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Luigi Mangione charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO as an act of terrorism (www.msn.com)
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The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from a Pennsylvania jail.

Luigi Mangione already was charged with murder in the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson, but the terror allegation is new.

Under New York law, such a charge can be brought when an alleged crime is “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policies of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion and affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping.”

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This was like the literal opposite of terrorism

[–] Madison420 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It always is to someone, it's usually just a matter of perspective.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

The only people terrorized by this are health insurance CEOs, and they deserve to be terrorized considering how many people their rapacious, brutal profiteering have killed or crippled, both in a medical and financial sense.

[–] PunnyName 63 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

So if one or more CEO killing happens every day of a calendar year, will we stop giving a shit, like we do with school shootings?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[–] EmpathicVagrant 3 points 57 minutes ago

Aren’t we at like 3 mass shootings per day nationwide? It’s not a problem when it’s the masses killing each other. Only when the owning class is hurt.

[–] Late2TheParty 34 points 8 hours ago

That's an interesting theory. I believe it needs vigorous testing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago

I hope it terrifies them

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Killing Thousands by refusing to pay for life saving medical procedures you can and are obligated to pay for: not terrorism

Popping the dude's skull who did that with a $5 plastic gun: Terrorism

[–] x00z -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like stuff Russia and the middle east makes up to execute the good guys.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

America: does the thing America always does

Americans: this is literally like the foreigners

[–] x00z 0 points 4 hours ago

I'm not American.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

That makes perfect sense.

  1. The murder of a CEO terrifies the bourgeoisie.
  2. The state serves the will of the bourgeoisie.
  3. The state charges the alleged murderer with terrorism.
[–] Rade0nfighter 36 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It’s sad, remember when terrorism meant flying a 747 into a sky scraper?

Nowadays whenever I see it in the headlines I just assume someone pissed off the wrong cop.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Wonder how many CEO's were killed on 9/11 now

[–] apostrofail 3 points 4 hours ago

how many CEOs* were killed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Certainly not Larry Silverstein. He had a dermatologist appointment!

[–] ChonkyOwlbear 19 points 7 hours ago

It would be supremely ironic if Mangione goes free because the prosecution can't prove the terrorism part of the charge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Pardon Luigi!

[–] EmpathicVagrant 1 points 41 minutes ago

No balls.

[–] vvvvv 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Man they really are going to fuck him raw and with no lube, aren't they?

[–] Shameless 3 points 3 hours ago

Whatever it takes to try and stop the poor's from fighting back