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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 31 points 18 hours ago

The man just could not stop solving problems.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

okay see I was in favor of what he did but his politics were kind of incoherent so I couldn't jump on the 'idolize this man' train.

I guess now I gotta.

[–] PixelPinecone@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What was inconsistent?

From what I gather, if the allegations are true, then Luigi never claimed to be knowledgeable enough to have solutions but recognized general issues.

This would, presumably, absolve him of inconsistencies since he didn’t claim to be the arbiter of truth or an expert.

This is a genuine question btw, I’m realizing I don’t really know much about the manifest or his views beyond health insurance companies being evil. So I’m curious to hear what you mean.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Unless his lawyer has stated he wrote the manifesto, we can assume it was planted.

Innocent until proven guilty

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, doesn't track for public opinion, it's the whole opinion part, but yeah we should give him some benefit of the doubt, he did us a solid.

The manifesto was out there, but not entirely incongruent with his ... was it a substack? I read it off archive.org and it was quite old

We don't know that the manifestio was his, but I'd say he had enough other stuff out there to say his views wained toward strange.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That really just makes him an easy fall guy.

Like, affluent enough to have the free time, visibly disillusioned with the system, on pain management from a back injury, similar hoodie/ backpack style of dress day to day.

Like, this is a big enough problem that there is an incentive to pick a random person of interest out of a hat and fabricate some quick evidence to implicate. Was the gun found in the manifesto bag the same gun that shot the guy?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

i'd like to say we'll see how it goes, but honestly I don't hold much hope for a fair trial.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I was under the impression that he was a right-leaning crypto bro that saw a bad CEO and "solved the problem". I don't think he even considered the material conditions of capitalism or the fact that we're in a class war. I think he was close though. Kind of like becoming a lefty without actually talking to any lefties.

In the manifesto I saw he basically apologized to the FBI for causing all the trouble. Letting them know that he acted alone.

He definitely wasn't the type of person I would imagine a CEO killer to be.

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

He is probably to young for that, but when bitcoin was first presented it was quite popular among leftist, who hoped it would destroy the dollar hegemony.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

In the manifesto I saw he basically apologized to the FBI for causing all the trouble.

That felt very out of place imho

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago

Ehh, maybe... I figure if it was a plant I would expect it to say something like "I trust the FBI to do the right thing" or "Law enforcement is good".

We likely won't know for a while if at all.

other comment got it pretty much right. not BAD, but, like, 'inventing communism from first principles via jordan peterson, and only sort of halfway there' weridness.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

From the Newsweek article:

Civilization VI, or 'Civ IV,'

Sophie! Don't you know your Roman Numerals?

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

CIV IV = 104 04

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

… I legit know folks at firaxis, I didn’t know this.

I’m gonna ask if it’s true lmaoo

[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It says he worked an an intern and it was several years ago. I know the meme is fun, but I highly doubt that if he were not under arrest that he'd have been working on Civ 7 UI.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago

But that's the problem. He fixed the bugs in VI but wasn't around for VII

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[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 77 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's like a real life, "most interesting man in the world".

[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He also filmed hours of professional quality porn of himself (with partners).

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, dude clearly had a unique mind. Not necessarily smart or dumb, but something that made him tick also led him to commit (one of) the most popular acts of murder in American history.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] vvilld@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14458011/Luigi-Mangione-sex-tape-bombshell.html

There's the news article. The source is one of his friends who claimed to know about the videos. But the videos aren't public.

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[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Remember then the media was calling him a Techbro instead of a tech worker? Yeah, he was never a Techbro.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 42 points 1 day ago

They tried everything... It didn't work

Bootlickers eventually fell inline but anyone paying attention saw right through the bullshit.

Anyone with basic vidya game exp knows that you re going the right way when you get this many enemies having a melt down on teevee and socials

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

Better free him so he can fix the UI in Civ7

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 69 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Everyday more info comes out about him the more likeable he becomes.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 158 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

So "Fix Civ Bugs" is new code for "Eat the rich" and it's not even doublespeak.

Civilization has these bugs where some people can get ultra wealthy and ruin it for everyone. As Devs, we need to fix that.

Taking bets on how long before discussing fixing Civ bugs gets you banned on r*ddit

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 419 points 2 days ago (2 children)

he's been working on fixing civilization all along

[–] FartGremlin@lemm.ee 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He has experience in troubleshooting

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[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

a true patriot would organize a team to break this guy out of jail.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 79 points 1 day ago (22 children)

The best outcome of this situation is jury nullification. If the jury nullifies, we'll have proven the law does not prosecute heroic deeds of this caliber. It would be the biggest blow to capitalism in generations.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"he who saves his country has committed no crimes"

i threw up in my mouth a bit quoting trump, but throwing their words back at them is always satisfying.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If it makes you feel any better, Trump was quoting Napoleon.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

You can tell he was quoting someone else because the sentence makes grammatical sense

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