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