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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

No. It's just the news cycle. People forget quickly. This is no more special than anything else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

luigi was not on the news because he killed someone but because he caused the share price to drop. the share price has recovered since. as simple as that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago

I heard he was being held in another castle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)
  • Luigi mangione is gone from the Internet
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My brother in christ your instance is part of the reason for that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Why would he be in media when nothing is happening?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No, two weeks is our attention span and that’s stretching it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Mine is about

[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago

Free Luigi. Patron saint of all of those denied for stupid reasons, including my friend who had to have his necrotic gallbladder removed last week, and one of those shitass insurance companies denied his hospital stay, because apparently your gallbladder should fall out of you itself or something.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

He'll be back in the news when he goes to trial. He'll really be in the news if jury nullification happens.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago

Just so everyone is aware, if jury nullifies this trial we will see the Supreme Court decide that nullification is no longer legal and is a criminal offense.

That is where the country is right now.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm praying that it will either be jury nullification or a full-blown acquittal since I have some doubts that he is the one.

It would actually be better if it turned out he was actually innocent. It means the actual killer got away completely scot-free.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I have a feeling that the real killer used a life like mask of Luigi. The dude is just a patsy. The real killers probably found some randoms Facebook account and decided to frame him. If you look at the security footage any novice can see that it was a governmental assassin. A professional hit to make it look like a grassroots uprising.

I can 100% say that Luigi isn't going to make it to trial. They're going to kill him in jail and say he died due to some medical problem or he killed himself.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

And why would the government want to kill a healthcare CEO who was doing his job exactly in the manner that pleases the establishment?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 20 hours ago

Who knows, but it happened.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago

He got charged December 9, and lets be real, there were other orange skinned bits of news that the average asshole was more interested in then him by them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

News has always had a short attention span. I doubt that in this case it's in any way related to the specific events. It's just the usual.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Lllllllllllitterally

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

such a dearth of real life billboards we had to ai generate one huh

ah well

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is kind of a disingenuous take. What do you expect the news to do? Every morning 1 hour of "We are still pre-trial, no new evidence..." What piece of news persists for months and months after it happens, especially something as "self contained" as a murder.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Why not? They did that for Hunter Biden's laptop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

No election is standing on Luigi though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

And Hillary's emails, the 2020 election, the border "crisis" etc. They just keep shit on repeat until it its no longer useful

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

"List of other people we think Luigi Mangione would like to kill" would be a good start.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

You could probably start a tiktok trend if you make it cool enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Every day? You overestimate the attention span of the American public

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

US public also has goldfish memory. Its a wonder anyone bothers to even make new movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

LOL largely we don't. Have you seen the amount of sequels / spinoffs in theaters?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I had the same reaction over the summer when people rediscovered the 2016 lawsuit that accused Trump of raping a 13 year old. Everyone was like, "Why is no one covering this???" Because they did. Eight years ago. Nothing new happened, it just got picked up by social media again.

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