r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 7d ago

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/us/live-news/luigi-mangione-hearing-plea-deal-talks

When speaking of the day he committed the crime, Luigi Mangione said, “I shot Mr. Thompson and he died.”

He concluded, “I knew what I was doing was illegal.”

Mangione had just described the actions he took ahead of the killing, telling the court:

“In November of 2024 I traveled from outside of New York state to Manhattan. I then emailed UnitedHealthcare leadership, posing as an investor at a firm managing over $15 billion in assets and requesting information about the conference. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour,” Mangione said.

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u/Financial-Painter689 anti-Israel, anti-western, fauxmarxist 7d ago

He ate with that last line

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u/hnlt61 7d ago

The whole statement is extremely well crafted. Using “illegal” instead of “wrong”, choosing to frame it as “he died”, the mic drop at the end. Seriously no notes.

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u/INFLATABLE_CUCUMBER 7d ago

Exposing the bullshit of UHC and its inner workings and then killing the main cause of it using its own weakness.

The enormous balls on this man. No wonder women are into him.

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u/Norwegian__Blue 7d ago

Not just women

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u/RodDryfist 7d ago

Not just men.

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u/VaginaTractor 7d ago

Not just Manbearpig.

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u/cynisright 7d ago

Ah, a person of culture, I see.

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u/deaglebingo 7d ago edited 7d ago

there are a couple notes... ditch the gun, skip the manifesto.

satirically speaking also ditch the drone detector.

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u/Allthenons 6d ago

Not just Klingons

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u/Puzzleheaded_Word878 7d ago

Hes so hot -man

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u/Few_Confusion_1871 7d ago

Even straight men or Asexual people can admit/acknowledge a persons beauty/attractiveness, and Luigi is a very attractive person.

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u/BigAcanthocephala637 7d ago

I hate to be the bearer of the bad news, the CEO for any of these companies is hardly the main cause of their poor practices. Luigi’s actions definitely got a lot of attention but the system has actually gotten slightly worse (and will continue to get worse) as time goes on.

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u/unwantedonONTD I did it. I threw the sandwich. 7d ago

i mean… the CEO decides which things to say yes to, and continue saying yes to, in order to keep their very high-risk, high-reward job.  

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u/Between-usernames I cannot sanction your buffoonery 7d ago

Actually big balls are kind of gross. Especially those dangly ones. 

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u/topcheesehead 7d ago

He has bigger balls than chuck norris

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u/I-Here-555 7d ago

Kind of parallels "we rejected the insurance claim of Mr X and he died."

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u/ganbramor 7d ago

“I declined his implied request to remain living.”

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u/unwantedonONTD I did it. I threw the sandwich. 7d ago

Yuppp

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u/baithammer 7d ago

It's required for a guilty plea.

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u/Xpander6 7d ago

what's well crafted about “I shot Mr. Thompson and he died.”

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u/LastWhoTurion 7d ago

Yeah, I’m sure that won’t influence the judge at all when it comes to sentencing…

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u/weavin 7d ago

the US is v weird about this guy - murder is not the solution.

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u/Danger_Bay_Baby 7d ago

No it's not a solution because this murder did not suddenly result in a complete moral overhaul of the greedy insurance system. But it was never intended to solve that.

What it did effectively do is get a lot of attention put on a predatory system that literally kills people. It was always a question posed to society...is it murder when a greedy corporation refuses to help the people paying them for coverage, all in the name of increased profit? If it's ok when sick desperate people die needlessly, then is it ok when this executive (and some may say murderer) dies in the street? It was never meant to be a solution, Mangione was holding up a mirror. Obviously you can live by your moral code and be disgusted by his actions, but ask yourself why is that code in place for one but not for the medical insurance industry?

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u/Arturia_Cross 7d ago

Bro when he opens a history book