While being escorted into the courthouse for an extradition hearing, Mangione broke into an outburst at the assembled journalists.

Luigi Mangione shouts a message to the American people on his way to court:

“This is completely unjust and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience.”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I mean shit, GoFundMe is trying to stamp it out right and left, but there was donations for Kyle Rittenhouse…

    Luigi is going to get a shit ton of money for legal fees, from pretty much every demographics. His generational wealth and connections mean he’s not going to get some ambulance chaser, he’s going to get an established law firm that will tear the state to shreds.

    Honestly, this might be what finally pits the 1% against the 0.01%…

    They’re not used to their own being mistreated, and (most likely correctly) assume if they unit with the other 98.9% of the country the wealthiest don’t have a chance.

    When people like this are bucking the system, it’s not a good sign

    • Drusas@fedia.io
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      13 days ago

      Just because his grandfather was wealthy doesn’t mean that he is. Not destitute like so many, sure, but that’s not the same as being the 1%. I think I read that Luigi is one of like 37 grandchildren. That’s spreading things pretty thin.

    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      I don’t have sources on me. But I’m fairly certain that in the French Revolution you had upper class supporters of the revolution, and maybe even some nobility. Most of the revolutions did, and they provided support to the revolution usually through some supply chain they had access to.

      That being said, I could be entirely making it up, because that would have been more than a decade ago I learned it.