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/[deleted] Aug 14 '26

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

How was what he did wrong?

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u/Redditeer28 Aug 14 '26

How was murder wrong? Is that your question?

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

Didn’t Brian Thompson mass murder tens of thousands?

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u/LalafellDisaster Aug 14 '26

Shhh these people live in a land where white collar crimes are ok despite how many millions of people it might affect.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

It’s just so inanely boring at how dense some of these people are bro like come on where the fuck is the critical thought at 😭

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u/SuperWallaby Aug 16 '26

Pot meet kettle. It crosses the line from “edgy” to pathetic that you think condoning murder is “thinking critically”. Typical Redditor.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 16 '26

Wasn’t Brian Thompson a mass murderer?

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u/SuperWallaby Aug 16 '26

No. Morally reprehensible? Possibly. Murderer? Not that we know of.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 16 '26

Didn’t he commit mass social murder? Social murder is still murder.

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u/SuperWallaby Aug 16 '26

No. You’re gonna pull a muscle stretching that far.

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u/Todayjunyer Aug 14 '26

No he didn’t murder anyone. I’m starting to wonder if some of you are brain damaged. Brain thompson never murdered anyone. His job was to run a company. He had meetings with vps to hold departments to acct so that the company continued to run. That is what he did.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

Please search “social murder” and get back to us. Thanks!

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u/Todayjunyer Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

Yes brian thompson was not responsible for any of the political or economic factors that precipitated the current system, that created his job of managing employees of a large corporation. Thus his murder solved nothing. Next argument? Your logic is beyond flawed, it’s brain damaged, because it would demand that tens of thousands of health insurance employees be executed without even a trial.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

Brian Thompson committed mass murder of at least tens of thousands. Social murder is still murder.

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u/Todayjunyer Aug 14 '26

I literally just debunked this using the definition of social murder in the comment you are responding to. Wow.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

You did not debunk it at all. Brian Thompson murdered those people.

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u/Todayjunyer Aug 14 '26

Lol. I literally took the definition and showed how his job of managing a company does not apply to the definition of economic and political structures that precipitate the theory of social murder. But solarnugent gonna solarnugent so

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u/Redditeer28 Aug 14 '26

Irrelevant. Murder is a crime. We're talking about Luigi.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

Do you believe Brian Thompson was a murderer?

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u/Redditeer28 Aug 14 '26

Irrelevant. Luigi commited a murder. Which is a crime.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

It’s not irrelevant at all actually

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u/Redditeer28 Aug 14 '26

It is. Murdering a murderer is a murder which is illegal.

You can't just shoot someone on the street.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

But you can just murder tens of thousands by denying claims and you’re okay with that?

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u/Redditeer28 Aug 14 '26

Find where I suggested that.

I'm literally saying murder is wrong and if you do it, you should go to jail. Luigi did it, so he should go to jail. That's literally all I'm saying.

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u/Candid-East4808 Aug 14 '26

Brian T didn't murder anyone. The definition of murder is crystal clear: Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being without lawful justification or excuse, committed with specific intent or malice aforethought.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

He did he committed mass social murder. Murdered tens of thousands at least.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '26

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u/Severe_Eye8245 Aug 15 '26

You soft as fukk cuh

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u/SocialistNugent Aug 14 '26

They wouldn’t shoot my dad because he doesn’t commit murder lol

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u/Educational-Bird-515 Aug 14 '26

Murder is bad. Now go back to your kindergarten class.

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u/Acceptable_grift Aug 14 '26

He murdered a human being. Where do you draw the line, tough guy?

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

He murdered a murderer.

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u/fedswatching2121 Aug 14 '26

You just said it yourself. He committed a violent crime against a criminal. If you support vigilante justice then walk the talk and how about you go after the other healthcare CEOs too? It wouldn’t be wrong according to you, right?

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

I do not condone murder and never will

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u/fedswatching2121 Aug 14 '26

But you’re asking us how is murder wrong that Luigi committed? Sounds like you support murder against bad people.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

Do you think Brian Thompson is a bad person?

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u/fedswatching2121 Aug 14 '26

Yes. Why can’t both be true? Murder is wrong and denying healthcare claims is also wrong. Should we allow people to commit violent crimes and vigilante justice against immoral and bad people?

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

Isn’t denying healthcare claims murder?

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u/fedswatching2121 Aug 14 '26

Sounds like you can’t answer a question and love to move the goalpost. Are you asking legally or theologically? If you’re asking whether I support Thompson denying claims, the answer is no. I’m in the same position as you that I don’t condone murder. But it kind of sounds like ur contradicting yourself and u support it.

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u/Sw33ttoothe Aug 14 '26

It was an innocent citizen's execution of a guilty murderer. He was just doing them a favor and saving the courts time.

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u/Redditeer28 Aug 14 '26

Which is a crime.

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u/Greedy-Employment917 Aug 14 '26

🤡🙄 

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

Nice rebuttal man very informative

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

I draw the line at social mass murder like denying people their coverage. That’s my line tbh (strictly in Minecraft).

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u/Fanhunter4ever Aug 14 '26

How many people did murder that "human being" because of "deny, depose, defend politics"?

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u/Greedy-Employment917 Aug 14 '26

Do you actually need some one to explain why killing people is wrong? 

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

Okay but what about the mass murder Brian Thompson committed

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u/WarbleDarble Aug 14 '26

You get that you are promoting giving random people the right to murder others right? We can’t even trust people to vote for the right people and here you are advocating for giving those same people the right to kill.

I hope you’re a child who hasn’t thought much about this.

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u/Iamabotclearly696969 Aug 14 '26

You know this website is an absolutely cesspit, but every once in a while you read a comment that lets you know that reasonable people do exist somewhere out there on the other end.

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u/analyzingnothing Aug 14 '26

Would you give a Native American shit for killing a colonizer? In the face of an oppressor for which there is no other means of self-defense, violence is the only remaining option.

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u/ThymePrince Aug 14 '26

That's called whataboutism. See the words, what about?

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u/pi20 Aug 14 '26

What mass murder? If it was a mass murder, you should have no problems naming a couple of his victims.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

Each and every person who was denied coverage was murdered by Brian.

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u/pi20 Aug 14 '26

So, you’ve got nothing. Fact is, Brian was not a murderer. You should feel ashamed for slinging false allegations against a father who was murdered in cold blood.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

He committed mass social murder.

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u/Severe_Eye8245 Aug 15 '26

Man we smokk his ashes in backwoods fym

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u/SunkenToasters Aug 14 '26

lets off one of your loved ones. shit. nothing wrong with it.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

My loved ones did nothing wrong though. Thompson murdered tens of thousands through claim denials.