• rational_lib@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    You guys need a hero that doesn’t suck. I mean he didn’t even hit a real oligarch. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos don’t give a fuck what happens to Brian Thompson. All the oligarchs were so scared of being branded as oligarchs that they responded by all getting together and having a public bukkake session with Trump as he eviscerates what little public healthcare system there is. The Christ meme is accurate - because worshipping him doesn’t do shit.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Going after the bigger ones would have been harder. The impact of his success with Thompson might inspire further action, which wouldn’t have happened if he had tried and failed with Trump or Musk.

      It’s kinda fascinating for years how “freedom of speech” online has given people free rein to talk about slaughtering queer people and women, but it’s the billionaire talk that gets moderated….

    • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      He (allegedly) didn’t get the ones we all wanted but he showed people the path and that puts the shits up the rest of them!

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    1 month ago

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

    ah well

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month 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.

  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    They can’t demonize Luigi, so they’re trying to erase him. The media is seeing the limitations of their power against popular anger. They have to be terrified.

    Meanwhile, the guy who actually shot the CEO is probably living off the grid in a cabin somewhere.

    • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Meanwhile, the guy who actually shot the CEO is probably living off the grid in a cabin somewhere.

      I still haven’t seen anything that links Luigi to the footage of the shooting. I don’t know how anyone looks at that footage and is like “Yup. That’s the same guy”.

      If the eyebrows are thicc, you must acquit.

      • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        But Luigi had a burner gun and a manifesto on his person a whole week after the crime! Of course he did it. Why would anyone discard their burner or do literally anything with their manifesto after a statement like that? Lmao

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The next court date has been set for February 21.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/us/luigi-mangione-arraignment-new-york/index.html

    As much as I’d like to believe it’s a conspiracy, news organizations make money from clicks. There isn’t much for them to monetize between now and February 21, so they’re focusing on more immediate stuff.

    If they can get good photos and text from the next court date, Luigi will get more coverage.

    • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Great points. Knowing the public is favorable towards Luigi, media outlets will definitely want to capitalize on any developments and opportunities to report on him since it’d generate clicks

    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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      1 month ago

      Yeah. I agree. I know the news media has agendas to push, but stretching like this is counterproductive to starting or encouraging a movement.

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

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

  • grepe@lemmy.world
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    1 month 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.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    What would the news headline be?

    Luigi Still In Custody While Waiting For Hearing

    or

    Mangione’s Attorneys Presumably Working Hard

    or

    Brian Thompson Still Dead

    News doesn’t tend to report when things are the same as they were yesterday. If his lawyers aren’t talking to the press, and the prosecutors aren’t talking to the press, and the trial won’t start for another month, what exactly are the reporters going to report on?

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I would love to see the headlines if this was the norm.

      President Carter Still Dead, We Confirmed

      Obama Not President, Maybe Enjoying Retirement?

      Epstein’s Suicide Not Being Investigated

      Actually any headline of something not happening sounds super suspicious lol

      • bstix@feddit.dk
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        1 month ago

        It would be nice to have a week of that kind of news just to get a break from the current doom news.

        It sometimes happens during summer holidays, when journalists have nothing to write about.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

      We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’

      Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’

      So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’

      I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      There are whole genre dedicated to court cases and legal speculation, news reporting also gets ramped up to 11 when celebrities are involved.

    • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      “Plenty of space on pavement outside NY Hilton for other billionaires to take a snooze” might work!

    • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Brian Thompson has not yet reformed at his phylactery. Industry experts speculate his phylactery may have been destroyed in the California wildfires.