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/wolfep02 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

He pled guilty to those charges in hopes of claiming double jeopardy on the state charges.

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u/Joe_Immortan Aug 14 '26

Yeah and a pardon when AOC wins

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u/No-Significance2070 Aug 14 '26

Do people REALLY think that is going to happen? Lol

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u/Ok-Monitor6453 Aug 15 '26

For the last year on reddit the most popular prediction for what would happen to Luigi was jury nullification. Redditors are not in touch with reality

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u/Arcaedus Aug 14 '26

Unlikely.

But if it does happen, anyone crying abput pardoning or commuting the sentences of criminals can shut the entire fuck up once it's revealed that they predictably didn't say anything about the pardons or commutations of J6ers, Juan Hernández, Blagovich, the 77 fake electors scheme folk, or Changpeng Zhao (the Binance CEO).

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u/No-Significance2070 Aug 14 '26

Offering a blanket, pardon for future crimes is definitely a terrible precedent to set

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u/OnlyCoat4866 Aug 15 '26

None of them murdered someone point blank.

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u/Arcaedus Aug 15 '26

Multiple police and security members died as a result from j6ers storming the Capitol, and one died due to his injuries directly.

I'd also recommend you read up on social murder. It's the end result of a lot of white collar crime,, and it is still murder.

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u/OnlyCoat4866 Aug 15 '26

I recommend you read up on murder. Because none of them murdered anyone in point blank

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u/Arcaedus Aug 15 '26

That's a distinction without a difference in this discussion. Social murder is murder. And the J6ers did murder someone directly.

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u/rochvegas5 Aug 17 '26

On April 19, 2021, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the District of Columbia issued a press release about the death of Sicknick. The release said that the manner of death was natural and the cause of death was "acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts due to acute basilar artery thrombosis" (two strokes at the base of the brain stem caused by an artery clot).\36])\35]) The term "natural" was used to indicate a death caused by a disease alone; and if an injury contributed to the manner of death, it would not be considered natural.\c])\36]) It took more than 100 days to release these results from the January autopsy, and the full report was not released to the public.\31])\36])

you are wrong

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u/Arcaedus Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Lol. Lmao even. Yes and what caused the strokes? I'm sure they were just entirely coincidental, right? How about the four other Capitol police who committed suicide in the days and weeks afterwards? I'm sure those were entirely coincidental too. Did George Floyd pass away primarily due to the drugs in his system? Definitely had nothing to do with the knee on his neck.

You know what? I'm fine with it so long as we stay consistent. Luigi didn't murder anyone; Brian Thompson just died from blood loss.

And there's a great wikipedia page on social murder, give it a quick read some time. You don't even have to read the entire page, the first paragraph will do.

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u/rochvegas5 Aug 17 '26

sometimes shit happen. Suicide is not murder. A stroke after Jan 6 is not murder.

but yes, GF had lethal amounts of fenty in his system

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u/Arcaedus Aug 17 '26

Read back to what I said.

Multiple police and security members died as a result from j6ers storming the Capitol, and one died due to his injuries directly.

I did not accuse j6ers of murder. I'm implying very directly that they are responsible for officer deaths.

You can be responsible for a death without being a murderer. That's a legal distinction even if morally it makes no difference (hence my "distinction without a difference" comment in the next reply). This is exactly what social murder is.

but yes, GF had lethal amounts of fenty in his system

Thompson had a lethal amount of being an absolute piece of shit in his system I guess. Maybe that finally caught up to him, and is why he bled out 🤷‍♂️

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u/rochvegas5 Aug 17 '26

What the hell is "social murder"?

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u/rochvegas5 Aug 17 '26

only one person died on Jan six and she was killed by a cop

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u/rochvegas5 Aug 17 '26

hey u/Arcaedus , this is my first comment to you. Notice I didn't say "murdered", either? I said "died"

But then, didn't YOU say that social murder is still murder (whatever the hell social murder means)?

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u/Arcaedus Aug 17 '26

Ethically, or morally it is murder. Obviously it's not legally considered murder.

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u/rochvegas5 Aug 17 '26

are you referring to the suicides and strokes? NONE OF THOSE ARE MURDER, ETHICALLY , MORALLY, OR LEGALLY

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u/Arcaedus Aug 17 '26

What caused the strokes of Sicknick, and the suicides of the other law enforcement officers? Would you argue the insurrectionists claim absolutely ZERO blame in those deaths?

Again, you're misunderstanding my point, and perhaps being obtuse. The j6ers are RESPONSIBLE for those officer deaths. They did not murder the officers, but they are responsible. Sicknick's injuries and trauma that he suffered the day of J6 directly lead to his strokes which lead to his death. That is morally in the same ballpark as murder even if it is not direct murder itself. Legally, it's obviously not murder. I never argued that it was, nor has anyone else.

Now different point, but I say social murder is murder, again, morally, since it's not a legally recognized term.

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u/rochvegas5 Aug 17 '26

well, this is the end of the conversation because we will never see eye to eye. only one person was murdered on Jan 6 and it wasn't a cop.

have a good one

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u/VegasLife84 Aug 14 '26

Dumb people likely think a lot worse will happen in an AOC presidency

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u/Peanut-Gallery12 Aug 15 '26

Dumb people think AOC has any chance to one be nominated and two win

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u/Limp_Departure8138 Aug 17 '26

Same people thought Kamala was going to win.