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Luigi Mangione

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh you mean Mario’s brother‽

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who's that Luigi Mangione?

Have you heard about my best pal Louis Bigeater?

[–] __nobodynowhere 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could I bother you for an explanation? I tried searching, there are a lot of results for the Atellan Farce/Oscan athletic games, but I feel I'm still missing context to get the reference.

[–] __nobodynowhere 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Luigi comes from the Latin name Lodovicus

Mangione is Italian for "big eater" or a glutton. Manducus is Latin for glutton. Both are derived from mando, to chew.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

❤️ Thank you!!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

Luigi is a hero

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just stop using reddit to talk about chads like Luigi.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That too pretty much. Other than some niche topics I don't use it anymore. Hopefully as lemmy grows those will have better options here too.

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[–] [email protected] 220 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That's weird because Luigi didn't kill anyone. He's innocent.

If I wanted to promote violence, I'd praise the still unidentified murderer of Brian Thompson.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yea the whole thing smells like a stitch-up. Cops couldn't afford to look incompetent or let their massive manhunt drag on too long, so they did their usual thing and picked a vaguely plausible target and build a narrative to pin it on them.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago
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[–] [email protected] 138 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I’m here because Reddit has turned to shit. They post a rule about upvoting violence will get you banned, so upvoting a comment that says FREE LUIGI will get you banned but upvoting a video of someone getting stabbed to death or a human being turned into red paste will just be another day at the office. Let’s be real here, they only want to silence specific people without saying out loud who they want to silence.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

So you're saying a site with a history of posting videos of women getting hit "deservedly" is being disingenuous when violence is directed at the powerful? Say it ain't so.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look just because I'm in the middle of a LM/Waluigi slashfic doesn't necessarily mean I'm inciting violence. There's violence in it (Wario is an insurance exec, Luigi gets a power star, runs over Wario who explodes into coins) but I can hardly call that inciting violence. Where could someone get a power star in this day and age.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

where could someone get a power star in this day and age

I fucking know. I remember the 90s; they were hard to AVOID, if anyone ever tried. fucking 'silent spring' shit. link to your fic please btw.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, that's Spez? He looks like every rich boy who's dad got him everyone he wanted and he never heard "no". Chad or Trent or similar.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And, stopped letting you play with his toys when you said or did something he didn’t like

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

He totally looks like he turns the console off when he's losing. And not only as a kid.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I found an article here for anyone else looking for a source that's not just a clickbait image.

This kind of thing has been a long time coming, it's why I started looking into decentralized social media in the first place. It actually feels less dangerous today than it did before the plague of GPT bots that make everyone wary of whether they're reading something written by a human or not.

I left facebook for diaspora in the early 2010s because I felt like an algorithm could influence my opinions too easily. If I see a bunch of my friends voicing one opinion, but all of my friends who voice the opposite opinion don't make it onto my feed, that will influence my own opinions regardless of how mindful I try to be about that. I was kind of addicted and it took strength to delete my account.

I started looking for reddit alternatives a couple years later for similar reasons. I'm really glad lemmy has finally taken off but things had to get a lot worse for that to happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't forget, you're subject to the same content manipulation here. Mods of many communities are biased if not outright propagandists. The echo chamber is very real. It just isn't as centralized due to the nature of the technology.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But what about Green Mario, who allegedly unalived a healthlord in Minecraft?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

This whole "avoid the censor by using euphemisms" thing that gen Z does is fucking annoying. Stop. Don't use any platform that is censoring you.

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

Is it on certain communities? Posted on prequel memes and got no such warning? Maybe the ban van is coming for me?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

This looks like a moderator approval thingie. Normal users probably won't see anything like that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (8 children)

The next names to be banned are Washington and Grant. Both used violence.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago

They are banning people for up voting Luigi, even.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago

Luigi is becoming more powerful as a folk hero figure by the minute.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago

We need the Fediverse now more than ever.

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