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Can you even fucking imagine if this was about China? The liberal Reddit Lemmitors would be frothing at the mouth about The Great Evil. Meanwhile it’s just another boring article in the freest greatest nation in the world.

Let's be real though. People are not sympathetic with Luigi because they believe he is innocent. They are sympathetic with him, because they believe he killed the mass murderer CEO Brian Thompson. If he is found innocent and another suspect is produced, Luigi would get sympathy for being wrongfully persecuted and the other suspect would get sympathy for killing the mass murderer CEO Brian Thompson.

Now the question is, why sympathy towards killing a mass murderer is seen as a problem, but being a mass murderer in the way Brian Thompson was is not only accepted, but for mainstream media apparently making him particularly deserving of empathy.

The answer is very obvious, but you won't read it in any of the mainstream media outlets. Because the rich and powerful are fighting a class war against everyone else and the mainstream media is representing the class interests of the rich and powerful, even as the middle class income article writer has his family murdered by the very same people who he tries to invoke empathy for.

The problem with Luigi is not that people are sympathetic towards violence. If the violence is racist or bigoted, if dozens of school children are murdered this is fine. It is not threatening the power of the ruling class. But people realizing that the power of the ruling class is not based on merit, but on brutality, deception and scrupulousness and can easily be toppled by an organized population, that is a gigantic threat.

And that is why the very same people that would demand for precision in talking about suspects of corruption or rich and famous criminals to always be considered innocent until proven guilty, will quickly toss this principle aside in cases like Luigis.

There's a difference between not mourning a piece of shit and asking for the murder of his peers. The hypocrisy of oligarch-run media (social and traditional) is that they stop having an issue with murder if there's an Excel spreadsheet between the instigator and the victim.

Because this instance (and all other instances) physically reside in countries with content laws. If we don't follow those laws, we can be shut down, and the admin/owners that reside in those countries could face legal consequences.

I mean free speech actually only applies to government, not social media.

You censor via moderation though right?

Somebody even made a Luigi cake

It’s really important to remember in this day and age to not cause widespread suffering to a large number of everyday people who are just going about their normal daily lives.

Someone needs to tell the CEOs.

I agree with you, but I am very worried that any possible copycats might be less discerning. Especially if CEOs start hiring security forces and there are either gun battles or bombings where people get caught in the crossfire.

Not every person with the same agenda as Luigi Mangione's will be as careful to only hit their target.

This is actually a good point. It seems like, these days, most public violence like this, ends up with a senseless killing spree, and dead bystanders.