Someone donated 30k to Luigi after yesterday's court appearance

The amount of people who died as a result of Brian Thompson's leadership of united healthcare should be investigated instead

- ‘Western style democracy’ has never been truly democratic because of how money influences elections and politicians. True democracy isn’t possible as long as there exists a capital class in society. The capital class will not give up its wealth without a class war.
- I might be being a bit daft here, but why western democracy, not just American democracy? I ask cause on USA has privatised healthcare.
- That's part of the problem, we don't have ample hospital beds nor staff resources.

If the courts had intervened to stop Brian Thompson before his healthcare murder spree then maybe Luigi wouldn't be being prosecuted right now. This trial isnt about luigi, its about covering up the chain of political failures that led us here.

A single death is a tragedy; A million deaths is a statistic.
Luigi killed a dad, husband, ceo, etc, etc etc.
Brian just inflated some numbers...
I hate how the world works.
- A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is record profits for a health insurance company
- It's not a war crime if it makes you money, I'm told.

Love to see it

I have it on good authority from my son that Luigi was in a haunted mansion that day.

Gonna wanna see the source code on that "Pray" button. I don't think it actually does anything.

on desktop the button has a counter for how many people have pressed it, so it does something :)
- Holy crap! Do we now have the technology to quantify thoughts and prayers?
I just saw it wtf
dude is there a Pray Button on the various controllers. someone is about to try and convince you.
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The real uplifting news is bootlickers getting kicked in their metaphorical shins in the comment section.

I'd lick a boot if they payed enough, but they're not. I get that other people are worse off than me, but seriously, what the fuck? The current regime isn't paying. period. I'm angry and I don't know what to do with it.
- What makes a bootlicker is that they continue to lick the boot even when it isn't paying off in the slightest.
  But you are right, there is no longer any reward for participating in society. The wealthy have forgotten fear.
  Life under Capitalism was better while there was a sizable Communist bloc on the other side of the world. The fear that the commoners might wake up and make their voices heard by force of violence resulted in all manner of concessions. Unions were stronger, public services were estabilished, workers' rights were signed into law. Then the Soviets showed weakness in the eighties, and the Capitalist class was quick to invent Neoliberalism and begin the slow but assured gutting of all those concessions. While manufacturing consent through the media and convincing people that this was what they actually wanted.
  Now we see the end result.
  As for what to do about it, I don't fucking know either. Because the only thing that is known to work would require a mass movement of a size that I don't think even can be achieved nowadays. Society is too fragmented. People are too propagandised.
  I have basically embraced doomer hedonism. Life will not get better, so I make a point to just enjoy myself as much as possible, I have no intention of breeding more slaves for their flesh-mill, and I personally hope to die young. (to a definition of young anyway, I'm this close to being legally considered 'middle aged')
Says the one who licks Mangione's boots.
Personnally, i find pretty worrying that vigilantism is so normalized that a murder is qualified as "uplifting", i don't wanna live in a neo-far west where private justice is the norm. And before deifing Mangione, you should have checked his political background, because the guy is openly "anti-woke", that means he likely doesn't care about the political implications of his murder and acted in a pure selfish way.
The amount of fame he got is insane, he even have fanfictions on wattpad.
- Ok bootlicker.

Thats hot

Luigi's Mansion 2

Taking out the leader of an evil (corpo) empire is heroism, not subject to murder charges.

What does this mean, exactly? More resources to hire more lawyers or something?

Not really, Luigi already had tons of money.
What it means is a legislator who might have actually had a positive impact on changing US Healthcare did NOT receive a 30k donation.
- We can't outspend the health insurance industry, especially not in the long run. Legislators will always side with those who can continually give large donations and pay full-time lobbyists. It is incredibly naive - bordering on delusional - to think we can take on even just one sector of the oligarchy by working within their captured system.
  Now is the time to apply pressure from the outside, organize and build our own mechanisms for affecting change. This will require solidarity, and for people to make collective and coordinated use of their agency with regards to their labor and spending.

I don't want to dampen the good mood, but even if this is sent anonymously, is there any risk of the information of who is the donor being hacked, especially by corporate overlords who have every incentive to see Luigi and his supporters get punished?

It's anonymous to us, not the website. Payments are the most trackable thing in the world
Proxy account or donor is outside US, in a suitable country
Edit: There is legal protection, so if that donor doesn't have any potentially problematic business it's safe ig.
- such a silly bunch a shit. YOU CAN'T DO THAT. unless you have the intelligence of a human.

When the government fails to protect us, and corporations won't protect us, we must take it upon ourselves to engage in self defense. Luigi did nothing wrong.

A true American hero

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/orphan-crushing-machine

Is Luigi winning?

It's pretty disturbing to see this news in the top 10 of a such community. Apparently, many people want to go back to the far-west where it was normal to use the talion law. And since many Luigi's fanboys are treating him as a hero for committing his crime, i wonder who many people claiming he is innocent and has been unfairly accused are just hypocrites.

That one will be last against the wall

What are you saying here...?

Lol, it's the Schrödinger's guilt. The news is supposed to be uplifting both because the guy is praised as a hero for killing someone and because he is presumed not guilty.

Personally, i don't have any sympathy for him, regardless he's guilty or not, some things he said are really disgusting.

Martin Luther thing said some disgusting things, if you lived back then, would you have no sympathy either?
Nobody deserves to be put in prison for allegedly killing CEOs, whether they did it or not.
"You stand accused of saving the lives of sick puppies with cancer. The penalty is death. How do you plead?"
I don't know anything about what he said, but I can't condone murder - especially if it was for nothing.
It's Schrödinger's vigilantism.
Part of me wants there to be a vigilante hunting down those who prey on the weak by breaking the social contract.
But another part of me doesn't think the people who would be willing to do said hunting should even be free in society to begin with.
Clearly something(s) has to change, but what?
Send him to 1789 France

Pathetic.

you don't have to be into the whole killing part. me too. what's up?
- I just think that sending your own hard owned money to a murderer is pathetic, and everyone else upvoting this and encouraging this disgusting behaviour are also pathetic. This complete loss of all morals and integrity just because a victim was in a situation you politivally disagree with is completely embarassing.

How a 30k donation to a murderer counts as "uplifting news"? If anything it's depressing

Innocent until proven guilty.
Before we engage in name calling for this suspect, know that yesterday was blatantly clear the system is stacked against him to the point where the courts did not Los him to go into PA for another legal procedure.
See the thing here is that they were giving evidence even to MAX for the documentary and not his legal team, who correctly called some of the evidence inadmissible in court.
So before you feel like calling him a murderer see. The facts and wait for the events to unfold.
- I mean, it would be more typical to only be charged in either state or federal for crimes like trespassing, but it's also not unheard of for murder cases. For example, Michael White had charges in the state of West Virginia and was also sentenced for a murder in Federal court.
You have evidence he murdered someone? Why haven't you told anyone?!
- He told the dude that made his Filet-o-fish.
How's that boot taste?
There is no evidence that Luigi killed anyone. Innocent until proven guilty.
- You don’t get to celebrate him for doing the murder white also claiming he didn’t do it.
He didn’t murder anyone.
- What are people calling him a hero for then?
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That’s 30 grand to someone who was accused of murder who should be entitled to the best possible defense for such a serious accusation in such a hot political climate.
Under our current legal system, that means they are in severe need of funding to help ensure that the result is fair and just.
- So you agree it's not uplifting, it's sad.
Why are you lying? Nobody's been convicted of murder.
- They’ve already decided to play judge and jury, and I suspect would enjoy playing executioner.
Oh, go lick a boot, dweeb.
It’s the best news all day, go back to Reddit corporate shill
- What did he say that was corporate shillery?
You're asleep at the wheel.
The donation doesn't go to a CEO who has murdered hundreds, possibly thousands of people.
It is going to someone who acted in defense of others. Or who might not be the person who even did that, which is why he deserves a fair trial.
- Funny, if that hypothetical murderer really died wouldn't that mean the "killings" would have stopped? Looks like nothing has changed.
this is like saying donating to a guy who killed someone actively killing others is never uplifting news. Sure leave the school shooters alone
- If that man was really responsible for those deaths then the killing would have stopped.
  The blood is on the hands of voters.
They're saying that they find due process to be lacking and the prosecution to be political.
Do you think it's depressing that someone would donate money to the defense of someone they think is being inappropriately prosecuted?
If you think they're guilty, you should still want them to get the best defense possible, so that when they're found guilty it's airtight. Our justice system is based on an adversarial model. If the prosecution, with the resources of the state, can't successfully argue that they did it and that their arrest and all procedures were properly followed, do you really want that to still mean someone faces the death penalty?
- Luigi has tons of money, though. He doesn't need your money, and even if he did your money still isn't helping anybody.
Context is hard for you?
Yeah TBH I dislike Luigi a little bit more every time I see his face.
People are actually worshiping this guy for some reason.
- Did you stop to consider the principles of why people feel that way?
I agree. I don’t think this sub should get political.
- It’s uplifting news and has nothing to do with politics. Perhaps Reddit is a better place for you
- I think you’ll find across the spectrum, people are frustrated to the point where it’s not a political issue
- Everything is political. The sooner you get over this "I'm tired of politics, let me enjoy my doomscrolling" attitude, the more respectable you'll be.
- Healthcare is only political to 1/3 of the country. Everyone else sees it for what it is: a human right
- this is uplifting but i agree
- Yeah, because there's surely not enough political communities on there already