Is chilling how thenwhole internet is fed up a story of a man before his sentence. If this guy is innocent his whole life is already exposed forever just for memes and a penny. We are the big brother and we suck.
Anon reads the news
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S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The “we did it reddit!” phrase comes from redditors trying to track down the boston bombing. Redditors found a guy they strongly suspected, then found personal info on them and began harrassing him, including death threats.
Imagine being that person accused! One day just living life, the next experiencing a horrible bombing, the next being tracked down by a misguided internet randos on a manhunt.
This is why having some basic privacy is important before you need it
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
it wasnt the internet that exposed him to the media, it was the police and feds who sold him out to the media. There is no “we did it” here. “They” did it.
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I’m sorry, but just one detail from what I’m seeing on the linked article - “that person” committed suicide a month before any of that went down. I don’t think it invalidates the point, even though being alive and present to be interrogated might’ve changed things, but it comes off comical when talking about how horrible the experience must’ve been.
JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
im big skeptical of the photos and videos they’ve been circulating. everything ab6this investigation is sus.
DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah the real guy is gone, the cops are finding someone to blame it on because they are afraid of continuing to totally fumble the bag.
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 week ago
we
MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It just shows anyone can do the right thing
superkret@feddit.org 1 week ago
He did everything right and believed in the system.
And then he himself, or someone close to him, got a diagnosis that ensured life-long medical debt and poverty.HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 week ago
He seems to have had a spinal surgery and had pins put in his spine. Books he’s looked at seems to indicate chronic pain and fights with insurance companies.
It was exactly what every single person thought who wasn’t paid to think otherwise.
sudoshakes@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Had exact same fusion performed.
4 screws, 2 rods to connect them, and a 3-d sintered titanium cage between the vertebrae.
I can attest to the chronic pain and wanting to armor a bulldozer
grahamja@reddthat.com 1 week ago
The movie Falling Down, but replace terrible temper with chronic back pain.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The privatized healthcare system happened.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The simplest answer is he was pissed at UHC for denying medical claims for him or the ones he loved, and the CEO had dialed up the denials so an obvious target.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
iirc on one of his social medias the banner was a back X-ray with medical nails or screws in it. I assume he (or someone he knows) was having back issues and got denied.
Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world 1 week ago
His former college roommate said he always struggled with back problems which is one reason he tried to work out so much
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week ago
Either Luigi ain’t the guy, or bro got cancer or some shit and had United health insurance.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I saw a post earlier supposedly showing Luigi’s neck X-rays after some sort of surgery to install support implants of some sort.
Disclaimer: Just like most everyone else online, I can’t confirm or deny a damn thing.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 week ago
that’s the lower spine and tailbone
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
This is what he left as a last message apparently…
The Allopathic Complex and Its Consequences luigi mangione’s last words LM Dec 09, 2024
The second amendment means I am my own chief executive and commander in chief of my own military. I authorize my own act of self-defense in response to a hostile entity making war on me and my family. Nelson Mandela says no form of viooence can be excused. Camus says it’s all the same, whether you live or die or have a cup of coffee. MLK says violence never brings permanent peace. Gandhi says that non-violence is the mightiest power available to mankind. That’s who they tell you are heroes. That’s who our revolutionaries are. Yet is that not capitalistic? Non-violence keeps the system working at full speed ahead. What did it get us. Look in the mirror. They want us to be non-violent, so that they can grow fat off the blood they take from us. The only way out is through. Not all of us will make it. Each of us is our own chief executive. You have to decide what you will tolerate. In Gladiator 1 Maximus cuts into the military tattoo that identifies him as part of the roman legion. His friend asks “Is that the sign of your god?” As Maximus carves deeper into his own flesh, as his own blood drips down his skin, Maximus smiles and nods yes. The tattoo represents the emperor, who is god. The god emperor has made himself part of Maximus’s own flesh. The only way to destroy the emperor is to destroy himself. Maximus smiles through the pain because he knows it is worth it. These might be my last words. I don’t know when they will come for me. I will resist them at any cost. That’s why I smile through the pain.
They diagnosed my mother with severe neuropathy when she was forty-one years old. She said it started ten years before that with burning sensations in her feet and occasional sharp stabbing pains. At first the pain would last a few moments, then fade to tingling, then numbness, then fade to nothing a few days later. The first time the pain came she ignored it. Then it came a couple times a year and she ignored it. Then every couple months. Then a couple times a month. Then a couple times a week. At that point by the time the tingling faded to numbness, the pain would start, and the discomfort was constant. At that point even going from the couch to the kitchen to make her own lunch became a major endeavor She started with ibuprofen, until the stomach aches and acid reflux made her switch to acetaminophen. Then the headaches and barely sleeping made her switch back to ibuprofen. The first doctor said it was psychosomatic. Nothing was wrong. She needed to relax, destress, sleep more. The second doctor said it was a compressed nerve in her spine. She needed back surgery. It would cost $180,000. Recovery would be six months minimum before walking again. Twelve months for full potential recovery, and she would never lift more than ten pounds of weight again. The third doctor performed a Nerve Conduction Study, Electromyography, MRI, and blood tests. Each test cost $800 to $1200. She hit the $6000 deductible of her UnitedHealthcare plan in October. Then the doctor went on vacation, and my mother wasn’t able to resume tests until January when her deductible reset. The tests showed severe neuropathy. The $180,000 surgery would have had no effect. They prescribed opioids for the pain. At first the pain relief was worth the price of constant mental fog and constipation. She didn’t tell me about that until later. All I remember is we took a trip for the first time in years, when she drove me to Monterey to go to the aquarium. I saw an otter in real life, swimming on its back. We left at 7am and listened to Green Day on the four-hour car ride. Over time, the opioids stopped working. They made her MORE sensitive to pain, and she felt withdrawal symptoms after just two or three hours. Then gabapentin. By now the pain was so bad she couldn’t exercise, which compounded the weight gain from the slowed metabolic rate and hormonal shifts. And it barely helped the pain, and made her so fatigued she would go an entire day without getting out of bed. Then Corticosteroids. Which didn’t even work. The pain was so bad I would hear my mother wake up in the night screaming in pain. I would run into her room, asking if she’s OK. Eventually I stopped getting up. She’d yell out anguished shrieks of wordless pain or the word “fuck” stretched and distended to its limits. I’d turn over and go back to sleep. All of this while they bled us dry with follow-up appointment after follow-up appointment, specialist consultations, and more imagine scans. Each appointment was promised to be fully covered, until the insurance claims were delayed and denied. Allopathic medicine did nothing to help my mother’s suffering. Yet it is the foundation of our entire society. My mother told me that on a good day the nerve pain was like her legs were immersed in ice water. On a bad day it felt like her legs were clamped in a machine shop vice, screwed down to where the cranks stopped turning, then crushed further until her ankle bones sprintered and cracked to accommodate the tightening clamp. She had more bad days than good. My mother crawled to the bathroom on her hands and knees. I slept in the living room to create more distance from her cries in the night. I still woke up, and still went back to sleep. Back then I thought there was nothing I could do.
The high copays made consistent treatment impossible. New treatments were denied as “not medically necessary.” Old treatments didn’t work, and still put us out for thousands of dollars. UnitedHealthcare limited specialist consultations to twice a year. Then they refused to cover advanced imaging, which the specialists required for an appointment. Prior authorizations took weeks, then months. UnitedHealthcare constantly changed their claim filing procedure. They said my mother’s doctor needed to fax his notes. Then UnitedHealthcare said they did not save faxed patient correspondence, and required a hardcopy of the doctor’s typed notes to be mailed. Then they said they never received the notes. They were unable to approve the claim until they had received and filed the notes. They promised coverage, and broke their word to my mother. With every delay, my anger surged. With every denial, I wanted to throw the doctor through the glass wall of their hospital waiting room. But it wasn’t them. It wasn’t the doctors, the receptionists, administrators, pharmacists, imaging technicians, or anyone we ever met. It was UnitedHealthcare.
People are dying. Evil has become institutionalized. Corporations make billions of dollars off the pain, suffering, death, and anguished cries in the night of millions of Americans. We entered into an agreement for healthcare with a legally binding contract that promised care commensurate with our insurance payments and medical needs. Then UnitedHealthcare changes the rules to suit their own profits. They think they make the rules, and think that because it’s legal that no one can punish them. They think there’s no one out there who will stop them.
Now my own chronic back pain wakes me in the night, screaming in pain. I sought out another type of healing that showed me the real antidote to what ails us. I bide my time, saving the last of my strength to strike my final blows. All extractors must be forced to swallow the bitter pain they deal out to millions.
As our own chief executives, it’s our obligation to make our own lives better. First and foremost, we must seek to improve our own circumstances and defend ourselves. As we do so, our actions have ripple effects that can improve the lives of others. Rules exist between two individuals, in a network that covers the entire earth. Some of these rules are written down. Some of these rules emerge from natural respect between two individuals. Some of these rules are defined in physical laws, like the properties of gravity, magnetism or the potential energy stored in the chemical bonds of potassium nitrate. No single document better encapsulates the belief that all people are equal in fundamental worth and moral status and the frameworks for fostering collective well-being than the US constitution. Writing a rule down makes it into a law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. Law means nothing. What does matter is following the guidance of our own logic and what we learn from those before us to maximize our own well-being, which will then maximize the well-being of our loved ones and community. That’s where UnitedHealthcare went wrong. They violated their contract with my mother, with me, and tens of millions of other Americans. This threat to my own health, my family’s health, and the health of our country’s people requires me to respond with an act of war. END
aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Can people stop spreading this without verifying the source?
I am skeptical given we have samples of his writing and that and that this has been circulated as his manifesto. Authorities have stated the manifesto is 262 words, handwritten (likely not copied digitally), and we have a quote from it stating he was working alone. This is in the area of 1500 words, reads like crap, does not include the quote, and does not account for the means of his family.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
ITT: some really healthy skepticism over some of the “evidence” allegedly written by the shooter. I’m kinda impressed. Some other lemmy communities are leaning harder in to conspiracy ideas (planted evidence or whatever), but quite a few of the comments here are taking the time to analyze the info.
underwire212@lemm.ee 1 week ago
We really just don’t know yet. And likely won’t know until the trial (if there even will be a trial).
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
[deleted]RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Did you read anything past the first sentence?
zeezee@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I don’t get it
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The libertarian flag is yellow and black. The anarchist flag is black and red.
The implication is that a libertarian only looks like an anarchist by proximity. As soon as they’re left to their own devices, they’re revealed to be Christian Nationalists (the black symbol on white robes is used by the Klan.)
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Most ancaps/right-libertarians are often just right-authoritarians that like drugs, addicted to loli-hentai (although this one is falling out of fashion due to “nofap” reasons), weirdly “free speech extremists”, etc. Exceptions may apply.
Todd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Yellow/Black is the flag of anarcho-capitalism.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Don’t worry. It’s stupid.
oatscoop@midwest.social 1 week ago
Base on what I’ve read about this kid: I probably wouldn’t like him as a person. I probably wouldn’t agree with a lot of the things he believes, if not vehemently oppose them. I don’t think he’s a genius – in fact I think he’s probably a similar kind of an edgy, dumb kid I was at that age.
Sometimes “good” people do bad things, and sometimes “bad” people do good things. It’s almost as if real people aren’t one dimensional caricatures.
Mango@lemmy.world 1 week ago
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Back pain is a hell of a drug.
AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Fortunately, back pain is in the drug formulary. Claim approved.
Pandantic@midwest.social 1 week ago
People are dying. Evil has become institutionalized. Corporations make billions of dollars off the pain, suffering, death, and anguished cries in the night of millions of Americans.
Based.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Is that a quote from him?
Pandantic@midwest.social 1 week ago
I got it from the top comment’s source, which, it seems “claims” to be his story.
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 1 week ago
He was activated as a sleeper agent by the [redacted]
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 week ago
Law Abiding Citizen 2 plotline.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The CIA used MKULTRA techniques to brainwash him and do the assassination as a test run.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
MKULTRA 5.0.12-A
MrEff@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Two lines from the bottom they are missing:
Discovered DOTA2
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This implies two other CEO assassins working the Broadway and Wall Street lanes
herrgef@feddit.org 1 week ago
lmao
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ted K. Based
boogiebored@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The Activation if The Division has begun.
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
writes a Goodreads review on Ted K
Oooooooooh boy
FarFarAway@startrek.website 1 week ago
What happens if he turns out to be a neoreactionary?
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 week ago
If the only evidence is from old Twitter posts, keep in mind that Musk wants him made an example of, and is not above editing the contents of anyone’s account to get his goals (which he asserts is his right, as he owns the site and everything in it)
FarFarAway@startrek.website 1 week ago
You do have a point. At this juncture, I think, anything is possible. Really, non of it ads up. Half is fake and the other half is mystery. There is definitely still a large leap from his actions to this ideaology.
Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
CIA /s
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 week ago
This claims to be his story. I haven’t verified it, but I have no reason not to believe it. Basically, UHC tortured his mother for years through denial of care, then they did the same to him.
I would note that he is 26 years old: He likely just aged out of his parents’ health insurance policy, and I would guess that he can’t get decent coverage on his own due to his pre-existing condition.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Because of the ACA (Obamacare) requirements, he can’t be refused or charged more for coverage because of a pre-existing condition.
Whether that insurance denies claims for treatment, however, is still very much in play. I’ve heard you should ask the names and certification of the person or people responsible for the denial of your claim, in writing. Because a lot of the time it’s an algorithm or an unqualified peon, and the company can get in trouble for that.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Tricky to press charges when you’re dying
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh sweet summer child.
boogiebored@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’ll tooootally get that information.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m deeply curious about the source
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I, too, am curious. But, I read this part of a short story in The Things They Carried, many, many, years ago, and it stuck with me:
I don’t know that this article was written by Luigi Mangione, or if Luigi Mangione killed the CEO. But, I do know that this story is true, even if it never happened.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I really hope this is genuine, because whoever wrote this did an amazing job of conveying their feelings and experiences in a very short piece of literature.
aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Doubt. Doesn’t include any of the statements authorities have quoted. They also mentioned the handwritten manifesto was 262 words.
Even if this isn’t the manifesto, his family had money, this reads like it was written by a high schooler, and it was posted yesterday.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
This does seem very amateurish (Gladiator, Greenday, “smile through the pain”). These are emo trops. I’d be disappointed to know it’s him.
JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I doubt anything NYPD has published so far. it’s all sus.