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[–] 229 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Wrong. CEOs are inspiring others to commit violence.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It sure seems to be a CEO thing.
    I can for sure say I feel inspired to commit violence by such behaviour:
    https://nypost.com/2025/08/29/sports/grown-man-blasted-for-snatching-kamil-majchrzaks-hat-from-kid/

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Am I missing something? This is a random guy who was an asshole and stole a hat from a kid who received it from tennis player Kamil Majchrzaks.

    I thought it was going to reveal that the douchebag was a CEO like the Coldplay affair couple.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 107 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Pushing for the death penalty while simultaneously claiming he's "inspiring others to violence" certainly is a choice. Oblivious to the high likelihood only making him a martyr to a lot of people. A good reminder of just how utterly unimpressive our elites rulers are.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Prosecutor: We believe the defendant is inspiring others to violence.

    Judge: That is a serious allegation. You must be able to provide at least one example.

    Prosecutor: Of course your honor. We feel inspired to kill the defendant and will be seeking the death penalty in this case.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Oh they are 100% going to find a reason to kill Luigi. The trial will be for show. They are probably talking to Hollywood directors right now trying to figure out how the trial should look.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Luigi isn't inspiring anyone

    CEOs are awesome at inspiring people to murder CEOs

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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.) 🤣

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  • [–] 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

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    Cool

    Now stop trying to prosecute a guy who I’m pretty convinced isn’t actually the guy who did the thing

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cops couldn’t afford to look incompetent. So they did the usual thing and picked a convenient sap to pin it on.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Honestly, the best argument for his guilt is that he seems a rather inconvenient sap. He has rich parents who can help him pay for representation, he's charismatic and attractive, and he's overall a pretty sympathetic figure. Pinning it on some poor, crude guy seems easier.

    The eyebrows and the world's most suspicious manifesto are definitely not compelling, though.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago

    No, the health insurance industry is doing that all on its own.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago

    No - a corrupt and malevolent system that provides grotesque and entirely undeserved privilege for a sociopathic few at the expense of the many is inspiring violence.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago

    Insurance companies purposefully putting bureaucratic delays and hurdles in the way of their dying customers getting life-saving treatments in order to generate record profits, essentially letting their customers die to avoid paying for their treatment, is what has, and will normalize violent acts.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Never once I've seen this argument being used in trials for school shooters

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Can these fake news stop making him so cool? I love him already alright?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yep, it's this one dude who's inspiring the besieged middle class into increasing action over time, and it's totally not the entire systemically rotten core of big corporate America.

    You absolutely nailed it NBC, spot on.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    These prosecutors are inspiring me to commit violence.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    I think its the oligarchs doing that...

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    Shareholder violence is inspiring self defense

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  • Irrelevant...? How is that his problem or his fault? Incitement has to be willful, intentional, or at least grossly negligent for you to be culpable in it. And how does that contribute to proving his guilt in the first place?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Just a reminder y'all can easily put both Mangione and Itsa Me Luigi stickers on your cars, depending on your need for plausible deniability. People do know what it means, keeps it fresh in their minds.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Well, there are lots of people with terminal diagnoses, thanks in part to the US health care system.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think homicidal CEOs with zero negative consequences are inspiring people to violence. If there's never any justice for a class of criminal, someone they've harmed will eventually try to balance the scales

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We have been ruled by a corrupt elite, individuals and institutions entrenched in power, who have consistently placed their own wealth, influence, and short-term interests above the collective well-being and long-term survival of the human race. These elites have shaped global systems, economic, political, environmental, in ways that extract maximum benefit for themselves, while offloading the costs onto the masses and future generations.

    Rather than acting as stewards of humanity’s present and future, they have prioritized profit over sustainability, control over equity, and secrecy over accountability. They’ve knowingly driven ecological collapse, widened economic inequality, fuelled endless wars, and undermined democratic institutions; not out of ignorance, but because doing so served their agendas.

    While they built empires on fossil fuels, financial speculation, and surveillance, they dismissed or actively suppressed warnings from scientists, whistle blowers, and communities. Their decisions were not made in a vacuum; they were conscious choices to trade planetary stability for personal gain.

    As a result, humanity now stands at the edge of multiple converging crises. Climate change, resource depletion, social unrest, and technological disruption, all of which were foreseeable and, to varying degrees, preventable. Yet those with the power to alter course chose not to.

    We are not simply victims of mismanagement. We are survivors of deliberate negligence. They’ve turned healthcare into a marketplace, democracy into theatre, and human pain into a line item on a quarterly report. While families ration insulin, children breathe poisoned air, and entire families gulp down cancerous water, they dine in boardrooms and speak of efficiency and dividends. Their success is measured in how effectively they can extract, exploit, and evade.

    We now live in a world where people cry out in pain and are met with silence. Where justice and even care seems so unreachable. The real crime isn't that Luigi shot a man. The real crime is that they created a system where shooting a man was the only choice he was left with. Only a fool thinks they can exploit people without triggering violence. And only a delusional coward believes it’ll stop after the first shot’s fired.

    Unless the time of self serving leaders comes to an end, the violence will only continue to grow.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Luigi is a symptom of an unjust system and it has nothing to do with him. Quite frankly, if he didn't do it, someone else eventually would have. All the ingredients were there, and are still there for this kind of thing to keep happening.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Where is the problem with that? Not enough Luigis?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    One can only keep hoping so...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    "Prosecutors say Charles Manson is inspiring others to violence" was never a thing even though it was probably easier to support because they had a solid case with real evidence to put Charles Manson in the slammer.

    This fishing trip about character looks weak

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    How dare a figure who the rabble resonate with have any influence!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Good. Excellent.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Prosecutors say a lot of bullshit things to sway opinions. Show me the facts?!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Inspiring others to resist.

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  • Personally I think CEOs who are fine with killing thousands to save money inspire violence more

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Don't know what you said but censorship here, is most likely a badge of honor.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Lol, no censorship in this case; edited my comment but wasn't quick enough to avoid the edited label, so I just deleted. Didn't realise it would still show up like this even without any replies.

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