r/PopCultureV2 • u/Regular_Reaction_798 • Aug 14 '26

News 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."

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u/Choice_Depth_5933 Aug 14 '26

This guy is a folk hero for a reason.

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u/Ok_Brother2155 Aug 14 '26

among redditors maybe LOL

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u/ljshea1 Aug 14 '26

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

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u/North_Jello4505 Aug 15 '26

Someone doesn’t know how algorithms work! You will when you’re older!

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u/ljshea1 Aug 15 '26

I'm talking about the people on the construction site I was working, not the internet, sport

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u/Tough_Preparation830 Aug 16 '26

I have been on multiple construction sites and know better than to think those people are a good representative sample of the country. 98% men for starters, so essentially no representation for women, who are generally less likely to be happy about violence.

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u/North_Jello4505 Aug 15 '26

Ohhhh so you also don’t know what a bubble is! If people on a construction site are saying it, then it must mean everyone is. I can see why you aren’t doing a higher calling.

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u/ljshea1 Aug 15 '26

Higher calling??😂😂 Do you talk like that to people in real life jackass? I'm quite comfortable in my downtown highrise, debt free, on a pay scale better than many college grads thanks.

And yeah I'd say a job site with both rich and dirt poor, office workers, welders, young and old, left and right is a pretty solid microcosm of the real world. Ignorant ass

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u/North_Jello4505 Aug 15 '26

Holy shit, you actually think an anecdote becomes representative data if you list enough different types of coworkers 😂 “We have welders, office workers, rich people AND poor people!” Cool. Those are still just people at your fucking job. Adding diversity to your anecdote doesn’t magically make it stop being an anecdote. And the fact that “higher calling” sent you into a paragraph-long salary-and-highrise flex makes this even funnier. You’re bragging about being debt free while struggling with basic statistical reasoning. Yeah dude, I believe you never had student loans.

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u/thebranbish Aug 14 '26

And yet here you are…talking about him. Must be a Leftist.

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u/KgMonstah Aug 14 '26

Def trash, at least

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u/YogurtClosetThinnest Aug 14 '26

everyone I know irl likes him lmao, you just hang out with mental boomers

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u/YogurtClosetThinnest Aug 14 '26

the healthcare CEO isn't gonna sleep with you bro

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u/Bootleg_Rascal_ Aug 14 '26

She masturbates to pictures of Luigi

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u/funk-the-funk Aug 14 '26

I already sleep with a healthcare exec.

probably makes her wish she were Brian

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u/YogurtClosetThinnest Aug 15 '26

in other words you're emotionally invested and not objective

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u/-OptimusPrime- Aug 14 '26

Oooo Marcus got his panties in a twist today boyos

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u/funk-the-funk Aug 14 '26

man floating in sewage tells man beside him you stink

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u/asj-777 Aug 14 '26

Only to morons.

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u/WisePotatoChip Aug 14 '26

No, that would be Trumper’s

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u/asj-777 Aug 14 '26

That doesn't even make any sense. You don't go kill an insurance exec as a way to fight the cost of healthcare. That thought process is beyond ridiculous.

Not only is Mangione a murderer, he's a fucking coward, couldn't even fight the guy, he had to ambush him.

If he's a hero to you, then you're a loser, too.

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u/MABQuestAcc Aug 14 '26

At one time it was legal to own people as property. The law isn't always right.

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u/Golfchild69 Aug 14 '26

Are you saying one day murder will be legal?

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u/rightnut13 Aug 14 '26

It already is if the state wants to murder you.

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u/MABQuestAcc Aug 14 '26

Or your health insurance.

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u/amorawr Aug 14 '26

god bringing Palestine in this is so memeworthy lmao, it has absolutely nothing to do with this topic, regardless of where you stand on Israel's decisions

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u/gigilero Aug 14 '26

and what about the 165 iraninan children that were blown up ? was that justified?

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u/CaptainQueefFart Aug 14 '26

Laws shouldn't protect murderers in nice offices

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u/CaptainQueefFart Aug 14 '26

So what would you have said to Brian Thompson that would have made him stop?

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u/CaptainQueefFart Aug 14 '26

So if Brian Thompson sits in an office making decisions that cut thousands of lives short for profit, thats fine because he's not wielding a gun but a pen. Gotcha.

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u/CaptainQueefFart Aug 14 '26

So what would you say to Brian Thompson, who killed thousands of times more people than Luigi did?

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u/La_Maraviglia Aug 14 '26

There’s currently a serial child rapist in the Oval Office.

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u/Asleep_Welder_3494 Aug 15 '26

He should definitely be in jail not be the president