Remember, remember, the 4th of December, The hostile takeover, the corporate scheme. I know of no reason, the share-selling treason, Should ever be forgot.
Luigi, Luigi, 'twas his intent, To bring the boardroom's reign to an end. With a Nintendo blaster, bright and so blue, To show all the suits what a plumber can do.
What's dec 4th?
International Luigi Day
Damn it's almost an year already?
Time really flies by.
Honest question, I thought hexbear had a mandate against "lionizing Luigi Mangione," but I have been seeing more hexbear users like u/QuietCupcake even in this thread posting emojis that I thought would have gotten them removed or worse last December. Is that why OP is posting it here with an .ml account even though (forgive and correct me if I'm wrong comrade) you're mostly a hexbear user? Did the mods there ever acknowledge the absurdity of that rule and roll it back, was it just quietly forgotten, or is it still selectively enforced? Don't get me wrong, I think hexbear is mostly a great instance that I often comment in solidarity with, but I was surprised to see what seemed like an extremely uncharacteristic liberal position they took on that.
Oh God not a liberal position
My position has always been I don't think he even did it.
Same. They've got three different people on film.
There isn't any policy that I'm aware of, I usually post to lemmy when I want to spread a meme more beyond hexbear (since a lot of Lemmyverse blocks or hides us). There was a brief period of uncertainty about Luigi initially, but it has turned out to be quite effective "propaganda of the deed", like a modern John Brown in certain respects.
The lionizing Luigi thing is for not mistaking the person as being themselves a good example to follow. We still maintain that adventurism overall is a bad thing. But we can also celebrate the outcome since it happened to an actual demon. The main point is not to encourage other lemmitors to do something similar. If it's happening naturally because of the increasingly difficult situations Americans are facing, terrific. But don't get yourself capped by a cop because you mistook Luigi adventurism for the start of the revolution.
It was a certain mod that took issue with it, idt it was really a site wide rule or particularly stringently enforced
Actual site wide stuff gets communicated by carcosa
This post is the one I was referring to when I used the word mandate, a post made by someone I believe was an admin at the time, but maybe not. But I also talked to someone at the time from there who was a frequent commenter in places like the lemmy c/worldnews comm and they were very angry about having their posts and comments removed, while others were banned. I checked the modlog and sure enough. I'm really not trying to stir shit, it's just something I'm sincerely curious about because it seemed so... off brand to me, to use a lib phrase.