Did they consider not being evil shitbags?
But the profits!!! Won’t anyone think about the profits!
I hope they live in fear. What a racket.
Imagine how bad a bodyguard you are to take that job.
Did any of them repent of their sins against humanity?
Good. Something to consider when you’re making life and death decisions for other people in the future.
Excuse me, ma’am, I’m looking for a woman that looks just like you but is a redhead. Have you seen her?
“No…”
Damn. Okay. Thanks. gunman walks off, dissapointed
“Whew, glad I dyed my hair.”
I am totally down for this jobs program.
So it worked? Cool.
He didn’t kill anyone though. He’s innocent.
I know it’s uncooth to dehumanize anyone, but CEOs like Brian murdered (and the rest continuing to murder all day every day) more people than any serial killer in history because they oversaw automating the process of selling the confidence scheme and then murdering the marks when they threatened the profits of the confidence scheme when they got sick.
People like Jack the Ripper and Ted kaczynski were pathetic, inept hobbyists at mass murder next to an American “healthcare” ceo, and it isn’t close.
And we don’t hold them in even lower regard solely because they do it to get ever richer, which is the only practiced American religion.
As humans go, Brian was somewhere between a serial killer and an even larger scale mass murderer like Adolf Hitler in terms of his practiced inhumanity, maybe he should be dehumanized a little.
Maybe more like an Eichmann. He ran the Nazi trains on time and didn’t actually kill anyone. He facilitated the process and was happy to a part of the murderous system
Serial killers need patterns, process, and specific situations tailored to their individual neuroses. They are driven or compelled to kill to create or recreate certain events. That’s one thing that separates them from mass murderers or spree killers.
This guy was just in it for money. Mass murderer, yes, but there have been mafia hitmen with more morals than this fuck.
The scale of this, and the callousness of it, are far closer to Hitler and other genocidal maniacs because none of them wanted to get their hands dirty; they’d never kill anyone, personally. At least serial killers are into DIY and often are quite proud of their fucked up accomplishments.
It really says something about this guy’s absolute depravity when a comparison to a serial killer makes someone say “you know, that’s offensive to serial killers.”
I’m not disagreeing with what you said, I’m just frustrated because this guy was worse than serial killers and that is really something else.
He took out the trash. I agree.
Oof he isn’t convicted but the media isn’t saying “allegedly” in headlines for him. Shows how they’re trying to sway public opinion.
That’s actually very surprising - it starts with “DA says” which is presumably their defamation defense, but usually the lawyers wouldn’t let that pass.
Maybe there are no editors left working at BI. This was three days ago
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/business-insider-cuts/
Well, I’m sure their new AI editors will protect them against defamation lawsuits going forward…
He can sue them for defamation if he wants. Legally he is innocent right now.
Public opinion is already swayed. Luigi Mangione has become a symbol to a lot of people and as such the super-rich want to punish him.
I bet they are more scared of the symbol than they are of the thought that Mangione is innocent and the real shooter might still be free and plotting another hit.
The “real shooter” would only be one person, but a symbol has the power to create 10 or 100 more or to spark a violent rebellion and that they can’t let happen.
Innocent or not, it’s unfortunately Luigi Mangione they need punished in the most horrific and exemplar way possible.
I guess he’s not getting a fair trial, they’ll have to jury nullify the shit out of it.
Defense has brought it up multiple times already, it’s biasing the jury pool
When the public makes you a meme for assassination and substitutes your first name for the word “assassinate”, I’m going to give them a pass on dropping the “allegedly”.
If the public were swayable, they wouldn’t be talking about “luigiing” people.
Your pass is worthless
Was it supposed to be a direct quote from the DA? Even if so, it shouldn’t be in the headline.
Job creator.
I wonder if they allowed those bodyguards access to the executive health plan for cheap, or if they hired them as contract employees so as to stiff them on any employee benefits.
usually its private company that are hired at security details like these. they do pay good for personal security guards though
If that’s terrorism then what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?
If they want to have a discussion about labels, it’s not gonna go well in front of a jury.
At every step defense should be asking the jury:
If you had been killed, would this be happening? Why are lives valued differently
Free enterprise, just like the Atlantic slave trade and the genocide of the Indians.
… what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?
The term I’ve heard for this is social murder:
… an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.
Social murder. It’s a term originally used by Friedrich Engels nearly 200 years ago, yet still relevant today. Essentially it’s indirect deaths caused by capitalism. Gives some plausible deniability to the likes of United Healthcare because it’s much easier to obfuscate the reason behind somebody’s death when the cause was neglect or denial of life saving care.
Pfft! Hahaha! Good! Better be scared with how many people THEY murder all the time!
what defendant considered a deadly greed-fueled cartel," Seidemann wrote.
I mean, what are they, then?
Every individual word is true, that is the dystopian reality we live in, but even when true they’re depending on it sounding too conspiratorial and therefore not credible. The nerve of these people.
Parasites who deserve to be tossed in a vat of acid?
what these execs do to the American public is more worth of a terrorism charge than anything mangione ever did.
