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I think some of the disagreement about moderation of Luigi's Mansion comes from people missing the boat on his actual politics. He was not just a wacky musk stan, here is one of the guys I saw listed in connection with him: https://substack.com/@picopaco/notes note the hits such as "Racial Group Differences are primarily genetic in origin" and "The Great Palestine Lie". I saw a few other nazi adjacent people on his substack and twitter, but I cant find it anymore, same goes for the thing where luigi actually follows this guy. If anyone has the actual post, I would appreciate a link to it!

I would be more sympathetic to trying to claim him if he was just talking about how AI is going to do whatever stuff tech bros are talking about now, and I would assume most people trying to claim him are thinking he was in this group.

There are so many different comparisons that could be made here.

Ex:

Elon trying to secure title of Meme Lord : Billion$

Luigi does propaganda of the deed : a few Thousand$

My submission is maybe the most obvious, Soviet flag over the Reichstag

It can be anything, photograph, painting, meme, screenshot of CCTV footage of a CEO getting domed in the street, etc

https://subium.com/profile/chrislhayes.bsky.social/post/3lczrx2xngs2w

https://xcancel.com/washingtonpost/status/1866660192164692076

based and bad empanada pilled

https://xcancel.com/MiddleOfMayhem/status/1866642317517762682

Okay credit where credit is due, I stole this from Cloudy on Twitter

https://x.com/oncloud_e/status/1866674649305878904

now we have Luigi’s boomerang, I guess. When social murder comes home to roost.

It's from a 2006 article by David Sirota.

Mr. Obama Goes to Washington | The Nation

The quotation in context

Obama has a remarkable ability to convince you that his positions are motivated purely by principles, not tactical considerations. This skill is so subtle and impressive, it resembles Luke Skywalker's mastery of the Force. It's a powerful tool for a Democratic Party that often emanates calculation rather than conviction. "I don't think in ideological terms. I never have," Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. "Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, 'Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.' That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?"

During 1982, Mussolini released a pop music album of romantic songs under the title Amore on Alfa Records; the album was released only in Japan and has since become something of a collectors item.

whoever is in charge of the lathe, knock it off.

To some extent there has to be panic in the government, law enforcement, ceos obviously trying to figure out how best to handle this whole situation. I'm sure theres a lot of meetings and phone calls and ideas bouncing around among the ruling class...

So its really funny at a possibly crucial moment for the empire, when clear, careful and decisive leadership is required, there might as well not be a president at all because the husk that was once Joe biden is incapable of understanding or even remembering what's happening

Known paedophile Steve Huffman is apparently very scared, as they are now attempting to scrub posts of Kenny Klipp's publishing of Luigi's Mansionfesto

Mario, if you're out there, remember that techbros both enthusiastically support and enable/develop social murder too

The Pentagon doing the Larry David gif going back and forth between "we hate Muslims" and "but these specific Muslims hate China" while trying to figure out how long to fund this proxy group.

Sidenote: Banger

Regardless of whatever the person turns out to be, it will always be funny.