Women go WILD when Luigi Mangioni’s mugshot projected at rave

LOL.

Plenty of men's voices, too, OP.

it's amazing what being good looking can do for you. fuck you god.

I actually disagree with this being totally about him being goodlooking

1. He’s kind of niche goodlooking (think Rami Malek)

2. He would not be celebrated if he raped or killed a woman

They are celebrating him because they LIKE what he did.

I will add though, that they probably would not be celebrating if the CEO had also been good looking.

Note that they did not start cheering until they showed the orange jumpsuit mugshot

They are cheering for what he did

Talk about this during the holidays with your MAGA family and friends instead of the Orange Menace. This is where most of us agree and change can happen.

I get it, but he murdered a man and a father in cold blood while his own father has made millions doing the same exploitation of pain, suffering and aging that gave Luigi a very affluent life. There is something very Oedipal about it all that I can't define yet.

How many fathers did that father kill with a PDF?

[quote] his own father has made millions doing the same exploitation of pain, suffering and aging that gave Luigi a very affluent life

You left out the part where Luigi went postal because that privilege didn't save him when it was his turn to need something from United Healthcare after he got a severe back injury. How convenient that is.

[QUOTE]when it was his turn to need something from United Healthcare

He was never enrolled in UHC.

[quote]… that they probably would not be celebrating if the CEO had also been good looking.

The more truth revealed about that CEO, the level of public sympathy declines. Much is being made that he’s a family man with kids.

The CEO and wife lived in separate upscale homes in the same neighborhood.

Perhaps not (I've seen stories where that was the case, and there may have also been some things with his grandparents and attempts to take over his parents' businesses), but he wasn't inherently deranged. He was doing very well indeed. The billionaire/Josh Shapiro talking point is to say that somehow he's inherently deranged. That Oedipal bullshit.

LOL they were never his insurance

LBH the reason he killed him is because he knew killing a health insurance CEO with make him popular.

Sure, Josh. We're not buying it.

R9, still, it doesn't give him the right to kill a man. It sounds like you are mistaken given what R10 posted.

- R7

Nobody said he should have killed the man. Everyone is understanding why he did, though. Huge difference. Just who are you defending here?

Oooh lala the smolder

You're not the only one who hears the right wing talking points, trollerinas. Don't expect comfort here.

The thing is, he is educated, smart, well-heeled, and charismatically good looking. Instead of killing that guy, he should've become a political activist for affordable healthcare. He would've made a much bigger impact.

BWAHWHAWHAHA bullshit. You are a fucking case if you believe that crap. They've been working on this issue since Truman was president and the AMA said no to universal healthcare.

Sorry, you don't get off that easy.

Take notes, everyone! This is what conservabot media is telling the MAGA drones.

Piggybacking on what i wrote at R4

I watched the Armie Hammer podcast (yeah i know)

Almost everyone would agree Armie Hammer was objectively very good looking; he would appeal to a very wide swath of people who are attracted to men

After the scandal broke, Hammer says he was deluged with instant messages from women telling him he was a monster and he needed to kill himself. (28:30)

This is because he was accused of hurting women. Pretty privilege cannot overcome the innate fear women have of being raped or beaten by a larger stronger man.

So this isn’t about Mangioni just being goodlooking. They genuinely approve of what he did. Prettiness made it palatable to say it out loud.

MAGA is afraid of losing all the Bernie bros who went Trump.

Another good contrast: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

At the time if his arrest it was commented widely that he was good looking

But he was never made a folk hero or internet thirst object

Because his killing - random, senseless - awoke real world fears of women being unable to protect their children

So the Mangioni phenomenon is directly tied to approval of his choice of victim as well as method of execution (targeted assassination with no other victims).

[Quote]I will add though, that they probably would not be celebrating if the CEO had also been good looking.

Or if Luigi was black, or Asian.

Or if he'd shot a woman CEO in the head.

[Quote]But he was never made a folk hero or internet thirst object

He was. He has a cult of fan girls. Not on the Luigi scale, but that's probably about his Muslim Czechen background.

His name is also hard to remember

R16, people are celebrating the murder. They are ecstatic. Didn't thousands go after the woman who reported him? There is a big difference between understanding vs. celebrating a murderer and turning the murderer into a cultural hero, especially when the murderer's father could be seen as culpable of the same crimes.

And that's a shame, r24, but corporations manipulate these dynamics of mass appeal all the time. It's high time it was used against them.

If he was a goodlooking black man who killed a healthcare CEO, the response might be the same

After all, look what the internet did to Jeremy Meeks

Keep taking notes, everyone, and DON'T MENTION TRUMP when you discuss this in open settings. It's not about her.

He needed a better escape plan

He may have wanted to get caught. Lots of unknowns. All we know is what was on his socials and what the friends are telling the media...oh yeah, and the police want us to know he pissed his pants.

R23, bull. Rolling Stone ran a very pin-up looking cover that was extremely controversial at the time.

Fortunately, women and twink-lovers aren't usually attracted to Muslim nationalist extremists. Plus bombing isn't sexy like shooting. Plus the images of him hiding out in that boat weren't very studly.

And few Americans care about Chechnya, but almost all Americans have had negative experiences with health care insurance.

It's a combination of everything. If he was an ugly fat incel like Kyle Rittenhouse and killed the CEO, he would have very few fangurls. If he was who he is and just became an activist, he might have a solid social media following, but nothing extraordinary. He's a cult figure because he truly was a man who had it all, young, eligible, blessed with beauty and brains and from a privileged background, and he sacrificed everything for the greater good.

Covers like the Rolling Stone acknowledge the cognitive dissonance of recognizing that a killer is good looking, but they do it because they know it will be controversial. It’s not organic.

This is completely organic.

[quote]It's a combination of everything. If he was an ugly fat incel like Kyle Rittenhouse

Didn't stop Shaprio and Hannity's thirstiness!

Those are girlinas at the "rave", screaming their love for Luigi.

I think what Luigi did was wrong and don't condone it in any way.

But I'm not at all surprised that he's become a folk hero.

We've had decades of increasing, seemingly insatiable corporate greed, where corporations have just grown and grown and grown, with little to no benefit to the average person. In the last few decades, with decisions like Citizens United, it's become clear that our federal government has all but abandoned individual citizens and handed power to corporations. The price gouging and supply chain issues of the pandemic were completely in the hands of corporations, not the government.

I'd wager that a majority of Americans, regardless of party, feel powerless in the face of corporations choking the very life out of us to meet a quarterly dividend target. While few of us would ever glorify or condone a murder, I understand why some would cheer on an individual's attempt to fight the system.

And yes, we are a visual culture - most of us either lived through the 70s/80s or were born after it, in the MTV/ad age of it all, so Luigi's handsome good looks play into the confusing array of emotions, especially for younger people watching it all from the sidelines.

R29- He’s a light skinned black man with light eyes- not so much worship if he looked like a typical dark skinned Nigerian.

And it took Elvis to withstand the controversies of good black music that was produced at the time. The unfairness of mass appeal exists, and it's a sad reality. Just like Dubya and the Orange Menace's lies having mass appeal. It's nice to have it work our way for a change.

It's a mental disorder called HYBRISTOPHILIA, sexual attraction to dangerous criminals.

It mainly affects women but also some gay men, as evident by the mugshots thread and now Luigi.

Hybristophiliacs are the ones who write to prisoners, particularly famous ones, and may even become personally involved with them.

Ted Bundy and Richard Ramirez both married their #1 groupie.

Mama's Mussy is totally r41.

[quote]The unfairness of mass appeal exists, and it's a sad reality. Just like Dubya and the Orange Menace's lies having mass appeal. It's nice to have it work our way for a change.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means that logic and fairness doesn't always apply to what appeals to people.

R44 I got the first part, but the "it's nice to have it work our way for a change" confused me.

You don't get how advertisers and politicians manipulate this dynamic, r43?

Also "go our way" doesn't mean "approve CEO murder" it means "shine a light on how bad the health insurance greed is and what it drives people to"

Bundy/Ramirez have more to do with that Eros/Thanatos drive. Eros/Thanatos afflicts everyone, it just results in things like the near universal fascination women have with true crime shows (SNL did a perceptive parody of it which likened it to female masturbation), and for us, the AIDS crisis.

I don’t think Luigi is Eros/Thanatos because this was a targeted political assassination, so there is not the innate fear that he will kill YOU which is the necessary component in Eros/Thanatos.

And you wonder why gay men hold you dumb cunts in contempt?

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[quote]Also "go our way" doesn't mean "approve CEO murder" it means "shine a light on how bad the health insurance greed is and what it drives people to"

Frankly, all this will do is make people think that women should not be in positions of power, that they're generally emotionally unstable.

Um, people already think that.

Women are emotionally unstable? When was the last time a woman killed a stranger in cold blood on the street?

And are there not dozens of threads on DL full of gay men lusting after Luigi and various other criminals? I guess they don't belong in positions of power, either.

r48's misogyny was particularly insidious. Eros/Thanatos is a Freudian trope that appears in media, but does't have empirical evidence to back it up.

MARY!

I mean

LUIGI!

[quote] Nobody said he should have killed the man. Everyone is understanding why he did, though. Huge difference. Just who are you defending here?

No one is "understanding" why he killed a man. It is beyond comprehension why a young man of privilege would throw away his life to murder a man who'd never wronged him. If he had killed someone who was truly repugnant, evil and worthless, and who had personally aggrieved him, then maybe we could start to understand. As it is, there is no understanding what he did.

All the girls want to know, who's the cutest boy on death row?

No, R56 has no understanding of what he did.

This is where the corporates really fuck with people. Administrative environments and workplaces are seen as spaces of civility, allowing them to say anyone upset at administrative evil is uncivil and needs tone policing, It also isn't visual enough to be good TV, so death by PDF doesn't get reported.

R56 It's only beyond comprehension if you can't comprehend that someone from a privileged background can feel empathy for people who are not.

Hey, btw, I posted the other thread on this. You're missing one quite fascinating detail: the party was a 'Bop to the Top Tour' event where DJs play music from the Disney Channel. The song is by Hannah Montana. I'm not sure any event for young people could possibly be more vanilla than this.

It's not a RAVE, sweetie!

[QUOTE]If he had killed someone who was truly repugnant, evil and worthless, and who had personally aggrieved him, then maybe we could start to understand.

So much value judgement and vacuum for corporate America that continually aggrieves and abuses in order to thrive and produce "healthy, if not healthier dividends" for their stockholders on the backs of the unnecessarily dead and those in unwarranted, but solvable pain.

You stated your value and who you are, r56.

Who doesn't love a guy named Luigi? ❤️

[quote] murder a man who'd never wronged him

I think many would beg to differ on this point. The horrifying way people are treated by insurers doesn't happen in a vacuum. Who holds the ultimate responsibility?

Billionaires.

That rave looks god awful. They cheer in the video when the song stops.

[quote] They are celebrating him because they LIKE what he did.

And he looked good doing it, r4.

[quote] LBH the reason he killed him is because he knew killing a health insurance CEO with make him popular.

And he was right, R13.

R4 Boy bye. He’s definitely ethnic looking but he is still traditionally good looking. Malik is not. Greasy sexy brilliant Italian fuck. If I were a correctional officer I’d help him escape.

Continuing on women who are fixated on true crime, this piece from July notes many of them are abuse survivors obsessed with justice / retribution.

More direct analysis.

Dearest Luigi, I hope this blowjob finds you well...

After weeks in the pokey he'll have a huge gushing load to spill.

[quote] You stated your value and who you are, [R56].

As you have yours and you -- applauding someone's murder from the safety of a keyboard. Disgraceful. Most of the people who think the killer is a hero probably didn't even bother to vote.

R75 i’m clapping for that pigs death rn as i read your bootlicking post

"I get it, but he murdered a man and a father in cold blood while his own father has made millions doing the same exploitation of pain, suffering and aging that gave Luigi a very affluent life. There is something very Oedipal about it all that I can't define yet"

I personally think it makes him more likeable---not to me, but broadly. People like the fact that he recognizes the system is immoral and fucked even though he likely personally benefited.

[quote]all this will do is make people think that women should not be in positions of power, that they're generally emotionally unstable.

[quote] The more truth revealed about that CEO, the level of public sympathy declines. Much is being made that he’s a family man with kids. The CEO and wife lived in separate upscale homes in the same neighborhood.

Now that I know that I realize his children probably didn’t cry at all.

LMAO...a Luigi dildo?