I know it’s relatively old news, but I get tired of people online calling him a hero or sneering at the McDonalds worker who turned him in for a reward.
He’s not a hero. He’s a murderer whose actions ultimately have had no effect and belongs in prison. Stop selling his merchandise and licking his taint on social media. Maybe I should also spend less time of Reddit. That might be a good idea too.
Hard disagree.
So murder is an acceptable response to society’s problems?
When has it ever not been so?
I see that you were never taught not to answer a question with a question.
By your logic, if I decide that Senator Shneerson is a corrupt individual who has voted for and introduced policies that ruined my life, it’s fine by you if I break into his or her house and gut them like a fish?
Senator Shneerson will be up for reelection in a few years, which means that there’s a legal way to get rid of him.
True. I’d forgotten how easily Mitch McConnell was ejected from his seat.
If the people have chosen, the people have chosen. Nothing you can do about it.
The people don’t choose insurance CEOs.
Wrong. Health insurance companies have done away with a few of their more onerous practices. Evil CEOs realize they are not nearly as safe as they had thought. They have upgraded their personal security.
I often wonder why more people who are doomed anyway don’t choose to go out with a bang or several. I expect that in at least some cases it has to do with the grief it would bring to friends and family. But I’m sure there are people out there without friends and family.
….because they also don’t want to be remembered as murderers?
Do you have any ideas as to why this doesn’t deter the hundreds of thousands of actual murderers worldwide?
Avoiding for the moment the question of whether Mangione is a hero, and also avoiding the question of whether a health insurance CEO is a legitimate villain, the United States has overproduced elites. The result is runaway income and wealth inequality to the point where the billionaire class now literally controls our political system in ways that are hard to ignore. Today, it’s Luigi Mangione, but if things continue on their current trajectory, we might be looking at a Robespierre moment. I’m not arguing or advocating for that outcome, but I think it’s just inevitable if inequality becomes outright oppression.
Luigi’s crossed ankles thirst trap photo is his Basic Instinct moment.
There are consequences for their families and people who are close to them. And as was said earlier, maybe they care about their legacy, too.
And I fully agree with and understand that more Luigis are likely or even inevitable. I just don’t think those actions are laudable.
Understood and don’t necessarily disagree.
But if the economic and political elite create gross inequality to that point that it enables rampant corruption and injustice, there comes a point at which whether something is laudable or not becomes less and less important in the eyes of people who are suffering. I think Mangione is probably aptly described as a privileged malcontent, but he’s definitely tapped into a lot of common anger and resentment toward our economic and political system and the elites who control it.
As was Robespierre.
Personally, I don’t think what the Left has done with Luigi is all that different than what the Right did to Kyle Rittenhouse.
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This.
It has puzzled me.