Well, there’s the extreme end of things that moderators don’t like posts about People love Luigi, though. But I understand not wanting to throw one’s life away, even if success pushed the entire world onto a better trajectory.
There’s also that low grade sabotage stuff that gets talked about. I think people were posting the ww2 sabotage manual a couple months ago. Stuff like have excessive meetings, make plausible mistakes to gum things up, that kind of stuff. This works better if you’re closer to a source of the problems (eg: ICE, mega corps, republican think tanks, etc)
Then there’s safer stuff like protests. There’s the really safe ones where you just go and march. Those have use, but are kind of limited and won’t fix things on their own. You can also do disruptive protests, but you have to be quick and smart, or you have a high risk of going to jail (or worse).
Radicalizing your friends also can be planting seeds. Maybe those will grow.
You could run for office, but that’s slow and expensive.
There’s probably other stuff, too, but I’m running out of steam here.
I read the “ww2 sabotage manual” - i forget exactly what it was called. I do remember it feeling incredibly outdated and not geared toward our current situation though. It seemed to mostly be meant for factory workers who could potentially sabotage production.
Considering he was just one guy with a gun, he actually accomplished a hell of a lot. The fallout from that was that a lot of CEOs became scared, not only that – insurance companies all over the country started processing claims that they wouldn’t have been processing. That seems pretty fucking effective when you consider how small scale his action was. Now if we had a thousand Luigi’s, we’d really be getting somewhere.
You know it’s been almost a year since the shooting of Brian Thompson and not only have I never seen any evidence of claim denial rates reversing after intentionally searching for it, and the UHC doubled down on their creed by publicly denouncing any and all pro-luigi protests on many occasions, but also tens of millions of people have had coverage delayed or permanently taken away after the GOP gutted medicaid.
So I’m gonna double down and say Luigi Mangione missed by at least a few miles.
Well, there’s the extreme end of things that moderators don’t like posts about People love Luigi, though. But I understand not wanting to throw one’s life away, even if success pushed the entire world onto a better trajectory.
There’s also that low grade sabotage stuff that gets talked about. I think people were posting the ww2 sabotage manual a couple months ago. Stuff like have excessive meetings, make plausible mistakes to gum things up, that kind of stuff. This works better if you’re closer to a source of the problems (eg: ICE, mega corps, republican think tanks, etc)
Then there’s safer stuff like protests. There’s the really safe ones where you just go and march. Those have use, but are kind of limited and won’t fix things on their own. You can also do disruptive protests, but you have to be quick and smart, or you have a high risk of going to jail (or worse).
Radicalizing your friends also can be planting seeds. Maybe those will grow.
You could run for office, but that’s slow and expensive.
There’s probably other stuff, too, but I’m running out of steam here.
everyone wants someone else to be Gavrilo Princip
Princip was an ultra-nationalist idiot. We have too many of those already.
I read the “ww2 sabotage manual” - i forget exactly what it was called. I do remember it feeling incredibly outdated and not geared toward our current situation though. It seemed to mostly be meant for factory workers who could potentially sabotage production.
Luigi accomplished fuck all to kill some replaceable businessman.
Considering he was just one guy with a gun, he actually accomplished a hell of a lot. The fallout from that was that a lot of CEOs became scared, not only that – insurance companies all over the country started processing claims that they wouldn’t have been processing. That seems pretty fucking effective when you consider how small scale his action was. Now if we had a thousand Luigi’s, we’d really be getting somewhere.
You know it’s been almost a year since the shooting of Brian Thompson and not only have I never seen any evidence of claim denial rates reversing after intentionally searching for it, and the UHC doubled down on their creed by publicly denouncing any and all pro-luigi protests on many occasions, but also tens of millions of people have had coverage delayed or permanently taken away after the GOP gutted medicaid.
So I’m gonna double down and say Luigi Mangione missed by at least a few miles.
He got people talking, which is worth something.
Talking about doing fuck all?