• Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net
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    Luigi didn’t change anything.

    • Overnight sense of fraternity and class solidarity amongst the working class
    • Billionaires and execs are already second guessing their safety
    • Would be school shooters types were taught there is a better outlet for their anger that will get them national love, attention, and legal donations
    • Reinvigorated interest in gun ownership amongst everyone
    • Started a national conversation about how the rich are robbing us blind and killing us in mass, a conversation that is still going a full month later despite the media’s constant distractions

    Yeah, absolutely nothing changed. 🙄

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      I think you are way overestimating the reach of these changes due to echo chambers. Most people don’t support Luigi outside of terminally online political radicals (no hate, that’s me as well). Loud but small in numbers.

      It’s possible his action will take on a symbolic importance that leads to bigger changes in the future. But that remains to be seen, and I think ordinary people are already forgetting about this story. Again, without sustained organization this leads nowhere.

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        My 80-year-old Trump voter MIL recently told my wife we need more Luigis in the world. Anecdotal but I think it’s probably more commonplace than you’re imagining.

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        Most people don’t support Luigi outside of terminally online political radicals (no hate, that’s me as well). Loud but small in numbers.

        They don’t need to support him for the above changes. But now that you mention it, a rather significant number of people support him even if they’re in the minority:

        https://www.thedailybeast.com/young-voters-more-likely-to-support-ceo-murder-suspect-luigi-mangione-poll/

        Again, without sustained organization this leads nowhere.

        I agree. But it’s absolutely silly to think nothing changed.

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        There was a poll posted indicating 70% of those surveyed view united health care’s CEO as “kind of asking for it”, not that uncommon.