshole in Con Air who gets his sweet Corvette stolen in epic fashion

I think the Venn of actors doing sci fi shows and actors in the Vancouver area is pretty close, same with how every British show has at least one person from another. Some obviously like the genre, and who wouldn’t?

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

They can charge him with whatever they want. Proving it to a jury is a whole other thing.

[-] chappedafloat@lemmy.wtf 18 points 13 hours ago

Be careful not to say anything positive about luigi because you're certainly going to end up on a priority list of people they are going to keep a lot of surveillance on. It's true, feds are terrified of people who seem inspired by things like this. If you say something really really nice about Luigi, the feds might even send you one of their female undercover agents to be your girlfriend for a while and spy on you.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

Some dingdong on Lemmy messaged me to tell me that he had notified the FBI about a Luigi post I made. LOL sure bud.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 25 points 13 hours ago

I'm gay. She'll have no power. They better send a muscle zaddy instead.

[-] stefenauris@pawb.social 5 points 7 hours ago

Where do I sign up for this?

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

I can fix her~~

[-] fannymcslap@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

Obsess away as long as it leads to more billionaires in the guillotine.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

I know I certainly will be! 😊

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 14 hours ago

id rather people focus on the lessons learned.

as long as this puts fear back into the burgeoise i aint complaining too much.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

marketing hirelings will sabotage the narrative with BS to make it go away.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago

They're gonna attempt to do so. There's no guarantee it will work.

[-] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Over advertising has inured most consumers to these practices. Especially younger ones.

[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 36 points 20 hours ago

Mangione has tapped into something most Americans share: a deep hatred of our health insurance system and of the profiteers who seem so indifferent to our suffering and death. He has still not been mentioned by Donald Trump, who must realize that Mangione’s fandom has no political boundaries.

Wow even DT can't touch this

[-] jobhunter@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago
[-] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

can you explain your thought process behind this comment?

[-] Coskii 1 points 1 hour ago
[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 38 points 21 hours ago

Hopefully he's the first of hundreds.

[-] thisguy1092@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

This whole story is ripe for conspiracy theory. Comparable to Epstein's arrest and suicide from back in 2020.

Even if the national media wants the story to go away, you're going to have Luigi enthusiasts popping up on the social fringe for years, if not decades.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Exactly. We are a society where innocent children are gunned down in their classrooms every other day. And for once, finally, one of the gunman actually decided to smite someone who deserved it. If you're at the point of being willing to throw your life away in an act of murderous violence, why die a villain, when you can die a hero?

We should be building statues of Luigi.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I can't wait to see the NPR article titled "Luigi Mangione was [aquitted/convicted/excuted] years ago. Why do week keep hearing his name in comment sections?", and I'll see this NPR article like 5-6 years from now.

Epstien died ~5 years ago, yet I still keep seeing people talking about him.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago

the bullet etchings alone make it a work of art. He picked out the absolute most unloved plutocrat in america. Its very much a masterwork execution at a time when everybody wanted a reprieve from the trump media circus.

Timing: 10/10

Execution: 9/10

Target 10/10

Style: 10/10

We live in a country this happens every day I would take a CEO death over a Sandy Hook every time. I wish shootings weren't as common but it is what it is.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Personally I would appreciate the irony of school shooters instead going after gun manufacturer executives. I like my justice delivered ironically.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

If we were the principled society we pretend to others that we are, we would prefer 100 ceos to 1 Sandy Hook. CEO's would be all for it as well.
But capitalism doesnt breed a lot of impulses to sacrifice for the greater good. "eff those peasants" is practically explicitely baked into it.

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