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Luigi Mangione is a new American nightmare
The Telgraph ^ | December 13, 2024 | Brendan O'Neill

Posted on 12/13/2024 6:52:21 PM PST by yldstrk

I have known for years that the online Left was losing the moral plot. But if you had told me that one day they would celebrate the slaughter of a man from a humble background in which the suspect is a swaggering rich kid, even I would have struggled to believe it. This, at root, is what the creepy idolisation of Luigi Mangione represents. Strip away all the TikTok guff about him being a modern-day Robin Hood. Ignore the apologetics of Leftish talking-heads who fantasise that Mangione has stuck it to The Man. For what we’re talking about here is the assassination of a man from a working-class family who yanked himself up by his bootstraps to become a CEO at one of America’s largest health-insurance companies. That man was Brian Thompson. He was the CEO of UnitedHealth. He was 50 years old and a dad of two. And last Wednesday he was gunned down in Manhattan, allegedly by Mangione.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: brianthompson; luigimangione; mangione; telgraph; unitedhealth; unitedhealthcare; whatishisfrnick
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Luigi Mangione is a waste of human flesh, a spoiled rich kid who had it all and threw it away with both hands. Murderer.
1 posted on 12/13/2024 6:52:21 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: yldstrk

Brian Thompson was murdered by a terrorist.


2 posted on 12/13/2024 6:54:45 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: yldstrk

If you wanna stop this type of insanity give the guy the death penalty and you will see it come to a halt!


3 posted on 12/13/2024 6:55:20 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: RoseofTexas

New York does not have the death penalty.


4 posted on 12/13/2024 7:04:34 PM PST by null and void (Regarding the second Trump presidency, everyone who isn’t terrified is thankful!)
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To: yldstrk

Should not celebrate murder. However this is the kind of action that could galvanize the people to demand changes. Anarchists might celebrate the murder as they don’t believe the system can react quickly enough to major problems and we do have a major problem. I won’t pretend to know all the answers but health care is only going to get more and more expensive at least over the next decade or two. Obamacare was a disaster. The Dems lost, what was it, 50 something house seats after it passed? And even then they couldn’t change it. It was a bad law if only because “health insurance” is not “health care” though there are many other reasons to dislike it. SC justices who said it was OK to “ tax” people who didn’t buy insurance was also a terrible decision. Congress needs to repeal and replace. I was paying $600 a month for insurance with a $2k deductible before Obamacare. For the same plan, I now pay $2400 a month with a $6000/$12,000 deductible for my wife and I. Getting rid of catastrophic care insurance was also a mistake. Let me pay for my blood tests and exams in cash, and have a policy that would cover me in the case that something horrible should occur.


5 posted on 12/13/2024 7:06:17 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: yldstrk

Luigi Mangione, a cold blooded murderer, deserves the death penalty.
He is what we called, “a puke, not worth knowing.”
End of story.... Throw the carcass away.


6 posted on 12/13/2024 7:06:33 PM PST by BatGuano (DJ Trump and JD Vance, winners, Praise The Lord.)
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To: null and void

Then put him in a cell with Diddy


7 posted on 12/13/2024 7:07:06 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: All

Maybe he’s not guilty.

We certainly would not want to think anything whatsoever on the basis of the MSM saying it.


8 posted on 12/13/2024 7:10:34 PM PST by Owen
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To: yldstrk

Luigi Mangione is probably the leading candidate for nomination on the Democrat ticket for President by now. I have that on good authority from the Babylon Bee.

He certainly checks all the boxes to qualify for the Democrat grassroots candidacy.

Move over, AOC.


9 posted on 12/13/2024 7:12:35 PM PST by alloysteel (This is yet another test. There are no right or wrong answers, only the correct response for you.)
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To: null and void

He crossed state lines to do his deed.

Perhaps the feds could step in.

They put Tim McVeigh down pretty quick.


10 posted on 12/13/2024 7:12:51 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: yldstrk

Brian Thompson used his brain, worked for a living, now has a wife and two kids that will be without a father for Christmas.

But the left is celebrating murdering this man and no compassion for either the wife or the kids.


11 posted on 12/13/2024 7:13:56 PM PST by Beowulf9 (c)
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To: alloysteel

He, like Harris, is a symptom. The Left is the disease, spread by the MSM.


12 posted on 12/13/2024 7:16:37 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: SpaceBar
That might work!

BTW, McVeigh did nothing to fight execution.

13 posted on 12/13/2024 7:18:00 PM PST by null and void (Regarding the second Trump presidency, everyone who isn’t terrified is thankful!)
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To: null and void

I am not convinced McVeigh is the bad guy they say he was. He was for years a loyal American. Do we know who he was really working for?


14 posted on 12/13/2024 7:23:14 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: yldstrk

Corporate Media with Corporate Drama about Corporate Murder.

Big high profile cases the focus involving big high profile victims like Brian Thompson.

How does justice work for the little folks in flyover country?


15 posted on 12/13/2024 7:33:54 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: yldstrk

All Have Sinned All Have Lost Their Moral Compass All Need A Savior.

A Blessed Christmas to all.


16 posted on 12/13/2024 7:35:22 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: yldstrk

He is an evil man, that Luigi.


17 posted on 12/13/2024 7:38:49 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Beowulf9

That’s because the left is of satan.


18 posted on 12/13/2024 7:39:14 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: null and void

The question has to be asked. Is anyone really surprised? We’ve watched the violent online rhetoric just ratchet-up since Obama, we’ve watched cities burn, we’ve seen entire industries demonized... so is anyone really surprised? Quite frankly I’m not. Heck, didn’t Madonna say she thought about blowing up the White House?


19 posted on 12/13/2024 7:43:46 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: No name given

A true loss of Morality on the part of the left.

The communist party’s main jab at mankind is,they cannot compete with God.


20 posted on 12/13/2024 7:45:04 PM PST by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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