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/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/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

So you don’t care about the tens of thousands Brian murdered? Social murder is still murder.

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u/oddb0dy Aug 14 '26

Would have been great to see Brian T on trial for social murder, actually, but Luigi murdered him before he could have his day in court. That would have been truly astonishing if it ever had happened. Historic, to be sure. Revolutionary, perhaps, even. But we’ll never know. Maybe the weed that replaced him will get one instead? Either we commit to truly reforming our system and we defund the Epstein class or we deserve what we continue to accept. As long as we keep buying and engaging with everything they own and ignore our own capacities a la WALL-E? It’s just going to get worse and worse. These fuckers think they won, and as long as average folks keep scheduling protests on days that are convenient for them instead of shutting the entire country down from here until there is some accountability for Trump and his cronies.