Luigi Mangione’s sweater sells out at Nordstrom one day after court appearance

Jesus christ guys, does it get more vapid than consumerism as revolt?

People are conditioned to their environment. It's like the far right assholes who hate the system but don't understand that the real enemy is the rich and instead think we need to attack government. Yes, that's bad too, but class warfare is the real answer while they suck off Musk for his "epic posts."

I'm relieved that some amount of awareness is blooming. We can hope that it continues to develop.
- The rich programmed you to accuse the far right like that.
- You’re not going to fight for class warfare if you enable a ruling class to exist above us as “government”.
  
  Rejection of the state is the first step to liberation, once the rich no longer have the system that perpetuates their wealth acquisition and physically defends them, they won’t last long.
I agree with what you're saying regarding consumerism, BUT...

I think it's way more important that people are showing support for Luigi. The elites can see this shit. If this is all we've got, I'll definitely take it. Just something to think about.
- Imagine being a CEO of a company and 5000 employees all show up wearing the same sweater. The odds are not in your favor, Chiefs.
It's actually interesting.

If anything that Luigi touches basically becomes gold it's going to lead to some very interesting behavior from people who want to capitalize on it, but if they do it'll betray the narrative that's being pushed. Which company is gonna be shamelessly greedy enough to break the line?

And if they do how will the government and other companies react? At the very least there's conflicting interests happening. I'm very curious about how it'll play out.
- Capitalism can commodify anything, even criticism of itself.
- You hear of rainbow capitalism? Meet Luigi capitalism in a couple months/years.
I don't think it's consumerism so much as a bit of fanaticism, and also something of a uniform.
I express my dissent with character socks. Today I am wearing spongebob with great irony.

How do people even find out this stuff? Is there a reddit post saying I FOUND HIS SWEATER or something? Same with the backpack.

Even here there were people that were talking about the exact backpacks details. If you own the same thing you'll recognize it.
- People were talking about the backpack a lot on the onebag subreddit.
  
  Then CEO managed to destroy his company's reputation by personally calling the tip line and offering to link the serial number to the person who ordered it.
- Yeah. That backpack kinda sucks.

“They are literally treating him like he is some sort of political fodder, like some sort of spectacle,” Agnifilo said. “He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest stage perp walk I’ve ever seen in my career, it was absolutely unnecessary. He’s been cooperative with law enforcement... There was no reason for the NYPD and everybody to have these big assault rifles.”

“It was perfectly choreographed, and what was the New York City Mayor doing at this press conference, your honor? That just made it utterly political,” she continued.

His lawyer seems to not be afraid to pull any punches, I like her.

Here I am wondering how people afford to shop at Nordstrom while also being annoyed by the consumerism bullshit that is a blight on us all.

I have one thing from there.

A company branded sweatshirt.

When I got hired they sent me the catalogue and said “pick something”, and I went “surely not, no, this is far too expensive for the one time I’ll wear it..” and they said “you need something for twice yearly meetings with the ceo, so just pick something.. ok?”

And so I got the absolute loudest (that I liked) multicolored zip front hoodie I could find and those bitches paid to have that shit embroidered with a logo nobody cares about or recognizes, and now I have a ridiculous sweatshirt that’s much higher quality than it deserves to be but cost THREE HUNDRED FUCKING FREEDOM DOLLARS, and thus occasionally gets worn even tho I don’t work there anymore.
- I felt the same way about having to buy a suit for my sister's wedding. The bridesmaids will be able to wear those dresses again they're nice dresses and they don't obviously scream wedding, but when am I going to wear the suit again?
- Holy shit. I can’t imagine being this upset to receive something for free. You must be fun at parties.
Are you saying that only poor people hate consumerism? Rejecting consumerism is an indirect way to gain wealth though frugality.
- Nope. I agree with you.
Homes, medical treatment, and financial stability are all a lot more expensive than bougie consumer products.

And while the average american can usually figure out how evil the oligarchy is, thinking through solutions and actions is a much bigger ask for the average american.
We don't have to solve every problem at all times. We are certainly allowed to narrow our focus here, from "everything that has ever sucked" to "enact universal healthcare now".

Let's keep our eyes on that ball.
They’re in debt.

This is a disaster for the CEOs. Homeboy is going to get ended if the jury finds him not guilty.

Find him not guilty, the world celebrates the jury that spared Luigi and he goes onto become a hero.

Find him guilty, the world shames the judge that killed Luigi and he goes onto become a martyr.

There's no winning for the corporate elite here
- The darker part of my psyche is a little giddy at the idea of CEOs shitting their boots cause there's a man on the loose in the world who is willing and able to murder them and that no one will ever convict him.
- I'm with him either way.
- Do you think there's a world where his pleading innocent, and his attorneys' arguments that someone else did it will affect his status as a folk hero? It seems like a fine line for him to tow, for him to minimize his sentence, but not negatively impact the message, and his status in bearing it.
  
  I want to see him do it, but that seems like the challenge of his position.
- unfortunately there always is, and it's almost always the same. wait for it to die down.
- The civil suits will destroy him even if he's found not guilty. He doesn't win either way either.
- I really can't see a scenario where the jury don't find him guilty. They really don't have a choice, they have to uphold the law as it is written. It is not within the remit of a trial to make new law.
  
  No matter the ethical considerations he did kill someone. The law is very clear that murder is not acceptable even if you personally think it's justifiable.

We are living in a simulation, truly.

That's certainly what tech bros believe, which is why so many of them think it's fine to fuck everyone else over. They're just NPCs after all. The simulation isn't about them.

Confirmed.

Capitalism working as intended.

Intended is the next part where they roll out a premium line called LM
- Then the scam cryptocurrency hits, what am I saying? that's probably already happened.
Eh, this is not on the stores selling that sweater, it's on the people buying it...
- They def-def shoulda swiped 'em.

Missed opportunity

I'm missing what the missed opportunity is. Enlighten me?
- look at the color name

In siding with the rich and powerful against somewhone who is objectively opposing the rich and powerful, NY's mayor is showing how much of a political battle the trial will be.

Holy wow, does he have a stylist in jail with him?

Lol

I am now imagining that the trial starts... The jury walks in... Each and every one in that same sweater...

I bet the entire court will start sweating bullets 😂

I am legitimately shocked they're gonna let him go to court. The risk of jury nullification is too high, and people are ready to give him romantic power. If he ended up dead in his cell from a toilet paper noose, that would be a warning to the plebes to get back in line.

that would be a warning to the plebes to ~~get back in line.~~ bloody their guillotines.

FTFY. He won't get so much as a hangnail awaiting trial.
What? You're shocked they gave him due process? What was the other option?

Oh I see, are you saying they should have killed him in jail or something?
- Are you saying that won't happen mysteriously in a few years time?
You mean when that happens. It's only a matter of time, unfortunately.
There is no way in hell it gets nullified
- No. But there's a non-zero chance greater than OJ Simpson had.

I think people are overestimating how much stock any chain has for a specific item at any given moment. It's really not that impressive that specific color of a specific sweater can sell out quickly because of a meme. This is just clickbait.

Typical capitalist tactic cashing in

We just need to convince these companies that murdering a horrible CEO is the best way to advertise!
- Bye bye AI CEOs.

They need to ban this sweater immediately.

no
They need to ban new York, that's where the alleged crime happened. People are still going there!