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Pro-Luigi Mangione content is filling up social platforms — and it's a challenge to moderate it
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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.
Hi! I'm one of those people who has sympathy for Luigi because he did it. I think the deaths of CEOs like Thompson, billionaires, etc are necessary to create any sort of systemic change that will alleviate the suffering of the working class. It's not because he's hot like mainstream news seems to think, but because I'm tired of being the punching bag of the rich in this class war that we've all been thrust into, and because Luigi fought back.
It's also interesting that the news is saying Luigi is hot and that's why people support him, when it's more the other way around and people find him hot because he shot Thompson.