US Authoritarianism

I've very suspicious of how all this info about him is being brought to me.

If anything it sounded like he wanted to be a game dev and gave up on it (probably because it actually kind of sucks as a cog in a AAA company) and that sounds like a ton of people I know.

Maybe you relate to people who went to a $40k/year private high school. I certainly don’t. I even interned as a math teacher at such a school.

Try getting kids to study algebra when they just missed 2 months of school on a vacation with their parents backpacking through Europe.

You only say he is relatable because he wanted to kill a rich guy who profited by being terrible.

Really? This is just the story I thought everyone was expecting?

Wow. She had enough money to live in a million dollar house, send her kids to expensive prep schools but that kind of money is nothing in the face of severe medical expenses in the US of A. It’s worth remembering that if you don’t have 10’s of millions or really hundreds of millions of dollars, you’re a bad medical situation away from physical, mental and financial ruin.

I’m glad they took him alive, and that the jury will get to hear/read this.

Can we stop posting this? Likely fake. It has been circulated as the manifesto, but is roughly 1500 words despite authorities stating the real one is handwritten and 262 words.

Also if you look at snapshot history, there are only any from today and yesterday.

Just feel the need to remind everyone that this is unverified and Ken Klippensten on Bluesky is saying he does think it's real

Christ... What a grim read. :(

Holy fuck. Luigi Mangione is a hero. May he live to find a cure for his pain, and may his name inspire us to take action.

Oh my god, his mother’s story is nearly identical to mine, down to the same tests and meds (steroids don’t work, and now I take gabapentin and tizanidine, along with enough acetaminophen to thoroughly wreck my liver). My neuropathy is secondary to other things, but there’s no hope of relief because care has become too expensive.

I know too well we’re all just one health incident away from ruin. I was in tech and had a good career, which is gone now – along with my health insurance, since it was tied to my job. Medicare is broken, and I can’t afford the required gap insurance. I’ve become destitute, can’t afford food or copays, and am now staring down homelessness. Of course the stress of it all just makes my health worse.

I fully understand and empathise with him. It’s unfair and tragic that the system has pushed him to this, all so greedy sociopaths can become richer.