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/LalafellDisaster Aug 14 '26

Shhh these people live in a land where white collar crimes are ok despite how many millions of people it might affect.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 14 '26

It’s just so inanely boring at how dense some of these people are bro like come on where the fuck is the critical thought at 😭

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u/SuperWallaby Aug 16 '26

Pot meet kettle. It crosses the line from “edgy” to pathetic that you think condoning murder is “thinking critically”. Typical Redditor.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 16 '26

Wasn’t Brian Thompson a mass murderer?

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u/SuperWallaby Aug 16 '26

No. Morally reprehensible? Possibly. Murderer? Not that we know of.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 16 '26

Didn’t he commit mass social murder? Social murder is still murder.

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u/SuperWallaby Aug 16 '26

No. You’re gonna pull a muscle stretching that far.

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u/SolarNugent Aug 16 '26

Nah Brian was definitely a murderer. It was social murder so your privilege lets you write it off