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Mangione has tapped into something most Americans share: a deep hatred of our health insurance system and of the profiteers who seem so indifferent to our suffering and death. He has still not been mentioned by Donald Trump, who must realize that Mangione’s fandom has no political boundaries.
Wow even DT can’t touch this
Hopefully he’s the first of hundreds.
DDD
DDD
444
Out of curiosity I looked up “444” and there’s a bunch of links saying it means a guardian angel. Appropriate?
4 is avoided in Chinese and Japanese. Although contextually its not too far off the mark in this case.
in JP, 4 sounds like ‘shi’, meaning death. 43 sounds like the word for ‘stillbirth’. (‘shi’ also means particle, or also emoticon) In China, 4 = ‘death’, 14 = ‘must die’, 24 = ‘easy to die’
Yes, but for reasons I don’t remember at the moment, “444” is considered joyful laughter, not danger. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
So we have guardian angel, “death”, and “joyful laughter” associated with 444, that all fits.
It sounds like what you’re reading is an “angle number.” I’m not sure if that’s what’s referenced above.
Wonder how ol Chuck is handling it
Chuck “Chicanery” McGill?
Chuck Mangione. Jazz musician
I know I certainly will be! 😊
No it won’t. America will have forgotten by next week.
If the trial is televised/streamed, it could be an OJ type thing that keeps going.
But… probably, yeah.
Just keep it up
Not if something happens again.
True but no one else has the balls.
Will it? I’m already sensing it dying down. I think we need a refresher.
I feel like many people are secretly hoping for a refresher. Nobody just wants to say it out loud.
We need another dead CEO.
Oh look, it got said outloud.
eats popcorn
I assume that means you agree
Ayup, just couldn’t think of a witty caption so I invoked the Spirit of the Meme.
It’s interesting how memes took on different meanings depending on the community you were in when you initially saw it. Some of them are pretty globally recognized, and others are more vague.
I wonder how older ones will transform in a decade or so.
Overly attatched girlfriend just looks like a cute girl. Meanwhile the little girl who burned down that house is going to college. Reminding you just how old you are.
We’ve had one dead ceo, yes… But what about second dead ceo?
Someone should do a second CEO assassination but this time maybe the oil industry so they know that no CEO is safe.
I hate to say it, but I do need oil. Nobody should need USA-style health “insurance”.
Up-voted, but we only need oil at the moment because the oil industry keeps strangling baby competitors. A quick, non-sourced search shows that Oil got 90-ish Billion (1) in government subsidies in 2020, while Solar got 7. Even if the numbers are 50% of actual, Renewables are not getting the help they need to become/stay viable.
(1): And that might be a waaaaay low-ball estimate: Yale said they got Trillions. Though that may be over several years.
Perhaps lobbyists could be the next class identified as extraneous.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree.
Orrrrr…what if we got a casket industry ceo…you know. For the hilarious irony.
Big Casket is ripping people off with their over priced coffins.
This was already famously a problem back in the times of The Lebowski
If anyone is thinking about copy catting they aren’t exactly going to be posting it to their socials.
No, but the news will cover it.
Would they?
Social media companies have been removing pro-Luigi content and people with big built up accounts are worried that too many violations of site standards could get their accounts killed.
Hopefully inspired by.
Just waiting for someone to cry “Olly Olly Oxen Free”
No it won’t
This whole story is ripe for conspiracy theory. Comparable to Epstein’s arrest and suicide from back in 2020.
Even if the national media wants the story to go away, you’re going to have Luigi enthusiasts popping up on the social fringe for years, if not decades.
Exactly. We are a society where innocent children are gunned down in their classrooms every other day. And for once, finally, one of the gunman actually decided to smite someone who deserved it. If you’re at the point of being willing to throw your life away in an act of murderous violence, why die a villain, when you can die a hero?
We should be building statues of Luigi.
I can’t wait to see the NPR article titled “Luigi Mangione was [aquitted/convicted/excuted] years ago. Why do week keep hearing his name in comment sections?”, and I’ll see this NPR article like 5-6 years from now.
Epstien died ~5 years ago, yet I still keep seeing people talking about him.
hopefully not
can you explain your thought process behind this comment?
I have zero interest in people who commit murder. I get tired of seeing this at the top of every site as well.
what are your thoughts on self defence and the limits of similar terms?
Murder bad
You ever have a boil lanced?
I mean could also go out like the guy who everyone would remember, who burned himself for some cause and everyone just forgot about him. Man, what a thing
I just saw the news that they’ve charged him with terrorism. It’s like they want to keep the outrage going, and give the jury a reason to acquit.
They can charge him with whatever they want. Proving it to a jury is a whole other thing.
Most life insurance policies don’t cover acts of terrorism.
I’m just saying…
They’ve charged Brian Thompson with terrorism for what he did - or at least caused - to tens of thousands of people each year?
Finally they start to make sense!18 people died since you made this comment due to UHC greed.
Not guilty. You can only murder human beings. Brian Robert Thompson willingly relinquished his humanity a long time ago. What Luigi did was more akin to using bleach to treat mold in the bathroom. Killing a living thing? Yes. Murder? Certainly not.
Daniel Jackson: It’s obviously fighting to survive.
O’Neill: So do bacteria!
Oh, one Luigi damaged your world? Institute health care reform, or we’ll send dozens of them, one after the other!
God. How was SG1 so damn good? Every few years I do a rewatch of the whole franchise. It’s a masterpiece.
Trek is my usual background show but I’m currently on a SG1 rewatch. It’s funny to see so many people from Trek show up in various roles, I think Hammond of Texas would fit perfectly as a statue in front of Starfleet Academy as a model of humanity’s ideals regarding exploration of the stars. Given access to advanced healing technology, both O’Neill and O’Brien would be busting heads to ensure everyone got a fair shake, they’d both despise a CEO like this one
My theory is that once you have a role as a main character in Star Trek, you’re pretty much stuck in sci fi. The exception to this is if you were already a well established actor prior to Trek. So Patrick Stewart could go back to high theatre, but Colm Meaney ended up mugging Atlantis for a little C4.
Ha! I’d forgot about that one, my favorite role of his outside engineering was the DEA asshole in Con Air who gets his sweet Corvette stolen in epic fashion
I think the Venn of actors doing sci fi shows and actors in the Vancouver area is pretty close, same with how every British show has at least one person from another. Some obviously like the genre, and who wouldn’t?
What do you mean trump is a CEO?
I sure hope so.
I’m going to make bookmarks, tshirts, and inspirational posters.
Probably a coloring book too.
You ever play the mercenary video game series?
Just a red marker with a bunch of ceo faces?
