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re: Luigi Mangione, 26, apprehended in Altoona, PA about UnitedHealthcare CEO murder

Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:42 pm to
Posted by OMLandshark
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Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:42 pm to
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Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:43 pm to
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We need a good Norm quote on this one, "he told me, 'I think the worst part of the Luigi Mangione thing was the hypocrisy.' And I disagreed. I thought it was the murdering.'"

"I mean this guy was a real jerk!"
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:43 pm to
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You can just do things


Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
87385 posts
Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:44 pm to
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You can just do things


I mean, Penny too

On the same day (somewhat)
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
30527 posts
Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:47 pm to
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It definitely didn’t look like that was the first time he had killed someone either. Ex-military is also a decently likely scenario on who this person could be.


This is like the DC sniper case when a lot of people were convinced the shooter was a trained sniper but it turned out the shots were taken by a 17yo.

Anyone with any weapons experience would have had the proper booster with the suppressor so the pistol would cycle properly. They would have been aware of the issue because they would have tested their setup before attempting the deed. There is the vanishingly low possibility that the shooter wanted it to appear as though he was using a Welrod or veterinary pistol.
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:48 pm to
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This isn't about some nobility of being poor. They are LARPing AS the working poor and trying to pretend the system left THEM behind. And they're not talking down on people working at Walmart, but those who shop there (while making $30k/year and being the actual version of the LARP-avatar they created).



This isn't reflective of the movement in any significant way that I see. I don't see anyone LARPing as poor or a member of an aggrieved class. I don't see any evidence that our guy Luigi did so thus far either.

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It destroys freedom of the individual by definition.


And if it's the election of free individuals?
Posted by tigerskin
Member since Nov 2004
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Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:51 pm to


Posted by tigerskin
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Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:52 pm to
Posted by OMLandshark
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Posted by Shexter
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Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:52 pm to
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Sexy artist sister with big tits






Meh, OT 6 at best



Posted by Sl0thstronautEsq
Member since Aug 2018
18315 posts
Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:53 pm to
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Likely hurt himsaelf deadlifting improperly.


Apparently it was a surfing accident.

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Posted by Chicken
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Member since Aug 2003
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Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:54 pm to
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Sexy artist sister with big tits
need more evidence
Posted by StringedInstruments
Member since Oct 2013
20915 posts
Posted on 12/9/24 at 2:57 pm to
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My best friend growing up is wicked smaht but never developed social skills. I know he exists, but after a ton of diligent internet searching, I can find literally no proof he does. He went to UVA and I think he is a teacher somewhere in NOVA.


If we're telling those stories:

I went to grad school with a guy who finished high school early at 16 years old. He had acceptances to multiple Ivy league schools for undergrad and made his final decision between Princeton and........Troy.

He chose Troy because he "didn't see what he would learn at Princeton that he couldn't learn at Troy."

After his master's, he got his PhD and is now a professor.

While in grad school, he once handed me a 40 page handwritten argument about the affordances and constraints in a system of government that mixed the British monarchy with Nazism. It scared the hell out of me.
Posted by Corinthians420
Iowa
Member since Jun 2022
16104 posts
Posted on 12/9/24 at 3:00 pm to
So i guess everyone is just taking this all as facts at face value? No chance this guy is a scapegoat?

I mean it's impossible to verify any of this info or even the picture the fbi released a few days ago as the guy they were looking for as being the shooter
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
89842 posts
Posted on 12/9/24 at 3:01 pm to
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This is like the DC sniper case when a lot of people were convinced the shooter was a trained sniper but it turned out the shots were taken by a 17yo.


The other guy was a 40 year old ex military and baton rouge native.


So if anything, the 17 year old was trained and brainwashed into islam by this guy.


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He qualified with the Army's standard rifle, the M16, earning the Expert Rifleman's Badge. This is the Army's highest of three levels of basic rifle marksmanship for a soldier.



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After psychological counseling, he admitted that he was lying at the earlier Virginia trial when he admitted to being the trigger man for every shooting. He said he lied to save Muhammad from a death penalty sentence.


So no, the 17 year old didnt shoot all of those people.
This post was edited on 12/9/24 at 3:05 pm
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
477263 posts
Posted on 12/9/24 at 3:02 pm to
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I don't see anyone LARPing as poor or a member of an aggrieved class.

That's the backbone of MAGA and always has been. Look closer.

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And if it's the election of free individuals?

They only have agency over themselves. That's why it works with religion and not government.
Posted by OMLandshark
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Posted on 12/9/24 at 3:02 pm to
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Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
87385 posts
Posted on 12/9/24 at 3:04 pm to
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That's the backbone of MAGA and always has been. Look closer.



We're both critics of MAGA to varying degrees, but I don't find this terribly charitable (or accurate).

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not government.


When did this become conventional wisdom?
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
20437 posts
Posted on 12/9/24 at 3:05 pm to
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I don't understand being so cautious to use a Fake ID at a Hostel but then not just laying low and avoiding eating inside McDonald's.

It’s not like he was at a Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme.

Posted by TripleBarrelBluff1
Sin City
Member since Aug 2024
2430 posts
Posted on 12/9/24 at 3:05 pm to
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That's the backbone of MAGA and always has been. Look closer.



The backbone of MAGA has always been mostly blue-collar low-IQ rural Americans.
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