Luigi Mangione for president of the USA. If one unqualified felon can do it, Luigi is more than qualified.

Whenever he gets cheers and applause in a news comedy show, the host always looks uncomfortable. You can almost see the leash of their corporate overlords being tugged.
- I mean, it's not just that. it's legal liability. part of the reason they charged him with terrorism is to tie any show of support to a crime as well. supporting him is like supporting al-qaeda now. so I ask you, DO YOU CONDEMN HUMMUS? DO YOU CONDOM MORDOR OF CEOS?
  
  All it did was show a lot of people what bullshit a charge of "terrorism" is.
  
  Also, lets not forget who will be president soon.. Trump and his fellows have hinted at going after fake news media before. Going after terrorism supporting fake news media is even easier.
  
  It is perfectly legal to advocate for illegal activity. The first amendment has broad protections for this. SCOTUS has ruled on this even recently. You need to be able to advocate for illegal activity if you want people to have any chance to change the law.
  It is perfectly legal to come right out on national television and say, "Luigi did nothing wrong. The president and governor should pardon him, and the mayor of NYC should throw him a parade."
  
  Yes, I do condom mordor of ceos
  
  Wait, "condom" and "mordor"??!? What the hell sub is this??!!
  
  Ok then, sure, make the average person a terrorist. That will be fun!
  
  Didn't Hillary Clinton stated in one of those leaked mails that AQ was with the US or something?
- It's also just the purview of the liberal elite. So rich and far removed from society they think murdering someone makes you evil and there's never any reason to do it.
  
  Meanwhile our media is absolutely jam packed with freedom fighters and underdogs and man against the system.. ultra gore.
  So like idk what message the elites have been getting out of the media but the really popular stuff is always the stuff that speaks to the masses.. and feels relatable.
  So sitcoms and… horror dystopia, yep.
  
  They obviously don't have a problem with murder (they have a murder problem!) unless it's one of them receiving the murdering
- Not all "news comedy", FWIW — though I think you were referring to Faux "News", Twatter, FB, MSNBC, et al.
  That's not the expression in those moments. Take another, longer look.

They don't see us as human and are just finding out the feeling is mutual.
- FAFO

He's only 26, which means the 2036 election suddenly gets more interesting.
- That's assuming they don't make the death-penalty terrorism charge stick... which they will in a heartbeat.
  
  Have you heard of this one neat trick (jury nullification) that lawyers hate?
  
  That not a disqualifier though
  
  He's got enough money to drag that out for years like everyone else does
- trump promised he will "fix the elections", so no more voting will be needed.
  
  If that happens there will be a whole lot of voting by bullet

Why would the 1% be nervous?
It's not like the Americans will actually do anything. At most there will be some light trolling, some graffiti and maybe a twitter hashtag. Tjen everyone will pat themselves on the back and feel slightly superior before returning to their slave jobs, without healthcare
- Are you familiar with the term Stochastic Terrorism? The upshot is that enough public support may encourage individuals to take action against high-profile targets.
  Imagine, for a secone, that you're one of those 1%. According to the census, there are about 340 million people in the US. If just 50% of them hate you, that's 170 million. If 99.9% of them do nothing, that still leaves 170 thousand willing to act. Statistically, you'd have one potential killer every two thousand people. Sure, the actual figure might be much lower. Do you know for sure? How would you estimate that?
  Let's run with that statistic for now. How many people do you interact with or pass by daily? Weekly? Monthly? How many of those potential 170k might intentionally seek you out? The more wealthy or prominent you are, the greater of a target you become, but it may also depend on personal wrongs, leaving a lot of uncertainty and hard to predict variables. How would you know whether there's a target on your back? Or multiple?
  If you thought you were invincible, that deterrence by law enforcement and public distaste for violence would prevent any such events, that illusion has been shattered now. All it takes is one slip-up of security, one person with nothing to lose and the right luck.
  Would you feel safe?
  Until recently, we all thought nothing would happen. Now something has happened. I think at this point it's impossible to predict whether that will inspire copycats, whether the public approval may encourage more disruptice mass action or whether it will actually go back to complacency and stay an isolated incident. That unpredictability should give them pause.
  
  Add to that if you suffered at their hands.
  Add to that if you just, by chance, find an opportunity to fuck them up.
  They will end up hiding in their gated communities of course.
- I remember posts like yours from a while back... and then one day a young man with a bright future and as lot of advantage chose to leave that behind to shoot a CEO in the back of the head on the open street in broad daylight.
  "Why would the 1% be nervous"
  Your post is a weak attempt to sow defeat in the hearts and minds of those who started to perk up and think a bit more after seeing what Luigi decided needed to be done. On balance, your post reads like you're actually nervous.
  
  Technically wasn't broad daylight, it was just before sunrise. But that doesn't really affect your point.
  
  I mean, the internet does nothing better than slacktivism.
- I'll be honest. I'm not sure. I grew up outside the US. Things were far worse but in some ways, less bad division wise. I was mostly a child or a teen but I did live thru two revolutions. Both regime changing.
  It all starts rather complacent and lazy. But the bubbles. They are not feeling new to me.

I'm not saying he'd get my vote, but I'm not not saying it.
- Question would be who are the Democrats running?
  
  They're going to attempt to appeal even more to conservatives by running a previous candidate for the Democratic nomination.
  David Duke.
  
  I think next time they're just going to go for animatronics attached to some soggy bread.
  
  Joe Biden
  
  Liz Cheney
  
  DMC just watched one old ass geezer who lost their first reelection go on to win...so Dems are eying Jimmy Carter

Nah, put him on the Supreme Court and lend it some fucking legitimacy.
- I suppose what's another criminal on the Supreme Court? Maybe he can run his own murder trial and find no wrong doing.
  
  Do they do anything else?

Put him in charge of healthcare maybe, but electing libertarians to office is a big chunk of why you have this problem in the first place. Guy has only had one good idea.
- Imo Chase Oliver would have been a pretty cool president. He may have been a Libertarian but he openly called for Israel to end the genocide (yes he called it what it is), called for an end to all buisnesses subsidies, proposed a complete tax code overhaul designed to eliminate loopholes, and heavily limit patents which would destroy many pharmaceuticals.

When the Venn diagram of YA doomsday fiction and reality overlap more than you thought.
- I mean, MrBeast is going full Torment Nexus.

Just pointing out if an insurance office shuts down for the day then no claims are getting approved.
- Well my darling deario no claims are being approved, they're being rejected though.
  
  Two weeks ago people were posting stats on the front page showing the industry average denied claims is around 16% and UnitedHealth denies double that at 32%, so that means the vast majority of claims are approved even for the worst examples.
- So basically you're saying nothing changes if they shut down.
- Paper pushers set up a toll booth.
  
  It's more like a hydraulic bridge, really.

If they aren't doing anything immoral they have nothing to be nervous about.

I'm too old to know the four notes from the Hunger Games, so I substitute my own: 🎼 you ♩ must ♩ use ♩ the ♩ force ♩
Shit, that was five notes.

Remember remember!
The 4th of December
A CEO dies all alone;
On the street he was lain,
cold, pale and in pain,
thousands of deaths that he own.
The decisions he'd struck,
Layers removed from the slaughter,
Were a shareholders treat,
Your dead mother or daughter.
Those investors all wait, on that cold winter morn,
Still unaware of profit potential they'd mourn,
Poking at hotel breakfast, bored looks on their face
As Brian's when he denied and delayed at great pace
Endless growth, deposed, on behalf of us all
Luigi didn't do it, we were hiking in Nepal.
- This is SO good.
  
  Thanks :)

What's the hunger games 4 notes reference here?
- It was the tune sung by the mockingjay bird, iirc it was the symbol of the resistance.
- For the rest of us who don’t know, here’s a clip
- G B♭ A D
  The four notes whistled by Katniss. Became a central melody in the series.

The four notes from hunger games? Like the start of the theme song?
- The mocking Jay whistle, often used with the three-fingered solute.
  
  Just realized we could very well see protesters getting arrested for holding up three fingers at his trial just like Russia did.
- Every single thing I know about the Hunger Games comes from this video and I bet I know what four notes they mean.
  Also, is Colm's fiancee there actually American? I don't know how well an Irish girl would have faked "sahd bah sahd wid' mae."
- I think op is overestimating how many people are familiar with the hunger games.

The problem is that the guy would be a third party candidate, which means he would get treated as a sinkhole for the voters of the opposite party. This would work specially well for the GQP since they could just have a candidate adopt his ideology, throw a lot of money into news, media, and rallies to trump up support, and then easily turn around and just not fulfill it when they win. Meanwhile, there will be plenty of people in the other side of the flawed bipartisan system who will just blame democrats for not choosing their third party candidate regardless of the actual consequences voting third party has in USA's democratic facade of a system.

Source (close to beginning)

Bruh, y'all leave him alone. Y'all want him to get JFK'ed?
- If that happened, it would light the fire even hotter. They need him convicted, not assassinated.
  
  Yep. Also people liked JFK. They don’t like insurance CEO. So you can sell the idea that jack ruby was a good guy.

Eugene V. Debs will always be my favorite imprisoned candidate. Respectable vote count too, given their situation.

Not all unqualified felons (or the laws they have broken) are equal.

He needs to be rich first though.
- That's what dark money is for. Both Biden and Trump have been elected on it.
- He is

He should get all sorts of leanency and considerations based on the election cycle and media image.

Actual Adjuster/Mangione 2025 Special Election
- Reality adjuster

Finally, we have our champion

Get him acquitted
Tour in Congress, replace that disgusting regime who're fettermam, he can tired into sucking bibi dick in a tel Aviv while wearing his suit
Proper run for the white house where he has monopoly on violence so he can do his work in peace.

No. I mean I get that it's tongue-in-cheek, but just stop. This social media edgelord shit is just Q-Anon of the left.
I mean if we wanna turn this guy into a hero, maybe we should talk about the fact that he shot some relatively powerless, fake-title CEO of a subsidiary while retweeting praise of Elon Musk, the biggest oligarch in the world. He's not even a quality villain, much less a hero.