• @merc@sh.itjust.works
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    1063 months ago

    What would the news headline be?

    Luigi Still In Custody While Waiting For Hearing

    or

    Mangione’s Attorneys Presumably Working Hard

    or

    Brian Thompson Still Dead

    News doesn’t tend to report when things are the same as they were yesterday. If his lawyers aren’t talking to the press, and the prosecutors aren’t talking to the press, and the trial won’t start for another month, what exactly are the reporters going to report on?

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      I would love to see the headlines if this was the norm.

      President Carter Still Dead, We Confirmed

      Obama Not President, Maybe Enjoying Retirement?

      Epstein’s Suicide Not Being Investigated

      Actually any headline of something not happening sounds super suspicious lol

      • @bstix@feddit.dk
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        63 months ago

        It would be nice to have a week of that kind of news just to get a break from the current doom news.

        It sometimes happens during summer holidays, when journalists have nothing to write about.

    • @bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net
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      73 months ago

      Brian Thompson has not yet reformed at his phylactery. Industry experts speculate his phylactery may have been destroyed in the California wildfires.

    • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      63 months ago

      I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

      We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’

      Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’

      So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’

      I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!

    • @whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      There are whole genre dedicated to court cases and legal speculation, news reporting also gets ramped up to 11 when celebrities are involved.

    • @Tangentism@lemmy.ml
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      33 months ago

      “Plenty of space on pavement outside NY Hilton for other billionaires to take a snooze” might work!

  • @N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    643 months ago

    They can’t demonize Luigi, so they’re trying to erase him. The media is seeing the limitations of their power against popular anger. They have to be terrified.

    Meanwhile, the guy who actually shot the CEO is probably living off the grid in a cabin somewhere.

    • @xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
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      423 months ago

      Meanwhile, the guy who actually shot the CEO is probably living off the grid in a cabin somewhere.

      I still haven’t seen anything that links Luigi to the footage of the shooting. I don’t know how anyone looks at that footage and is like “Yup. That’s the same guy”.

      If the eyebrows are thicc, you must acquit.

  • @yarr@feddit.nl
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    603 months ago

    This is kind of a disingenuous take. What do you expect the news to do? Every morning 1 hour of “We are still pre-trial, no new evidence…” What piece of news persists for months and months after it happens, especially something as “self contained” as a murder.

      • @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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        And Hillary’s emails, the 2020 election, the border “crisis” etc. They just keep shit on repeat until it its no longer useful

    • @pjwestin@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, I had the same reaction over the summer when people rediscovered the 2016 lawsuit that accused Trump of raping a 13 year old. Everyone was like, “Why is no one covering this???” Because they did. Eight years ago. Nothing new happened, it just got picked up by social media again.

    • @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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      “List of other people we think Luigi Mangione would like to kill” would be a good start.

    • @MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
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      73 months ago

      Unfortunately, it’s kinda just how our courts work. There really isn’t anything “new” to talk about his case until his next trial date on February 17. Not that there aren’t some conversations we all need to have about it, and how people feel about what he allegedly did. But right now everyone is distracted from that by the horse loose in the hospital. Hopefully at some point that trick stops working on us.

  • @rational_lib@lemmy.world
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    You guys need a hero that doesn’t suck. I mean he didn’t even hit a real oligarch. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos don’t give a fuck what happens to Brian Thompson. All the oligarchs were so scared of being branded as oligarchs that they responded by all getting together and having a public bukkake session with Trump as he eviscerates what little public healthcare system there is. The Christ meme is accurate - because worshipping him doesn’t do shit.

    • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      53 months ago

      Going after the bigger ones would have been harder. The impact of his success with Thompson might inspire further action, which wouldn’t have happened if he had tried and failed with Trump or Musk.

      It’s kinda fascinating for years how “freedom of speech” online has given people free rein to talk about slaughtering queer people and women, but it’s the billionaire talk that gets moderated….

    • @Tangentism@lemmy.ml
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      He (allegedly) didn’t get the ones we all wanted but he showed people the path and that puts the shits up the rest of them!

    • burgersc12
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      193 months ago

      You should label your comment if they are made by a bot.

            • e$tGyr#J2pqM8v
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              you’re choosing to interpret it negatively. you read to much into it. I tend to interpret ‘honestly, why do you care’ as someone who honestly wants to know why the other cares. Why would it not be that? It makes a lot of sense to me to ask this question, because I don’t see the relevance of something being AI or not in the context of a meme.

                • FenrirIII
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                  I was asking honestly. Why do they care? It’s a meme community. Why does using an AI image to get a message across matter? Why do they care?

                  You are reading way too much into it.

    • @gabereal@sopuli.xyz
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      73 months ago

      I didn’t even notice until your comment. That’s such a weird image to have an AI make; how hard is it to google ‘billboard in a city or whatever’ and run with the first result?

      • stebo
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        73 months ago

        Not that hard at all. Though these days a lot of Google images results are also AI generated. I’m not even sure if the image above is real or not.

    • stebo
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      23 months ago

      i mean clearly we don’t need a label to recognise them

    • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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      213 months ago

      I’m praying that it will either be jury nullification or a full-blown acquittal since I have some doubts that he is the one.

      It would actually be better if it turned out he was actually innocent. It means the actual killer got away completely scot-free.

      • @Death_to_cumskins@lemm.ee
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        53 months ago

        I have a feeling that the real killer used a life like mask of Luigi. The dude is just a patsy. The real killers probably found some randoms Facebook account and decided to frame him. If you look at the security footage any novice can see that it was a governmental assassin. A professional hit to make it look like a grassroots uprising.

        I can 100% say that Luigi isn’t going to make it to trial. They’re going to kill him in jail and say he died due to some medical problem or he killed himself.

    • @PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee
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      143 months ago

      Just so everyone is aware, if jury nullifies this trial we will see the Supreme Court decide that nullification is no longer legal and is a criminal offense.

      That is where the country is right now.

  • @BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    203 months ago

    Free Luigi. Patron saint of all of those denied for stupid reasons, including my friend who had to have his necrotic gallbladder removed last week, and one of those shitass insurance companies denied his hospital stay, because apparently your gallbladder should fall out of you itself or something.

  • Stern
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    113 months ago

    He got charged December 9, and lets be real, there were other orange skinned bits of news that the average asshole was more interested in then him by them.