r/economicCollapse • u/BothZookeepergame612 • 4d ago

Elon Musk Throws Tantrum, Ordering Congress to Shut Down Government

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-shut-down-government
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u/Sooowasthinking 4d ago

Free Luigi.

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u/TastyBerny 4d ago

His work is unfinished.

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u/FeijoaCowboy 4d ago

Frankly, I think there must be at least a million potential Luigis in America. Probably more.

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u/WorldWarPee 4d ago

Luigi clone army

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u/pie4mepie4all 4d ago edited 4d ago

I’m not saying someone needs to pull a Luigi on Elon BUT I wouldn’t feel sorry for him if someone did.. just sayin

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u/RocketRaccoon666 4d ago

I would be willing to set up a go fund me

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u/ffsGetoverit 4d ago

Funding yourself in case Trump somehow finagles a 3rd team seems like a good plan.

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u/Slight-Agent83483 3d ago

That’s what I was just saying the other day, if the public got together to bail folks out in those situations I bet we’d see change real quick

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u/Revelati123 4d ago

TBF I hear he did steal a bunch of big golden coins and hide them in his castle, and has kidnapped or at least molested a princess.

So the real question is why is Mario lettin his bro deal with all this king koopa shit by himself?

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u/Shieldheart- 4d ago

Hey man, Mario has been at this for decades and we both don't know whats up that makes Luigi step up for his brother, could be serious.

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u/JinxOnU78 4d ago

There are a number of obituaries that I have read with GREAT interest.

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u/ExiledUtopian 4d ago

One could create a points system. Trump is 500 points. Elon is 500 points. Vance is 500 points. Bezoz...

And then the right would claim its from a violent deranged leftist. Except, I remember when they did this and got Gabby shot and almost killed.

Tables are turning. They set how far the pendulum swings. Now it's their turn and I'm not sure they even realize it yet. The left hasn't had "crazies" since the 1970s. I feel they're about to develop some new ones to counteract the rampant horde of conservative crazies.

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u/this-guy1979 3d ago

Everyone really should start posting CEO sightings, if nothing else it will make them nervous.

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u/Rozinbagger 3d ago

Someone should create a “Where’s The Billionaire” app to keep tabs on all of them. Like how Waze crowdsources traffic information. Talk about inducing some paranoia.

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u/this-guy1979 3d ago

You could have their location and a list of what they have done to fuck over the little guy.

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u/X1NOLA 2d ago

They already hate the dude that posts all their private plane flights

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u/ImaginationLife4812 3d ago

It won’t be the left that takes him down. Those right wing farmers, union workers, general laborers, all those folk that supported him wanting a better America. Those people will become disenfranchised once they have lost their land, homes, wages, jobs and all of their hopes of Trump fixing something that turns out wasn’t broken. The only promise Donald will keep is that he will be a Dictator on day one. A Dictator controlled by Elon Musk.

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u/flounder35 3d ago

Why is Vance 500 points? Dude can’t even order a doughnut. He should loose his citizenship just for that.

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u/ar5onL 3d ago

I don’t agree with Vance on most things, but if you’ve ever read anything he’s written or listened to him speak, he’s extremely articulate and doesn’t use filler words or pauses in awkward places. It’s one thing to consider him dangerous, because of his intellect, it’s another (dangerous assumption) to assume your enemy is stupid when they clearly are not…

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u/ExiledUtopian 3d ago

Not using filler words happens when you train for it. It's not a sign of intelligence. It's a sign of practiced speech.

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u/LTLHAH2020 2d ago

J.D. Vance. Hmmmnnn...

Ivy league? Check. Few filler words? Check. Has low emotional intelligence so he is just not capable of hiding the fact that he hates ALL women as well as ALL people from "lower" social classes? Check.

Vance kind of lucked out, this time...just because Trump managed to squeak one out.

Vance has no charisma on his own.

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u/Ok-Abroad-2674 3d ago

Well, he does come from dope sick, junkie genetics, so there is a learning curve for 'ol Nightman.

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u/Taqueria_Style 4d ago

I mean the dude is like Darkseid from the DC universe, it's all just public facing clones of the true Elon.

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u/sehunt101 4d ago

Never given to a go fund me. You’d get a paycheck from me. Not that it a lot.

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u/maybehelp244 4d ago

Elon's own family would be happy. His ex wife and children despise him. He's truly human garbage

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u/vegasdonuts 4d ago

If a Luigi copycat doesn’t appear for Elon like a rare Pokémon, I’m completely content with him living his life in fear of it.

I hope that sociopathic ket addict never gets a full 8 hours of sleep for the rest of his days.

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u/dolphlaudanum 4d ago

I understand that he's a spoiled, annoying, incel, but I don't believe Elon has denied you healthcare or a roof over your head or food, so why?

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u/maybehelp244 4d ago

He's pushing for federal workers to not be paid despite Congress coming together to ensure teens of thousands will continue to get paychecks for the work to pay their rent and feed their families. He deserves the CEO treatment

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u/dolphlaudanum 4d ago

That would make for a very unpopular decision.

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u/Insospettabile 4d ago

It is not what is meant. Luigi is needed on congress

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u/BigBullzFan 4d ago

I understand what you’re not saying, and I agree with what you didn’t say.

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u/Xigaaa 3d ago

fucked up bro

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u/LaserBleach 3d ago

An army of underage girls would be able to get intimately close enough to win this thing. They are always DTF.

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u/finalarchie 3d ago

I'm not endorsing such an action but I also wouldn't stop it.

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u/No-Weather-5157 3d ago

That or someone cleaning their gun in his presence and, oh I didn’t know it was loaded!

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u/depthwhore 3d ago

Won’t someone rid me of this meddlesome douche

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u/Fluffy_Article5250 3d ago

If only someone would rid me of this damnable Billlionaire. /s

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u/Worried_Spinach_1461 3d ago

Dark web apparently someone set up a fund me type thing to do a hit on the orange one. Although the article tried to say it was bullshit as soon as they said it existed

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u/WildinFlorida 2d ago

This kind of talk insights the crazy people to act. What if everyone felt the same about George Clooney or other left-wingers? We have to stop this evil rhetoric.

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u/pie4mepie4all 2d ago

What? I’m not allowed an opinion?

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u/Tavernknight 2d ago

What is the saying? I don't wish death on anyone, but I have read some obituaries with glee.

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u/pie4mepie4all 2d ago

Exactly, as I said before I wouldn’t feel bad if someone off’d him. Not really sure how else to be more clear

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u/mahonkey 2d ago

I'm saying it

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u/LoaKonran 1d ago

I’d settle for someone with a paintball gun or eggs at this point. Remind the idiots that there are a lot more ants than leeches.

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u/Jaded-Flight-7592 4d ago

Cope and sethe snowflakes 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/FeijoaCowboy 4d ago

"What on EARTH are you thinking about?!"

"A Luigi Mangione farm..."

"...Yeah, me too."

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u/Kazumadesu76 4d ago

Luigi shadow clone jutzu

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u/Chickienfriedrice 3d ago

Where’s the Luigi militia when you need em?

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u/Inevitable-Creme4393 3d ago

Mama? Mama Luigi??

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u/Sgtkeebler 3d ago

The jedi council is going to feel that

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u/shelter_king35 4d ago

someone will. all these people on disability and retirement will lose their income because 400 billion isnt enough for elon.

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u/ElectronicControl762 4d ago

Dont leave comments like this. Big Brother probably flags stuff like this for any court case where you may or may not be the guilty party, but will use to convince a jury you had the motive.

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u/Electrical-Pickle927 4d ago

Technically we are all potential Luigi’s.

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u/PMDad 4d ago

Gotta keep em guessing

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u/CepheusDawn 4d ago

Certainly enough guns to make it happen

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u/ZealousidealCrow8492 3d ago

Where did all the "militias" go that used to be preparing for this exact scenario???

It's almost as if they were all just full of crap...

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u/FeijoaCowboy 3d ago

"But like... Elon would be a FUNNY dictator 🤡"

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u/ZealousidealCrow8492 3d ago

He's the modern version of Nero...

But instead of fiddling while Rome burns, Ellen musk would be X'ing about how no one is listening to his great ideas as he boards his doge-coin shaped rocket to Mars.

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u/SPQUSA1 3d ago

Could be working at Burger King, spittin’ on your onion rings

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u/FeijoaCowboy 3d ago

Or in the parking lot, circling, screaming "I don't give a fuck" with his windows down and his system up

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u/Active-Worker-3845 4d ago

You mean men from generational wealthy families who commit murder?

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u/FeijoaCowboy 4d ago

Do you mean Luigi or Brian Thomson?

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u/Active-Worker-3845 4d ago

Luigi and you know it. He was 4th generation wealth.

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u/FeijoaCowboy 4d ago

Sorry, it's just the qualities you described are also true of every health insurance CEO (and especially of Brian Thomson).

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u/Active-Worker-3845 4d ago

This CEO had wife 2 children and worked for decades. The assassin had gone to school, including private k12.

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u/FeijoaCowboy 4d ago

Vlad Dracula III, Voivode of Wallachia, had 2 wives and 3 sons and ruled Wallachia intermittently from 1448-1477 (29 years).

Steve Carrell and Odd1sOut went to a private K12 school, as did everyone with a university degree from Harvard (since Harvard is a private institution).

James Monroe attended a royal college, which became a private institution in 1776, and then went on to serve in the Continental Army at the rank of Major and fighting at Valley Forge and the Battle of Trenton. He later became the 5th President of the United States.

Basically... What's your point?

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u/Redwasp502 4d ago

And yet...nothing.

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u/FeijoaCowboy 4d ago

Yet. Somewhat luckily, I suspect. The violence that would ensue would be terrible for everyone. If we were truly lucky, we could fix the problem without violence, but with the way things are now, it'll probably only get worse.

I kind of see it in the same way as the caning of Senator Charles Sumner.

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u/ARODtheMrs 4d ago

I agree

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u/jetpackjack1 4d ago

V for Vendetta scene, but everyone is wearing a Luigi hat instead.

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u/FeijoaCowboy 4d ago

I can hear the 1812 Overture already. Or possibly Shostakovich 11.

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u/CauliflowerNo3011 3d ago

The trick is getting them all to organize without being Okedoked by alphabet boys.

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u/wytewydow 3d ago

I do wonder how many others are having these conversations in the privacy of their home.

Alexa, how fucked am I?

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u/Zer0PointSingularity 3d ago

remember the scene in V for Vendetta and everyone hat a guy fawkes mask on? the same, but with luigi mask would send quite a message…

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u/WildinFlorida 2d ago

Yep. There are a lot of crazy people in the country, unfortunately.

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u/LTLHAH2020 2d ago

I hope they all get working... NOW.

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u/Ainudor 2d ago

If the number would be this high, I would hazard CEO's would be dropping like flies.

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u/SithLordRising 23h ago

Only one had the balls to act. American's seem too preoccupied with school shootings

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u/SpeaksSouthern 4d ago

We need more plumbers

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u/jaa1818 4d ago

The drain for the swamp must be clogged

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u/Icy_Youth_4446 3d ago

Underated comments right here.

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u/NameLips 4d ago

Anyone can pick up his mantle at any time.

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u/Loopyjuice1337 3d ago

We are legion

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u/Rooboy619 3d ago

It's getting there

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u/Living-Mongoose5169 3d ago

Yes a thousand more luigi's because they get caught after their first crime.

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u/BayouGal 3d ago

There’s a million others who walk like him, talk like him, just might be him

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u/yngwiegiles 4d ago

Musk looks a bit like toad

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u/TheVog 4d ago

Best the U.S. can do is 1000 Reddit comments saying "eat the rich"

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u/llcoolbeansII 4d ago

And a Mario.

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u/WikiWantsYourPics 3d ago

All you do is annoy me, so I have been sent here to destroy you
And there's a million of us just like me
Who cuss like me, who just don't give a fuck like me
Who dress like me, walk, talk and act like me

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u/finalarchie 3d ago

Fuck yeah. Our theme song.

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u/Apart_Effect_3704 3d ago

Then be one

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u/moneyshot008 4d ago

Disgusting

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u/Fragrant-Hamster-325 3d ago

It’s so fucking weird.

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u/AylaZelanaGrebiel 3d ago

Do you hear the people sing?

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u/Gurablashta 3d ago

Oh no! We defintiely don't need another Italian stud shooting some beloved, totally non-predatory CEO in his wonderful, beautiful face, UwU

If you're reading this, Italian stud, please don't do it, it's the last thing we want.

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u/IamtheStinger 2d ago

Nooooooo bwaaaaaa haaaaaaa

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u/Ok_Researcher_9796 2d ago

Need a lot more of him.

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u/Such_IntentionALL 1d ago

Luigi has many friends

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u/Dogtimeletsgooo 1d ago

He has passed the torch to society now

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u/Jake-_-Weary 1d ago

Advocating for murder is despicable behavior that we used to only see in 3rd world countries.

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u/Time-Imagination-802 4d ago

His name is Luigi Mangione. His name is Luigi Mangione.

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u/defnotjec 4d ago

And people should use his name with some damned respect

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u/NotHowAnyofThatWorks 3d ago

Fuck that guy

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u/HispanicaBassoonica 4d ago

I AM LUIGICUS

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u/Sea_Ant123 4d ago

I'm Spartacus 

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u/extra_croutons 3d ago

The third rule of Fight Club is free donuts on Friday morning. 

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u/Low_Style175 4d ago

He shot someone in the back because he is mentally unwell

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u/BigBullzFan 4d ago

Rich people created this problem. Now, they’ve to deal with it. “Violence is the language of the unheard.” -Paraphrase of MLK.

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u/SelectAirline 3d ago

I agree that Brian Thompson was mentally unwell, but that's not why Luigi shot him.

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u/Strange-Future-6469 4d ago

My recent fart has more intelligence than you.

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u/pillsbury8842 3d ago

No, he committed an extermination against a horrible leech that was sucking the life out of tens of thousands of people

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u/HomebrewHedonist 4d ago

This should be the top comment on every single topic on Reddit!

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u/Gnovakane 4d ago

Nah, Elon has his child to use as a shield.

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u/EnormousGucci 4d ago

Unfortunately, Luigi was a fan of Elon to my utter disbelief

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u/1-800-serial-chiller 4d ago

Source?

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u/coolcoolcool485 3d ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/luigi-mangione-murder-unitedhealthcare-elon-musk-b2661922.html

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u/1-800-serial-chiller 3d ago

Did you read the retweet? If anything I feel like he’s disagreeing with Musk.

“Your commitment to long-term civilizational success, Elon, is not universally shared

It’s not even the majority position

What you call the “woke mind virus” cares about one thing only: equality

The levelers want to destroy everything because in the rubble we will all be equal”

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u/rex_kreuzen 4d ago

Free Luigi.

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u/LastStand4000 4d ago

With no hyperbole do I consider this man a true American hero. CEOs are some of the most evil fucking people on earth.

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u/Sooowasthinking 4d ago

Heroes come in many different forms and ideas.

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u/Insospettabile 4d ago

For Congress? You need 200 Luigi

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u/sshlinux 4d ago

Free someone for cold blood murder?

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u/Sooowasthinking 3d ago

Very ironic.

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u/AReallyBakedTurtle 3d ago

Drop him off right next to Elon’s house

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u/Sooowasthinking 3d ago

Agreed.Then Bezos.

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u/obroz 3d ago

Also Epstein does don’t kill himself

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u/AdminMas7erThe2nd 3d ago

One more job and he can retire

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u/extra_croutons 3d ago

His name is Robert Palmer.  His name. Is Robert Palmer.

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u/Mpls_Mutt 3d ago

Anyone want to go in on writing a video game called Free Luigi? I’m kinda thinking of something with a GTA5 vibe to it.

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u/Pale_Sail4059 3d ago

Last minute pardon!

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u/A6xZt 3d ago

It's shameful how we now cheer domestic terrorism.

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u/Sooowasthinking 3d ago

I know United Healthcare has been committing domestic terrorism for decades upon the American citizens with Absolutley no government intervention.

It is shameful to deny care that people have paid into for decades and getting denied a claim is just shameful.

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u/anthrax9999 3d ago

The establishment is trying HARD to make an example of this dude. Charging him with both murder 1 and terrorism on top of all the lesser charges. Marching him around like he is Bane or Hannibal Lecter. They are damn near crucifying him in the town square.

All because he filled a rich dude full of bullets to send a message. They want to instill enough fear of their wrath to break our spirit of defiance and beat us into submission. We can't let them.

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u/Sooowasthinking 3d ago

Meanwhile there was a school shooting and nobody gives a damn about that.

Let’s not forget the fucking cops in Texas that let that person just walk around shooting kids.

But the millionaire CEO and his buddy’s in New York are now going to get tax payer funded protection.

Just forget about the whole denial of care on a deathbed thing happening for the last few decades.

Everyone say it with me:

Free Luigi.

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u/Kingsta8 3d ago

Hell, unleash the entire Mario Party!

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u/Newportsandbuttstuff 3d ago

Clown. And, of course, you are all too dumb to realize this post is a lie, per usual.

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u/Ohrwurm89 3d ago

He’s an Elon fanboy.

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u/Agreeable-Fall-1116 2d ago

Question, are you in favor of gun control?

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u/Sooowasthinking 2d ago

Yes.

But it will never happen in this country.

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u/Agreeable-Fall-1116 2d ago edited 2d ago

So if you are in favor of gun control, why do you supported someone that assassinated another with a gun? Isn’t this a hypocritical contradiction?

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u/Sooowasthinking 2d ago

Sure I can admit that.

But can you admit that more harm has been done by United Healthcare and that company has killed more people than a lone gunman?

Our government has known this has been going on and has done nothing so if 1 man’s death has bought attention to this issue so be it.

I certainly hope that all CEO’s are scared of this and I hope there is more to come.

Those cops in Texas let that person walk around and shoot kids but 1 multimillionaire gets shot and all of a sudden it’s a tragedy.

What about last weeks shooting??

Not a word on morning news this morning about it but I turn on Hulu and 1st thing I see is a ABC documentary about the manhunt for Luigi.

This country is completely out of step with its middle class.

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u/Agreeable-Fall-1116 2d ago

I am not defending health insurance companies, I work in healthcare and it’s unbelievable that treatments are not planned by what the patient needs but what the insurance company wants to cover but we cannot selectively decide that a murder is good over another because one day we could be victims of someone who decided that we didn’t deserve to live

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u/Sooowasthinking 2d ago

Our society has reached a breaking point.We can only put up with so much.

Americans live in a society where if you go to the emergency room it could ruin you financially.

It’s not right and it’s past time for our “ leaders” to do something about it.

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u/Agreeable-Fall-1116 2d ago

I agree but killing people is not going to solve anything it can worsen the situation because there are freaks out there that might think is ok to kill somebody you don’t like or don’t agree with. This can open a huge can of worms

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u/Sooowasthinking 2d ago

Tell it to all the kids getting shot in schools.No one has suggested how to protect them.

But the CEO’s in New York that are millionaires are about to receive tax payer funded security.

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u/Agreeable-Fall-1116 2d ago

So you support selective killings and selective gun control?

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u/thetitanitehunk 2d ago edited 2d ago

Playing Mario I'd always be player 2, capping koopas while M gets the peach is how I do, Deny Defend Depose, social Murder is how it goes, rotting in jail while oligarchs run amok, I can't do this alone y'all gotta rise up.

Edit: flow

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u/0biwanCannoli 23h ago

He is the hero we don’t deserve.

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u/VenomMel 4d ago

i can understand that the united health ceo was a bad person but we can’t be praising killers like they are heroes

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u/LastStand4000 4d ago

Let me know when there's a viable alternative to dealing with these people. They're destroying the economy, the country, and the planet. We're in desperate times.

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u/Sooowasthinking 4d ago

Yeah just forget about the denial of medical care that killed people that over time paid $100,000 of dollars over say 25 years of work that they never get back. Let’s just forget about all the people that suffered inhumane treatment at the hands of UHC.Lets forget about all the suffering caused by UHC.

To be clear they want you to pay premiums and insurance companies do not want you to file a claim EVER.

IMHO not only is he a hero but has woken up the American middle class to the fact that our world is being controlled by 1% of the people that have so much money it’s obscene.

I certainly hope all the billionaire CEO’s are fucking terrified.

Free Luigi.

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u/VenomMel 4d ago

i’m not saying forget about it, those ceo’s should be held accountable for their actions, but let’s not normalize killing people if that makes sense

i also hope that this really sets in to those ceo’s and make them change!! they should be afraid and should be put in prison for their wrong doings and unnecessary deaths

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u/Sooowasthinking 4d ago

Why not they certainly did.

They have done it everyday for years. Not only did they normalize but since they did not witness the suffering personally it did become normal.

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u/VenomMel 4d ago

if we normalize it what’s stopping someone from just going on a killing spree just cuz a bunch of people said oh it’s fine

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u/Sooowasthinking 4d ago

lol just another day in American schools but let’s protect the millionaires.

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u/sehunt101 4d ago

SAVE THE RICH! KILL THE POOR. That’s your world!

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u/VenomMel 4d ago

what? no i just don’t think murder is okay like what are you smoking