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[–] [email protected] 5 points 36 minutes ago

I heard he was being held in another castle.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

He'll be back in the news when he goes to trial. He'll really be in the news if jury nullification happens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

Just so everyone is aware, if jury nullifies this trial we will see the Supreme Court decide that nullification is no longer legal and is a criminal offense.

That is where the country is right now.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm praying that it will either be jury nullification or a full-blown acquittal since I have some doubts that he is the one.

It would actually be better if it turned out he was actually innocent. It means the actual killer got away completely scot-free.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I have a feeling that the real killer used a life like mask of Luigi. The dude is just a patsy. The real killers probably found some randoms Facebook account and decided to frame him. If you look at the security footage any novice can see that it was a governmental assassin. A professional hit to make it look like a grassroots uprising.

I can 100% say that Luigi isn't going to make it to trial. They're going to kill him in jail and say he died due to some medical problem or he killed himself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And why would the government want to kill a healthcare CEO who was doing his job exactly in the manner that pleases the establishment?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 hours ago

Who knows, but it happened.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago

Free Luigi. Patron saint of all of those denied for stupid reasons, including my friend who had to have his necrotic gallbladder removed last week, and one of those shitass insurance companies denied his hospital stay, because apparently your gallbladder should fall out of you itself or something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No, two weeks is our attention span and that’s stretching it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Mine is about 5 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

This is kind of a disingenuous take. What do you expect the news to do? Every morning 1 hour of "We are still pre-trial, no new evidence..." What piece of news persists for months and months after it happens, especially something as "self contained" as a murder.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Why not? They did that for Hunter Biden's laptop.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

And Hillary's emails, the 2020 election, the border "crisis" etc. They just keep shit on repeat until it its no longer useful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

No election is standing on Luigi though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

"List of other people we think Luigi Mangione would like to kill" would be a good start.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

You could probably start a tiktok trend if you make it cool enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Every day? You overestimate the attention span of the American public

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

US public also has goldfish memory. Its a wonder anyone bothers to even make new movies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

LOL largely we don't. Have you seen the amount of sequels / spinoffs in theaters?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, I had the same reaction over the summer when people rediscovered the 2016 lawsuit that accused Trump of raping a 13 year old. Everyone was like, "Why is no one covering this???" Because they did. Eight years ago. Nothing new happened, it just got picked up by social media again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

He got charged December 9, and lets be real, there were other orange skinned bits of news that the average asshole was more interested in then him by them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Why would he be in media when nothing is happening?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Americans also have the memory of a goldfish, tbf. Look at who they elected president because they forgot how bad things were just 4 years prior.

Not a bright lot there in the states.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

Sorry, I was distracted, can you say that again

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, it's kinda just how our courts work. There really isn't anything "new" to talk about his case until his next trial date on February 17. Not that there aren't some conversations we all need to have about it, and how people feel about what he allegedly did. But right now everyone is distracted from that by the horse loose in the hospital. Hopefully at some point that trick stops working on us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

I mean, sure yeah. Also, though, most Americans are just dumb.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

News has always had a short attention span. I doubt that in this case it's in any way related to the specific events. It's just the usual.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
  • Luigi mangione is gone from the Internet
  • Posted on lemmy.world

My brother in christ your instance is part of the reason for that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Dicks out for Luigi 🍆🫡

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

That's a parade I would join.

[–] Timecircleline 8 points 12 hours ago

People have a stronger reaction to negative emotions, hence articles that promote fear or anger do better than ones that provide information only, or make people feel good. It's called the negativity bias, if you wanted more information, though it's not specific to news cycles.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Billionaires own all the media so it's not surprising.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

such a dearth of real life billboards we had to ai generate one huh

ah well

[–] [email protected] 113 points 21 hours ago
[–] sbv 221 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

The next court date has been set for February 21.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/us/luigi-mangione-arraignment-new-york/index.html

As much as I'd like to believe it's a conspiracy, news organizations make money from clicks. There isn't much for them to monetize between now and February 21, so they're focusing on more immediate stuff.

If they can get good photos and text from the next court date, Luigi will get more coverage.

Edit: there have been like five plane crashes, one US inauguration, and major US wildfires since his last court date.

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