Is the US a dystopia?

at least he can polish the fenders

Based on his Twitter TL, he seems into hustle bro optimization stuff like Andrew Huberman and Tim Ferriss.

― jaymc, Monday, December 9, 2024 12:53 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also based on his Goodreads, good lord

tbf reading that stuff could drive anyone to kill

grappling with the implications of The Adjuster turning out to be a hot Italian tech bro gym rat who went to Penn, seems to have had a pretty gnarly back injury, retweets anti-woke nonsense, and has read not one but two books by Steve-O

— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) December 9, 2024

A most fascinating Milkshake Duck moment - he's not (openly) racist just the most annoying guy at a party.

weeb harvey oswald

his twitter header has an xray of what looks like steel implants in his back xp

john wilkes bowflex

sirhimbo sirhimbo

Less Milkshake Duck, more Smoothie Goose

He'd be cute if it wasn't the eyebrows, book choices, and fascism.

Ah shit I should have gone with Juice Goose, sorry everyone

maybe he murdered UHC CEO for covering too much of his medical expenses

"I had the means!"

Hey, he wrote a review of the Unabomber's manifesto:

Clearly written by a mathematics prodigy. Reads like a series of lemmas on the question of 21st century quality of life.

It's easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it's simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.

He was a violent individual - rightfully imprisoned - who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.

A take I found online that I think is interesting:

"Had the balls to recognize that peaceful protest has gotten us absolutely nowhere and at the end of the day, he's probably right. Oil barons haven't listened to any environmentalists, but they feared him.

When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it's not terrorism, it's war and revolution. Fossil fuel companies actively suppress anything that stands in their way and within a generation or two, it will begin costing human lives by greater and greater magnitudes until the earth is just a flaming ball orbiting third from the sun. Peaceful protest is outright ignored, economic protest isn't possible in the current system, so how long until we recognize that violence against those who lead us to such destruction is justified as self-defense.

These companies don't care about you, or your kids, or your grandkids. They have zero qualms about burning down the planet for a buck, so why should we have any qualms about burning them down to survive?

We're animals just like everything else on this planet, except we've forgotten the law of the jungle and bend over for our overlords when any other animal would recognize the threat and fight to the death for their survival. "Violence never solved anything" is a statement uttered by cowards and predators."

h.m.o. holmes

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it’s like we asked “how much more gilded age can 2024 get?” and the gods answered: “how about a high profile political assassination by an angry and almost certainly mentally ill young man with an extravagantly italian name whose politics are best described as anarcho-murderous?”

xpost if you like joining armadas, getting shot in the rain

from a locked bsky account

Luigi Mangione might be a fuckin weird dipshit but you have to separate the art from the artist

sackler and venzetti

Impact-wise, him not having social media full of Antifa/BLM/lefty memes somewhat blunts his usefulness to the right. (In the same way the lack of a clear political pedigree did for the two would-be Trump assassins.) The incoming administration is still going to hound lefty activists, obv. But I'm sure they'd love for this guy to be a leftist poster boy.

dunno why exactly, it doesn't seem like very much of this country thinks murdering healthcare CEOs is actually wrong

hopefully this will teach everyone that thiel-pilled ivy league grads are not to be trusted

Too late for that — JDV is our next vp :(

unless...

now is the time, Mario

it's-a me, Assassino!

from a locked bsky account

Luigi Mangione might be a fuckin weird dipshit but you have to separate the art from the artist

― bad love's all you'll get from me (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 December 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Yes let's keep the eye on the ball here

I figured the Unabomber, but dumber, would be about the closest analog for the shooter.

We'll find out what actually happened to him soon enough.

There’s a very sad story here, one that likely gets to the heart of the corruption and dehumanization in the healthcare insurance industry. pic.twitter.com/tcqcuPxORf

— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) December 9, 2024

my evidence for dystopia is the fact that a white supremacist fuck walked after meting out vigilante murder on a mentally ill black man on the same day that police caught the murderer whose act was the most justifiable assassination in recent memory, and this latter man, a hero, will probably get life in prison while the white supremacist fuckwad murderer will continue to crap up the planet.

pic.twitter.com/AnzvvyX9HJ

— Charlotte E. Rosen (@CharlotteERosen) December 9, 2024

Went through the trouble of googling "luigi mangione penn," clicking on a Facebook link, screenshotting the post, uploading it via Imgur, and posting the image in this thread ... and you have to go and embed someone else's tweet smh

can’t believe im typing this but there is a non-zero chance that the CEO shooter did it because of a paul skallas tweet pic.twitter.com/xjmhx9kfVD

— johnny (@bigrackspart7) December 9, 2024

at least he can polish the fenders

Luigi Mangione left a note on the door

is assassination lindy xp

Not sure who Paul Skallas is, but isn't that tweet from after the shooting?

Went through the trouble of googling "luigi mangione penn," clicking on a Facebook link, screenshotting the post, uploading it via Imgur, and posting the image in this thread ... and you have to go and embed someone else's tweet smh

― jaymc, Monday, 9 December 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Like Luigi I am being efficient.

The Omega Mangione

The Mangione Who Wasn't There

The Mangione Who Sold the World

The Mangionian Candidate

So I think this is what it takes for my timeline to reach some kind of apocalypse.

- Shooter kills CEO, evades policy fairly easily in the aftermath
- Caught a week later and it turns out he is not some anarcho commie.

Instead:

- Italian-American
- Actually called Luigi!!
- Has a six pack, sorta smart (reads books, has a science related degree, can do maths) but all over the place. Gives an "I can fix him".
- Wrote a two page manifesto (that's good going for a science guy, makes an effort)
- Actually called LUIGI (again)!
- Good in the sack, has a big dick, apparently.

Timeline done tbh.

Alternate timeline Hunter Biden

Atlas Shrugged vs Infinite Jest

Goodreads profile is private I am devastated

I'm just now reading about the Lindy effect, and apparently it was coined by comedians in the 60s at Lindy's deli in Manhattan.

And the historic location of that deli on Broadway and 51st Street is like a block away from the New York Hilton Midtown where the murder happened.

Mug shot dropped

https://boutiquemario.fr/55-medium_default/luigi-geant.jpg

I’m going to post Luigi’s Vampire Castle now so when someone else says it I have a timestamp

so let me get this straight, they found this guy when he got the cops called on him for "acting suspicious" at a McDonalds, whereupon they found both the murder weapon and the mainfesto. despite managing to carry out the assassination and escape while leaving the cops with no leads he just so happened to be carrying all that evidence on him while grabbing a Big Mac. boy howdy what a lucky break that was!!

thanks to the keen eye of the fry cook, no less.. probably pulling apple pies out of the fryer

his family own TWO country clubs, that's right TWO country clubs

https://images.app.goo.gl/Pby2CM7tmBgrihYr6