UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect thanks people for mail on new website
Luigi Mangione, who is charged with first-degree murder in the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, made the comments on a website set up by his defense.
In some dark corners, this killer is being hailed as a hero.
By which he means all over the fucking country, which is unfortunately so covered in darkness there are no bright corners left.
Luigi is a global hero. I'm European and think most people of the world can relate since they experience the same consequences of (ruthless) capitalism.
Honduran here. My GF and I are getting a Saint Luigi portrait hung up on the wall. Dude's seriously an icon.
dark corners = common folk
European here and i see him as a hero. Many people here do. Even Rednote is full of Luigi memes in chinese of supporters from china.
This was my favorite that i saved:
Here are some:
The last one with batman is PERFECTION!
America is indeed one hell of a dark corner.
all over the world
In some dark corners, in some light corners, hell there's a dude over there hailing him as a hero right now.
Hey PN Gov. Shapiro, it’s “alleged killer”. It should be a crime to speak of the presumed innocent like that.
I think he forgets he's supposed to listen to the will of the people.
Although I don't approve violence, trend today everywhere is that countries are run like companies and common folk, especially poor ones, are considered as "garbage it the way". Export industry being the nearest and dearest.
There should be a way to return the societies focus back to citizens. By the time AGI comes along this should be fixed or common people will be royally fucked.
"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend" - Faramir
Unfortunately history says the only way to return society back to the citizens is violence. There's nothing else the oppressors will listen to.
dark corners
Hey, I just don’t like too much light okay…
Although I don't approve violence. Trend today everywhere is that countries are run like companies and common folk, especially poor ones, are considered as "garbage it the way". Export industry being the nearest and dearest.
There should be a way to return the societies focus back to the citizens. By the time AGI comes along this should be fixed or common people will be royally fucked.
The rotten core of America’s corporate oligarchy bleeds through every paragraph. A man allegedly guns down a healthcare CEO over systemic rot, and the machine coughs up its usual scripted outrage—politicians clutching pearls while doing nothing to dismantle the profiteering structures that turn human lives into actuarial tables.
His ghost gun etched with corporate buzzwords isn’t just evidence—it’s a grotesque performance piece. Meanwhile, the governor’s sanctimonious “dark corners” lecture reeks of deflection. When the system grinds people into dust, don’t act shocked when they bite back with theater of their own.
Very fucking well put
I'm not sure that this was written by a human, but honestly, even if it's the product of AI/ChatGPT, it's moving, nonetheless. I don't care if this diatribe was written by a robot, I can't say that I don't agree with its message 100%. If AI is gonna take this position, then I'm more than happy to fight alongside the bot army
SAY HIS NAME
Luigi Mangione, actual sexiest man alive.
The article says that some man said people "in dark corners" herald him as a hero. I guess the entirety of America is in dark corners? lol. clown man.
I guess the entirety of America is in dark corners?
LMFAO they can’t even put Luigi’s name in the headline?!
I'm surprised they even linked to the webpage: https://www.luigimangioneinfo.com/
Ok......why not just register https://www.luigimangione.info/
Am I the only one who's hearing someone withdraw money from the ATM machine?
We should make Dec 4th "Celebrate Luigi Day".
Your Comcast at work.
It would be preferable if we didn't have to murder CEOs to stop them from destroying our lives but they are sort of forcing our hands here.
It would be nice if they paid attention to the overwhelming pop culture references of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s that referenced struggle.
The audacity that the most powerful and richest of the dumbs dumbs adopts psy-punk like it isn't a reference to oligarchs and shitty decisions with power and money tells me he is just shallow asshole that thinks he knows more than those that read them.
Gibson, Orwell, Stephenson, Moore, Palahniuk, Bradbury, and many others wrote fantasies that encapsulated these notions and yet it falls on deaf ears. They are indeed forcing our hands.
They see these villains and go "damn they look cool" and never think "maybe he's an asshole" with some self reflection.
One of the few people standing up for their fellow Americans. A true patriot surrounded by people with an addiction to greed.
I went to the donate page, and it has a pray button. Wtf is this shit? Now I've seen everything
I scoffed at the "thoughts and payers upvote" but perhaps it will get more support from the people who wont/cant afford to donate and further show the level of support he is getting from the general public
This is hilarious.
Thank you for this link!
Sure. Just saving you a click. The link was copied from the article.
Headline doesn't want to say someone's name.....
He’s got this years hottest valentines card design.
Player 2 is my GOAT.
I wish Luigi nothing but the best.
Good to see an official page (confirmed as authenic by NBC) confirm the GiveSendGo link is authentic
My hero
I think murder (first degree, premeditated, cold-blooded) is worse than that
Someone has died in both cases. So why?
IT's the Luigi, overpowered as can be
And I thank you Luigi for your service.
More celebration of murder as somehow "uplifting". America really is sinking.
PS: Brigading just makes you all look insecure while increasing even more the hostility level of this supposedly "uplifting" community. I personally don't care if a thousand of you downvote my comment. I'm secure in my conviction that murder is always bad. But others, maybe with more ambivalent takes, are gonna be put off by your mob mentality. And then you'll have nothing but others in your mob to tell you how right you are and maybe lessen any doubts or insecurity you have. Is that really what you want from a community? I must admit I don't get it.
There is something most people go through at some point, it's the realization that violence is sometimes necessary for the advancement of justice. There would have been no civil rights movements in the US without violence. There would have been no resistance against nazis without violence. There would have been no french revolution without violence. The very roughly "equal chances" society you enjoy today is the result of violence.
Simply put, when the system is dysfunctional and the safeguards originally put in place have been compromised/corrupted, you can either sit there and watch it dispense its injustice, or you can use violence. It's whatever works. Luigi allegedly did something very, very courageous and selfless, and he's owed our collective respect. I hope you get around to that.
A passably substantive argument! Though you couldn't resist a patronizing note of condescension right at the end. To me that suggests insecurity and so undermines your point.
I do know history, more or less (in fact I have a degree in it). And I take different lessons from it than you. The French revolution had two phases, non-violent and violent. Almost all of the useful reforms happened in the first phase. The mass spilling of blood was unnecessary, caused by impatient mobs who just could not wait for those reforms to bear fruit, and who had other unproductive agendas such as vengeance. What is certain is that 200 years later many European countries have achieved the same level of economic development and social justice as France (some of them even more so) without any need for a violent revolution.
As for civil rights, to me that's even clearer: it was not violence but non-violence - boycotts, sit-ins, marches - that won over public opinion and so made it impossible for the Kennedy-Johnson government to continue doing nothing.
I think MLK would have been horrified to see the rhetoric you deploy to defend the indefensible. I certainly am.
Downvoting isn't brigading.
I rarely downvote, and even more rarely downvote and comment, but I can assure you that downvote was wholly organic. Perhaps if you feel like you're brigade all the time, you should engage in some self-reflection.
Believe what you want, but don't characterize opposition to your shitty opinion as "brigading".
But mass downvoting is a form of brigading, just look it up. And now you're adding insults to the mix. Well done.
Again, I personally could not care less. But by behaving like this, you're not encouraging people to share their thoughts (unless of course they agree with you, that's different!). And you're certainly not creating an "uplifting" community.
To be clear, I don't care about your downvotes. I DO care that you're excusing the inexcusable and helping to normalize political violence.
Huh? Where's the brigading here? A whole bunch of people just thought this was a shit take.
The market celebrates murder every day and you don't bat an eye.
We celebrate the market feeling fear for their daily for profit murder spree for the first time.
People like you have no problem when murder is done with a confidence scheme and a claim denial letter after people paid in advance for care when they got sick.
Shame on you.
How do you feel about this murder? https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-asthma-medicine-lawsuit-walgreens-optum-8b4130ab404e513fbd68c9e02b51976b
Will you post comments asking where the justice is for this lost life?
That's very sad but it doesn't fit the definition of murder.
Will you post comments asking where the justice is for this lost life?
No, because I think murder (first degree, premeditated, cold-blooded) is worse than that, and I think it's a problem that people are excusing it.
It's clear as day to me what's going on here. You are all angry and frustrated. You're not murderers yourselves and you wouldn't do what "Luigi" did, partly because you're too cowardly, mostly because you're better people than him. But the absence of "justice" (just quoting you) in America's dysfunctional healthcare system is so egregious and so shocking (I agree: it is), that you feel the need to strike out somehow, to show how strongly you feel. And so you come here and excuse murder. Coz, wow, speaking up for an actual murder! That's pretty big, right? Basically it's a mutual support session for people who feel bad - like, really bad - about the state of American healthcare.
Personally, I don't think that excusing murder is going to get you a better healthcare system. In fact the opposite is far more likely: if political assassinations are normalized, an authoritarian backlash becomes all but inevitable. And that will push healthcare right down the list of your priorities. And all for what? For the fleeting buzz of perverted righteousness that you get from excusing the inexcusable. It's not worth it.
Title "UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect thanks people for mail on new website".
People and myself find it uplifting that the accused person gets mail and not only the usual torture routine in jail that is sleeping on the floor in a turtle suit etc.
You are seeing people celebrating murder.
We're not the same.
Moralism did not best fascism
That's fair. The usual response, which I subscribe to, is that you have a tipping point at which conventional diplomacy (or politics) fails and then you're essentially in a different world, of wartime (or civil war) where different rules apply. America today is clearly not yet in a state of civil war, so the usual rules continue to apply.
"Oh no, wouldn't someone think of Osama Bin Laden" 🤣
You say murder and I say kill. Semantics, hey?
Wait is the article talking about murder as uplifting or are you referring to the comments on lemmy?
Are you vegan?
Mostly yes.
