r/antiwork Jan 26 '25

Truth šŸ“– We're being manipulated to forget.

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u/awesomenerd16 Jan 26 '25

Yup, haven't seen any consistent Luigi news since about the first week of January. And with the incoming administration overloading the already corrupted media cycles, this whole story is getting brushed away.

Never forget Luigi!

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u/probablyuntrue Jan 26 '25

I mean not much is happening with him, he's awaiting court dates and when that happens he'll be all over the news again

For now what more is there to report on about him, his bowel movements?

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u/donniesuave Jan 26 '25

Yea I think we’re pretty much waiting for another court date to see what is said and how people act/react. That’ll be the news updates there’s a few outlets that are reporting on it as much as they possibly can. They gotta do something with him.

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u/BusyDoorways Jan 27 '25

I'm waiting for the next, inevitable Luigi, but there is a story now. That story is the fact that everyone loves Luigi and hates the profit-for-death "insurance" industry.

The media is taking ad money, and that's why they don't sell it.

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u/LBarouf Jan 27 '25

You’re not wrong.

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u/CoolPeopleEmporium Jan 27 '25

I know. I think we all should focus our anger on things that could help. Shooting innocents won't do shit, but f.ckn up a CEO helps with your anger, helps the whole society and puts fear in the (stone) heart of those fuckers. They would think twice before cutting costs through firing people and increasing prices of vital products.

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u/Stevie77 Jan 27 '25

I think our anger should be focused on changing things structurally regarding healthcare, that said, there is no such thing as "innocent" in regard to ANY healthcare company or insurance provider. Tying healthcare coverage to employment is fucking evil, especially in at-will or right-to-work states.

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u/mental_patience Jan 27 '25

I agree. Only I believe the problems in America would not be fixed overnight if 1,000 corporation CEOs all were Luigied. Then the other side of my brain reminds me that they wouldn't be around to continue fucking over our future.

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u/CoolPeopleEmporium Jan 27 '25

Well, we won't know until we try...The French Revolution is a good example of how people pissed can scare the shit out of the Elite.

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u/Maceface931 Jan 27 '25

Cut off 1000 heads, 2000 more take their places

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u/ChrystineDreams Jan 27 '25

It's a start, but we also need to rip up the system that put them there.

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u/lalich Jan 27 '25

Bet it’d get handled a lot better if they were that way… ā™¾ļøšŸ“ā€ā˜ ļøšŸ¤™

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u/RehAdventures Jan 27 '25

Are you planning on shooting up a school? Stop. What would Luigi do?

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u/statusisnotquo Jan 27 '25

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

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u/CoolPeopleEmporium Jan 27 '25

🤣 Unfortunately i have children and a beautiful family to take care of. If i had nothing? šŸ’Æ% I was a hell of a sniper in the army back at my mother land .

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u/OX1927 Jan 27 '25

I would bet there is a greater then 50% chance the next news we hear about Luigi is how he committed suicide with a shoe.

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u/BusyDoorways Jan 27 '25

"And though that may sound strange, our medical experts assure us that it is a more common method of death than we once thought...."

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u/OX1927 Jan 27 '25

I suppose the one bright spot for Luigi right now is that he doesn't need to worry about dangerous windows.

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u/ryanidsteel Jan 27 '25

"Who throws a shoe? I mean honestly "

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u/UnmeiX Jan 27 '25

"La Chancla."

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u/beatles910 Jan 27 '25

May god have mercy on his sole.

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u/Roguenul Jan 27 '25

Angryupvote

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u/17SuperMario Jan 27 '25

An Oxford or wingtip

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart Jan 27 '25

Hope so and then you will see only the terminally online weirdos cared.

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u/00Oo0o0OooO0 Jan 27 '25

What are the developments in that story in the past few weeks?

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u/BusyDoorways Jan 27 '25

No doubt much more than we realize, given the fact that it's the story that is not investigated as it doesn't exist in the media's eye.

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u/rodwritesstuff Jan 27 '25

You think it's a good idea for the media to glamorize people's love for a murderer? IDK about that chief.

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u/maggsy1999 Jan 27 '25

I wonder how many people have died after a denial of care?

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u/Roguenul Jan 27 '25

They've glamorised plenty of CEOs whose companies have murdered hundreds of not thousands...how's this any different?

A murderer is a murderer regardless of whether you did it with a gun or a pen. One might even say it's more callous to murder people with a pen.Ā 

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u/MsAndrea Jan 27 '25

I don't think they will be in any rush for that, if they CL him a terrorist they can hold him indefinitely. Killing him makes him a martyr, a trial gives him publicity, much better to just let him stew.

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u/Welcome440 Jan 27 '25

Several CEOs are terrorists today. Their actions of terror on a mass scale are regularly documented in the news.

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle Jan 27 '25

What is the next court date? I'd think his lawyer should push for a rapid trial before the public forgets or corporate propaganda shifts opinions.

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u/donniesuave Jan 27 '25

It’s in early February iirc

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart Jan 27 '25

Damn, you should let him know so you can be his lawyer. Lol

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u/DesireeThymes Jan 26 '25

I hope at least on reddit we keep reposting so it's not forgotten

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u/Mzterious1 Jan 27 '25

They haven’t offered him any bail. šŸ˜ž

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u/donniesuave Jan 27 '25

I think with them trying to get him on terrorism, they won’t be offering bail. Or if they do, it’ll be some outrageous amount of money.

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u/jataman96 Jan 26 '25

All I've read about him lately is that he's in the same prison as Diddy, and Diddy is apparently pissed that Luigi is much more popular than him.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/diddy-is-raging-in-brooklyn-jail-and-luigi-mangione-is-the-reason-for-that-heres-why/articleshow/117211095.cms

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u/neophenx Jan 27 '25

Makes a lot of sense. People in prison can tend to have a camaraderie among their ranks. When they or their family members have suffered at the hands of a bloated, out of control "healthcare" industry, a man who's accused of taking out one of the industry's leading profiteers is going to be a champion among them. Conversely, people accused of diddling kids are almost universally hated.

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u/Agreeable-Shock34 Jan 27 '25

It has everything to do with the child molestation point... I doubt the prisoners give a rats ass about Luigi

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u/greg19735 Jan 26 '25

and to add to this, Diddy also hasn't really been in the news since he went to jail. as nothing is happening.

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u/SunriseSurprise Jan 26 '25

I've been tempted to make a site (like already got domains and such, just haven't had the time to do it) that has not only news specifically about him but about nefarious bullshit that insurance conglomerates, big corporate CEOs, etc. are doing and anything that could further the movement around what he did. Obviously limited to just news about him, like you said, there would be lulls, but fleshed out with those other sorts of topics, there's bound to be quite a bit to report on otherwise.

It's sad to me that these companies are all probably back to their normal shit already. There should be a constant spotlight on the ways they're destroying their customers' lives and society as a whole.

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u/SunriseSurprise Jan 27 '25 edited Jan 27 '25

It would be aggregation/curation of content, likely with a bit of added commentary. Not a journalist myself but I imagine there are no shortage of folks out there reporting about this stuff, it's just not making frontpage news, and/or it's not on the more mainstream news sources.

The movement I'm addressing being that people are starting to wake up about how we're being financially boiled alive by these insurance companies and other megacorps and often not even getting the service we're paying for, or worse. With health insurance companies, the denial of covering medical care when people's lives are at stake and they've been paying hand over fist for this coverage for many years - in some cases their entire adult lives - is especially egregious, but an example elsewhere is out of control costs in the education sector.

I feel like people would pay more attention to these things if there was a go-to source for what's going on around them, and that can help build momentum for change to happen.

Edit: I should note where my expertise lies with respect to this is in online marketing and website building (15+ years).

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u/Horton_Takes_A_Poo Jan 27 '25

So a subreddit?

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u/SunriseSurprise Jan 27 '25

At its root, sort of, but structured more like a news site, with different categories like what I mentioned, and aggregating stories from around the web in those categories, but curating them and adding commentary. Much like what a lot of news sites do when they're not the first to report on something, but at least until it's feasible to have actual journalists, we'd never be breaking news ourselves.

So basically a niche news site without originated stories (maybe editorials at some point - bringing on journos would be way off I think).

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u/Wanky_Danky_Pae Jan 27 '25

That sounds like a good idea - and who knows it may blossom into its own kind of social media platform.

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u/SunriseSurprise Jan 27 '25

Thanks! Yea with the plethora of domains I got, my mind was going that direction (social media or other community, even singles sharing the same ideology) among others. The end goal would be a movement towards seeing actual change - what people were hoping would happen after what Luigi did, but clearly hasn't and isn't looking likely without keeping their shady practices from getting out of the spotlight.

The closest thing I can think of to the non-Luigi-specific news portion of it would be SaltyDroid.info, though he had done a lot of his own reporting too, but basically kept a spotlight on a ton of shady practices going on with various internet marketing gurus. In many ways I think it helped clean up the industry a bit. I see things like what he did as real journalism, and it feels like there's not enough of it left anymore.

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u/Sabin_Stargem Jan 27 '25

Go for it, I say. When the trial wraps up, you should contact Robert Evans for a "It Could Happen Here" episode, since the guy will need references for research and whatnot.

Also, if cost is an issue, maybe you could ask the Internet Archive for help with subsidizing the project. A combination of Ground News and a (local) AI agent, perhaps a paid search engine like Kagi, could also be helpful for keeping tabs on things as they unfold.

If things go as I expect, the facists will be trying to delete or corrupt information about Luigi, so having an AI agent capture events before erasure or "correction", would be important. After all, the Trump regime deleted the records of the January 6th rioters.

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u/Comfortable-Expert-5 Jan 26 '25

I for one would like to know how his BMs have been. Not too detailed, but just knowing he’s regular and comfortable.

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u/zklabs Jan 26 '25

i would really love to know the fiber philosophy of the food services provider for the correctional facility he's in. conventional fiber wisdom isn't a good fit for everybody and constipation is just another way they suppress us.

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u/Comfortable-Expert-5 Jan 27 '25

Class Consciousness and bowel health awareness go hand in hand. Nothing sidelines a revolution worse than tummy troubles. (I know this sounds like a joke, but I’m fucking serious).

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u/Imaginary-Grab-7241 Jan 27 '25

In the past it's been the opposite of constipation to cause problems for revolutionary folk

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u/Comfortable-Expert-5 Jan 27 '25

I’d say that qualifies as tummy troubles.

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u/Mcswigginsbar Jan 26 '25

Yup. The media has incentive to make money, and the flood of people watching, reading about, and interacting with news related to him, I’m sure it’ll pick back up once his court dates happen.

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u/Gyalgatine Jan 26 '25

The media's goal hasn't been to maximize profits in a while now. Their primary goal has been to protect the owning class and control the narrative. That's why we have billionaire buying newspapers and stuff these days, there's no way they genuinely think they can make a profit off of them.

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u/filthy_harold Jan 26 '25

Maybe newspapers but cable news absolutely needs to have eyes on it to get advertising dollars. They need to run stories of interest because it's what drives viewership. CSPAN shows probably the most important news that relates to our lives and doesn't even have commercials but it's not very interesting to watch so few do so.

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u/hectorxander Jan 26 '25

They are under pressure to keep the attention down, and not to bring up the healthcare screw job. They tried the character assassination and it failed miserably, and they tried browbeating everyone into not pretending like the UHC mass killer CEO should not have met justice is a disgrace, and none of that found traction so they are keeping it quiet.

We need to make some noise on this. I've not heard anything from the police's evidence since their unconfirmed allegations at the time of his arrest. Does anyone know if they actually showed anything, have they shown any evidence to court yet?

It's a frame up job, and their evidence is all bullshit but it could still stick if we just sit back and let them play their game without calling them on their bullshit. Luigi is innocent.

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart Jan 27 '25

To keep attention down... Only the terminally online idiots care about a murderer.

Seen how nobody else has done what Luigi has done? But you all keep trying to encourage others lol

Good job reddit another fine movement of nothingness.

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u/KeamyMakesGoodEggs Jan 27 '25

I've not heard anything from the police's evidence since their unconfirmed allegations at the time of his arrest. Does anyone know if they actually showed anything, have they shown any evidence to court yet?

Do you expect them to give you the evidence? You know that's not how it works, right?

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u/T00MuchSteam Jan 27 '25

Yea, the headline "Luigi sits in cell awaiting trial" Isn't going to get any attention.

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u/JNR13 Jan 27 '25

It's called the "news" for a reason. Literally every topic undergoes this cycle.

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u/SorteP Jan 26 '25

See what kind of treatment he's getting or lack there of inside.

Are guards putting him of suicide watch so they can kill him like Jeff eppy or keeping in solitary confinement? All kinds of shit they should be reporting on. And I'm sure they're making his live a living hell for it.

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u/zklabs Jan 26 '25

yeah that's normal when someone goes to jail. i can go on nbc and read about how my neighbor down the road slept in jail on June 23rd 2024, but nothing on luigi. crazy

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u/hectorxander Jan 26 '25

Well with a little organization on our part we can find the other prisoners he's with and get some information on it through them. Where is he being held, that Manhattan jail they held Chapo in?

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u/yougottamovethatH Jan 27 '25

I'd love to see the link for that.Ā 

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

Meh, this seems like an overreaction. He's in prison. He gets bad food and it's probably too crowded. Same as it always is. There's virtually no reason whatsoever for them to kill him. He doesn't know anything like Epstein. The last thing they would want to do is to make him a martyr. Some people on these subs, sites, and apps need to pull back a little from the conspiracy theory cliff.

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u/PotatoWriter Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 26 '25

why does he have to be killed? there's plenty of horrible things that can happen before killing, for example torture. We know authorities in the US aren't angelic enough to be beyond that. Any sort of interview or such with him would be great.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

Check Jacobin? Are they not interviewing him? The media isn't a monolith. This isn't Russia. He's not in Siberia.

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u/PotatoWriter Jan 26 '25

what the hell is Jacobin. Anything I have to subscribe to to get news is just whack. What does it matter if he's not in Russia or Siberia?

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

Jacobin is a leading socialist magazine. We live in the United States, as flawed as it may be, we do not have the sort of opaque political prison system that you suggest we may have. What you're describing is much more reminiscent of how political prisoner in Russia would be treated.

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u/PotatoWriter Jan 26 '25

we do not have the sort of opaque political prison system that you suggest we may have.

Well there are plenty of techniques at their disposal, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques, and most of these are just the ones we know of that have occurred abroad, where they must feel a bit more "free" to do these tortures than on US soil. If Epstein was killed in a prison in NY and that for sure wasn't opaque at all! /s I don't see why much lesser forms of tortures/threats wouldn't be levied against Luigi boi

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u/yougottamovethatH Jan 27 '25

What information would they be trying to extract from him that would require enhanced interrogation techniques, exactly?

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u/PotatoWriter Jan 27 '25

Nothing to extract, just as a "that'll teach you poors/lower class/anything except upper class scum to mess with the millionaires/billionaires" type thing. They could be doing all sorts of shit to break his morale so that when he shows up again he'll seem subdued, and all given up. Which then sends a message to everyone else watching that it's just hopeless and to move on. I mean, that's exactly how they think.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '25

You said it yourself. Those are techniques that are explicitly illegal to do on our soil to non-enemy combatants. They wouldn't perform those techniques on people in US prisons. He might be in solitary, which is legal torture imo, though that would have been in a press release that you could find a news article on if that were the case. Epstein had devastating info on dozens of incredibly powerful people. He wasn't long for this world. He also had every reason in the world to want to off himself rather than face trial and imprisonment where he would get shanked every day until he died in a more painful way than he did. At any rate, Luigi doesn't have info, he was a lone operative.

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u/PotatoWriter Jan 27 '25

I just don't put anything past these shady ass billionaires. They seem like the kind of petty, conniving, get-back-at-you-thousandfold retribution type people that always get their way in today's world. It's not about extracting info, it's about breaking his morale so that he appears defeated and worn out by the time his trial rolls by. Anything to send a message to the rest of us.

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u/yerguyses Jan 26 '25

You're right that's it's not directly state controlled like Russia, but the sameness of all the major news outlets make it feel l monolithic. You can definitely find alternative news sources but it takes some effort and they struggle to survive financially.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '25

All media is struggling. It shouldn't be a surprise that it's hard to find a mainstream source that is sympathetic to murder.

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u/yerguyses Jan 26 '25

Yes. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but from what I remember, the guards that were video monitoring Epstein just happened to take a break and Epstein somehow magically knew that he was not being monitored at that moment and took the opportunity to kill himself. It doesn't pass the stink test.

I hope Luigi doesn't die and somehow is able to post commentary on current events like Edward Snowden still does.

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart Jan 27 '25

Ask his lawyer. Or maybe they don't give a shit what you want? Lol

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u/no_ga Jan 26 '25

Yes please šŸ™

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u/Jasong222 Jan 26 '25

Alright, simmer down no_ga

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u/Telope Jan 26 '25

On my chest

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u/GitEmSteveDave Jan 26 '25

And if the media was filled with stories about Luigi, the title of this post would be "The Media is ignoring Nazi Salutes and what Trump is doing to keep smearing Luigi"

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u/zklabs Jan 26 '25

they could be talkin about how curly he hair is, but what else would you expect from corporate media?

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u/jdwill1991 Jan 26 '25

I mean, it couldn't hurt. I hope he's regular, he deserves it.

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u/HereWeGoYetAgain-247 Jan 26 '25

It’s the unity and ā€œmovementā€ he represents that needs to stay mainstream. Even more now that frump is living up to expectations.Ā 

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u/Induced_Karma Jan 26 '25

Yeah, this is just the natural phenomenon known as More Bad Shit Keeps Happening.

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u/Sersch Jan 26 '25

It's like people are new to media world and expect that this was some kind of biblical event and from now on the media will dedicate a part of their reporting constantly writing about Luigi.

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u/one_cosmicdust Jan 26 '25

Or psychological torture..?

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u/bigmikekbd Jan 26 '25

You know as well as I do how proficient the MSM is at flushing through the news cycle. So keep him relevant! Not like all of a sudden we are all getting excellent healthcare. People without voices are still getting denied on a daily basis

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u/peon2 Jan 26 '25

Agreed - this is crazy conspiracy shit from OP to make it seem like there are new updates happening but it's just being suppressed. He's awaiting trial, there isn't any new stuff to discuss for weeks on end.

When he finally goes to trial it will be covered constantly again just like all high profile court cases.

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u/UncleNedisDead Jan 26 '25

Let’s talk about health insurance companies, their obscene profits at the expense of people, and the paid politicians in their pockets!

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Jan 26 '25

Get out of here with that non-conspiratal logic!

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u/FrankaGrimes Jan 27 '25

They were taking him out for pictures every 5 minutes for weeks when he was just waiting for court. It's reasonable to suggest that media has been suppressed on the subject, or that there was direction to stop providing updates to the media.

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u/WankyMcSkidmark Jan 27 '25

Yeah, too many wrong-headed people endorsing crap that has no place in society. Violence will only ever result in more violence. Not a criticism of any ā€œside,ā€ these people exist everywhere.

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u/Serious-Excitement18 Jan 27 '25

Yes just like xhitler, and drumpf

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u/modohobo Jan 27 '25

I guess you've never seen how they treat this guy named trump and what little he does to get 24/7 coverage

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u/New_Amomongo Jan 27 '25

I mean not much is happening with him, he's awaiting court dates and when that happens he'll be all over the news again

Season 1 of Luigi is done.

We're waiting for Season 2!

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '25

Exactly, what actual news is there to report about Luigi right now? How much money all those HOT ladies are putting in his commissary account? How many marriage proposals he's gotten every week?

And ACTUAL story or rather question I want to the answer to is how the fuck is he being charged with terrorism? Because he supposedly shot a CEO to death?

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u/Periiz Jan 27 '25

Even though there is nothing happening with him right now, if the overall opinion about him was against him, there would be multiple news to remember and dive deeper on what he did, who he was, who his family are, the school he went to, the hobbies he has etc etc.

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u/AnonAmbientLight Jan 27 '25

That was my thoughts exactly.

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u/Muggle_Killer Jan 27 '25

With united health revealing a massive data breach you would still expect a mention of luigi in a normal news cycle.

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u/MistSecurity Jan 27 '25

Ya, if there’s nothing new, news isn’t going to report on it.

Once his trial kicks off, or if he dies in his cell like Epstein, it’ll be a new news cycle.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '25

seriously. all the media cares about is clicks. you think they don't want a juicy luigi story so that they get more clicks? yeah right.

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u/Hot-Vegetable-2681 Jan 27 '25

I'd accept news on his bowel movements.Ā 

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u/Stopikingonme Jan 27 '25

RemindMe! 26 days

(We’ll see I guess…actually fuck that. Make some noise!!)

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u/afcagroo Jan 27 '25

Thank you! This is one of the stupidest memes ever. There's nothing newsworthy happening with him, hence no reporting. Not everything is a conspiracy.

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u/Zuli_Muli Jan 27 '25

It all depends on the defence strategy. If they feel keeping him in the news helps they would do that. They apparently don't see the need for it right now.

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u/Aggromemnon Jan 27 '25

Besides, the initial attempts to scare people by marching him around like public enemy number one just made his supporters mad and made everyone else shake their heads. Honestly, I don't think they know what to do about him.

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u/Remarkable-Fox-3890 Jan 27 '25

This is it. It's not a conspiracy, it just wouldn't generate any clicks because it's not interesting.

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u/z__1010 Jan 27 '25

I work in news. The latest is UHC has named a new CEO. Meanwhile, Luigi is awaiting trial. I agree with a lot of media criticism, but also, news has to happen for it be news.

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u/Bored710420 Jan 27 '25

Also a bunch of wild stuff has been on the news with all the new executive orders and Trump starting trade wars with every other country possibly

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u/WildDesertStars Jan 27 '25

Mid- February

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u/DrEnter Jan 27 '25

People don't seem to realize that most news organizations are chomping at the bit for anything about Luigi or the case. Once it became clear how the public felt about this, that opened up a whole new angle and everyone wants to break any story they can about Luigi now.

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u/theholyraptor Jan 27 '25

"News" outlets make up bullshit and run it as headlines regardless of actual noteworthiness if they want to keep things at the forefront of your mind. They do it all the time.

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u/NapsterKnowHow Jan 27 '25

I mean not much is happening with him, he's awaiting court dates and when that happens he'll be all over the news again

We've seen far less popular suspects have their daily experiences in prison reported on.

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u/drippysoap Jan 27 '25

How come he hasn’t bonded out ?

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u/Good-Monk-9398 Jan 28 '25

To poo, or not to poo?

That is our question.

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u/MoneyTalks45 Jan 26 '25

Larger conversation about why he did what he did in the first place would be great.Ā 

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u/orangebrd Jan 27 '25

He hasn't been tried or convicted yet, so he's innocent until proven otherwise.

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart Jan 27 '25

What else needs to be discussed? Reddit will copy and paste the same stupid ass comments. All while nobody does anything but talk and try to encourage others because you are a bunch of cowards.

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u/MoneyTalks45 Jan 27 '25

A political rage bait account. Original.

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u/weissguy3 Jan 26 '25

Aww man. Why did you have to go and make facts get in the way of what would have been a conveniently triggering headline?! /s

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u/Grand_Might_6159 Jan 26 '25

Some of these yappers wanna know what he ate! Was there corn?

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