Luigi Mangione has drawn lots of defenders on social media. That's a challenge for platforms when it comes to moderation — and for users.

Luigi Mangione has drawn lots of defenders on social media. That’s a challenge for platforms when it comes to moderation — and for users.

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    • BatrickPateman@lemmy.world
      1403·
      4 months ago

      Because you can’t let people realize that they are not alone with their opinions about rich people. That’s the first step to change, and you can’t have that.

      • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
        572·
        4 months ago

        We are in a abusive relationship with capitalism. Straight up Stockholm Syndrome with our oppressors.

            • exploitedamerican@lemm.eeEnglish
              91·
              4 months ago

              Shut up.

              We have decades of attempting to alleviate grievances with the system by using the avenues offered by the system and are instead met with hostility by the system we are supposed to be able to affect change through peacefully.

              Weve been conditioned to believe the only acceptable option to facilitate progress for civil rights and labor rights causes is peaceful protest while those who dictste what we are taught in schools through the textbooks they publish also militarized our police agencies and granted them impunity to use lethal violence against us.

              All while our society glorifies retributive violence when that violence is targeted against those whom the ruling class has deemed a threat to the order they wish to maintain.

              We are supposed to have a right to instigate a revolution if our social institutions have failed us and we’ve literally exhausted every other option at this point so its time to use the avenues that the wealthy deem to be good enough to use when they want to progress their agendas. If non violent means were so effective at initiating and maintaining progressive change then those in power would be initiating sit ins and marches instead of insurgency, coup de tats and assassinations.

    • phughes@lemmy.caEnglish
      62·
      4 months ago

      The word they’re avoiding is “suppress”. It needs to be suppressed because they don’t want anymore CEOs getting what they deserve.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      188·
      4 months ago

      Because if you let it go enough, people will break the law and someone will come knocking on the instance owners door.

        • Enkrod@feddit.org
          31·
          4 months ago

          Sentences like yours don’t need to be moderated, but calls for violence or solicitacions of a crime are illegal in most countries and need to be moderated, so an instance doesn’t get taken down.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
      1211·
      4 months ago

      Because it’s typically the glorification of murder, the incitement of murder, or the direct threat of murder, which are all typically illegal in most jurisdictions.

          • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
            12·
            4 months ago

            Thought police much?

            And that last paragraph… You’re doing an awful lot of projection based on some guillotine memes and nintendo character photoshops.

            Society will devolve back to before laws and social contracts and it’ll be whoever can kill their opponents before their opponents kill them.

            Really?

          • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
            321·
            4 months ago

            It’s mob rule, which is why I cannot sympathize with the people with their Luigi memes and shit. If we just run around and murder all he people who rub us the wrong way, then we basically turn into some shithole like we’re seeing in many places in the Middle East or Africa, where warlords rule over everyone else.

            I also find this particular topic somewhat stupid when I see alleged Trumpanzees criticizing their far right pundits for calling the Luigi fanboys out. Like, you fuckers voted for someone who’s about the same caliber as that asshole that got murdered, who is supported by even more of the same kind of people. You cannot cry about this type of America, and then keep voting for this type of America (or even worse versions of it). It’s not even just hypocritical but straight up deluded. And then they all cry how voting doesn’t change anything. Stupid. Just stupid.

            • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
              6·
              4 months ago

              Here’s the deal, if we want law and order, it must apply to everyone. It does not, and there really isn’t mechanism right now to change that. The issue with the healtcare exec’s killing is that healthcare execs etc. and oligarchs that make decisions that kill people have to be held to account for their crimes, and that’s not happening. Their egregious denials of life-preserving coverage should be a crime if it isn’t already. The Oligarchs/healthcare insurers have rigged the system such that it does not bind them nor hold them responsible for their behaviors that kill people. This is where the lawlessness issue in our system began, not with Luigi’s vigilante act. Luigi committed murder, the health care execs and oligarchs also murder people with their decisions. Only Luigi’s actions are getting legally punished. As long as such unequal treatment in the law exists, it will inevitably end in vigilantism.

              • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
                14·
                4 months ago

                You’re not going to achieve that by throwing out the rules, quite the contrary. You’re just giving those people a reason to lobby on harder crackdowns on people, making it even harder to achieve actual change. The problem is that people keep voting against their interests, and not just on a presidential level but even starting on a local level. Hell, if there’s no one worth voting for then you should probably get active in politics yourself before you end up murdering people yourself. Either way, crying about murder and then becoming a murderer yourself is not the solution, but hypocrisy and will invite others doing the same for whoever they think deserve it.