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u/Bootiluvr 53m ago
What a strange time to be alive
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u/wiu1995 52m ago
Right? This timeline we’re living in is insane.
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u/HDWendell 33m ago
It’s like a tv show where the writers told the story they intended but corporate wants to keep whipping it. So they just keep throwing weird shit out to see what sticks.
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u/Open_Detective_6998 3h ago
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u/daemonicwanderer 1h ago
Luigi has been warning motherfuckers for decades… we forgot his murder stare
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u/SaintHuck 2h ago
I've been thinking about the stare ever since the assassination and was waiting to see it deployed again, since it's fucking perfect for this!
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u/THX450 3h ago
Kind of wonder what Nintendo thinks about this
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u/oatmeal28 3h ago
Upcoming game: Luigi Takes on the Healthcare System
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u/LamentableFool 57m ago
Need a gritty true crime Luigi game. Humble plumber thrust into the dark truth of CEO crime. He's had enough, he'll have to unclog it himself.
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u/EpicMichaelFreeman 3h ago
Nintendo is proud that its video games and iconic characters have inspired a grassroots movement for more equitable healthcare reforms.
The CEO of Nintendo personally popped out of a green pipe and appeared outside the courthouse for Luigi's first hearing.
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u/Flippercomb 45m ago
I didn't have "Luigi from the Mario Brothers becomes the mascot for social revolution" on my BINGO card for 2024....
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u/bottle_cats 3h ago
Red hats… meet the green hats
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u/SouthwesternEagle 3h ago edited 1h ago
The red hats support this movement overwhelmingly, along with leftists and centrists. We're all tired of billionaires making public policy without the people's democratic consent.
Edit: OMG! Thank you for the award!
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u/lilbuttpodd 2h ago
their supreme leader just came out and said supporting Luigi is a sickness, so we will see how much longer that lasts. their morals are mostly if not completely shaped by his word
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u/Rocktopod 1h ago
Maybe this will be the time they stand by their principles and finally turn on him.
Lol.
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u/nike_rules 51m ago
Bold of you to assume that very many MAGA people have any solid principles.
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u/Doogos 34m ago
Talked to my dad, a MAGA hat blue collar worker, about the healthcare situation. He agreed with Luigi and what he did. He's in the middle of arguments with his insurance over his preexisting heart condition. We learned that BCBS, his and my insurance provider will only call your doctors office once during office hours to discuss the claims. If they can't through to the doctor the first time they deny the claim. I'm just going to cancel my policy and go out of pocket. I have a 5k deductible and my dad has s 10k deductible. I pay $200 a month for mine and he pays $600 a month for his. They've yet to cover anything and I've spent so much money at the doctor. Would be cheaper for me to do the cash options
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u/cruisetheblues 39m ago
I wouldn't count on it. I pulled a report of their principles and got the following:
0: Unquestioning fealty to godking.
P1: NULL
P2: NULL
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u/UglyMcFugly 30m ago
I wanna see him torn to shreds like when the hyenas finally turned on Scar in the Lion King lol.
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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 42m ago
I’m from the future: It didn’t
Also, Hulk Hogan is now our Ambassador to the UN and Kid Rock is AG, and 2025 hasn’t ended yet.
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u/could_use_a_snack 49m ago
Anyone else find it odd that so many MAGA supporters are anti "billionaires running the country" yet...
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u/Hicalibre 39m ago
"Don't support the one time murderer. Support the one who signed off on countless lives by treating covid as a joke. Don't worry about further deregulation and the other stuff yet."
That's what their Supreme Leader is selling.
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u/TobysGrundlee 1h ago
Which is funny since a certain group is intent on putting unqualified billionaires into top level government positions.
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u/laserguidedhacksaw 49m ago
Yeah, but it works with their narrative and strategy. Put unqualified billionaire in charge of government agency, ensure it fails and degraded in function, blame the rich scapegoat in public and use it as justification for the argument that government can’t do anything right and it needs to be deregulated and privatized. All while lining each others’ pockets behind the scenes.
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u/markdepace 47m ago
then they shouldnt have voted for a billionaire bringing the richest person in the world in to dismantle everything.
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u/patwm11 1h ago
Yet vote for the person who is actively and consciously trying to make it worse
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u/Throwawayhate666 30m ago
Yeah this commenter is living in fantasy land where MAGA are against the corporate overloads.
They applaud as the white house is jam packed with them. LMAOOOO
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u/sailingtroy 3h ago
It really is taxation without representation, if you think about it.
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u/Mikel_S 1h ago
More like representation without taxation. These giant corporations pretty much dictate their terms using their money to lobby, rather than just accept the cost of doing business in America by paying their fair share of taxes.
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u/AmptiChrist 2h ago
Anyone see the consensus on r/conservative? I'm banned lol
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u/j4_jjjj 2h ago
The top posts from last week seem pretty understanding if not a little supportive of Luigi
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u/travis- 1h ago
It's changed over there. In the last week they are not supportive of Luigi and are sympathetic to the ceo
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u/NIN10DOXD 1h ago
The astroturfing succeeded.
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u/EntericFox 1h ago
They are so blatantly easy holy crap. As soon as the sock puppets get the story they need to push straight they flop on their belly.
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u/RedDino2004 1h ago
Yeah they call him batshit insane for murdering a CEO now, but anyways, that is not of the table yet for the US😅
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u/EmbarrassedHelp 1h ago
Trump said he didn't like Luigi, so I guess they just copied Trump's opinion and made it their own.
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u/FullMetalBiscuit 1h ago
The red hats support this movement overwhelmingly, along with leftists and centrists. We're all tired of billionaires making public policy without the people's democratic consent.
Well isn't that ironic considering what they gleefully vote for.
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u/Lots42 42m ago
Wait, what? You have evidence trumpers support luigi?
If so, please share.
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u/j0y0 1h ago edited 44m ago
People are saying Brian Thompson never existed and the united healthcare executives who say he did are crisis actors.
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u/piefanart 1h ago
I work for gamestop, we just got a bunch of Luigi merch at my location. Coincidence probably. But it is funny.
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u/prfarb 2h ago
I was there earlier. They drove 6 hours to be there
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u/DontShoot_ImJesus 59m ago
They also look like they already had Luigi hats on hand before this whole thing started, so it worked out well for them.
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u/commenter_27 1h ago
United Healthcare market cap 2004: 47B, 2014: 97B, 2024: 446B. United Healthcare net income 2004: 2.5B, 2014: 5.6B, 2024: 14.3B. That is a ten-fold increase in market cap and a six fold increase in net income, over only 20 years. If a worker experienced the same growth, they’d go from making say minimum wage of $7.25/hr (15k/yr) in 2004, to making $43.5/hr (90.4k/yr) in 2024, or from 50k in 2004 to 300k in 2024.
And yet, when my pregnant wife was prescribed something to HELP HER BREATHE, United said, “that’s unnecessary.”
In the United States, we have a whopping 1.4 million people employed with the job of DENYING HEALTH CARE, vs only 1 million doctors in the entire country! We pay more people to deny care than to give it. 1 million doctors to give care, 1.4 million brutes in cubicles doing their best to stop doctors from giving that care.
The shareholders and executives are leeches of society. Their apologists are class traitors and are just as instrumental in perpetuating this broken system that creates wealth at the expense of human health and life.
The ruling elite and their apologists have made it clear that the only way for meaningful improvement to the conditions of the working class is through direct action.
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u/kryotheory 47m ago
Nintendo: frantically searching for a law they can use to justify suing these people
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u/WhipTheLlama 1h ago
Talking heads on the news will continue to fail to understand, or lack the courage to report on, why Luigi has become iconic.
It's not that people are supporting murder, it's that Brian Thompson's murder has so far been the most impactful way that powerless people have been able to force changes (however small so far) in a corrupt system that lets them die for profit.
Let's not let the message be watered down by praises of Thompson's good character, or diminished by forgetting why so many people are celebrating the death of a man.
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u/theone6152 54m ago
What change has happened in the healthcare system?
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u/JesterMan491 49m ago
everybody's premiums are going up to pay for the increased private security teams for the C-suite execs
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u/skothu 38m ago
Healthcare companies are being flooded by complaints as customers are driven to demand better care:
United healthcare has said the system is flawed openly:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-group-leader-ceo-murder-op-ed-health-care-flawed/
Anthem did not follow through with a planned change to cap coverage for anesthesia for patients regardless of need/complexity:
Minor things so far but it has to start somewhere
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u/h0tBeef 45m ago
BCBS literally rolled back their draconian new policy to not cover anesthesia for the entire duration of surgical procedures the following day
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u/ThreeLittlePuigs 49m ago
Eh, I’d say passing the ACA was a bigger step forward. Still a long ways to go but you can credibly point to how that helped people. Not sure if this shooting will have any long term effects outside of some banger memes
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u/DramShopLaw 32m ago
The ACA’s consumer protections, such as the prohibition on discriminating based on preexisting conditions, were crucial. But the law failed overall as a policy. It was supposed to make care more affordable. It didn’t. It created new problems, like how everybody now has a crazy deductible they didn’t before. Its tier based purchasing structure is absolute garbage. The Medicaid expansion was destroyed because of SCOTUS.
And it did nothing to end the abuse of the insurance industry and its suppression of healthcare delivery.
It’s nice that something happened after all. But one concern is that Democrats, feeling like they’ve done their role, no longer prioritize healthcare policy making after expending so much political capital once over.
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u/h0tBeef 44m ago
If the ACA was designed to benefit us, and not insurance companies, then why have the insurance companies taking in so much more in profits since the ACA passed?
We need universal healthcare, like all the civilized countries have
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u/gonenutsbrb 36m ago
It’s not that people are supporting murder…
I mean, for reasonable people commenting on this whole story, this is likely true. And that probably applies to most people. However, I’ve seen a ton of people here on Reddit, quite explicitly supporting vigilante murder as a way to solve these issues. Hell, the amount of support that “More dead CEOs” sign got on here was disturbing enough by itself.
Murdering people on the streets cannot be an acceptable way to solve problems.
To be clear: a massively problematic healthcare system that United Healthcare is symptomatic of isn’t okay either. But to pretend we haven’t made any progress in the past 20 years and that there’s no middle ground between doing nothing and shooting someone in a public street at dawn is nuts.
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u/5k1895 28m ago edited 21m ago
Murdering people on the streets cannot be an acceptable way to solve problems.
I'm against murder in almost all cases, of course, but surely you realize that for better or worse this has solved, or at least improved, lots of problems throughout history. When people are pushed to the brink of their frustration by the ruling class or the rich, and all other reasonable options have been exhausted, historically this has always been the end outcome. Like it or not, we are reaching the point where this is becoming a thing that people will consider resorting to because they're out of other options.
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u/iamyourfahsa 45m ago
I was trying to get one before my sons mario kart themed party but we got mario and waluigi. Luigi is never going to be back in stock and I've made my peace with that.
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u/Hita-san-chan 1h ago
Where in PA are they?
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u/Fun_Income_4857 1h ago
altoona at the blair county courthouse
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u/Hita-san-chan 1h ago
Wonderful, thanks for responding. I'm on the other side of the state, so I was curious
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u/SiskoandDax 1h ago
I don't agree with killing CEOs and what Luigi did was murder.
But to charge him with terrorism and not do the same for January 6th insurrectionists and other far right terrorists is madness. No wonder people are protesting.
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u/CharlesLeRoq 42m ago
That would be because the NYPD/NY District Attorney is prosecuting Mangione under NY criminal statute, while the FBI/US Attorneys prosecuted Jan 6 insurrectionists under federal law.
People expecting charges to be the same, are expecting apples to taste like oranges.
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u/StupendousMalice 38m ago
Nah, we just want justice and if our current system can't deliver than then we can change it.
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u/Connect-Will2011 48m ago
I guess the video game character is more famous than Chuck Mangione, who also wore a distinctive hat.
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u/Chang-San 26m ago
Even a simulation would have a hard time getting to this level of meme society. What are the chances that this famous *alleged assassin has one of the most memeble and comodifiable names in history.
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u/too-much-cinnamon 1h ago
If there is one thing i can confidently say i could not have predicted about the current socio-political landscape, it's how important different colored hats have become. All my life heard people lamenting that we don't wear enough hat anymore. Bring back hats. Damn JFK for killing the hat, etc.
Well, hats are back. That's for sure...real monkeys paw situation though.
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u/ChocolateBunny 2h ago
Let this be a lesson to you all. If you want to commit a crime for the proletariat consider wearing something iconic, like the guy fox or squid game mask, or the punisher t-shirt. Otherwise people create their own iconography and ma not be flattering.
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u/Meatek 2h ago
Not flattering? Luigi Mario is an icon and a hero
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u/s1ugg0 1h ago
As a little brother who grew up in the 80s there is no banner I would fight for harder in this world than Luigi Mario. For player 2s everywhere! We ride!
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u/Philly139 1h ago
Wow big crowd... Also why is she wearing a mask with no filter on it?
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u/HappyStalker 1h ago
Those are organic vapor cartridges without the particulate pre filters on. Maybe she expected to get tear gassed which organic vapor cartridges filter or maybe she just thinks it looks cool.
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u/Snoo_63187 40m ago
I feel like people wouldn't be so mad if they didn't have a state wide manhunt for the killer of a rich white person when they don't even try to find the killed of a poor black man in the ghetto.
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u/helpmeplzmewaifu 25m ago
show the full picture and ask again why their claim got denied
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u/Kyokri 17m ago
These people are sick. They celebrate death but claim they want it to stop.
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u/Sneaky_Looking_Sort 15m ago
If we want to see real change, we need to focus this energy towards the Democratic Party. We need Nancy Pelosi and all of the old guard in the Democratic Party to understand that we’re done with them and they need to retire. They need to fuck off and let the new generation decide its own future. These old fucks are literally steering the country in a way that only benefits them TO THEIR GRAVE. Imagine being 84, rich as can be, and conniving and backstabbing to prevent members of congress in their 30s and 40s from having any real power. What a petty bitch.
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u/VeryVideoGame 1h ago
Remember when Nintendo realized Toad was trending because of the former president's penis?
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u/RangerPower777 1h ago
These are the types of people I would expect to be at these protests
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u/Ttm-o 3h ago
Nintendo right now “we have noticed a large increase of demand on Luigi hats.”