• barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    The reason Luigi is so popular with Americans is because he is a microcosm example of the Sociopathic Oligarch’s worst nightmare - The average American rising up to literally KILL the wealthy. He is just one man with one victim, but what if he were multiplied by hundreds, or thousands, or millions?

    The way black people felt about OJ, is now being felt by all working class Americans toward Luigi. So the wealthy, and the system, want to punish him harshly as an example to the rest of us, while we are plotting ways for him to escape punishment.

    When the people are demanding a reasonable solution, and they are dismissed by the goverment in favor of punishing Americans in order to benefit the Sociopathic Oligarchs at our expense - AGAIN! - the Free Market will find an alternative, and nothing frightens them more than the threat of Luigi’s Solution catching fire, and becoming a trend.

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      11 hours ago

      I like how luigi was being astroturfed by the grifters and MSMs until they realize they are making things worst by turning rabid right wingers agains tthem. all of the msms and grifters went quiet for a month. ALso it was drawing attention away from musk and TRUMP too.

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        10 hours ago

        Luigi isnt going anywhere. He still has a trial ahead, and it promises to be a full-fledged circus, potentially bigger than the OJ Trial which was a legal spectacle beyond description.

        HitlerPig won’t be able to avoid Luigi’s spotlight, and he will be making daily special updates to air his ignorant opinions. I wouldn’t even be surprised if he shows up to watch the trial one day.

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      8 hours ago

      Can you expand on how it’s comparable to OJ? The guy killed his (ex) partner. To me, that’s much different.

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        the jury was sympathetic to Oj, because they saw how much injustice was done against black people, and still does. so they voted to acquit him, despite them knowing he murdered people. AA specifically celebrated that he wont the case , only prude white people dint like him winning.

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        OJ didnt kill his partner, he killed his ex-wife, but that’s not the point.

        The point is that in both cases, the killer and the victim have taken on symbolic roles for different segments of society. In OJs case, he represented black citizens, especially those in LA, who had been brutally, systematically discriminated against by the LAPD for decades, while his white victim became symbolic of white crime victims at the hands of black criminals.

        In Luigi’s case, he has come to represent the people who have been systematically discriminated against by corporations in general, but especially by the breath-takingly corrupt health care insurance system, while the corporate serial-killer CEO has come to represent the Sociopathic Oligarchs and amoral trans-national corporations who ruthlessly, sociopathically exploit every hard-working American. Obviously, the Sociopathic Oligarchs dont share the same perspective. Like all ultra-wealthy, they think that they are the victims, and that poor people get ALL the breaks.

        It should be noted that neither set out to be a symbolic example for American society, or at least OJ didn’t. He was a fucking dickhead, who had the world by the balls, and just threw it all away in a stupid jealous rage, probably exacerbated by steroids.

        Luigi may have hoped he would kick off a movement, and he has, but we don’t know what his motivations truly were because he’s not admitting to anything, as he should. He still has a chance to get acquitted based on his face not being seen in the murder video. That alone is enough for a juror to claim reasonable doubt, so he should keep claiming his innocence.

        The bottom line is that we, as a society, apply these symbolic roles to these people, outside of their control. Those that deliberately try to set off a revolution, usually fail, like Charles Manson trying to touch of Helter Skelter (his designation for a race war) with his mass murders. Other examples of those who have been assigned symbolic societal roles include Trayvon Martin/ George Zimmerman, or the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, etc.

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          No not at all. OJs case was important in a lot of ways with regards to race and law in the us. It is nothing (ok im armchair, maybe a little bit) like luigies capping. OJ murdered his wife, no one exempts that but we agree law enforcement and the next parts of the justice system are racist as fuck so we maybe dont know or forgive OJ. Also he was in national lampoon.

          Luigi def murdered that guy and no one cares about luigis specficis. We choose luigi.

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            Luigi def murdered that guy

            We don’t actually have any tangible proof that Luigi is the Adjuster yet. He’s just the guy on trial for the case

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      Excellent point! I feel like Americans don’t like to understand that practically everyone in the U.S. is working class now. If you cannot quit your job tomorrow and live off of passive, savings, and residuals you are working class. The system is designed to facilitate this, with spartan social safety nets and lack of pensions. It’s shit-tier by developed nation standards.

      What’s that other quote, ~“it only takes 3.5% of the population to generate massive change”? Obviously I am being flippant in this specific instance, but America is a failed democracy and empire in decline.

      There is hope, but it requires taking back the power by direct action.

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        23 hours ago

        Mark Penn and Malcolm Gladwell (and many others, im sure) have both written about micro-trends, and how it takes such a small amount of the population - 2 or 3% - to reach a “Tipping Point,” and force major change.

        Its the reason the Conservative Propaganda Machine works so hard to keep us so confused and at each other’s throats. They know that if even 3-5% of the population turns on them, they are royally fucked.

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          luigi was turning them against even the grifters. Then MSM and SOCIAL media quickly quashed all news of him. people in public also dont want to admit they support someone like luigi, or they get ostracized, or even get fired form thier jobs.