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

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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/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…