Is the US a dystopia?

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Luigi Mangione might be a fuckin weird dipshit but you have to separate the art from the artist

sackler and venzetti

Impact-wise, him not having social media full of Antifa/BLM/lefty memes somewhat blunts his usefulness to the right. (In the same way the lack of a clear political pedigree did for the two would-be Trump assassins.) The incoming administration is still going to hound lefty activists, obv. But I'm sure they'd love for this guy to be a leftist poster boy.

dunno why exactly, it doesn't seem like very much of this country thinks murdering healthcare CEOs is actually wrong

hopefully this will teach everyone that thiel-pilled ivy league grads are not to be trusted

Too late for that — JDV is our next vp :(

unless...

now is the time, Mario

it's-a me, Assassino!

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Luigi Mangione might be a fuckin weird dipshit but you have to separate the art from the artist

― bad love's all you'll get from me (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 December 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Yes let's keep the eye on the ball here

I figured the Unabomber, but dumber, would be about the closest analog for the shooter.

We'll find out what actually happened to him soon enough.

There’s a very sad story here, one that likely gets to the heart of the corruption and dehumanization in the healthcare insurance industry. pic.twitter.com/tcqcuPxORf

— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) December 9, 2024

my evidence for dystopia is the fact that a white supremacist fuck walked after meting out vigilante murder on a mentally ill black man on the same day that police caught the murderer whose act was the most justifiable assassination in recent memory, and this latter man, a hero, will probably get life in prison while the white supremacist fuckwad murderer will continue to crap up the planet.

pic.twitter.com/AnzvvyX9HJ

— Charlotte E. Rosen (@CharlotteERosen) December 9, 2024

Went through the trouble of googling "luigi mangione penn," clicking on a Facebook link, screenshotting the post, uploading it via Imgur, and posting the image in this thread ... and you have to go and embed someone else's tweet smh

can’t believe im typing this but there is a non-zero chance that the CEO shooter did it because of a paul skallas tweet pic.twitter.com/xjmhx9kfVD

— johnny (@bigrackspart7) December 9, 2024

at least he can polish the fenders

Luigi Mangione left a note on the door

is assassination lindy xp

Not sure who Paul Skallas is, but isn't that tweet from after the shooting?

Went through the trouble of googling "luigi mangione penn," clicking on a Facebook link, screenshotting the post, uploading it via Imgur, and posting the image in this thread ... and you have to go and embed someone else's tweet smh

― jaymc, Monday, 9 December 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Like Luigi I am being efficient.

The Omega Mangione

The Mangione Who Wasn't There

The Mangione Who Sold the World

The Mangionian Candidate

So I think this is what it takes for my timeline to reach some kind of apocalypse.

- Shooter kills CEO, evades policy fairly easily in the aftermath
- Caught a week later and it turns out he is not some anarcho commie.

Instead:

- Italian-American
- Actually called Luigi!!
- Has a six pack, sorta smart (reads books, has a science related degree, can do maths) but all over the place. Gives an "I can fix him".
- Wrote a two page manifesto (that's good going for a science guy, makes an effort)
- Actually called LUIGI (again)!
- Good in the sack, has a big dick, apparently.

Timeline done tbh.

Alternate timeline Hunter Biden

Atlas Shrugged vs Infinite Jest

Goodreads profile is private I am devastated

I'm just now reading about the Lindy effect, and apparently it was coined by comedians in the 60s at Lindy's deli in Manhattan.

And the historic location of that deli on Broadway and 51st Street is like a block away from the New York Hilton Midtown where the murder happened.

Mug shot dropped

https://boutiquemario.fr/55-medium_default/luigi-geant.jpg

I’m going to post Luigi’s Vampire Castle now so when someone else says it I have a timestamp

so let me get this straight, they found this guy when he got the cops called on him for "acting suspicious" at a McDonalds, whereupon they found both the murder weapon and the mainfesto. despite managing to carry out the assassination and escape while leaving the cops with no leads he just so happened to be carrying all that evidence on him while grabbing a Big Mac. boy howdy what a lucky break that was!!

thanks to the keen eye of the fry cook, no less.. probably pulling apple pies out of the fryer

his family own TWO country clubs, that's right TWO country clubs

https://images.app.goo.gl/Pby2CM7tmBgrihYr6

my family owns three country clubs two is cool too tho

It's weird, I don't remember ever going to New York and murdering anybody but these cops came up to me and showed me this letter I wrote and apparently my name is also Luigi so I guess I am going to jail

I am so glad I remained on Twitter when all my nice, sane friends left. This is my reward.

— Moniza Hossain (@moniza_hossain) December 9, 2024

That's the guy's sister, apparently..

look at the shooter's sister's IG STORY rn lmaooooo pic.twitter.com/3GyfsdDPC6

— throb gronkowski (@juanyfbaby) December 9, 2024

the x-ray he has on his twitter profile shows an L5-S1 spondylolysis/spondylolisthesis, with a fairly significant slip forward of L5 over S1. The plate and screws are a common surgery to attempt to arrest it. The listhesis can result in peripheral nerve compression

It's a side view of the lumbosacral spine, the lumbral segments are 1-5 and the sacrum is a solid unit below them, curving back and then around forward, ending in the coccyx (not shown)

the manifesto: https://archive.is/7jUsF#selection-1051.0-1054.0

weirdly my reaction to the photo is to not feel as bad about not getting any action, on the grounds that this dude is definitely hotter than me

that's probably a bad take, right?

there don't seem to be any bad takes on the situation

"...United Healthcare changes the rules to suit their own profits. They think they make the rules, and think that because it’s legal that no one can punish them.
They think there’s no one out there who will stop them."

i'd like to think of this as a safe space for bad takes.

woah at that manifesto

Yeah

Very "everyman".... feel for the guy

A lot of bunk in that manifesto, but the blow by blow of his mother’s healthcare tragedy is harrowing. And then the money quote:

“That’s where UnitedHealthcare went wrong. They violated their contract with my mother, with me, and tens of millions of other Americans. This threat to my own health, my family’s health, and the health of our country’s people requires me to respond with an act of war.”

yep