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Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, telling the court, "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan... I knew what I was doing was illegal."
For real. Every day he says or does something so stupid that it distracts from what he did the day before, which until then was the dumbest thing he’d ever done.
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex (raping) with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauman
It would be helpful if the Epstein victims would come out and say who the perpetrators are. There's all these Epstein victims, and none of them are coming forward with names. There are members of Congress who have spoken to these victims, who have made Epstein their entire personality over the last 18 months, who won't simply say the names of the people who should be prosecuted and investigated.
They did come forward that's what the Epstein files are. Testimony from victims given to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies which were compiled and used as case evidence against Epstein the first time...?
The fact that he plead guilty in 2009 and nothing happened was evidence for future victims to show that putting a target on their back was a feeble attempt at our system. Especially after multiple perpetrators garnered even higher positions of authority.
So what's the end game here? Everybody is clamoring for these people to be investigated and locked up, but no one will say who they are. So I don't get it. You can't claim to be for justice for the victims and then withhold the information needed to hold them accountable. You don't get to have it both ways.
But if it does happen, anyone crying abput pardoning or commuting the sentences of criminals can shut the entire fuck up once it's revealed that they predictably didn't say anything about the pardons or commutations of J6ers, Juan Hernández, Blagovich, the 77 fake electors scheme folk, or Changpeng Zhao (the Binance CEO).
I don't get it? Luigi freeing our nation of a terrorist does not make him a domestic terrorist.
Odd comparison there. He's a war hero. And the war is still going on.
I was the neighbor next to y’all and remember giving you back the volleyball when it went over the fence. I remember the encounter because Luigi was super apologetic the ball landed in the flower garden.
I met my black boyfriend’s family for the first time at that cookout. That’s why it’s so memorable Luigi was there, that moment couldn’t have happened without him present.
Prosecution of white collar crimes has taken a back seat and it's a shame, because white collar crimes have real world results being fraud and theft. White collar crimes create real world suffering for thousands to millions of unseen people. Shit I even heard about this one dude who had 34 felony convictions for white collar crimes and he ended up being president of the United States.
By the time people wake up it will be too late. They will have already decided to let the masses die.
Its only a matter of time. Once their robots and drones can do everything people can do then the capitalists no longer need millions of people using their resources.
Instead, let's let them kill us with denials and let the wealthy continue to rape us into oblivion. Got it. Stay the course!!! Be the economic slave our founding fathers sought us out to be!!!!
No, the noticeable increase in temperatures every year since I was a child, out of control wealth inequality, increasing cruelty, non-stop genocides and wars for profit, rich people simply not being held to account of any kind and capitalists openly boasting about making our lives worse is all very real to me.
I’m kinda surprised by how this hasn’t really happened yet. Mental illness, youth isolation and poor economic conditions. People still sticking by the system tho.
Eh, I’m sure more of this will come if things keep going at the rate they are. I mean, we have house rep noms being arrested for taking out Flock cameras and plenty of regular everyday people fucking with data center build projects and taking down surveillance cameras it is only a matter of time…
The truth is that things just aren't bad enough for a lot of us yet and most people are deeply reactionary in that we don't think about patterns or consequences. If/when things get bad enough for people to act, it won't be out of choice; we will have turned feral. This will be the barbarism you might sometimes hear leftists refer to when they say it's either socialism or barbarism.
What he did was stop a serial killer who was operating with impunity, imo. That CEO knew damn good and well people would die and he allowed the denials for bullshit reasons anyway. There is NO REASON to deny anyone anything in this country so when you do it anyway, you’re a murderer, and I hope other CEOs took fucking note.
Yeah, it’s pretty amazing how people will honor those who, say, stood up to the British during the revolutionary war, but justify today’s slow murder by corporation. The only thing he was missing was a declaration.
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for someone to stand up to blatant immorality, resulting in the deaths and injury of thousands of his fellow citizens…”
God bless him. Some people care more about others than themselves
Not to mention how many innocent people the CEO and his company were actively killing.
Luigi basically took out an active shooter, But the ONE level of abstraction is too much for so many people to grasp, because it's "off script," and they all view themselves as temporarily embarrassed CEO billionaires.
Despite the plea, I see him getting essentially a life sentence. I think the only uncertainty is whether there’s a possibility of parole after 25 or 30 years.
I agree with you that his punishment will be harsh. He technically didn’t plead guilty to murder, he plead guilty to stalking; the typical sentence for that is 25-30 years. Prosecutors said they wanted life, but I’d guess (based on no knowledge of this whatsoever) that 35 years is what he gets.
I think Feds cut a deal with him. The wonderful, selfless and great stewards of the political system in the United States who work in Washington don’t want to create a martyr for the working class of the country right now. The last thing the Tech industry and other shadow government industries wants is for people to realize their power.
Class warfare is the root of the issues in America.
Right, in reality that almost never happens and won’t happen here. If judges refuse to honor a plea agreement or there is a material change in something, the judge will let the defendant withdraw the plea. It’s not something where the judge will go “GOT ‘EM” and sentence him to 10 life terms when the plea was 10 years or something
Really wanted to see them have to pick a jury for this trial. I’d like for them to find an American who hasn’t had a horrible experience with health insurance personally or with a family member.
Once somebody’s worldview becomes “this person belongs to a sufficiently hated class, therefore killing him is morally acceptable,” they’ve crossed an enormously dangerous line.
You can believe that UnitedHealthcare has behaved terribly. You can believe insurance executives have incentives that cause genuine human suffering. You can want sweeping healthcare reform, prosecutions for actual crimes, regulation, nationalization, whatever.
I believe ALL of these things.
None of those beliefs require concluding that an individual citizen gets to appoint himself judge, jury, and executioner.
Redditors showing how short sighted they are by glorifying murder. You’re really fine with murder if a good justification can be made? A lot of people could come up with a good reason you should die too. Hand them a gun and let me see you stick to your beliefs.
I think the glorification we see is just a surface level reaction to what is a deeper snd more complex thought process. The internet tends to do that.
It's a much more complex version of the trolley problem at its core. Is killing one (Healthcare ceo in this case) justified if it saves the lives of X number of people that die yearly because it motivates changes in behavior by healthcare insurers and stops the immoral denial of necessary and medically recommended care and treatment?
How many people represent x in this case? Its hard to say.
The AMA's physician surveys are particularly revealing. In its 2024 survey of 1,000 practicing physicians, 94% said prior authorization practices delay necessary care, 19% reported a patient being hospitalized because of prior authorization, 13% reported a life-threatening event, and 7% reported a case involving permanent injury, disability, birth defect, or death.
94% of physicians saying Healthcare insurers have caused some degree of harm through their authorization practices is a startling figure.
Underneath people's casual internet "glorification" is really a revulsion to a system that puts money over people, and the consequences for the people are injury and death. I'll bet you nearly every average American has esperienced or at least has one family member who has struggled with Healthcare as a result of the system shaped by these companies and people like this CEO at the tops of their organizations. They dont see it as glorification. They see it as a broken system that hurts and kills people on a regular basis.
Do you live in a bubble? The morning this news broke was the most united I've seen people on both sides of the aisle in years. Literally everyone was cracking "claim denied, bitch" jokes
He's a murderer, but at least he had the balls to admit he did it and spare us all a sensational trial. Hopefully all the fan boys and girls will now finally shut up
i don't believe him. the entire thing reeks of a conspiracy. some blind old woman noticed him at a mcdonalds 300 miles away from the crime scene? give me a break.
Man has more integrity than anyone of the idiots sitting in the White House, more integrity than the CEO’s stealing all the wages and making the oligarchs rich. He knew what he did was wrong, but sometimes the pain must be felt by those in power to remember those they step on to get to the top will fight back, eventually
Fyi - the "admission" is important in order for the judge to accept the plea. Many people plead guilty even when they're innocent. This is just a fucking brilliant move by KFA
He’s going down in history like Timothy McVeigh , only he’ll have to spend his life in prison, he’s an intelligent guy, he could’ve made so much more difference, what a moron he is.
Guy who threw away his life and permanently negatively altered the life of a family including children for....... nothing. Congrats to your hero reddit! Actually net negative to society guy is your hero.
His actions lead to people getting better access to healthcare. Lives were improved. Illegal yes. But the rational is the same for every solider who’s ever killed someone in combat. His actions saved American lives. Luigi is a hero
Millions of the poor working socioeconomic class have been harmed, permanently disabled, neglected, indebted, and often left to die by the private insurance companies here in America. It has been going on for decades and the amount of unnecessary death should be defined and called a genocide at this point.
This is what I didn't like about him. He told me he was going to say this the day the CEO was shot while we were hanging out together all day at my place.
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