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Some quick edits of Luigi's perp walk photos

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But what was the CEO wearing at the time of the attack?

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Former prisoners & COs reveal that Luigi's new look was likely done by fellow inmates & is a symbol to show that they support & protect him.🥺🥺 ❤️ Huge blow to all the haters who for weeks have been fantasizing about Luigi getting assaulted in prison. lol

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I am having so much fun watching rich people realize that half of our country's fighting age population hates their fucking guts. Guess it's hard to see people getting pushed too far from an ivory tower.

The people claiming to be horrified by the violence are not to be taken seriously, because they were happy as clams to keep letting Brian Thompson drop bodies. They don't actually give a shit that someone died, they're just worried the poors might get healthcare.

If they actually cared about people dying, they wouldn't be demonizing Luigi. He killed one of the biggest mass murders in the country and that's the gospel fucking truth. Just because our government made that shit legal does not change the reality that Brian Thompson was a serial killer, and so is every health insurance CEO.

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I'm 99% sure that Luigi dude isn't the shooter. I think we should let him go and if it happens again, then MAYBE he is, but we should still let him free and see if it happens a third time. And if THAT happens, then I would say that we should at least consider him as a suspect. But I just think we should be really, REALLY sure first, ya know?

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All these development about the Luigi and Briana conundrum made me remember this tweet and it applies to the current situation so much

The people are finally asking why the fuck the orphan crushing machine exists

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Send Luigi a Christmas card:

Luigi Mangione 52503-511 MDC Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center P.O. Box 329002 Brooklyn, NY 11232

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every single comment on this post has been nuked by reddit.

per what reddit mods have said, they are apparently cracking down on anything glorifying Luigi Mangione or "promoting violence".

so we're absolutely clear on reddit's opinion of "promoting violence":

r/CombatFootage, which regularly shares high definition, extremely graphic war footage, including drones dropping grenades on prone soldiers in Ukraine/Russia and people having limbs being blown off by explosions, has 1,761,375 subscribers. It is one of the top 500 subreddits by subscribers and in the Top 60 NSFW subreddits.

The Columbine Shooters have a subreddit for discussing the Columbine Killers and their families with over 33,000 members. It has been active since May 5th, 2020.

The Sandy Hook shooter has a subreddit dedicated to discussing him with 3,551 members. Here are some of the posts, in addition to pictures of him as a child. It has been active since December 3rd, 2021. he is also described by a mod of the subreddit as "not a pedophile, but an ephebophile."

The Pennsylvania Weis Markets shooter has a subreddit dedicated to discussing him with 500~ members. It has been active since April 15th, 2022.

The Apalachee High School shooter has a subreddit dedicated to discussing him with 260~ users. It was created the day of the shooting, September 4th, 2024.

if you dig through the frequent contributors to these subreddits, you will find that the vast amount of crossover from the users occurs in communities such as r/teenagers, r/highschool, r/roblox and a wide variety of subreddits dedicated to self harm, severe mental health struggles and other mass killers or topics related to them. totally normal stuff that reddit allows.

this is without seeking out all of the alt-right rat nests that have buried themselves underneath somewhat innocuous-looking community names pushing dog whistles and avoiding overt calls for violence.

every last one of these social media platforms, including the one that we are on, overtly allows glorification and deification of the most notorious, mentally unwell, violent, extremist mass killers in modern history. but if you show any kind of approval of what Luigi Mangione is accused of doing, you are censored not in days, but hours.

i sincerely hope this opens the eyes of people who previously didn't see the forest for the trees. this is what is meant by “they got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war.” not that our cultures aren't significant or that we don't have differences, but that ultimately, the divide among us lies in wealth, not in skin color.

as long as the "poors" are killing each other, there's no reason for alarm or concern. it's only when the roles are reversed that we see action taken or examples made of people like Luigi Mangione.

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My grandma got cancer, and had to go through months and months of chemo. The insurance only paid for some of it. My grandparents spent their entire life savings to pay for my grandma's cancer treatment. Now, my grandparents are on social security and Medicare, and just trying to scrape by and save as much money as they can.

We found out a few months ago that my grandpa likely has dementia. And they have no money for care because they spent it all on my grandma's cancer treatment.

People's life savings should not be spent on medical bills! We do not work most of our lives, pay insurance most of our lives, only to have to spend all of our savings on medical bills that insurance should pay for.

Health Insurance companies comit theft. We pay them money out of every paycheck, just in case of a life-threatening injury or disease. And then when the unthinkable happens, we are told that our claim is denied. And then after everything, we keep paying for insurance! We paid the insurance company, and now they keep our money and tell us they won't do the thing we paid them for. THIS IS THEFT.

If I pay a house cleaner to pay my house, and they see the house and decide they can't clean it after all, they would give my money back! If they kept my money and didn't clean my house, that would be theft! How can health insurance companies get away with theft on such a large scale?

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Another piece of great journalism by Ken Klippenstein (he was the journalist who published Luigi Mangione's actual 262 word manifesto and not the fake 3 page one circulating online), PLEASE read the full article.

Some excerpts:

Characteristically out-of-touch, the communications guidance directs employees to say that their mission includes “ensuring that everyone we have the privilege to service has access to the health care they need.” Not being able to access care is, of course, the entire reason so many people are furious at the health insurance industry in the first place. The same glib tone is evident throughout the talking points, one of which instructs employees to refer to the late CEO Thompson as “our esteemed colleague” and a “highly respected professional” — descriptions that are quite different than those I’ve heard from the rank-and-file employees I interviewed.

Leaked UHC talking points for employees

The guidance makes specific mention of “(social)media reports on claim denial rates,” directing employees to basically say they’re fake news. “The information circulating online about our claims is false,” one talking point reads. “A chart being widely spread on social media is false.” These assertions, however, make no reference to any specific “information,” so it’s impossible to know which social media claims they’re saying are false. I asked UnitedHealthcare’s communications department which specific social media claims they’re referring to (and to comment on the talking points in general), but they did not respond.

Despite all the sunny talk, there’s one type of query employees are told not to engage with under any circumstances. “If you receive a call from anyone in the media, do not engage,” the guidance states. This has been a particular focus of the company, including Andrew Witty, CEO of parent company United Health Group. This past weekend, Witty gave a company address complaining about the “aggressive” coverage, telling employees, “just don’t engage with the media,” as I previously reported.

To give you a sense of how many angry calls the company is getting, in a section on “abusive” calls, the talking points recommend employees turn off their headsets “to prevent incoming calls while you are on break.” I do feel bad for the rank-and-file employees, many of whom express the exact same criticisms of the company’s practices as the general public, based on my interviews with them. As usual, ordinary people are made to take the heat for decisions made in boardrooms. Executives get to go on living in blissful ignorance of the rage the public feels, instead living in a state of pleasant unreality where their late CEO was “esteemed” and “highly respected” by all.

Get em Mr Klippenstein

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I got roofied at brunch and went completely unconscious on the bathroom floor of the restaurant. Medics were called and could not rouse me. They put me in ambulance and took me to the hospital where my diagnosis was confirmed.

I remember none of this, not even going home - the entire day was lost to me… but I got the $3,000 ambulance bill to prove it, plus the actual hospital stay bill which was a similar cost… and this is WITH insurance 🥰 Welcome to America