Comment on "Images of 'Saint Luigi Mangione, The patron saint of health care justice' have been making rounds on social media"

lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s really fucked up take on this. First, Luigi is innocent until proven guilty. Accordingly, he’s very much alive and not “sacrificed”. Also, you seem to mistake a wave of support (I am afraid our filter bubble suggests there is more support than there is in the average DS citizen) for celebrations. Also, by trying to ridicule the movement, you do propaganda for the establishment. So please get lost, troll.

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  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    he’s very much alive and not “sacrificed”

    The CEO is the one that got sacrificed to the gods with the hope that the system changes…

    I’m totally on your side when it’s about fixing your broken and also very expensive healthcare system… But I dunno… Maybe electing a president that supports your interests (instead of one that does the opposite) or going on the streets with Millions of others or a nation wide strike would actually change it…

    And what exactly is the movement? Getting rid of more CEOs? I don’t see any movement here. Maybe, I’m biased… I’d love to see a movement that actually leads to change, but I don’t see it.

    Well, I guess, I have to deal with a few more weaks of memes about this…

    Best regards The troll

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    • orrk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      didn’t we try the whole elect a president that would bring the change, like twice now?

      In fact, looking towards history, the only time we really had change for the better is when the working poor threatened the super rich

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      • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        didn’t we try the whole elect a president that would bring the change, like twice now?

        yeah… some of you tried it.

        But an actual majority voting for the Orange one instead of progress after progress after progress can also be interpreted like a part of your population wants a much worst healthcare system and/or is very stupid.

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    • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and cartridge (or ammo). Please use in that order.”

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty

      They’ve all but taken the soap box, we have “free speech zones” to “safely” protest out of sight, and when we ignore those the media either doesn’t cover it, or gives the most unflattering description, taking the side of corporations (see: Amazon strikes framed in "how will this affect your Christmas delivery. A.k.a: be mad at the employees)

      They’ve taken the ballot box with Citizens United literally paving the way for what Elmo Muskrat is doing now: buying elections. We can’t elect the people we’d want to elect.

      They’ve taken the jury through the elimination of the teaching of the concept of jury nullification (but also doesn’t apply in this specific situation) and have taken the Judiciary through ratfuckery (see: Mitch McTurtle refusing to seat any SCOTUS judges when it’s a Democrat picking them)

      So all we’re left with is the “cartridge” or, ammo box.

      They force this on us but “thankfully” at least some of us won’t just let us keep getting steamrolled. :/

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The CEO is the one that got sacrificed to the gods with the hope that the system changes…

      Moving the goalposts much? No one in support of Luigi would dream of considering that CEO mass murderer as “one of their people” as you put it. And since you know that, you absolutely did not mean that mass murdering shithead.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Strikes only work against corporations when it’s that corporation’s staff striking, and those people seem to prefer to have a job over becoming unemployed

      For America to elect a Parliament and President that would regulate the health industry such would have to be put forward by one side or the other. Perhaps this assassination will bring such regulation to the fore in future elections

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Everyone on lemmy celebrates the murder openly. This isn’t “a wave of support” this is literally deification.

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  • MadBigote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is that wave of support outside social media?

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is that wave of support outside social media?

      Are you reading comprehension challenged?

      (I am afraid our filter bubble suggests there is more support than there is in the average DS citizen

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  hate for a system that has abused its victims for decades runs deep.

  expect it to continue at least, grow to encompass more saintly visages at most.

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• DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unfortunately when you exploit the people of a place for too long they get backed into a corner and lash out.

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• Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck off then

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• Steak@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s a horrible take lmfao you miss the point completely. Get outta here troll

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• rational_lib@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not quite, in America we always think of the sacrificed as belonging to the other tribe.

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