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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 59 points 10 months 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

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[–] Des@hexbear.net 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago

Luigi Mangione, go on Ben Shapiro.

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 33 points 10 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@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months 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 27 points 10 months 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Des@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

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[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 31 points 10 months ago

Further down he's retweeting anti-trans SWERF content

[–] Goblin@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

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

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