Less than two weeks after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down on the streets of midtown Manhattan, his alleged assassin Luigi Mangione has been greeted not by universal condemnation for the brazen violence – but rather, a surge of enthusiastic support online for his so-called vigilante justice.
The Center for Internet Security (CIS), a nonprofit focused on cybersecurity that partners with government and law enforcement, released a new threat assessment bulletin warning that online support for the alleged shooter risks encouraging copycat attacks.
“Overwhelming bipartisan support for the attack” across social media “has resulted in several narratives encouraging similar violent activities directed at other healthcare executive teams,” CIS analysts said.
“The narratives supporting Mangione’s targeted attack likely serve to encourage like-minded individuals, particularly as Mangione continues to be viewed by the public as an ‘American hero’ and sympathetic figure,” CIS’ bulletin said.
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Mainstream media playbook 101. When your narrative isn’t taking hold lean on fear mongering.
I mean, remember defund the police?
That movement fully targeted cops.
This one is targeting the ruling class, and cops are worried.
It’s like that moment when you criticize a bad thing (like selfishness) and out of nowhere someone gets offended; they are basically telling on themselves.
That movement fully targeted cops.
I think if youd look into it you’d find its the protestors who were targetted. Not the cops.
I meant that the focus was about the police problem, this time it’s about CEOs yet cops get offended
God the police are so pathetically paranoid.
Literally shooting at acorns falling from a tree
You know, if they stopped doing shady shit and unjustifiably killing people they wouldn’t have to be. Pretty simple stuff. If they took protection and serve to heart people would truly appreciate them and they would get the attention they desire.
I’ve long said that police should be licensed to enforce the law the same way as doctors and nurses have to be licensed to provide medical care. They should have to go to school for 2+ years (usually +, 2 for rural / hard to staff areas), sit for board exams, and have to defend their license to that board if they’re caught getting up to no good (including improper record keeping). They should be encouraged to pay for malpractice insurance to hire a lawyer to defend that license in case of frivolous / wrongful challenges to their license, but if those reports keep happening (like if they’re toeing the line too closely), that insurance will get progressively too expensive to keep them afloat and push them out of practice. Sometimes even medical professionals forget that the boards aren’t there to serve us, they’re to protect the public from us, and I feel like the police could really benefit from a similar licensing body.
Protect and serve is puffery.
Like the Declaration of Independance.
Sounds great, has no impact in legal system.
Protect and serve is puffery.
Not at all. They protect and serve the ruling class.
“Waaah a dog barked at me” then they shoot the dog
They do it because they can.
It was comin right for us!
No one attacked law enforcement for this thought. They are just fear mongering the police so they will want to protect the rich more.
That and make it sound like those supporting him are dangerous.
If cops start acting like bodyguards for rich people, they will for the next one.
you act like they haven’t for decades
No, i mean like literally bodyguarding, not just doing what they’re told.
Start?
He (Luigi) literally went out of his way to praise law enforcement in his statement. So yeah, this is all just bullshit, and it’s bad for ya.
Tells you a lot about why some departments won’t accept cops over a certain IQ. You don’t want your enforcers questioning who they should be working for. You want easily manipulable peons.
We did and are mocking them for the amount of attention and resources the murder is getting solely due to the wealth of the target.
I’d say “pissed at” more than “mocking”.
Honestly this sounds like a reporter chop job to me. The only discrete mention of threats to law enforcement is protests, fake bomb threats, and Swatting.
They aren’t saying people are going to murder court officials and police.
Police “investigate” citizens and it’s fine, but we are targeting cops when we investigate them.
Information asymmetry is one of the tactics of power.
I wonder how many Luigis the 2nd trump presidency will create. I hope a lot. Call me whatever you want…
I mean, I’d only call you an accelerationist if you advocated for a second Trump president because that’s what you wanted. There’s a difference between predicting/speculating and acting to make something a reality.
Edit: apparently people think that thinking something will happen is the same as thinking that it should happen.
Edit 2: accelerationism is bad, and anyone who thinks otherwise is either an idiot or fascist.
This is where we are. Hit it, Jack.
I haven’t seen anyone encouraging or even so much as hinting that a copycat should target police or courts. Feels like something made up to try to drive a wedge between the bipartisan support by splintering off “back the blue” type of people.
This is it. Do not do class war. The rich want you to fight amongst yourselves
The class war has been going on since time immemorial and we aren’t winning. But when you recognize that fact and talk about rebellion, some people get all upset.
Have you looked around this thread?
Haven’t judges in general been extremely gentle with prosecutions involving Trump because of inordinate numbers of threats made to judges? And yet there’s no effort made to stop it? And somehow, this represents an existential threat to the courts?
well if they’re talking cyber only maybe i could see it, but the people working in our courts aren’t part of the problem Luigi lashed out against.
It would be both sad and pointless if people targeted the owner’s capital defense force thugs (police) and bribed middle managers (judges/politicians).
That would muddy the waters needlessly and further the cause of the owner class of keeping us at each other’s throats.
Our oligarchs whole thing is keeping us hostile towards one another. They don’t care who kills who, kids killing kids, cops killing poor, poor killing cops/judges/politicians, all livestock killing livestock to them, big woop. They only freak out when someone they consider a person is killed, there’s only 1 metric that determines that for them, and even most of their bought politicians don’t qualify on net worth.
I don’t see any reason to limit it to healthcare executives.
Hell Elons mom jumped in line as far as I’m concerned. The spoiled rich are so god damn detached from reality. I never imagined I’d be ok with mass murder but here we are.
Oh, lol…they think people are only going to target other healthcare CEO’s? That’s fucking adorable.
Hoping our boi Luigi set the stage for a revolution to finally start. Idk what I can do to fight the good fight other than to continue to be loud about all this shit.
At least the more of us are loud the safer each of us are. So free Luigi and may the proles get a little something without society collapsing. Either way it’s definitely a good show…
Radicalization is required as an existential evolution.
Let’s compare:
Osama Bin Ladin/Brian Robert Thompson
Number killed by own hands: 0/0
Number killed through orders to underlings: 3,000/51,000
Reason for killings: religious and geopolitical reasons/profit motive
Cause of death: execution by gunshot/execution by gunshot
Date of trial for killings: N/A / N/A
Date of issue of death sentence for killings: N/A / N/A
Response to killing: celebration by US president on national TV, celebration by commoners and elites / celebration by commoners, condemnation by elite.
Consequence to assassins for extra-judicial slaying: national praise / indicted for 2nd degree murder
Race and class: weird Arab guy in traditional garb / rich white man in a a suit
Osama bin Laden was pretty wealthy too. His family owns a massive Saudi construction company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Binladin_Group
Where does the 51,000 figure come from?
About 68,000 Americans die each year from improper denials of necessary care. With UHC’s share of the private health insurance market and higher than average denial of claims, a conservative figure is 40 UHC customers per day dying from denial of care. Brian Robert Thompson served as the CEO of UHC for approximately 3.5 years. That comes to about 51,000 people dead at the hands of Brian Robert Thompson.
Is it fair to pin all of UHC’s murders on one man? Maybe not. But he gleefully took credit for the record profits that came from UHC’s soaring denial rates. He earned an obscene salary and bonuses from the record profits that those deaths produced. He took credit for all the consequences of these deaths; it is entirely reasonable to hold him morally culpable for them.
Make no mistake. Brian Robert Thompson killed approximately 51,000 people, or about 17 times as many people as Osama Bin Ladin. Brian Robert Thompson suffered for seconds. Osama Bin Ladin’s victims suffered for about an hour. Brian Robert Thompson’s victims suffered for months to years. And this is just deaths, not those who suffered injury, debilitation, or bankruptcy at Brian Robert Thompson’s hands.
Thank you. I have been very interested in a number of attributable deaths, and the comparison is an added bonus
I would say “my pleasure,” but this brings me none. It’s not a perfect estimate, but it is a reasonable first order one. The real number is likely somewhere between 30k and 70k. But really, at this scale, the numbers lose all meaning.
Luigi Mangione did not have the right to serve as Thompon’s one man judge, jury, and executioner. But make no mistake, according to all available evidence, Brian Robert Thompson was a mass murderer an order of magnitude worse than Osama Bin Ladin. When he hit the pavement on that New York morning, he did not stop falling. He kept falling, and falling, and falling. Right into the Pit of Hell itself. If there is a Hell behind this mortal realm, he is almost certainly burning there right now.
Luigi Mangione did not have the right to serve as Thompon’s one man judge, jury, and executioner.
So what does a person do when the system is so corrupt and compromised that it will never deliver justice in cases like this? Write a strongly worded letter to your local paper?
I like your way of thinking
Many thanks for bringing to light these facts and comparisons.
Thanks for the response. Truly despicable the state of medical insurance.
unlikely.
fearmongering maybe.
