Prosecutors say Luigi Mangione, accused of killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare on a Manhattan sidewalk, has inspired others to embrace violence over reasoned debate.

Wtf is "reasoned debate" supposed to mean when you're discussing for-profit, killing machine, only making money for investors and CEOs, healthcare????

Jfc.

From a Comicon vendor booth.

What has that got to do with the crime or anything else?

Oh no. people hate CEO news at 1:00.

Luigi did not create a general disdain for the insurance industry. The insurance industry did that on its own.

There was no crime.

Luigi Mangione may not be a “hero”, but healthcare insurance executives are surely villains, and they, as well as billionaires, should not exist, because they represent an existential threat to us all.

I went to the dentist a few months ago to get a couple fillings. I haven't had insurance for years so I haven't had the chance to go. They said after I was done that it'd be something like $20 with insurance. Fast forward to two weeks ago I went into the dentist for a normal cleaning and before I even sit in the chair I'm being told that I still owe $900 from my last visit. They told me that my insurance denied my claim and that I had to pay in full. Was it a lot? Not really. But that's also almost an entire paycheck for me. And as someone that lives basically paycheck to paycheck it can make a huge difference.

This is exactly why I haven't been to the dentist in three years. I hadn't had insurance and didn't want to pay a ridiculous amount just to get a filling or two. Figured now that I have insurance through work I can start getting my teeth sorted. Felt so pissed off that I didn't even set up another appointment since they'll probably deny me again 4 months later.

And after all that, I'm sure you can guess what insurance company they provide through my job. Here's hoping I don't get that diabetes that runs in my family.

The more, the merrier.

By "prosecutors", I wondered if it was just some political commentator who was a prosecutor. Nope. It's the prosecutors for this case in one of their filings:

The prosecution outlined the threat in a filing late Wednesday on a procedural matter in federal court in Manhattan, where they plan to try to convince a jury that Mangione deserves death. No federal trial date has been set.

In their filing Wednesday, prosecutors wrote that Mangione poses a continuing danger in part because he seeks to influence others.

“Simply put, the defendant hoped to normalize the use of violence to achieve ideological or political objectives,” they said. “Since the murder, certain quarters of the public — who openly identify as acolytes of the defendant — have increasingly begun to view violence as an acceptable, or even necessary, substitute for reasoned political disagreement.”

They're saying that he deserves to die not because of his actions, but because of what he represents. (I guess in their eyes, there is no such thing as a martyr.)

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in April that she was directing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for “an act of political violence” and a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”

So, they're being ordered by Pam Bondi to seek the death penalty. Pam Bondi, who was appointed by Trump, and who appears to be trying her best to suppress evidence about Trump's past of raping children.

So, really, what do these prosecutors represent?

I know that if I was a prosecutor, and I was in some trolley problem situation where I had two cases, one where a person killed a CEO, and one where a person raped a child, and I was forced to prosecute only one and let the other go, I'd prosecute the child rapist without any hesitation.

I believe there is talk of that evidence being mishandled or planted

I just feel like Blackstone locks their shit down hard enough no one could just "wander in" with a rifle...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_Inc.

You don't do over 13 billion in gross annual revenue without springing for a security service.

But even assuming that were an accident, that means the federal government sees any death of a high level executive of a billion dollar corporation as a horrible crime of itself completely different from a regular murder. Even if they're not the intended target.

It's a sentiment most people arrive at even if they can't verbalize or fully understand it.

And it's not helping them. Cracking down on the populace is the absolute worst thing to be doing now, thousands of years have produced more than enough examples.

On a basic level people are going to start thinking of everyone that's not a billionaire as "us" and everyone working with billionaires in a high level "them".

The rest is just the natural result of how humans are wired, and why the wealthy try so hard to make us draw the us/them lines literally anywhere else.

But there's no just war but a class war, and eventually the majority remember that.

If he did then we might not be as fucked as it looks like we are. But so far, I'm not seeing it happening. The rich aren't scared enough.

I sure as fuck wish it did, where are these copycats?

Better not execute him and make him a martyr, then

I was hoping it would, unfortunately I don't think it has because greedy CEOs are still a problem.

I feel like this article is just another one trying to push the shane was after the nfl when he did not shoot a woman leaving the elevator he entered but then immediately shot a ceo when he got off the elevator. Yeah they found a note.

Innocent men.

We literally refer to it as “getting Luigi’d”.