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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The multi-layered privilege in how the public is handling this case is awful: he’s white, very good looking (or at least very photogenic), in great shape, young, smart and rich. Poor little rich, good-looking valedictorian, Ivy grad with big pecs. He also MADE his gun (a zip gun). No evidence of any relationship with UHC or that he had back surgery. No photo evidence to show his lifestyle was altered with this “horrible pain”. But yet; he’s so dreamy, look at those teeth? Look at that topless photo?

He took a zip gun and executed someone in the street, a stranger to him, in front of other people.

But he is mentally ill?  He was “indoctrinated”. Poor him. Someone give him a hug.

Where was the same sympathy for the dude who drove up from NC and shot up Comet Pizza? At least it was a registered gun. But he wasn’t rich, young or good looking. He was white though.

And if Luigi is so anti-capitalist, wouldn’t he refuse the money and help his parents can buy in his new fancy lawyer (who is the wife of Diddy’s lawyer, the truth is stranger than fiction).

I have zero sympathy for anyone that starts using any gun to shot people, period.

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I mean, I agree with you. He committed a horrible crime. I want him to be tried and go to prison.

But this thread is just striking to me in how incredibly far out of touch it is. We saw this with the election too. I knew Trump was going to win, as did any one who consumed media and had deep personal contacts outside of the DCUM bubble. And the same thing is going on here. DCUM is full of people adjacent to the victim here. So this thread is full of people genuinely confused about why anyone would support Luigi. However, outside of the DCUM bubble, many people are wildly supportive of Luigi, and they know all the facts you listed out and [i]do not care[/i].

There are votive candles being sold in flea markets with him on it as a saint — patron saint of health care denials, patron saint of the ill. “Deny, defend, depose” is showing up in graffiti, in songs, in clubs, in bars, at freaking sporting events across the country. All social media is filled with FreeLuigi hashtags. Publications have to shut down the comment sections of any article condemning the killing because so many people support it. And on and on and on.

Once again I want to be crystal clear that I 100% do not support Luigi. He need to be tried and what he did was absolutely wrong. I have zero sympathy for people who kill others. But people here do not understand how this event is being experienced outside of the 1%. He is seen as a hero martyr by many, many people. [/quote]

It’s more of meme culture because he’s hot and on Goodreads, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tinder, etc.  Everyone scooped up his profile the first few hours it was released and it shut down.

It was also an internet meme culture that speculated that it was a HC vendetta killing when they got Thompsons name. Before shooter was found and named.

But ultimately the motive and circumstances will come out in the trial.

He was a nice, smart guy who disappeared and re-appeared a targeted shooter.  [/quote]

Meme culture is only online. But this has escaped outside of the internet.

What is interesting to me from a sociological perspective is that Luigi’s popularity feels a lot like the furious populism that drove the Trump election. Again, that was not a surprise to anyone who was actually listening. But it was a total shock to mainstream media and a lot of DCUM. I sense that same disconnect and gap here. [/quote]

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