Luigi Mangione ID'd as person of interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson killing
Exclusive | Suspect in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson ID’d as Luigi Mangione, an ex-Ivy League student
imagined motivation: class war against health insurance executives
actual motivation: revive shintoism?
Me seeing all his brainworms coming to light and trying to desperately gum up the holes that he might actually not be a comrade.
Simply the result of coming to be within the brackish, toxic morass of American intellectualism
"we need waitresses so guys can hit on them and later impregnate them"
It's extremely funny to compare this to the menswear guy doing threads about how the modern Japanese(or at least Tokyo) urban environment is the only place small scale organic fashion culture can thrive anymore.
Also conveyor belt sushi is a societal plague worthy of one of 5 bullet points on your stupid little list? And the reason its bad is you aren't chatting directly to a food service employee? Not just a weirdo but a really fucking stupid and annoying weirdo.
Oh he's a reactionary moron
(Fr tho get rid of maid cafes but like broken clock)
actual human interaction with a waiter
I go to restaurants like this somewhat regularly and I don’t think it’s done anything to improve my mental health or social life?
Judging by all the other stuff this guy is into I bet his reasoning is that he's completely brainwormed on pickup artist redpill shit and thinks that the waiter interaction will give men chances to apply that bullshit and get laid.
Or a funnier alternative is he's brainwormed on like trad romance media with like relationships starting out of being a regular at a diner or whatever.
did this motherfucker just come for my kaitenzushi
he's just made an enemy for life
Calling Don Quixote a grocery store is like calling Costco a hotdog joint.
I don't think they had sex stuff at Donkey
I would have sooner compared conveyor belt sushi/Matsuya/matsuya-likes replacement for fast food as opposed to a replacement for a sit down restaurant (of which there are plenty) and therefore erring you towards socializing
If there were a bunch of eSports cafes I must have missed them - especially in Akihabara (where you can find a really nice climbing gym where people talk to you).
The elementary schools I saw had very large outdoor facilities and after school athletics
The history and current events of the Yakuza isn't my bag - I also here weird things about cishet relationships in Japan, so I guess that this one gets a tentative thumbs up from me
I would sure as fuck love more martial arts available in Japan. I had trouble finding judo while I visited. I think you can find temples fucking everywhere as well as onsen.
I don't know comrade, Luigi's Mansion sounds like a bit of a tourist.
Seems like he's not calling for a return to shintoism, but just a return to a culture that isn't poisoned by capitalism. I dunno I feel like I could see most of those things being said on hexbear without people batting an eye. He's not against immigration, he's saying that Japan has a systemic issue that would continue even if immigration was allowed. Don't know if I agree, but I can follow the logic. He's saying the modern urban environment is ass, which we have an entire comm dedicated to saying. It is ass.
edit: okay I saw his twitter and it's ass
I really feel like even in this example tweet you really have to reach to argue this. Yes, all his complaints boil down to a core causation by capitalism, but that goes for at least half of any reactionarys political beliefs.
Several of the bullet points are just actually repeating dumb stereotypes, he probably only knows about Don Quixote because of Yakuza. He dedicates a whole bullet point to the societal consequences of conveyor belt sushi.
Have sex
See you space cowboy
Gonna be honest, kid doesn't really look like the pictures
Now, I'm gonna get
for a secondWouldn't it be funny if they just nabbed some guy who looked close enough and was also a scrambly-brained weirdo so they could close the case?
He just EDC's a suppressed pistol and fake IDs for unrelated brainworm reasons.
The cops are amazed they only have to plant the manifesto and get to side hustle all the other incriminating evidence.
Manifesto's only two pages because that's how much they had time to write. The last paragraph is just a bunch of "lorem ipsum"
You would honestly be surprised sometimes
Growing up in Wisconsin, my buddy had five fake id's to buy booze with
My other buddy had a sawn-off shotgun they turned into a whip-it gun with a homemade suppressor
I'm just saying, there are a lot of weirdos out there, wouldn't be hard to find one to lay blame on
He's just really into his "I am Spartacus" bit
Extremely slim chance this is actually the guy, but I can't wait to see what he and his lawyer have to say. My guess is this feller was in NYC that morning, owns a silenced pistol and is of similar build. He looks like the photo from the back of the cab, but that guy didn't look like the same person from the shooting video.
Very risky move for the cops if it's not the right dude, can you imagine how bad it would look for them if he brained another CEO on video?
Wouldn't it be funny if they just nabbed some guy who looked close enough and was also a scrambly-brained weirdo so they could close the case?
Seems more likely that they pulled the most similar looking guy out of their list of known weirdos.
he'd finally had enough
Stays winning as best Mario Bro. but for real, so fucking wild. Look at the difference a comrade makes to some random groyper who shoots up a kindergarten. Dude was smart, an athlete, and well read, and he ices a ceo and becomes a folk hero to millions.
This is his Twitter. Fall of Rome, Richard Dawkins New Atheism posting, how TikTok is a secret "CCP" weapon to destroy Western capitalism, oh yeah baby https://xcancel.com/pepmangione?lang=en
Idk how to but has someone archived his Twitter account? We know they'll take it down
i just went to "save as" in firefox. at least saving the front page of his tweets
What if he accidentally got the CEO of UHC and TikTok mixed up?
Funniest possible turn of events
Ah fuck
Luigi Mangione is the fake ID name right? No way he's name is Luigi's Mansion
yarviny rw accelerationist incels go brrrr
Can't believe a McD's worker snitched... you are not getting paid enough for that
Yeah there's a reward that's why they snitched
but they were getting paid by Mcdonalds, ISN'T THAT ENOUGH FOR THEM?
They've been reward with a free 5 piece nugget with the purchase of a meal and one 15 minute free break card. /s
Median US voter
Considering the brainworms im surprised he chose such a good target
please don't be a zionist
please don't be a zionist
please don't be a zionist
please don't be a zionist
person if interest is still a bit off from suspect, but let's assume the show is over and the NYPD has the right guy.
would we really prefer it to be a leftist with coherent politics and some explicitly neo-Galleanisti exemplar?
I'm more of a Schrodinger's Propaganda of the Deed guy. if they are uncovered and caught, let them be a weird reactionary spouting gibberish.
if they escape identification and capture the imagination, then they are the perfect insurrectionary folk hero.
smh. He should have went into a whattaburger. No one would have ratted on him there
And of course the tech bro does it for incomprehensible reasons
he's actually hot
i completely stopped being attracted to him after ten seconds on his twitter
i can fix him
Mangione literally means "Glutton" in Italian. And it seems his real name. If I read a book where an assassin called "Glutton" shot a CEO I'd think it was on the nose.
Ive spent days imbibing the hopium that this was step one of some V for Vendetta plot and i am now devastated.
Bro should've trimmed or covered his eyebrows, those things will ID him anywhere. Mask + Sunglasses could've made things much harder on the cops. Maybe also be less expressive when on the job("the job" being any part of travelling to and from the site), the smile he has is popular with the audience but it's ID'd him too.
Mangione had a particularly personal reason to hate the medical community — its treatment of an ailing relative, sources said.
Online obituaries show he lost a grandmother in 2013 and grandfather in 2017.
This is all that matters to keep the dude relateable to anyone and everyone.
Mangione also subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes, according to law-enforcement sources, citing online activity gleaned by authorities.
Where are his anti-capitalist credentials? I don't see this on the twitter. Seems mostly like work-related posting, most of it being bazinga tech stuff. I'm not going to judge a person in the tech industry posting bazinga tech stuff unless they also profess that techbro shit in a personal setting. Nothing about capitalism or capital on his twitter though?? Not sure where they've got this from.
With that said, I also think that being kinda muddle brained without a coherent ideology makes this a more uniting figure. The left of the working class can see what they want in him and the right of the working class can too.
The important aspect is that both halves of the working class agree that he was right to lash out against the ruling class.
Mangione also subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes, according to law-enforcement sources, citing online activity gleaned by authorities.
cops are idiots probalbly saw he followed AOC (anti-capitalist lol) and some posts about green tech
The eyebrows at best identify him as the guy in the cab, but I am very much not convinced the guy in the cab was the shooter.
They need to make him into a communist even if he wasn't. Too many reactionaries agree with this and it's making the bourgeoisie uncomfortable.
So he gets assigned that even if he wasn't. They use it to crack down on the left which is what they want and to make him out to be the right kind of public enemy though still a muddled one with a muddled definition of communist in the loose "Democrats are communists" kind of way that still gives enough cover to justify moving resources away from the right-wing extremists to surveilling the left instead and to pushing that narrative along with a bill through congress or executive order. If he was a raging swastika wearing Hitlerite and openly so online through weeks before the shooting they wouldn't be able to do this but would instead just bury it and call it a random act of violence without ideology but if it's at all muddled and there's even a chance of pushing this angle because of incoherence they were always going to and at the very least say he was poisoned by communist ideology into doing the deed.
poisoned by communist ideology into doing the deed
Oh no hes hot
Surely the cops are making this up too
They seriously want me to believe an italian named Luigi Glutton killed a CEO. With those eyebrows? Laughable.
I'm still not even sure I buy the picture being the shooter. Pictures have him in completely different clothes to what the shooter was wearing. Now that they've found him he apparently has literally every piece of evidence with him. Not as sus as Epstein's suicide but its up there
idk I guess it's possible but it's all so convenient.
Yeah agreed. He even engraved the shells with a specific message, had a clear getaway route, but then just kept every piece of evidence on him days later. Bizarre set of behaviours, but then his political beliefs are brainrot so it's not impossible....
FREE MY GUY
Oh no he's italian! And his last name is basically just "glutton" which is funny, but too obvious.
Wacky anti-establishment Ted Kaczynski
That's certainly one way to refer to him.
Honestly impressive he could condense the unabombers manifesto down to 2.5 pages. Very cool.
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’’ Kaczynski wrote at one point in a quote liked by Mangione.
“Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable"
Yeah, I've seen exact same sentiments with lots of upvotes on here. Therapy is, at times, an individual solution to a societal problem. I'm on antidepressants and a large reason is the climate apocalypse, covid and capitalism.
edit: I have now seen his twitter
supposedly his youtube account (shares the same username as his twitter and was created in January) posted this video right after news broke he was arrested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdhs9g3Wwg0
If this is a crypto launch announcement, I'm gonna lose my mind.
Oh that is too on brand for the character and timeline. The writers are totally out of ideas.
"This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated."
(what was it?)
edit: it was this (hoax)
can you change the @ in a youtube account?
I believe you can pretty easily so I'm not really putting a lot of weight behind it but figured it was worth posting!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Here's a blog post he wrote about Animal Crossing when he was 17: https://luigimangionestanford.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/animal-crossing-nintendos-ultimate-creation/
According to his linkedin, at 18 he was an intern that worked on Civ 6.
Ivy League graduate, tech bro Luigi Mangione in Bali with his bros
lol which one of us posted about not wanting them to be found bc they’d have some incoherent ass ideology? Come collect your prize
the cassandra medal for the worst kind of being right
Joys of being a materialist lol
I mean the type of person to do assassinations would probably have a nuts incoherent ideology. I think most communists can think of more productive/worthwhile political activities to do than assassinating one CEO.
Yea, I personally post on twitter at least 2 times a day.
I kinda saw that coming too. Both guys that tried to kill trump also had an incoherent ideology
No for sure I 100% assumed this was gonna be the case too. This is what America produces lol
i didn't post about it but it's been haunting my thoughts for 2 days now. just praying he would become a ghost
Absolutely gutted he didn’t fuck off to a non extradition country
Same but I didn't want to say anything and rain on any parades.
It seems pretty coherent to me, what am I missing?
And then he cripped the unabomber instead of writing his own manifesto
I’m talking about his ideology in aggregate not just his motivations for the assassination. He’s got a lot of goofy reactionary takes that are all over the place coming out as people comb through his social
much prefer that he's kinda cringe than a UHC CEO who lives
What is coherent ideology? Is it even real?
I said this half-jokingly 5 days ago