Less than two weeks after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down on the streets of midtown Manhattan, his alleged assassin Luigi Mangione has been greeted not by universal condemnation for the brazen violence – but rather, a surge of enthusiastic support online for his so-called vigilante justice.
The Center for Internet Security (CIS), a nonprofit focused on cybersecurity that partners with government and law enforcement, released a new threat assessment bulletin warning that online support for the alleged shooter risks encouraging copycat attacks.
“Overwhelming bipartisan support for the attack” across social media “has resulted in several narratives encouraging similar violent activities directed at other healthcare executive teams,” CIS analysts said.
“The narratives supporting Mangione’s targeted attack likely serve to encourage like-minded individuals, particularly as Mangione continues to be viewed by the public as an ‘American hero’ and sympathetic figure,” CIS’ bulletin said.
No one attacked law enforcement for this thought. They are just fear mongering the police so they will want to protect the rich more.
That and make it sound like those supporting him are dangerous.
If cops start acting like bodyguards for rich people, they will for the next one.
Start?
He (Luigi) literally went out of his way to praise law enforcement in his statement. So yeah, this is all just bullshit, and it’s bad for ya.
We did and are mocking them for the amount of attention and resources the murder is getting solely due to the wealth of the target.
I’d say “pissed at” more than “mocking”.
Tells you a lot about why some departments won’t accept cops over a certain IQ. You don’t want your enforcers questioning who they should be working for. You want easily manipulable peons.
Honestly this sounds like a reporter chop job to me. The only discrete mention of threats to law enforcement is protests, fake bomb threats, and Swatting.
They aren’t saying people are going to murder court officials and police.
Mainstream media playbook 101. When your narrative isn’t taking hold lean on fear mongering.
I haven’t seen anyone encouraging or even so much as hinting that a copycat should target police or courts. Feels like something made up to try to drive a wedge between the bipartisan support by splintering off “back the blue” type of people.
This is it. Do not do class war. The rich want you to fight amongst yourselves
The class war has been going on since time immemorial and we aren’t winning. But when you recognize that fact and talk about rebellion, some people get all upset.
God the police are so pathetically paranoid.
Literally shooting at acorns falling from a tree
You know, if they stopped doing shady shit and unjustifiably killing people they wouldn’t have to be. Pretty simple stuff. If they took protection and serve to heart people would truly appreciate them and they would get the attention they desire.
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Protect and serve is puffery.
Like the Declaration of Independance.
Sounds great, has no impact in legal system.
Protect and serve is puffery.
Not at all. They protect and serve the ruling class.
I mean, remember defund the police?
That movement fully targeted cops.
This one is targeting the ruling class, and cops are worried.
It’s like that moment when you criticize a bad thing (like selfishness) and out of nowhere someone gets offended; they are basically telling on themselves.
That movement fully targeted cops.
I think if youd look into it you’d find its the protestors who were targetted. Not the cops.
I meant that the focus was about the police problem, this time it’s about CEOs yet cops get offended
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Oh, lol…they think people are only going to target other healthcare CEO’s? That’s fucking adorable.
Hoping our boi Luigi set the stage for a revolution to finally start. Idk what I can do to fight the good fight other than to continue to be loud about all this shit.
At least the more of us are loud the safer each of us are. So free Luigi and may the proles get a little something without society collapsing. Either way it’s definitely a good show…
Radicalization is required as an existential evolution.
CIS assessed it “highly likely that threats will continue to target [law enforcement] and other public offices participating in Mangione’s case.”
Translation: South Park they’re coming right for us, FIRE
Let’s compare:
Osama Bin Ladin/Brian Robert Thompson
Number killed by own hands: 0/0
Number killed through orders to underlings: 3,000/51,000
Reason for killings: religious and geopolitical reasons/profit motive
Cause of death: execution by gunshot/execution by gunshot
Date of trial for killings: N/A / N/A
Date of issue of death sentence for killings: N/A / N/A
Response to killing: celebration by US president on national TV, celebration by commoners and elites / celebration by commoners, condemnation by elite.
Consequence to assassins for extra-judicial slaying: national praise / indicted for 2nd degree murder
Race and class: weird Arab guy in traditional garb / rich white man in a a suit
Osama bin Laden was pretty wealthy too. His family owns a massive Saudi construction company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Binladin_Group
Where does the 51,000 figure come from?
About 68,000 Americans die each year from improper denials of necessary care. With UHC’s share of the private health insurance market and higher than average denial of claims, a conservative figure is 40 UHC customers per day dying from denial of care. Brian Robert Thompson served as the CEO of UHC for approximately 3.5 years. That comes to about 51,000 people dead at the hands of Brian Robert Thompson.
Is it fair to pin all of UHC’s murders on one man? Maybe not. But he gleefully took credit for the record profits that came from UHC’s soaring denial rates. He earned an obscene salary and bonuses from the record profits that those deaths produced. He took credit for all the consequences of these deaths; it is entirely reasonable to hold him morally culpable for them.
Make no mistake. Brian Robert Thompson killed approximately 51,000 people, or about 17 times as many people as Osama Bin Ladin. Brian Robert Thompson suffered for seconds. Osama Bin Ladin’s victims suffered for about an hour. Brian Robert Thompson’s victims suffered for months to years. And this is just deaths, not those who suffered injury, debilitation, or bankruptcy at Brian Robert Thompson’s hands.
Many thanks for bringing to light these facts and comparisons.
Thanks for the response. Truly despicable the state of medical insurance.
ACAB
It’s bastards, all the way up. Never forget.
I think we should crowdfund an art project. Specifically, just to send a message, we should erect a big bronze statue of Luigi Mangione. Put it on a main road close to UHC’s headquarters in Minnesota. Make the bastards drive right past the thing every day on the way to work.
Fastest “unfortunate accident” a piece of public art’d ever experience, just watch.
Put up plenty of IP cameras nearby. Capture the faces of everyone who tries fucking with it.
a big bronze statue
Or perhaps a lead one?
Then we’ll build it again, but even bigger.
Complete bullshit obviously…
But the fact they’re worried about it says A LOT about how they view themselves compared to a piece of shit responsible for millions of deaths from denied healthcare.
I keep running through the difference between the reaction to this vs elementary school kids dying to gun violence. It’s one CEO and everything in the media has galvanized to unite around a singular message of horrible violence. Hundreds of children have died and nothing changed. It’s fucking infuriating.
Oh come off it already.
Yeah we all agree shooting people is wrong.
But just about everyone in the general public more or less agrees Thompson had it coming. We’ve all dealt with scummy insurance companies.
Playing up the threat at this point seems like an obvious psyop. And it’s not even being done well.That I’ve seen, nobody, anywhere, at all, has suggested targeting police or courts. This has been solely framed as a class war between the rank and file citizens of the nation and a very small number (10-25) of CEOs whose companies destroy lives every day. There is no anger with cops or the courts.
lol, your last sentence is right off the cliff.
I mean in regards to this situation. There is anger with cops, none of it has to do with health care. Two completely separate issues. Thus, to suggest that people like Luigi Mangione or copycats are likely to hurt cops or courts is ridiculous
Fair point
I think they mean germane to this killing
Police “investigate” citizens and it’s fine, but we are targeting cops when we investigate them.
Information asymmetry is one of the tactics of power.
Haven’t judges in general been extremely gentle with prosecutions involving Trump because of inordinate numbers of threats made to judges? And yet there’s no effort made to stop it? And somehow, this represents an existential threat to the courts?
It would be both sad and pointless if people targeted the owner’s capital defense force thugs (police) and bribed middle managers (judges/politicians).
That would muddy the waters needlessly and further the cause of the owner class of keeping us at each other’s throats.
Our oligarchs whole thing is keeping us hostile towards one another. They don’t care who kills who, kids killing kids, cops killing poor, poor killing cops/judges/politicians, all livestock killing livestock to them, big woop. They only freak out when someone they consider a person is killed, there’s only 1 metric that determines that for them, and even most of their bought politicians don’t qualify on net worth.
