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   ADHDean (adhdeanasl@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:11:30 JST ADHDean

   Every photo of Luigi Mangione I’ve seen since the perp walk has him surrounded by cops, even during hearings. They’re treating him like he’s Jason Bourne. That doesn’t happen. I’ve been in plenty of courtrooms where two deputies or jailers hustle ten or twelve inmates into the courtroom, then the officers take turns getting coffee.

   The gaggle of police around Mangione at the defense table are purely for intimidation and optics.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:13:23 JST iced depresso

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     @adhdeanasl he shot a rich dude, peasants have to know you're not to go after the control grid's majordomos
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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:44:36 JST Rich Felker

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     @adhdeanasl And the optics are the opposite of what they presumably want. 🙃

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     MDMRN (mdmrn@urusai.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:44:56 JST MDMRN

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     @adhdeanasl What I don't think they realize, though, is that it makes Mangione look like more of a martyr. Between the excessive guards and the fact that the man cannot take a bad picture, they are HELPING make him a folk hero.

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     Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:45:17 JST Artemis

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     @mdmrn @adhdeanasl
     I mean, having a host of armed guards obviously implies "danger"...and "danger" is very close to "badass" in a lot of people's minds.

     If the public weren't already inclined to view him sympathetically perhaps the optics would work out differently, but the defenders of the status quo treating him like the scariest villain to have ever lived will only ever improve his image.

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     Wendy Nather (wendynather@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:46:30 JST Wendy Nather

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     @adhdeanasl I suspect that they are trying to combat the perception that he’s an Everyman. Because if just anyone could go assassinate a CEO, maybe a lot more everyday people would.

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     Kevin (kevin@elephant.crime.group)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:46:30 JST Kevin

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     @wendynather @adhdeanasl what’s weird is I think that instead they make him out to be a hero. What people are comparing to is movies/tv, not reality: