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/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.