vonbaronhans

Was that from Bluesky or somewhere else?

I thought I read that Luigi actually claimed the manifest as his own, but searching around does not bear that out.

Best I can tell, neither the police nor the major media outlets released it in full after the arrest or shortly thereafter, but it was found and shared by this guy later: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

Long story short, I still have no clue about the authenticity. One recent headline says Luigi's legal team doesn't want it admissible as evidence for the trial, for what that's worth.

Lol. I can get behind that.

Did he not write a manifesto about why he did it? Or am I getting my info crossed?

I wish Democrats were willing to put in the same amount of endless, ceaseless planning and toiling and preparing so when an opportunity arises, you can snatch it up. Republicans did this with the Supreme Court, with religion in schools, etc etc etc. Last time Democrats had both Houses and the Presidency, we got barely anything (to my memory at least).

I wish Democrats had an ounce of Republicans' ability not just to shape narratives, but to conjure them from thin air and still dominate the news cycle.

I wish Democrats were as willing to bend to the extremists in their own party as the Republicans do. That's a real monkey's paw wish right there, but at the moment the extreme right is literal fascists and the extreme left just wants the cool quality of life stuff the Nordic countries already have.

Speaking personally... yeah we ARE divided here in the US. It kind of IS that bad. There are a lot of reasons for it, but in my mind the biggest thing is the legacy of slavery in this country. It's not a scar... it's still bleeding because bigots keep picking the scab. There's been so many knock on effects from it that have gone unexamined and unaddressed because there are enough bigots to be a stupid but effective voting block.