deeper-sadness

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    593 months ago

    Man being questioned is identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione published at 11:43

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/crk0ep61p2mt?post=asset%3Acea5213a-550e-420e-990d-46479ea87642#post

    The man being questioned by police in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, police city commissioner of New York City, Jessica Tisch says.

    Mangione was reportedly found with an ID that had his name on it, along with a fake ID. He was detained at a McDonald’s on Monday morning in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

    He has not been charged in connection with the shooting.

    This seems to be his twitter: https://xcancel.com/pepmangione

    The smile definitely looks the same. I’ve been googling the guy and he was valedictorian of his high school class. No visible ideological leaning from the twitter account which has a history going back to 2022.

    • MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      I see that he has a spinal fusion located on his lumbar back on his twitter account banner. Yeah, going through that in your teens or 20s will make you hate the healthcare insurance industry… Don’t ask how I know that. Or do actually, I’m prepared to talk about such.

        • EstraDoll [she/her]
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          303 months ago

          no, when there’s a national manhunt after me, i want them to find my find my hexbear account and think “damn this girl funny and has good takes and posts a good hamster”

          • miz [any, any]
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            83 months ago

            liz-society if you do adventurism we disavow

            ypg-brace but if you do

            liz-society don’t

            ypg-brace but IF you do…

            liz-society we disavow and you’re not a real poster on hexbear, just a lurker.

            ypg-brace so don’t do it. But if you do…

            liz-society we disavow

            spoiler

            thank you ChestRockwell for this amazing emoji rendering of TrueAnon Ep 406

        • LaughingLion [any, any]
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          83 months ago

          if i ever get busted for something i deliberately want people to see my goodreads reviews of trashy fantasy and ultra-smut

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      3 months ago

      no ideological leaning but someone who is skimming dark enlightenment transhuman/AI adjacent bullshit.

      fuck he’s fash isn’t he fuck fuck

      (maybe not. sorry im going through some things reading his twitter. dude is a mess. god americans wtf. it’s like some combo of dark enlightenment and anti-capitalist with a side of eco lib)

      • Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]
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        533 months ago

        Yeah, it looks like he is atleast not our kinda guy. Theres antifeminist shit and wanking about Rome in there. Fuck this shit, fuck this country.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        333 months ago

        I picked up on the Futurology Guy stuff, the AI fetishism, and the light references to Malthusian overpopulation shit. He strikes me as a vaguely right-wing libertarian, but I didn’t see enough from that 5 minute glance at his twitter to really classify him or say how far into that pipeline he is.

      • space_comrade [he/him]
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        203 months ago

        fuck he’s fash isn’t he fuck fuck

        I don’t think so but seems like he’s at least halfway there with all the chud bazinga elon shit he’s reposting.

        • Hohsia [any]
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          293 months ago

          Looks like this site has entered the box ticking phase of leftism to “claim” people

          Extremely nauseating, childish and unproductive. Wait until you learn about what actual war entails! Sometimes it’s briefly siding with people you have ideological disagreements with against a common enemy

          • space_comrade [he/him]
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            3 months ago

            Yeah people do that a lot here. I remember people being disappointed in Greta because she said some lib shit a month after mentioning the word “imperialism” once. I don’t think people really get how much of an extreme minority their political position is.

            Most people don’t really think about and deliberately form their ideology as much as we do here, they just absorb disparate ideas based on their life circumstances and what kind of propaganda they’re exposed to. Even if you can coax a leftist viewpoint out of most people here and there doesn’t mean they’re anywhere close to you ideologically.

              • Des [she/her, they/them]
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                3 months ago

                it’s more just whiplash. i think if he was just a baseline activist lib or apolitical party guy or even just an actual libertarian live-and-let live guy it wouldn’t be as bad

                nobody was expecting a marxist leninist or ancom.

          • quarrk [he/him]
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            43 months ago

            Nah this guy just has an extremely common hatred of healthcare CEOs which transcends political boundaries. Nothing from his Twitter screams leftist. Liking Atlas Shrugged and Ted Kaczynski is right-libertarian shit

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      He retweeted some China fearmongering blog post, so probably not left leaning. Seems like typical computer science stem type

      Also accusing Richard Dawkins of being woke or something:

    • mudpuppy [it/its, she/her]
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      3 months ago

      it doesn’t mean much that the smile looks the same, the snitch called specifically because he thought he looked the same. if anything it makes it less likely, because it was really unlikely for those smile pictures to be of the right guy, he wouldn’t have been walking around wearing the same outfit but slightly different the next day

      also he’s posting about investment opportunities…?

      i really get the feeling this was going to be a copycat with a different ideology

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        god i hope so. i mean there’s not one post about healthcare and nothing indicating this guy is anything but a full on capitalist bootlicker “free thinker” christian anti-DEI incel

        kind of guy to do a mass shooting or “targeted” killings of women not this

        • mudpuppy [it/its, she/her]
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          183 months ago

          part of my reasoning is he didn’t say the manifesto was specifically about the healthcare industry, but “some ill will toward corporate america”. that could mean a million different things, like it could be anti-DEI even. the shooter specifically linked back to a book that was specifically about the healthcare industry.

          • Hermes [none/use name]
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            233 months ago

            the DDD bullets really make me think someone with this guys background is unlikely. Also, if he was an anti-DEI guy, why would he kill an old white CEO?

          • Des [she/her, they/them]
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            yep it’s going to be woke CCP agents are destroying our pure American capitalism and healthcare industry and he killed the CEO because the AI he deployed sucked and dude thinks he could have written a better one or some shit

      • miz [any, any]
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        163 months ago

        the copycat idea fits a lot of inconsistencies here, but the resemblance is pretty strong. I don’t know what to think rn

        • gueybana [any]
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          223 months ago

          It’s too strong a coincidence that the picture of the smiling suspect who everyone though was not the real killer also happens to be a copycat. Maybe the cops circulated that picture after finding a guy to pin this on but I dunno, just seems too elaborate for the NYPD.

          The delay, deny, depose engravings don’t seem like they’d be written by someone with this dude’s ideology but shrug-outta-hecks

          • miz [any, any]
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            113 months ago

            well I’d imagine they immediately churned the image they had through every facial recognition program they could across their whole database of ID photographs etc, so finding a similar-looking patsy is not the biggest hurdle

            • gueybana [any]
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              123 months ago

              And then plant this guy in a western Pen McDonalds with a suppressor and multiple IDs?

              • qaopjlll [he/him]
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                3 months ago

                You say that as if you think the pigs wouldn’t or couldn’t fabricate that evidence. Only thing I believe for certain at this point is they found him at McD’s in Altoona

              • CrawlMarks [he/him]
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                43 months ago

                This doesn’t necessarily strike me as a weird load out here in America. I am thinking there area few guys like that in every city. Just vibin

          • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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            23 months ago

            I think that picture went out too soon for it to be a situation where the detectives had already concluded the case was unsolvable and they need to go find a warm body to throw in prison to save face.

    • Goblin [any]
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      283 months ago

      At least he has good taste in pokemon, breloom is pretty cool. Dudes got those worms in him for sure lmao

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      123 months ago

      Seems like he is at least familiar with Pennsylvania. Studied at UPenn in Philly.