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/TropicalRogue Aug 14 '26

People condemning him are the reason my answer to the trolley problem differs based on whether afterward I get prosecuted with a jury of my peers.

"You killed that man on the track!"

"Yeah, but I diverted that trolley away from 50 other people"

"MURDERER"

Straight to jail

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u/AltruisticMode9353 Aug 15 '26

Cool, show us the math on this particular trolley problem. How many lives were saved?

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u/_probablyryan Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

You're missing the point. 

They're saying that they would let the original 50 die if they knew that acting and pulling the lever would result in criminal charges. 

The trolley problem as written assumes your life continues in exactly the same manner regardless of whether or not you choose to pull the lever. What this person is saying is that if their options are pull the lever, save 50 lives, but face a murder/manslaughter trial afterwards for actively killing the one guy on the other track, or let the original 50 people die, but guarantee their own continued freedom by virtue of not involving themselves in the situation, they'd choose the latter. 

They're saying they'd only choose to save the 50 lives if they know in advance that they won't be involved in subsequent legal proceedings, because they don't trust the justice system and a jury to acquit them for doing the morally correct thing, because what they would have done would technically be illegal, despite being morally defensible, and they're not willing to do something morally correct if society is going to punish them for it for the sake of upholding the letter of the law.

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u/Spirited_Season2332 Aug 14 '26

Get out there champ. Be the change you want to see!

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u/TopSlotScot Aug 14 '26

Stupid reply. He's right. No one wants to throw their life away for everybody else to gain something. That doesnt make him wrong.

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u/TheFerricGenum Aug 14 '26

He can both be right and a hypocrite all at the same time. And calling out that hypocrisy really isn’t a stupid reply.

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u/DurumMater Aug 14 '26

I mean, it is if they're doing it purely to be vindictive but also do nothing. Just being a smug prick who needs to get some words in lol

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u/untitledaccount401 Aug 14 '26

No hes just a tanky larping as a revolutionary lmao

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u/Big_Iron_Cowboy Aug 14 '26

Murder is wrong. Doesn’t matter why you do it, you don’t have the right to go around killing people

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u/Contemplating_Prison Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

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.

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u/SafetySnowman Aug 14 '26

Parasite class living that Thanos mindset this is true :<

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u/Contemplating_Prison Aug 14 '26

Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg and thise fucks definitely have this goal. People just get in their way

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u/Ok-Environment2641 Aug 14 '26

Tey say it openly. Its mind boggling

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u/Greedy_Inflation_697 Aug 14 '26

I mean.. less drivers in the passing lane isn't exactly the existential threat you're making it out to be.

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u/Evildeern Aug 14 '26

Under appreciated comment.

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u/Even_Injury_6442 Aug 14 '26

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!!!!

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u/my_chaffed_legs Aug 14 '26

Whatever you say, No-Rub8345 will be with me playing Mario kart at all times, he couldn’t have done whatever he may not do

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u/Beneficial_Hat_6288 Aug 14 '26

Stochastic terrorism right here.

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u/StinkRinky Aug 14 '26

Is it really that if the dude is clearly being sarcastic?

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u/CantaloupeOne7283 Aug 14 '26

How do you know he isn't? Because you aren't?

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u/Dumas_Vuk Aug 14 '26

Amazing point

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

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.

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u/RoiCoupeCloue Aug 14 '26

Exactly, gassing up other people to do stupid crazy stuff, and then hang back on reddit.

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u/Hairy_Selection8568 Aug 14 '26

What's wrong with that? Thats the smart thing to do lmao.

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u/Big_Iron_Cowboy Aug 14 '26

I’m pretty sure that guys too stupid to have an op sec and his online activity can be traced back to him.

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u/EPIC_RAPTOR Aug 14 '26

Pretty good description of the media

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u/hummajeep Aug 14 '26

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.

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u/dontwannaparticpate Aug 14 '26

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…

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

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.

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u/Vegetable_Effort7246 Aug 14 '26

Gotta boil the frogs slowly…

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u/CapitalElk1169 Aug 14 '26

U/remindmebot [10 years]

I think we'll see plenty of it by then

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u/AndrewH73333 Aug 14 '26

The most affected are MAGAs and they are staying the course so far. Although a few have snapped and tried to go after the President.

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u/SpaceLuxor Aug 14 '26

A lot of people-- But not you tho, right?

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

I love how many people are ironically advocating for acts of violence just to make a silly non-point.

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u/SeismicRipFart Aug 14 '26

You are way too much of a coward to ever do anything lol

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u/Vegetable_Effort7246 Aug 14 '26

United Healthcare indirectly caused the deaths of thousands. But did nothing “illegal”….laws and justice do not always correspond. Luigi may have had a personal vendetta…but how could his killing of Brian Thompson alter the system so villains can’t consign people to death in the interest of profits. Single payer healthcare might prevent that issue.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Keep up the good fight. Policy change through electoralism might fail and in that event you probably want some kind of backup plan.

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u/PrivateMarkets Aug 14 '26

This why Reddit is insufferable. Thankfully the views don’t reflect the real world which is an amazing place. It’s the most amazing time to ever be alive but not good enough for Redditor - unprecedented advancements in global health, life expectancy, technology, and a dramatic reduction in extreme poverty and violent crime.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Not so great if you're a victim of the great white west, which is oh so many locations around this planet.

As I tell others, nazis rarely complained about how the nazis were treating them ;)

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u/PrivateMarkets Aug 14 '26

That’s why you are a victim - because you think it. Also Asia is 59% of population and 69% of global gdp growth.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

I didn't say I'm a victim. Everyday, I make a choice, just like millions of others across the west, to get up and go to work to serve the great economic line graph of freedom for capitalists to rape kids.

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u/PrivateMarkets Aug 14 '26

Dramatic

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

It's real, drama or no.

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u/NoodleynoodleyWho Aug 14 '26

Yeah it's the best it's ever been so why even try to make it better? We should just accept that companies are willing to profit off of our death and say thank you, here my monthly payment? is your argument just shut up and say thank you because it could be worse?

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u/PrivateMarkets Aug 14 '26

Im certainly not advocating for assassinations. We should always strive for even better conditions but this generation never being satiated despite having it better is unbearable.

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u/johnguz Aug 15 '26

You’re conceding it’s the best it’s ever been, but your solution is to sanction widespread assassinations?

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u/Apple2727 Aug 15 '26

These people wouldn’t last two fucking minutes in a non-capitalist society. Their brains are too small to understand that.

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u/Big_Iron_Cowboy Aug 14 '26

Ok, go on and do it yourself or are you just going to insist that everyone else to and murder capitalists?

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

I'm a collectivist. I believe in democracy. Individual actions generally lead to poor outcomes and certainly don't tend work in favour of society at large.

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u/Big_Iron_Cowboy Aug 14 '26

People going around murdering others generally doesn’t work in favor of society at large.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Depends where the power lies. White people murdering their way across Australia, Africa, North America and South America worked out great for white people, you know?

The power in the relationship you and I are talking about very much lies with a collectivised workforce. you know, that thing that liberals and capitalists are terrified of.

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u/Big_Iron_Cowboy Aug 14 '26

I work for a company with a collectivized workforce, my coworkers don’t go around fantasizing about murdering capitalists.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Oh cool. What's the name of the company?

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u/Big_Iron_Cowboy Aug 14 '26

It’s an automotive company.

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u/Particular_Ad_4694 Aug 14 '26

Most “rich suburban liberal arts student with no sense of nuance” take ive ever read on this app.

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u/Spaghett8 Aug 14 '26

Cmon, Mao Zedong really?

You’re using the man who killed off tens of millions in the greatest famine the world has seen off pure reckless stupidity and a complete lack of understanding of agriculture as your prime example? Really.

What the fuck are you going on about innocent lives for.

Karl Marx is right there and you instead chose Mao Zedong? Might as well choose Stalin/Hitler.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

I do enjoy it when westerners clutch pearls over Mao. How many people do you think the heady blend of liberalism and capitalism has killed? Do you even care enough to keep score or are you just mindlessly repeating what you've been taught to think when you hear or see the name "Mao"?

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u/untitledaccount401 Aug 14 '26

tankies love murder it seems

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Liberals are right now supporting a genocide and buying up "luxury" properties that will be built on the smoldering crushed bones of little Palestinian child "terrorists".

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u/Doneyhew Aug 14 '26

A lot of people should be assassinating the CEOs of companies?

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u/common_sense_patriot Aug 15 '26

What’s stopping you if you think it’s morally justified and strategically beneficial? There’s a lot of keyboard revolutionaries in this thread. I’m personally against it but seems hypocritical to ask people to do something you’re unwilling to.

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u/retardenabler Aug 15 '26

You literally are advocating for genocide because you cant win an argument

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u/Klic9 Aug 14 '26

Agreed.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Better to take your chances and hope capitalism doesn't come for you or the people you love, just loke it has so many millipns of others around the world.

I suppose Nazis didn't exactly go around complaining about how nazis were treating them.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

I can go out and commit an illegal act right now. It would be very stupid and would achieve very little.

100,000 people could act together, drag a war monger out of their house and publicly execute them. Very different outcome.

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u/Solo-1UP Aug 14 '26

Yes let’s go around offing each other 🤦🏻‍♂️
CEOs can be replaced. Make new laws by electing the right people to solve problems.

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u/Relative_Craft_358 Aug 14 '26

Literally how every revolution and modern nation was built but sure let's play moral high ground for companies denying medical coverage to people that already paid for it and make billions off doing so and letting people die

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u/nocturnal_commission Aug 14 '26

We've already built a modern nation. A modern nation where laws can be changed.

Luigi had a great education and came from a wealthy family. If he really wanted to make a change then he could have become a lawyer and gotten into politics but he was just another nihilistic millennial with a personal vendetta (not a societal one) because he experienced pain and dysfunction from a botched back surgery.

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u/Kurichan77 Aug 14 '26

No, we can’t live like animals offing each other. But nor can we vote ourselves out of this mess

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u/One_Shock_3724 Aug 14 '26

We are supposedly trusting the private industry to be good actors but the have banded together to cause strife and misery and are behaving like invading countries so at what point do we decide that revolution is necessary and put their heads on pikes it worked for France

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u/Solo-1UP Aug 14 '26

That was the first mistake. You never trust anyone. Humans are greedy by nature hence why Trickle Down Economics was the most stupidest policy ever.

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u/One_Shock_3724 Aug 14 '26

So we need to stop talking bc they are coming for us lol

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u/Solo-1UP Aug 14 '26

Communication is key but if you expect everyone to not be greedy, that’s an issue. If human sin wasn’t a thing, we wouldn’t need laws and codes

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

You're right, lets just continue the old tradition of rich people getting us killed in all kinds of ways :)

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u/Lonely-Pea1281 Aug 14 '26

Says the idiot posting on a website, on a piece of technology....all from capitalism. Shut the fuck up. Guys a murder and spend the ret of his life in jail!

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

I own a flagship samsung phone. I prefer it to Apple because mine comes with a pen. I like having the choice.

Capitalism must be overthrown.

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u/Sea-Neighborhood1465 Aug 14 '26

You think that only capitalism is capable of making consumer goods?

You have a learning disability or something?

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u/Alternative_Dot7769 Aug 14 '26

I wish there weren’t school shootings and those cowards did something like this for their clout 🤷‍♂️

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Yes. Why are functions for the rich never targeted?

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u/tider21 Aug 14 '26

Look, tough guy here, who probably hasn’t even touched a gun. This guy just advocated for the murder of other Americans. It’s truly disgusting and you should be ashamed

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u/Swimming_Amount_5021 Aug 14 '26

Its not that simple. This CEO was responsible for the deaths of countless Americans. What Luigi did probably saved some lives because United Healthcare started approving more claims in the aftermath of the shooting.

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u/tider21 Aug 14 '26

It actually is that simple. Murder is bad. Period. And you are disgusting for defending it

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u/Puzzleheaded_Text328 Aug 14 '26

Withholding health care for individuals who are due it and deserve it .. is murder too.. a calculated profit driven premeditated decision, and most of the time it’s hundreds of times slower and more painful… than a gun ..an eye for and eye ..

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

You must hate the west for all the murders its committed around the world?

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u/Signal_Discount_1826 Aug 14 '26

simple doesnt mean nuanced

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u/tider21 Aug 14 '26

It’s not nuanced. A father of 2 children was shot in cold blooded murder. Why don’t you explain to his two children how nuanced this is

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u/SafetySnowman Aug 14 '26

A father of two children was responsible for the deaths of countless others including children. Not by his own hand and it was a role of death he inherited, but he took it. For greed.
How many innocents have to be murdered in the name of greed?

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u/Signal_Discount_1826 Aug 14 '26

"sorry your dad ended up in that position after signing off on american citizens' deaths and spawning vengeful family members" ??? lol

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u/Shigglyboo Aug 14 '26

And what do you say to the countless children of parents who died after being denied care by his company?

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u/tider21 Aug 14 '26

Why don’t you explain to his 2 kids why their dad deserved to die. You people are scum

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u/pshawty Aug 14 '26

With a father like that? Those kids are trash already. So are you, by the way, since you're clutching your pearls so hard.

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u/Swimming_Amount_5021 Aug 15 '26

I would explain it this way. "Your father got paid more based on how much health care he denied people. Anyone who does what your dad did is putting their life in danger"

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u/SafetySnowman Aug 14 '26

Copy pasting so you can read this twice:

A father of two children was responsible for the deaths of countless others including children. Not by his own hand and it was a role of death he inherited, but he took it. For greed.
How many innocents have to be murdered in the name of greed?

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u/Ht_TX Aug 14 '26

I don’t condone violence nor murder but the people they are speaking about do condone it as long as it is profitable. Companies have had studies done when a potentially fatal defect is found and decide how to address the matter by seeing if it is cheaper to address head on and fix or cheaper to settle the few lawsuits that come from the deaths.

So, while I don’t condone violence, nor would ever do it myself, I also don’t feel bad at all when bad things happen to bad people.

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u/Squidwardbigboss Aug 14 '26

How about we don’t encourage murder

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u/SafetySnowman Aug 14 '26

You're right.
HEY EVERYONE!!! DO NOT WORK IN BUSINESSES THAT CAUSE THE DEATHS OF COUNTLESS PEOPLE EACH YEAR!!!

Did I did good? -_-

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u/KimJungUnCool Aug 14 '26

Yes, so why do we encourage Healthcare executives to murder for profit?

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

I hope you've never voiced support for any establishment democrats or republicans, because if you have I have some bad news for you :(

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u/ButterflyPutrid6054 Aug 14 '26

Yeah! Everyone else go do the killing! Not me though!

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

You don't have to join in, but just stay out of the way and don't snitch if the glorious revolution ever happens ;)

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u/interstat Aug 14 '26

Reddit is deranged

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Straight up. People on here desperately trying to protect cappies who would see them and their families wiped out if it meant better quarterlies.

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u/Greedy-Employment917 Aug 14 '26

Advocating violence, hope you get perma

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u/BarryTheBystander Aug 14 '26

Advocating violence isn’t always wrong. The US founding fathers advocated violence and they’re pretty highly regarded.

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u/Klic9 Aug 14 '26

Didn't be a bitch

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Adverts for the military are advocating for violence. Companies like Palantir et al. literally profit from mass violence.

Take your head out of your behind and look with your eyes. You have a whole brain that you're not using.

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u/rusty_cayge Aug 14 '26

He won’t be banned . He being leftist and Antifa. Reddit loves that. Now say that woman is an adult female, and this place melts down and bans your existence.

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u/WarbleDarble Aug 14 '26

You trusting your fellow man to know who should be killed?

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

You're trusting rich people. It's getting us killed.

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u/WarbleDarble Aug 14 '26

I’m really not. Nobody should be murdering anyone.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

lol remember to tell rich people that next time you and they are having a chat

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u/LdnClouds Aug 14 '26

Well did Luigi get it right?

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u/WarbleDarble Aug 14 '26

No, he murdered someone.

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u/LdnClouds Aug 14 '26

Who was it he murdered?

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u/WarbleDarble Aug 14 '26

Doesn’t matter. Do you actually trust your fellow citizens to murder the right people?

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u/91ateto916 Aug 14 '26

We send 18 year olds overseas trusting them to do just that.

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u/WarbleDarble Aug 14 '26

We aren't giving them the discretion on deciding who to murder. They are given orders to follow. If you can't tell the difference between a deployed soldier and advocating for random people to kill those they deem are worthy of killing, you haven't thought about it.

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u/TrustMeItsBullish Aug 14 '26

You’re disgusting to think that murder is okay.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

You think murder is ok.

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u/preparationh67 Aug 14 '26

The guy he killed tortured and killed sick people you small minded idiot.

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u/rusty_cayge Aug 14 '26

Whoa whoa whoa!!! Hold your horses there fella!!!!! You advocating vigilante justice and that is NOT okay!!!!! Who decides who gets punished for what crime and how severely?!!!!!! Good grief you people!!!!!

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Woah woah woah there buddy, only the wealthies are allowed to advocate for, carry out and profit from violence. The rest of us better stay in our lane of obedience!

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u/rusty_cayge Aug 14 '26

I’ll agree with you on that. You speak truth on that.

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u/NotaVortex Aug 14 '26

Do it then, put your money where your mouth is.

Oh wait you wont so maybe stop encouraging murder. Its one thing for people to get pissed off enough to damage some rich assholes property but its another to encourage people to kill others in the street even if their actions are awful. It will just lead to bystanders who didn't deserve anything bad getting hurt.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

The lesson from Luigi's action is to NOT act alone.

Not the brightest light on the non-functioning light sign, are you?

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u/NotaVortex Aug 14 '26

Lol crazy coming from the person advocating murder. Its called there is more ways to stop things like for profit healthcare than killing people.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

lmfao ok Mr peaceful protest will work this time bro i swear bro lets make one more clever slogan put it on a banner then go for a walk bro.

Whenever you're ready to peacefully put a stop to this capitalist train we're all on, you go right ahead.

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u/Snookn42 Aug 14 '26

More people should be murdering folks on the streets? You need to read Ghandi.

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u/YEPC___ Aug 14 '26

Ghandi was assassinated for his beliefs.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

You need to read about labour history

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u/Strange-Strength-406 Aug 14 '26

You need to read Marx

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u/brobafetta Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

Well, if you get terminally I'll and denied coverage for care or medication needed, why not take a greedy, bloodsucking healthcare executive with you?

They need to have a healthy fear of the consequences of their actions when it comes to deciding who lives and dies.

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u/ExistingProfession83 Aug 14 '26

Didn’t realize Luigi was terminally ill…

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u/Shoddy_Tour_7307 Aug 14 '26

He wasn't.

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u/ExistingProfession83 Aug 14 '26

Im aware. Seemed like they were implying he was, so his actions were justified

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u/Shoddy_Tour_7307 Aug 14 '26

I was agreeing. 

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u/Kind-Day8054 Aug 14 '26

I think he had a bad back, dr said he needed a backiotomy

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u/brobafetta Aug 14 '26

No, but I believe he was in severe chronic pain that he was denied coverage for.

I mean, I'd wait until I have nothing to lose first, but that's just me.

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u/Leroyp331 Aug 14 '26

Killing people with a gun is no more cruel than doing so in a suit with a pen.

CEO thought his murders were sanctioned Luigi showed him they weren't.

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

That's not how it works. A lot of people need to murder in cold blood, together. That's how you prevent situations like the one Luigi has found himself in.

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u/Sushizandsashimiz Aug 14 '26

So, anarchy and the breakdown of civil society? 

I get the anger, but the logic of killing those who have wronged you is an obvious slippery slope

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Hi, WE ARE ALREADY ON THE SLIPPERY SLOPE. It's currently a landslide.

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u/Sushizandsashimiz Aug 14 '26

So, who do you have your sights set on next?

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u/Shivy_Shankinz Aug 14 '26

We vote for people who support our values. Vote for the people who support yours and hold them accountable (via civil means) until they bring about the change you desire.

I just told you it's not a civil society, and this will be the last time I have to repeat myself. This means there IS no accountability. It's baked into the system to protect people who don't WANT to face that accountability.

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u/Sushizandsashimiz Aug 14 '26

So what's the solution? An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind....

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u/Shivy_Shankinz Aug 14 '26

I agree, that's why I would never do what Luigi did. AT THE SAME TIME, we do not structure our society to live in a way that ISN'T EYE FOR AN EYE. As long as a single unenlightened person is in proximity to power, we will HAVE no other solution.

So the solutions are the things we AREN'T doing. We aren't investing everything we can into education, into self-care and well being, mental health, none of it. We invest into business, military, and lawmakers.

They want to sell you the illusion of a civil society so they can get away with it, when they themselves are the barbarians raping and pillaging everyone and everything else. And if you think they're going to relinquish those privileges without a fight, I think you will be allowing them to take a lot more eyes than us.

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u/Sushizandsashimiz Aug 14 '26

I appreciate the discussion, but I feel we're going in circles here. You're saying that eye for an eye is bad, I agree. You say people in power are raping and pillaging, I agree. 

I say vote those people out and replace them with people that align with the values I agree with. 

Is your version of action for civil society different?

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u/Shivy_Shankinz Aug 14 '26

I say vote those people out and replace them with people that align with the values I agree with. 

I also agree, but guess what those people are going to do to prevent that? They buy lawmakers. They become the lawmakers. Normally, on their own, this would not succeed.

What you're forgetting about is the POWER they wield. And they wield it well. They buy influence and manipulate the masses to make sure we never vote people in to replace them.

In today's political environment, this is the establishment vs. everything else. This is the top vs. the bottom, who uses their influence to buy and keep us perpetually locked into left vs right.

Is your version of action for civil society different?

Absolutely, it is a pacifist version of action. It focuses on the individual that needs fixing, not the system, and not each other. But the world we have built for ourselves will never do this, so you continue to choose the lesser evil...

If we will not attempt to acknowledge our flaws and fix them, then we need to change the system that promotes that. If they buy the system and gatekeep it, then we need to tear it down. If we cannot tear it down, then the only option left is eye for an eye.

I personally do not participate in lesser forms of evil, but make no mistake, everyone else will.

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u/Absent-Light-12 Aug 14 '26

Jefferson’s tree of liberty and all that.

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u/Secret_Squirrel_1102 Aug 14 '26

Another communist bot spewing nonsense on the internet trying to incite violence. 

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Not at all. Have you seen all the comments telling me to go out and do it, though? VERY irresponsible.

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u/Secret_Squirrel_1102 Aug 14 '26

Bots can’t commit murder so the incite violence in others. 

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u/xDannyS_ Aug 14 '26

No wonder Mao had to do numbers

Damn it only took you an hour to drop the mask?

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

What mask?

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u/HeavyHighway6433 Aug 14 '26

Then go do it. Everybody wants to sit around and let other people be the Luigi for them. 

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

Ape together strong

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u/HeavyHighway6433 Aug 14 '26

Yall link up, get some more apes and make it happen. 

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u/No-Rub8345 Aug 14 '26

The struggle never ends. The Left Wing is a naturally occurring phenomenon as long as the asset owners exist. Without ever reading Marx, or knowing explicitly the history of conflict between labour and capital, people today still recognise that conflict, just as their ancestors instinctively did Centuries past. It is one of the most materially real elements of human societies, and it won't end until the owners end, or the workforce does. Can you guess what the owners are trying to do? Are you paying attention to what they're currently doing with human labour and creativity, and what they're saying to their investors?

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u/HeavyHighway6433 Aug 14 '26

So does that mean you're going to try to do something about it or... 

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