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Honoring the Shooting Victims Amid Twitter's Luigi Jokes

from Auctioning America, Ghislaine’s Makeover & Sydney Sweeney’s White Naturals |The Tim Dillon Show #456 · #456

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Tim reads the names of the shooting victims to honor them, criticizes people online celebrating a female Blackstone employee's death by comparing her to Luigi Mangione, and argues you can't celebrate violence against individuals just because you dislike their company.

In this bit8 moments
  • Tim attempts to honor shooting victims but notes the show never manages sincere moments.
  • He rejects the theory that the shooting was motivated by Blackstone's real estate investments.
  • You can't celebrate someone's death just because they worked for a company you dislike.
  • Tim explains his actual opposition to Blackstone as an institutional investor buying up houses.
  • Celebrating her death accomplishes nothing; Blackstone will simply replace her and continue as a machine.
  • Twitter users are calling the victim Luigi instead of using her name.
  • Tim confronts someone laughing at the Luigi jokes and calls it horrible and not nice.
  • He asks if the Luigi reference connects to Mario and Luigi video games, then mentions beating Super Mario Bros. Lost Levels at age 40.
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