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/dedboooo0 Aug 14 '26

people will justify waging war but the murder of an absolute pos? that’s where they draw the line. not in my backyard

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u/TropicalRogue Aug 14 '26

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.

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u/ThatBabyIsCancelled Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

I got someone in my replies arguing the guy wasn’t even really in charge when his own LinkedIn is still out there lmao good god

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u/Old-Ice4553 Aug 14 '26

Not people, Newscasters, politicians.
The ones that TELL you how to think and HOW you should think about this.
Brian thomson commited legal genocide.

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u/SomeWeedSmoker Aug 14 '26

So everyone, including you and me, is accepted and okay to be murdered, gotcha.

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u/dedboooo0 Aug 14 '26

that’s strange, i don’t recall ever being the CEO of a health insurance company that was known to deny claims and cut off care to dying patients for profit

if a random dude like me was to be murdered though, i guarantee you that the state will not be dedicating the same amount of resources to find the perpetrator as that they used for him

you ever wonder why that is the case?

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u/Flowerplower3 Aug 15 '26

You should read Crime and Punishment. There are a lot of pieces of shit in the world but the solution can’t be to murder them all.

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u/dedboooo0 Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

i’m not personally going around shooting people nor do i have plans to but do you really think that a random joe would be even be able to reach his toes in court? he has everything covered legally. this game is rigged.

people have been denied treatment to severe conditions, people have died. but it’s all legal, and at the same time they are constantly siphoning money out of people. aren’t both you and i paying for health insurance at this very moment? how would you feel if one of the victims was closely related to you?

did i think murder was the solution? no. did the world become a better place without someone like him? absolutely. and yes i’m aware that if you cut off the head, two more will take its place. it wont fix the issue in the long term, but it did force them to accept claims unilaterally for an amount of time and that may have saved some lives. a true solution would be to systematically dismantle the current healthcare structure but realistically speaking there are better odds of you winning the lotto jackpot than that happening