Luigi Mangione’s sweater sells out at Nordstrom one day after court appearance
Luigi Mangione’s sweater sells out at Nordstrom one day after court appearance
Mangione appeared for his arraignment hearing on December 23
“They are literally treating him like he is some sort of political fodder, like some sort of spectacle,” Agnifilo said. “He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest stage perp walk I’ve ever seen in my career, it was absolutely unnecessary. He’s been cooperative with law enforcement... There was no reason for the NYPD and everybody to have these big assault rifles.”
“It was perfectly choreographed, and what was the New York City Mayor doing at this press conference, your honor? That just made it utterly political,” she continued.
His lawyer seems to not be afraid to pull any punches, I like her.
Typical capitalist tactic cashing in
Capitalism working as intended.
Intended is the next part where they roll out a premium line called LM
Then the scam cryptocurrency hits, what am I saying? that's probably already happened.
I think people are overestimating how much stock any chain has for a specific item at any given moment. It's really not that impressive that specific color of a specific sweater can sell out quickly because of a meme. This is just clickbait.
This is a disaster for the CEOs. Homeboy is going to get ended if the jury finds him not guilty.
Find him not guilty, the world celebrates the jury that spared Luigi and he goes onto become a hero.
Find him guilty, the world shames the judge that killed Luigi and he goes onto become a martyr.
There's no winning for the corporate elite here
The civil suits will destroy him even if he's found not guilty. He doesn't win either way either.
The darker part of my psyche is a little giddy at the idea of CEOs shitting their boots cause there's a man on the loose in the world who is willing and able to murder them and that no one will ever convict him.
I'm with him either way.
Do you think there's a world where his pleading innocent, and his attorneys' arguments that someone else did it will affect his status as a folk hero? It seems like a fine line for him to tow, for him to minimize his sentence, but not negatively impact the message, and his status in bearing it.
I want to see him do it, but that seems like the challenge of his position.
Here I am wondering how people afford to shop at Nordstrom while also being annoyed by the consumerism bullshit that is a blight on us all.
They’re in debt.
Are you saying that only poor people hate consumerism? Rejecting consumerism is an indirect way to gain wealth though frugality.
Nope. I agree with you.
I have one thing from there.
A company branded sweatshirt.
When I got hired they sent me the catalogue and said “pick something”, and I went “surely not, no, this is far too expensive for the one time I’ll wear it..” and they said “you need something for twice yearly meetings with the ceo, so just pick something.. ok?”
And so I got the absolute loudest (that I liked) multicolored zip front hoodie I could find and those bitches paid to have that shit embroidered with a logo nobody cares about or recognizes, and now I have a ridiculous sweatshirt that’s much higher quality than it deserves to be but cost THREE HUNDRED FUCKING FREEDOM DOLLARS, and thus occasionally gets worn even tho I don’t work there anymore.
Homes, medical treatment, and financial stability are all a lot more expensive than bougie consumer products.
And while the average american can usually figure out how evil the oligarchy is, thinking through solutions and actions is a much bigger ask for the average american.
I mean tbf this isn't directly about consumerism it's about the evil practices of healthcare insurance companies. I'm not sure you'd get nearly as many people agreeing that consumerism is bad.
It seems strage. Rich kid gets mad because couldn't get anymore opiates prescribed, plus many other reasons most people agree on. Shoots a even richer person. And now any clothing this guys wears is basically a AD. Then shareholders of said companies get richer. Find his fams stock holdings and bet on what they betting on?
Jesus christ guys, does it get more vapid than consumerism as revolt?
I agree with what you're saying regarding consumerism, BUT...
I think it's way more important that people are showing support for Luigi. The elites can see this shit. If this is all we've got, I'll definitely take it. Just something to think about.
I don't think it's consumerism so much as a bit of fanaticism, and also something of a uniform.
People are conditioned to their environment. It's like the far right assholes who hate the system but don't understand that the real enemy is the rich and instead think we need to attack government. Yes, that's bad too, but class warfare is the real answer while they suck off Musk for his "epic posts."
I'm relieved that some amount of awareness is blooming. We can hope that it continues to develop.
It's actually interesting.
If anything that Luigi touches basically becomes gold it's going to lead to some very interesting behavior from people who want to capitalize on it, but if they do it'll betray the narrative that's being pushed. Which company is gonna be shamelessly greedy enough to break the line?
And if they do how will the government and other companies react? At the very least there's conflicting interests happening. I'm very curious about how it'll play out.
I express my dissent with character socks. Today I am wearing spongebob with great irony.
We are living in a simulation, truly.
How do people even find out this stuff? Is there a reddit post saying I FOUND HIS SWEATER or something? Same with the backpack.
Even here there were people that were talking about the exact backpacks details. If you own the same thing you'll recognize it.
People were talking about the backpack a lot on the onebag subreddit.
Then CEO managed to destroy his company's reputation by personally calling the tip line and offering to link the serial number to the person who ordered it.
Yeah. That backpack kinda sucks.
In siding with the rich and powerful against somewhone who is objectively opposing the rich and powerful, NY's mayor is showing how much of a political battle the trial will be.
Confirmed.
They need to ban this sweater immediately.
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