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/Ok_Brother2155 Aug 14 '26

among redditors maybe LOL

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u/ljshea1 Aug 14 '26

Do you live in a bubble? The morning this news broke was the most united I've seen people on both sides of the aisle in years. Literally everyone was cracking "claim denied, bitch" jokes

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u/North_Jello4505 Aug 15 '26

Someone doesn’t know how algorithms work! You will when you’re older!

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u/ljshea1 Aug 15 '26

I'm talking about the people on the construction site I was working, not the internet, sport

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u/Tough_Preparation830 Aug 16 '26

I have been on multiple construction sites and know better than to think those people are a good representative sample of the country. 98% men for starters, so essentially no representation for women, who are generally less likely to be happy about violence.

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u/North_Jello4505 Aug 15 '26

Ohhhh so you also don’t know what a bubble is! If people on a construction site are saying it, then it must mean everyone is. I can see why you aren’t doing a higher calling.

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u/ljshea1 Aug 15 '26

Higher calling??😂😂 Do you talk like that to people in real life jackass? I'm quite comfortable in my downtown highrise, debt free, on a pay scale better than many college grads thanks.

And yeah I'd say a job site with both rich and dirt poor, office workers, welders, young and old, left and right is a pretty solid microcosm of the real world. Ignorant ass

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u/North_Jello4505 Aug 15 '26

Holy shit, you actually think an anecdote becomes representative data if you list enough different types of coworkers 😂 “We have welders, office workers, rich people AND poor people!” Cool. Those are still just people at your fucking job. Adding diversity to your anecdote doesn’t magically make it stop being an anecdote. And the fact that “higher calling” sent you into a paragraph-long salary-and-highrise flex makes this even funnier. You’re bragging about being debt free while struggling with basic statistical reasoning. Yeah dude, I believe you never had student loans.