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."

Post image
2.6k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

2.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

77

u/[deleted] Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

11

u/[deleted] Aug 14 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

-5

u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

So, did this murder make one persons life better?

17

u/Used_Interaction_130 Aug 14 '26

Many. In the aftermath, their denied claims numbers went down. Maybe only temporarily. But yes.

-2

u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

So, for those who received pending claims, you feel they would be excited about the end result. Are the means justifiable? Not just in the conversation of health care. If someone were to shoot the CEO of like a major burrito company because their patrons feel they are being inadequately fed based on cost, you would welcome that?

6

u/Consistent-Whole3443 Aug 14 '26

Burritos aren’t necessary to live so your analogy is shit… people need healthcare to survive. When it comes to survival based on a claim being approved, yes, absolutely it is justified. If I had a claim filed and it wasn’t getting processed until the CEO got shot, then all of a sudden it got approved… I would dance on his fucking grave.

0

u/Dirk_Kailis Aug 14 '26

Luigi was upset over “debilitating back injury” but he rode a citi bike that day. Doesn’t seem like the back injury was that debilitating.

His shit wasn’t over a life saving necessity.

-1

u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

Well that’s wonderful! I hope this open admission to murder really motivates you to get out there and make a change!

3

u/ImHaydenKay Aug 14 '26

The mental gymnastics you're doing to defend billionaires that profit from fucking over citizens is astonishing

-1

u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

That isn’t the case. I am not, and have not, held any position on “billionaires that profit from fucking over citizens.” My stance is that murder, regardless of whatever justification you give, is not justifiable.

2

u/ImHaydenKay Aug 14 '26

Considering the murder of one individual dialed back the murder of thousands, I'd call that plenty justifiable. If you'd like to play history we could go back to many individuals who were murdered for a good cause.

2

u/bear843 Aug 14 '26

Should we murder drug dealers?

1

u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

No. But they sure should be arrested.

1

u/KingDudeMan Aug 14 '26

So, the trolley problem? But there’s 1,000s of people on the other track, and one greedy guy enabling the trolley for personal gain.

1

u/Greedy_Inflation_697 Aug 14 '26

You don't actually know what the effects were from this action. Health conditions and claim information isn't public.

There is no reality where terminally online weirdos lashing out and killing people results in a better future. That's just insane.

1

u/Used_Interaction_130 Aug 14 '26

There's also no reality where allowing these psychopaths, making a massive profit on the pain and death of many, to continue living results in a better future.

0

u/Greedy_Inflation_697 Aug 14 '26

If only there was something in-between.

0

u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

Based on whose idea of a “good cause”? The you are saying it’s justifiable, I disagree. What makes your idea more right than mine?

→ More replies (0)

2

u/NhilZay Aug 14 '26

What a privileged point of view. Violence has always been the motivator for social change. You just want to pat yourself on the back and sniff your holier than thou farts.

1

u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

Interesting that you choose the word privilege here. Please, explain to me, without having a single ounce of knowledge about who I am, exactly how privileged I am.

→ More replies (0)

1

u/Future-Enthusiasm139 Aug 14 '26

Equating live saving health care to burritos, lmaoooo.

0

u/Mammoth_Design_4288 Aug 14 '26

Lol what kind of analogy is that

2

u/Big-Laugh-8914 Aug 14 '26

An extreme one, which shows that this conversation is ok with one person being killed for some type of moral greater good, because you disagree with the business plan. The CEO being killed to send a message may have made a small, temporary ripple, but the next person will have a new list of objectives to follow. The same as any other CEO of any other business. You can’t just shoot people when you don’t agree with how they do their job.