I disagree with Catherine here. The amount of people that United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has made “fatherless”, motherless & childless, by his executive order to deny claims & treatment, pales in comparison to what Luigi did & while I’m not necessarily a fan of vigilantes I do believe in justice both mortal & divine. The problem is that we don’t look at the indifferent wealthy CEO, who has the power to deny Healthcare arbitrarily, as a murderer because of the contempt we have for poor & working people in the U.S. It’s always OUR fault because we couldn’t pay or we didn’t work hard enough, or we didn’t read the fine print which is all nonsense bcs healthcare is not a privilege. So I empathize with a public who remains indifferent to Thompsons death or who feels some semblance of justice when “the chickens come home to roost.”
No question the system is broken. Or, was it built "broken" to shut out those it never intended to help? What are the odds that someone from inside the honeycomb of the 1% would experience and feel the fury of the shut out underclass. It's deeply emotional and complex. Our politicians failed us. Obama tried with Obama care, but it's such a small part of a cruel Healthcare system.
As a woman, I can say definitively: I don’t love Luigi Mangione. 🤪 Sure, there's playing out some kind of Robin Hood fantasy fueled by anger at broken systems — be it the U.S. healthcare mess or I could also talk about in the UK the NHS's neglect. But let's not mistake frustration for a murder excuse. Mangione made fatherless two young kids. Losing my dad as a kid myself— Glorifying him isn't just pathetic; it's a symptom of societal decay, echoing the mindset that celebrates violence as "resistance" while ignoring true systemic failures. 🫠
I disagree with Catherine here. The amount of people that United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has made “fatherless”, motherless & childless, by his executive order to deny claims & treatment, pales in comparison to what Luigi did & while I’m not necessarily a fan of vigilantes I do believe in justice both mortal & divine. The problem is that we don’t look at the indifferent wealthy CEO, who has the power to deny Healthcare arbitrarily, as a murderer because of the contempt we have for poor & working people in the U.S. It’s always OUR fault because we couldn’t pay or we didn’t work hard enough, or we didn’t read the fine print which is all nonsense bcs healthcare is not a privilege. So I empathize with a public who remains indifferent to Thompsons death or who feels some semblance of justice when “the chickens come home to roost.”
No question the system is broken. Or, was it built "broken" to shut out those it never intended to help? What are the odds that someone from inside the honeycomb of the 1% would experience and feel the fury of the shut out underclass. It's deeply emotional and complex. Our politicians failed us. Obama tried with Obama care, but it's such a small part of a cruel Healthcare system.
As a woman, I can say definitively: I don’t love Luigi Mangione. 🤪 Sure, there's playing out some kind of Robin Hood fantasy fueled by anger at broken systems — be it the U.S. healthcare mess or I could also talk about in the UK the NHS's neglect. But let's not mistake frustration for a murder excuse. Mangione made fatherless two young kids. Losing my dad as a kid myself— Glorifying him isn't just pathetic; it's a symptom of societal decay, echoing the mindset that celebrates violence as "resistance" while ignoring true systemic failures. 🫠
Well stated.