#luigi mangione they can never make us hate you

[ghalghai]

the composition in this photo is insaneee its so funny because they clearly wanted to humiliate him but instead they made him look like a modern day jesus christ being led to calvary and the public cant get enough of him

[rhys-ravenfeather]

I know everyone and their dog has already talked about the Luigi Mangione and Briana Boston thing at this point...and I will admit upfront that this is based somewhat off a post I saw earlier, but you know what? I feel like putting in my own two cents.

There's an online article I've read a couple times now about the father of one of the little boys who was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting. If anyone is really curious, I can DM you the article, but just a heads-up...it's not a fun read. Just...the bile that this man, this grieving father, who has had to walk by his six-year-old son's empty bedroom, knowing that he's never going to see his child again had to face, just for choosing to go public with his story--so many people accused him and his family of lying, of being actors paid by the government, one person even said that they 'knew' his wife was an actor because, and literally only because, she wore lipstick to her son's funeral. I really, really, wish I was joking about that.

The dad founded a non-profit organization that I now feel obligated to post the link for, in the hopes that this man and his family can find the justice and peace they so rightly deserve after someone came to their child's school with a gun to make literal children pay for his problems: https://honrnetwork.org/

I hate guns.

And I really hate when people use the 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people!' argument after every new school shooting, or other tragedy involving innocent people being gunned down, so they can hold onto their precious, precious guns.

But I'm not shedding any tears over a CEO who killed many more people, be it indirectly or even directly, through his greed, apathy, and selfishness.

I don't feel any sympathy for his family, whose wealth was built on the suffering of common people.

And the fact that for once, someone went directly to the source of his problems instead of misdirecting his anger towards innocents, and the only ones grieving are other billionaires, and not one person has brought up that tired old argument, speaks volumes.