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  1. Mangione’s smiling image in the camera at the hostel made him look very attractive. Unhooded and ranting at the police station, not so much.

    At least one can understand, but not agree with, Booth’s murder of Lincoln. His “cause” lost, he looked to eliminate its enemy another way. Mangione’s murder of Thompson is just extremist craziness. In fact, reports say his newly-hired defense attorney may be planning to use an insanity defense.

  2. An insanity defense would have to be something like, “in accord with radical leftist thinking taught in all the best colleges….” Remember, those folks didn’t have much of a problem with the OCT 7 massacre.
    So if the defense could prove that Mangione was perfectly rational, knew his alphabet, could count from 100 backwards, and would have passed any competency exam on radical leftism in high-end colleges, would that be the same as proving insanity?

    As to looks, Booth was handsome–although wondering about him sans mustache and with short hair–but, as I said earlier, Mangione’s facial bone structure shows high-T, which the ev psych folks say has a strong impact on other people. Without necessarily being handsome in any normal sense.

    And then he goes and does a high-T thing.

  3. I would say that both Booth and Mangione were self righteous, egotistical idiots who imagined themselves to be heroes who might even herald revolutions. They both seem to have imagined that there would be massive popular support for their despicable actions. But despite some support from people on the Left, I don’t get the sense that a majority, or even a large minority of people agree with Mangione’s actions, thankfully.

  4. I watched a TikTok of a young woman rhapsodizing over Thompson’s assassination, while playing this in the background:
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    Do you hear the people sing?
    Singing a song of angry men?
    It is the music of a people
    Who will not be slaves again

    When the beating of your heart
    Echoes the beating of the drums
    There is a life about to start
    When tomorrow comes

    Will you join in our crusade?
    Who will be strong and stand with me?

    Beyond the barricade
    Is there a world you long to see?

    Then join in the fight
    That will give you the right to be free!

    –“Les Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q82twrdr0U

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    It’s powerful, stirring music. It is the soundtrack to the movie leftists imagine they are starring in.

  5. Booth was also the first star (I think), who had his hotel sheets stolen and cut up into little squares to be sold to his fans.

    @huxley,

    “Do You Hear The People Sing?” is indeed powerful, stirring music. “Les Miz” is one of Trump’s favorite musicals, and he likes using “Do You Hear The People Sing?” for a background soundtrack.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oePlXgQy5s

  6. Another strange thing: until this moment, I had no idea the assassination was only 5 days after the surrender.

  7. I just realized this, or maybe it’s just me, but Booth seems to have been used as the visual model for characters in westerns. to the point that he doesn’t seem particularly striking.

  8. Ignoring the disgusting aspects of the deeds, this post is a pretty interesting connection/comparison. I’ve often thought that one of the worst things that can happen to a girl or young women was to be born exceptionally beautiful &/or sexy. Naturally, the parenting and general upbringing is hugely influential too.

    I hadn’t really thought about the male converse. But, I also think that at least in the case of Mangione, his privilege and success in school is a factor too.

  9. Booth’s co-conspirator Lewis Powell lacked the charisma of the actor, and was thought by some to be dimwitted, but his photo made him a heart throb like Mangione and Tsarnaev. I’m not sure if he had much of a fan club in his lifetime, but the picture became an icon afterwards.

  10. I’ve run into Timothée Chalamet being called a “rat boy”. Don’t worry it’s a compliment, sort of.
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    Vermin have entered the crowded beauty lexicon to describe unconventionally attractive Hollywood actors with large ears, angular features and lanky frames.

    Dune actor Timothée Chalamet, Challengers leading men Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, along with The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White and Ferrari’s Adam Driver, have been tagged as “rats” and “hot rodent boyfriends” by supposed admirers.

    https://qoshe.com/the-sydney-morning-herald/damien-woolnough/timoth-e-chalamet-isn-t-a-rat-boy-and-neither-am-i/173747710
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    He didn’t work for me as the supreme warrior leader in “Dune” — he looked too much like a boy band singer.

    However, he was brilliant as a would-be student revolutionary in Wes Anderson’s parody of the New Yorker, “The French Dispatch.”

  11. “It’s powerful, stirring music. It is the soundtrack to the movie leftists imagine they are starring in.”
    Yes, precisely, or perhaps the on-line video game they continually play, in which the “star” (i.e., the viewer) gets to shoot the “bad guys” with total impunity, and never pays any lasting price for the mayhem perpetrated. Even if he is “killed” all that is necessary is to reboot and voila–back to life and more mayhem, ad nauseam. For the distaff among them, they get to fantasize about tossing 260 pound, muscular men like rag dolls and looking sexy at the same time. Never mind the real world where such confrontations are never going to end as well. For these self-imagined “revolutionaries,” reality seldom intrudes. Life is an extension of their imagination. Until it isn’t any more.

  12. I saw Timothée Chalamet on Theo Von’s podcast recently and he seems like a nice enough guy. As to whether he was right for playing Paul Atreides, he was decribed in the books as having an “oval face was like his mother Jessica’s, but he had stronger bones and a browline reminiscent of his maternal grandfather. He had a thin, disdainful nose, long lashes concealing lime-toned, directly staring green eyes, and a hardness in the expression like the old Duke, his paternal grandfather.” It seems to me Chalamet at least matches some of that pretty well.

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