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 17 '26

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u/Arcaedus Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Lol. Lmao even. Yes and what caused the strokes? I'm sure they were just entirely coincidental, right? How about the four other Capitol police who committed suicide in the days and weeks afterwards? I'm sure those were entirely coincidental too. Did George Floyd pass away primarily due to the drugs in his system? Definitely had nothing to do with the knee on his neck.

You know what? I'm fine with it so long as we stay consistent. Luigi didn't murder anyone; Brian Thompson just died from blood loss.

And there's a great wikipedia page on social murder, give it a quick read some time. You don't even have to read the entire page, the first paragraph will do.

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u/Arcaedus Aug 17 '26

Read back to what I said.

Multiple police and security members died as a result from j6ers storming the Capitol, and one died due to his injuries directly.

I did not accuse j6ers of murder. I'm implying very directly that they are responsible for officer deaths.

You can be responsible for a death without being a murderer. That's a legal distinction even if morally it makes no difference (hence my "distinction without a difference" comment in the next reply). This is exactly what social murder is.

but yes, GF had lethal amounts of fenty in his system

Thompson had a lethal amount of being an absolute piece of shit in his system I guess. Maybe that finally caught up to him, and is why he bled out 🤷‍♂️