▲ 445 ▼ Prosecutors say Luigi Mangione is inspiring others to violence (www.nbcnews.com) submitted 1 year ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/luigimangione@lemmy.world 75 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 year ago (5 children) Luigi isn't inspiring anyone CEOs are awesome at inspiring people to murder CEOs permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] l_isqof@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago Exactly. It is the CEOs and politicians themselves who are impacting people's lives, not the odd retribution act. That's just the result of it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) The cops are inspiring it too by demonstrating the only justice that Americans can get is vigilante justice. We are on the cusp of a French-style social recalibration. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* What's funny is that the same cops are inspiring copycat² weebs (who cosplays a cosplayer?) to receive violence from those that they, in turn, have inspired to act (bonus: only the latter was in accordance with their local ordinances and rights.) 🤣 permalink fedilink source parent [–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago I have extremely violent fantasies about the leadership of several countries and corporations. That list grows weekly. Luigi did not cause them; he expressed what I already felt and thought, that basically the only way any of us will see justice done is by taking it into our own hands and being prepared to kill the capitalist class and its enablers permalink fedilink source parent [–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago Elon Musk has inspired several acts of arson and vandalism and should be locked up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] l_isqof@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago Exactly. It is the CEOs and politicians themselves who are impacting people's lives, not the odd retribution act. That's just the result of it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) The cops are inspiring it too by demonstrating the only justice that Americans can get is vigilante justice. We are on the cusp of a French-style social recalibration. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* What's funny is that the same cops are inspiring copycat² weebs (who cosplays a cosplayer?) to receive violence from those that they, in turn, have inspired to act (bonus: only the latter was in accordance with their local ordinances and rights.) 🤣 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* What's funny is that the same cops are inspiring copycat² weebs (who cosplays a cosplayer?) to receive violence from those that they, in turn, have inspired to act (bonus: only the latter was in accordance with their local ordinances and rights.) 🤣 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago I have extremely violent fantasies about the leadership of several countries and corporations. That list grows weekly. Luigi did not cause them; he expressed what I already felt and thought, that basically the only way any of us will see justice done is by taking it into our own hands and being prepared to kill the capitalist class and its enablers permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago Elon Musk has inspired several acts of arson and vandalism and should be locked up. permalink fedilink source parent