Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭

Yeah they keep calling him radicalized. I just keep thinking this is a normal reaction and that corporate America and its shills are the radical ones.
- "Would you shoot literal hitler in the back?" "Fuck yeah, bud" "Who radicalized you, everything that man did was legal"
- I've read the manifesto. I have the same thoughts as you. I wonder with all these people calling him radical if maybe there's a fake manifesto out there. Something created JUST to make him sound crazy? That would explain the wildly different views of him being radical.
  
  Remember, one month ago, the shooting hadn't happened yet. Nobody knew Luigis name or face. So if you go from not knowing he exists, to seeing him murder a guy, and then get told he has plans for domination, and kill all the people......it would be logical to understand why someone would call that perspective radicalized.
  
  That's not what he is, or what he wrote, but if you read a fake manifesto, believed it to be real, that would explain people saying that.
  
  Otherwise, I'm confused where "radicalized" comes from.
Sadly reasonable conclusions based on reality is pretty based.
Oh no, reality is leaking into the media! We must stop this unapproved narrative!
Read that in his voice, well done.

That's what reddit banned, it's so innocuous.

They didn't ban it because it was dangerous or violent, They banned it because the anti-corporate and spez is a musk wanna be
- Thiel is one of reddits earliest investors. spez is a Thiel boy.
  
  This whole time I can't believe how reddit managed to hold up a facade of being a cool progressive college student platform. They pulled the wool over everyone's eyes. It's as if they put lipstick on /pol/ and /b/. And everyone was like, alright a hip liberal platform. Sure if you ignore the iceberg of right wing bootlicking shit beneath the surface of the default subreddits.
barbara streissand has taught them nothing apparently
It's pretty shitty as far as manifestos go.
- I mean, he claims responsibility, confirmed the existing evidence, then states his motives which aren't hard to understand for even those out of the loop. I think the brevity and simple reasoning speak volumes louder than some maniacs scribblings found in a cabin. The fact that even those considered Semliterate would be able to grasp the bulk of his message was likely intentional.
  
  Its actually not shitty at all, presuming his purpose was to inspire a shift in public discourse around the topic.
  
  If he wanted it to be the centerpiece of a dramatic documentary miniseries, then yes, it was shitty.
- I appreciate how quick a read is it. Much more likely for random people to read it and start thinking and then you can jump out of the bushes and go "surprise, you just read a manifesto!"
- 4/5 stars.
There are like 50 sentences of basic reality in there, but I suspect that a lot of the moderation challenge comes from one small phrase dropped into the middle: “it had to be done.”

With the inclusion of that, the 50 sentences of reality are recast as not just true but a valid justification for murder, even an argument that it was a duty, and that’s the rub.

Yes it is. So what. The rich glorifies violence against the poor.

The leader of the country once said: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts"

So if its apparantly okay to use violence against alledged thieves (which is not okay btw, stealing should never equate a death sentence), then it must be okay to use violence against mass murderer CEOs.

"When the denying starts, the deposing starts" would be my rebuttal to that phase the ex-president said. Violence begets violence.

You get points for honesty, at least. Most people in here don't even admit this is a call for violence.
- It certainly doesn't state it explicitly. It just says that the killer was the "first to face it" that way that implies that there is a possibility for more but the way I understood it was that current measures being taken aren't enough, that doesn't mean that other people wanting to take action should do so violently.
So if its apparantly okay to use violence against alledged thieves (which is not okay btw, stealing should never equate a death sentence), then it must be okay to use violence against mass murderer CEOs.

The reason violence against "looters" is permitted stems from their violation of the principles of the American caste system

Contrary to popular belief, you are not allowed to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. You are only allowed to help yourself when you've received lending permission from a state recognized philanthropic sponsor. Otherwise, you are supposed to quietly drown in your own filth, where it isn't inconvenient for anyone higher on the totem pole than you.

The caste system is sacred. Brian Thompson earned his position. Luigi Mangione deserved his miserable fate.
- I like that you put "looters" in quotes. After hurricane Katrina, the news would show "looters" and "people trying to survive," taking food items from grocery stores. I wonder what the difference was?
  
  the difference
  
  Skin hue
  
  Yes, people were also taking electronics, but for food?
most CEOs don't murder, even the health insurance ones simply are committing theft analogs, simply not funding healthcare, not preventing those than can independently afford it from accessing it.
When the looting starts, the shooting starts

That was some fascist cop in Miami in the 60's. Not the leader of any country.
- https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts
  
  President Trump told reporters Friday evening that he didn't know the racially charged history behind the phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." Trump tweeted the phrase Friday morning in reference to the clashes between protesters and police in Minneapolis following George Floyd's death.
- The police chief may have coined the phrase, but the president still used it.

If sharing Luigi's manifesto is glorifying violence then so is sharing the Declaration of Independence.

If only Thomas Jefferson had somehow managed to cap a member of English Royalty. Instead, then Jefferson crossed the pond to suck up to Louis XVI, shortly before the man went full Ropespierre's Necktie.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security.

note that reddit didn't have a problem with "orks must die jokes" or people celebrating war fotage as long as they celebrate the right peoples deaths

Drone kill footage is like the reciepts of investment, if not the product itself.

Reddit gargles fascist schlong.

Nuff said.

Stop using Reddit

Of course not, it's just Spez sucking up to the billionaires in the hope that one of them will be dumb enough to toss him a few million for his shitpile.

For a website with sections called nsfl and fight porn reddit takes a weird stance on manifestos.

You mean the website that didn't ban creepshots until MSM reported on it? That website?
- The jailbait subreddit was regularly on the front page and openly joked about for years, Spez was even a mod for a bit "as a joke" until Anderson Cooper did a story about it.
Fight porn is not what I was hoping for, yet not exactly disappointed in the result.

No, it's not.

It's an acknowledgement that there's a massive problem.

These companies are literally willing to bankrupt you to death. Their behavior is inexcusable. They profiteer off of human suffering.

We live in a country founded by people who were unhappy with the status quo and were willing to pick up a gun to change things. We shouldn't act surprised that it still happens. I don't think we should celebrate it, because it's sad that this is happening in the first place, that someone feels they need to do this. This problem is solvable, and it can be solved civilly, or it will be solved uncivilly.

Thats exactly how I feel "Its sad that this is looking like the solution"

Like, it had to come to this? You couldnt just set up your little racket and keep the golden goose fat and happy? Or atleast adequately provided for and left alone?
We're are explicitly given the right to bear arms as a check to tyrannical governance.

Our government outsourced their tyranny to corporations.

Corporations should be well aware of strings being attached.
Agreed! Sad that all the debt and death these companies allow is ignored in these discussions.

I can't believe you've done this

Is anyone with a pulse still on reedit? All I ever see there are AIO/AITA/best of creative writing exercises that reek of ChatGPT
- Reddit was full of false outrage and fake stories long before GPT ever existed. Just the last few people that were willing to post have kind of wandered off. I think we got the best of them here
- I'm there for certain communities that aren't active here. I still don't use the official client though, it's horrible
- On the odd occasion I go to reddit front page, AITA is always at the top with an obviously AI generated ridiculous story.
- I'm there for a couple of videogames and the homelab/selfhosted stuff. Curated subreddits are still active and real.
- Some communities just don't really have an equivalent elsewhere but I'm purely only lurking now. Don't comment anymore, use a modded third party client on mobile and ublock origin on desktop.

Constent manufacturing factory manufactures consent, millions shocked.

There’s a book called Manufacturing Consent for those interested.
- Noam Chomsky. If you studied anything related to linguistics or even dabbled into that field, you will know the name.
I learned about this from a System of a Down rabbit hole :)

See, then you are giving a murderer's message publicity. As opposed to UnitedHealthcare, responsible for far more many deaths, having the ability to have as much publicity and as many lobbyists as they want.

Alleged murderer.

I think he is more than just the (relatively trivial) allegations against him. He has rallied support for massively reforming the American Healthcare system, which will save countless lives, improve our quality of life, and ensure the financial stability of the American Public.
- He has rallied support for massively reforming the American Healthcare system...
  
  I would disagree with this. Nobody is talking about health care reform. People are talking about destroying an economic system that creates billionaires, and also about destroying the billionaires themselves. This hasn't been a call for reform, it's a call to arms.
  
  The scariest thing is that people are beginning to accept that the system has always been rigged, and there is no other way to fix it.
- Robert Kennedy also did quite a bit of rallying on that front. Kennedy’s why I voted for Trump.

I've definently noticed how more and more things are being disallowed to talk about on social media. It's just a matter of which platforms has which rules, but the rules are also changing as more and more people are complaining about reading things they don't agree with.

I suspect we will just discuss memes in the future, and politics, since politics is something that the leaders want us to care about and fight eachother over.

That's because America is the land of the free to shut up and do what you're told, or else.
the rules are also changing as more and more people are complaining about reading things they don’t agree with

which is why people need to start understanding that moderation is different from censorship
- I had the realization about this distinction several years ago regarding reddit. Over the years of attrition by various controversies, reddit no longer has moderators. They've all left. There are moderators in name but they do not moderate.
  
  Many set the mod bots to do bot things and then fuck right off. To be fair moderating global scale messageboard is kind of an impossible task. Much less to do it for free. Can't fault the the old school internet moderators for leaving.
  
  On another note. There's no way to tiptoe around the issue of intelligence. The baseline level of discourse just isn't capable of hard topics as it used to be. People seem to like the social drama that arises out of lack of moderation. That biases towards the lowest common denominators. It's like a modern day Jerry Springer shock jock entertainment. But live and interactive! Social media users seem to revel in it. Bread and circuses...
- No, they have to put fear in your bones and make examples out of you.
- Interesting. Might be cool if Lemmy allowed mods to apply a NSFW tag that only a mod our admin could remove.
We used to make fun of Chinese social media censorship. Soon sharing images of Nintendo's Luigi will be as censored as sharing images of Winnie the Pooh in China.
- If the feds don't get you, Nintendo's legal team will.

Anyone with half a brain can see that it isn’t “glorifying” violence, it’s merely giving an explanation of why Luigi did what he did. Glorification would play more into pathos, but the manifesto is mostly ethos

I mean, lots of .world communities will censor it too, and they’re still FEDerated.

I literally found my way here because of lemmy.world bullshit. No, discussing jury nullification isn't inciting to violence.
- A mod said that the manifesto would be allowed
  
  If it’s confirmed, I don’t see why not. Depends on the community, of course. I’m sure !lemmybewholesome would remove it.
  
  https://lemmy.world/comment/13922763
  
  People can try. If it gets removed, report it on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
A mod said that the manifesto would be allowed

If it’s confirmed, I don’t see why not. Depends on the community, of course. I’m sure !lemmybewholesome would remove it.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13922763

People can try. If it gets removed, report it on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Hi I’m new to Lemmy since Reddit decided to permaban me due to support I showed for Luigi. Good riddance to be honest. I should have fully quit when they shut down Apollo but didn’t know Lemmy existed.

Just keep in mind that if you are not satisfied with how your particular instance is running, you don't have to stop using lemmy like you did with reddit. You can switch to a different instance and keep on chilling!

No more switching services! Gotta love this place.
- To expand on this: You can migrate accounts fairly easily. You can export your subscribed communities, and import them into your new account. So the only real thing you’re losing is your post history, but even that is seen as a bonus by many users who are looking to burn their old account.

Fuck Reddit.

I've always thought well educated people have a great potential to be dangerous and achieve transcendental goals if organized. A group of engineers, of chemists, physicists, biologists, computer scientists after specific goals may be formidable enemies if they wanted. The 0.001%, the dirty rich, should now be aware.

I think I saw a report many years past that engineers make a bigger than expected proportion of radicalized people, in the context of middle east insurgencies.
- Engineers tend to be less accepting of the "debate and theory" part of science and more of the "analyze and act" part.
  
  As in, the debate is stupid, the theory is that the rich have fucked us all, now let's see what we can do immediately to make it work.

Depends on the context in which you're sharing it.

If you share it with a title like "We need more of this", then yeah, because you're encouraging further acts like it. If you share it with a title like "This is the manifesto written by the alleged CEO killer", then that's not inherently glorifying violence, you're just sharing something you found and being informative. But if you share it in response to the question "Hey Reddit, what are some fun things I can do in NYC this weekend?", then you're back toward the "glorifying" side. Context makes all the difference.

Whether or not anybody gives a shit about that distinction, though, is a different question.

My understanding is it’s being removed regardless of context.
- That's the point of their last sentence.
  
  Whether or not anybody gives a shit about that distinction, though, is a different question.
Maybe they should take it as "glorifying justice"? No, of course that doesn't align with Reddit's ruthless ruling.

Reddit said so because it's CEO is known to be a greedy bastard who threw everything and everyone Bunder the bus for money. Luigi would not approve

Reddit also thinks appealing a ridiculous van is harassment, so not exactly the brightest bulbs over there.

Hey man, people can drive what they want, saying their car is ridiculous is not cool

They really couldn't figure out that that first [indecipherable] is "fourth"?

I filled in "fucking" for a little extra oomph
And the second most likely something like "parasites"
- Fuckers. Bastards. removed. It's like manifesto Mad Libs!

Glorifying violence is A-Ok when the government awards people the Medal of Honor.

Reddit needs to come up with a more accurate excuse for their censorship.

Their excuse is monnney. Look at Twitter, people are pulling their ads because they are not happy with what's happening there. Keep the people who give you money happy and everything is fine. No matter if you would have to sell your soul (like Disney in China, to not get banned and miss millions of subscribers). Since the ad companies usually are big corporate, you can imagine what reddit their stance is.
They must have some data that this time some thing is awakening against the corporate greed.

No .... and stop following anything that stupid website says.

Would it's get me banned to reply with "I love reading about CEOs getting killed, and I want more of them to die"?

Edit:in minecraft.

Why would they mind the deaths of Creeper Entity Objects?
Kek

Not much of a Manifesto..., that's just a Note my dudes.

Manifestnote.

Reddit is a free advertising platform. I literally just now use it to secretly advertise side hustles.

Good luck with your OnlyFans
- Lol they're shopify stores. I'm ugly.

Spez knows he is at the mercy of some of these same kinds of CEOs. Then again, Spez only cares about Spez and cares little of the Reddit community.

Spez is one of these CEOs.

In this case, I think of more like Guy Fawkes…..there is clearly a problem with the us death care system. And we are right to be angry with these companies that profiteer on our sickness and in some cases that result in people dying from delayed or denied care. Is is right to murder someone? No, of course not. I think the question to ask is who is the real murderer?

sharing information is important. whether or not you are glorifying it depends on context.

No. It’s just Reddit’s thought police.

Thank you for posting this. I’ve been curious about what he wrote.

Shorter than some git commit messages. I’m a fan.

I think federal government probably sent a pretty please over to reddit HQ to censor this.

They're afraid of it fomenting further dissent. It's a delicate situation when the plebs are upset. A little bit is OK, in fact preferable. But too much can lead to a chain reaction that cannot be controlled.

50% wtf!

https://youtube.com/shorts/dFK_u8pDV3Q

What reddit thinks about anything matters to nobody but themselves

i would argue no, but then again, there's a difference between posting it, and supporting it.

glorifying and supporting violence is almost always against the rules on any platform anywhere. So.

I be searching like this these days:

<shit I am loking for> -site:www.reddit.com

Fuck reddit. Fuck Spez and Fuck the police.

Stick and stones...

r/combatfootage has glorified violence for years now. That's the only reason it exists.

Why would it be? The only actual reference to violence is the fact that it happened ("[…] faced it with such brutal honesty.") and the reasoning behind it.

No, it's not. But there's a general fear that spreading manifestos of terrorists could cause people to believe them. They did the same thing with Bin Laden's manifesto.

For the record, I oppose this, it's just that I can understand why this sort of thing is done.

does it seem a little...wordy... to anyone else

It's pretty concise, actually.
- Especially as far as manifestos from high profile cases go.
- It's not.
No.
- Are you sure? Your position that it's not wordy to anyone else can be defeated by even a single person whose position agrees with mine. It's indefensible. If you want you can wait to see your position defeated publicly, or quietly accept defeat. Let me know what you pick (silence is an answer :) and I'll be sure to celebrate appropriately. Have a day.

Yes it is. It's the same reason we don't share school shooter manifestos.

The only question here is do you agree with this violence? If you do then carry on.

I think there's a difference. School shootings are an atrocity, and, for the most part, we all agree on that. Sharing the manifesto lends a kind of legitimacy to the shooter and their reasons, and, on balance, we'd rather turn our back on them and condemn the violence.

With this CEO murder, many of us agree there's such life-destroying abuse in the American healthcare commerce - of which this CEO was directly part, whether or not he's to blame - that the problem is a serious topic of public conversation. The manifesto, and the events associated with it, are a relevant part of that conversation, whether we support them or not.
- That's my point. You see one as an atrocity but not the other. So you don't have a problem glorifying it. But it's still doing exactly that.
The difference is no one is cheering on school shooters. Luigi did what he did for a good reason. He is not crazy, or evil like a school shooter

I'm saddened there haven't been copycats yet. Hopefully that means people are just taking their time in planning like Luigi did.

People can learn from his mistakes and maybe the next one will get away.
- So it's okay because you like it?