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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 59 points 1 week ago (10 children)

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@hexbear.net 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago

This is the kind of environmental storytelling indie devs put in a game specifically made for a Jacob Geller essay.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

same. but the the institution that did it to me (or stopped me from getting emergency care after i fractured it) made me into the person i am today and not a fascist

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

I, and I cannot stress this enough, can fix him.

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[–] KimJongGoku@hexbear.net 55 points 1 week ago (2 children)

ohnoes His goodreads where he's flagged Atlas Shrugged as "want to read" and shares his opinions about a-guy

[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

a reminder to cover your tracks online folks, especially if they're cringe

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week 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

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

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] WorkingClassCorpse@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Looks like his account was changed to private

[–] Des@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] hellyesbrother@hexbear.net 64 points 1 week ago

The fact that even terminally online, right wing tech bros think the U.S. healthcare system is unethical speaks volumes.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

can't have nice things. crying about DEI. well at least the right has a new folk hero hope they enjoy

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Luigi Mangione, go on Ben Shapiro.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He's not explicitly tied to any ideology, just your average confused mid 20s American dude. That means lots of rightwing bullshit, it appears to just permiate the air over there.

[–] Bidentime@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

It's the only air over there. The "left" in the past decade has completely abandoned that space

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He’s anti trans too, based on an April 5 retweet

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

This dumbass shit too

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week 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@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Des@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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:

[–] osmosis4493@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

Further down he's retweeting anti-trans SWERF content

[–] mudpuppy@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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?

[–] mudpuppy@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

yeah exactly. copycat for sure, or just framed.

[–] gueybana@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Maybe he's had a come to jesus moment in the past 6 months?

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[–] Des@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

I dunno, according to this article (https://www.axios.com/2024/12/09/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-altoona) the fake ID they found on him was the same one used in the New York hotel they saw the shooter in.

It was extremely dumb to not get rid of the incriminating evidence.

[–] mudpuppy@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

we always said those pics were definitely not the shooter, right

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Many people have been saying that, but you won't hear from people like me who have been reserving conclusions.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] gueybana@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

Maybe the tech bro who shot a CEO in broad daylight is just kind of a weird guy

[–] miz@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] osmosis4493@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

🤓: "Hello fine day isn't it officer?"

🐷: "Here hold this"

[–] gueybana@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] qaopjlll@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

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[–] Goblin@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Seems to be him, based on brows, eyes, nose, and smile

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

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

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