mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I think it has less to do with appearances than the popularity of issues/people they choose to pursue with their actions.
Luigi off’ed sometime pretty much universally reviled across political spectrums. Probably a good 80% of people could sympathize at least a little with what Luigi did. Every adult has probably had extensive personal experience dealing with the dysfunction of our healthcare system. Brian Thompson is just the personification of that.
Tyler did a perfect one-shot with the most hilarious timing on someone that was loathed by ~50% of the country and liked by the other ~50%.
The two issues in which have a fairly wide gap in universal appeal.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Another big thing is the reasoning behind their actions.
Luigi, allegedly, did so in retaliation against a failed system that had exploited people and routinely denied people healthcare to save a buck, one that he is directly a victim of. That’s something we can all be sympathetic to.
The other is just a right wing troll who shot another right wing troll for not being the right kind of troll. Nobody’s gonna be sympathetic to that except other right wing trolls.
It has nothing to do with their looks.
Though there is a point to be made that people do need to overall stop insulting people, even horrible people, for their appearance. It just throws people under the bus to stroke our egos with a low-hanging-fruit insult. Because of those insults we get people like OP who fail to understand the point.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Hence, OP.