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DaveC426913

DaveC426913

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A lotta Luigi fans out there.

I don't wanna start a whole thing. Just something that's gotta be said.

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I’m not sure who Luigi is. I don’t watch the news. I haven’t played Donkey Kong or those Nintendo games since the 80s, but I’m guessing that’s not him. ;)

Anyway, I got this great idea that might actually work. Ok so hear me out. I say we organize one of those march for our lives rally. Since the last one worked so well, maybe this time it’ll keep those pesky gun killers out of the hands of people. Ya never know…
 
Zero Point Native said:
I’m not sure who Luigi is. I don’t watch the news.
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America's latest killer. Walked up to an insurance CEO on a New York street in broad daylight and shot him in the back. Executed him in cold blood.

Americans are treating him like a superstar because the CEO he killed was a world class douche nozzle (and I am not contesting that).

My beef is not so much with the death of a douche nozzle (although the execution disgusts me) - but with the rise of a killer to the status of folk hero.

See, America has had a problem for decades with its disgruntled people choosing to go out in a blaze of glory and bloody mass murder - all for the notoriety they perceived it to be bringing to their predecessors. A conscious decision was made decades ago that publicity seekers should not be given the praise they desparately seek. Their names and stories should be kept out of the paper and forgotten. It is the the victims' whose names should go down in history.

But in one week meme artists have undone all that. People are making him into the only headline. People are pretending to be his alibi in the hopes we will get off. A real hero. hE is being showered in an embarrassment of glory. Just what mass murderes have been craving.

A lot of latent killers out there are polishing their weapons, counting their ammo and mapping out routes to daycares right about now...
 
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Zero Point Native said:
I’m not sure who Luigi is. I don’t watch the news.
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That would explain your being so uniformed and ignorant of the world around you and why you embrace delusions of the dystopian society rattling around inside your head.
 
DaveC426913 said:
America's latest killer. Walked up to an insurance CEO on a New York street in broad daylight and shot him in the back. Executed him in cold blood.

Americans are treating him like a superstar because the CEO he killed was a world class douche nozzle (and I am not contesting that).

My beef is not so much with the death of a douche nozzle (although the execution disgusts me) - but with the rise of a killer to the status of folk hero.

See, America has had a problem for decades with its disgruntled people choosing to go out in a blaze of glory and bloody mass murder - all for the notoriety they perceived it to be bringing to their predecessors. A conscious decision was made decades ago that publicity seekers should not be given the praise they desparately seek. Their names and stories should be kept out of the paper and forgotten. It is the the victims' whose names should go down in history.

But in one week meme artists have undone all that. People are making him into the only headline. People are pretending to be his alibi in the hopes we will get off. A real hero. hE is being showered in an embarrassment of glory. Just what mass murderes have been craving.

A lot of latent killers out there are polishing their weapons, counting their ammo and mapping out routes to daycares right about now...
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All this is so easy when everyone has access to GUNS.
 
exchemist said:
All this is so easy when everyone has access to GUNS.
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Americans are kind of picky about the amendments. First? They look like they can wave that and shoe horn religion into the class room.
Second? Try and change that and someone will get shot. Get shot good.
 
Funnily, the ones who aren't depicting Mangione as a folk hero are the right-wing pundits, for whom people like Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny are inexplicably "heroes". And yet, in Mangione they've finally got that exceptionally rare "good guy with a gun" who managed to take down a mass murderer.
 
parmalee said:
Funnily, the ones who aren't depicting Mangione as a folk hero are the right-wing pundits, for whom people like Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny are inexplicably "heroes". And yet, in Mangione they've finally got that exceptionally rare "good guy with a gun" who managed to take down a mass murderer.
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To be clear, I have no right wing views (if anything, I'm a leftie.) I'm Canadian. Ostensibly we don't have quite the identity-politics vibe that pervades much of America.

Since Trump became your president-elect, I've stepped way back from American politics in self-defense of my sanity, so I don't know or care what is being touted on the talk shows and I do not care to get into a political debate. (I'm not expecting I can stop it here, but I have nothing to contribute in that respect.)

All this to say please don't ascribe to me any views that might be held by others whose views on this issue appear to align with mine.

My particular beef is not about guns; it's not about a one-percenter getting his come-uppance. It's the socio-societal issue I'm concerned about. It's about the sustenance that we feed killers. The media used to blast the names and life story of killers all over the headlines, incidentally giving them celebrity status. It seemed that every new killer wanted to go out a blaze of media glory. So we all agreed to deny them this attention. It was a big deal.

Yet, here we are - Luigi is a folk hero. No one is thinking about the next killer and what they think will get them notoriety.
 
DaveC426913 said:
To be clear, I have no right wing views (if anything, I'm a leftie.) I'm Canadian. Ostensibly we don't have quite the identity-politics vibe that pervades much of America.
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No problem. I was actually referring to the Faux News types, Ben Shapiros, et al. They're all fuming over the death of this Patriot!!!
 
A bit ironic given it's the Right which has enabled big insurance and profit-centered healthcare generally.
 
TheVat said:
Then you probably should, so you know what members are talking about and can avoid looking like a monumentally stupid jackass. Then again, it might not help with that last part.
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(Q) said:
That would explain your being so uniformed and ignorant of the world around you and why you embrace delusions of the dystopian society rattling around inside your head.
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Rather posting an ad hominem attack because somebody is unaware of something, maybe try this instead: try to help them, for instance by supplying relevant information.

When I read the opening post of this thread, I didn't immediately recognise the name "Luigi" either. From the context, I could guess who it was that DaveC was talking about. It would have been a simple google search to confirm that suspicion.

Ironically, all this thread really does is to give the killer even more notoriety. But that's a separate issue.
 
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