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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; luigimangionecult; mangione; telgraph; unitedhealth; unitedhealthcare; whatishisfrnick
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To: yldstrk

This is not a left/right issue. This is not communism vs capitalism. The shooting victim was a scammer, not a captialist. Contracts and agreements are fundamental to capitalism. If they can’t be relied on, there’s no insurance, no mortgages, no loans. United Healthcare took payments from customers for years with the promise of a payoff that often didn’t come. He should have been in jail. If he had been arrested for fraud, he would still be alive today.


21 posted on 12/13/2024 7:45:23 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: skinny old man

The Left never had any morality.


22 posted on 12/13/2024 7:46:23 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
The Left never had any morality.

Joe Lieberman.

23 posted on 12/13/2024 7:49:25 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: yldstrk

I knew he was a leftwinger right off the bat and I knew liberals would love him. It was as predictable as clockwork to most conservative types.


24 posted on 12/13/2024 7:49:49 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: yldstrk

OMG. Spare me.

Thompson was every bit as evil as Mangione. The only difference is, he hurt and murdered people in a fashion that was far more palatable. Both of these men deserved to be roasted for what is wrong with the character of men this country produces.

This is simple. When the justice system devolves and cannot restrain evil or deliver justice, then social contract is broken between citizen and society. After that, someone is liable to be coming for your ass.

THAT is the issue we need to be discussing, not cheerleading for wicked men.


25 posted on 12/13/2024 8:01:50 PM PST by Salvavida (NS)
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To: yldstrk
a tragic collision of an entitled raging youth and a quiet, dignified hardworking man.

pretty much sums it up

26 posted on 12/13/2024 8:03:00 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: yldstrk

The little Italian fag is gonna be somebodies bitch in prison.


27 posted on 12/13/2024 8:08:46 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: yldstrk

Luigi is an example of the precious and entitled Grandchild™, too valuable to fight in wars or take on debt. Unlike previous generations, who were raised properly, did. His grandparents, like most, were too busy watching Beverly Hillbilly reruns to supervise the parenting.


28 posted on 12/13/2024 8:19:06 PM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Ancesthntr

Prison will not be kind to this rich kid. He will be told what to do and when to do it every day for the next 25 years. He wants government health care and he will get government health care in prison. If his back was hurting him before wait til he sleeps on the 3 inch thick mattress he gets in prison. Then he has to deal with the other inmates who will extort him and take his ass for their own enjoyment. Luigi isn’t going to find prison a very nice place.


29 posted on 12/13/2024 8:31:57 PM PST by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: alloysteel

Not until 2036 since he is 25 years from old. The Dems will probably go for Sanders-Pelosi the next 2 times. If he was still alive they probably would have picked OBL as he well represents the Hamas part of the most moderate Dems.


30 posted on 12/13/2024 8:47:40 PM PST by Degaston
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To: Beowulf9

The left has nothing except a raw lust for power. Attacking a health insurer’s CEO fits with their fake egalitarianism ie only government apparatchiks are allowed wealth and power. They’re like the terminator. You cannot reason with them. You cannot bargain with them. They feel no remorse, no shame, no guilt, and no sympathy for their victims. They never rest they’re always trying to cram their totalitarian agenda down our throats greatly helped by stupid people (democrats voters). They never examine their goals. We look at the USSR, NaziGermany, Pol Pot’s Cambodia and are sickened and disgusted. They look at these and see government control of the subject that they envy. Democrats voters are stupid. Democrat politicians are evil


31 posted on 12/13/2024 9:17:39 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Salvavida

“. The only difference is, he hurt and murdered people in a fashion that was far more palatable. “

This is insane. I used to work for a very large health insurance company. Should I be executed?


32 posted on 12/13/2024 9:44:43 PM PST by rxh4n1 ( )
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To: from occupied ga

The left has nothing except a raw lust for power. Attacking a health insurer’s CEO fits with their fake egalitarianism ie only government apparatchiks are allowed wealth and power. They’re like the terminator. You cannot reason with them. You cannot bargain with them. They feel no remorse, no shame, no guilt, and no sympathy for their victims. They never rest they’re always trying to cram their totalitarian agenda down our throats greatly helped by stupid people (democrats voters). They never examine their goals. We look at the USSR, NaziGermany, Pol Pot’s Cambodia and are sickened and disgusted. They look at these and see government control of the subject that they envy. Democrats voters are stupid. Democrat politicians are evil
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All true.


33 posted on 12/13/2024 10:08:50 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: griswold3

Hopefully, Thompson’s family sues the ass off of his employee for having her husband do a job THEY APPEARED TO KNOW WAS RISKY and never assigned any security to him. They might want to get with the program. Somewhere there is another Mr. America man boy with a 3D printed gun getting ready to shoot another CEO in the back to hear the female wooly mammoths on the far-left swoon over his peed in diapers.


34 posted on 12/13/2024 10:20:06 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America-hating Democrat "core values" really suck. All Marxist fascists have the same ones.)
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To: rxh4n1

Did you purposely fix the algorithm to deny 90% of claims?

THAT is insane. Insanely evil.


35 posted on 12/13/2024 10:25:22 PM PST by Salvavida (NS)
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To: Salvavida

“Did you purposely fix the algorithm to deny 90% of claims?”

Total bullshite. You’re pulling that out of your fundament. I had UHC from my employer and they honored every single claim.


36 posted on 12/13/2024 10:45:47 PM PST by rxh4n1 ( )
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To: yldstrk
More disturbing than the actual murder is the impotent soy boy nerd ragers on reddit celebrating him.

I have to admit, if luigi made some members of goernment assume room temperature, I wouldn't mind.

37 posted on 12/13/2024 11:22:03 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: rxh4n1

THEN YOU DON’T FIT THE SAME CATEGORY AS THOMPSON.

Do you logic much? Thompson was a murderer; apparently, you are not.


38 posted on 12/14/2024 12:58:17 AM PST by Salvavida (NS)
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To: Salvavida

“Thompson was a murderer; apparently, you are not.”

You are a psycho loon. The left claims the oil companies are killing people too. Should their CEOs be shot too?


39 posted on 12/14/2024 1:30:38 AM PST by rxh4n1 ( )
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To: rxh4n1

Be careful. They believe they should.


40 posted on 12/14/2024 3:36:20 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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