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Prosecutors highlighted “about $10,000 — $8,000 in U.S. dollars and then $2,000 in foreign currency that was found on his person,” CNN correspondent Danny Freeman said following the court hearing.

“Also they said that he had a Faraday bag,” which blocks cell signals, a move that prosecutors alleged marked “an indication of criminal sophistication and reason they should hold him on bail,” Freeman continued.

After prosecutors made the claims, Mangione said he would like to “correct two things.”

“I don’t know where any of that money came from — I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication,” the suspect said in a statement that suggested police framed him.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    Step 1 - Have an AI scrape social media looking for someone similar looking who has posted negative things about the insurance Industry.

    Step 2 - sprinkle crack on them

    Step 3 - ???

    Step 4 - record breaking profits for health insurance corporations every year forever and ever and ever

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      People who know this shit have been through Mangione’s social media feeds.

      https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione

      The guy likely did it. The guy’s social media history puts him right in that “potential mass shooter” territory, but one more radicalized by pain rather than the right-wing shitholes of the internet.

      But the part no one’s talking about yet are the copycats to come. Because this guy got attention for it. Accolades even. That’s part of what mass shooters want. Attention. Accolades are a wet dream for them.

      At least this will be better than when they were murdering children for the shock value.


      So yeah, I think “Rich asshole murdered” will become more common. If only the richest asshole in whatever Podunk little town the mass shooter was from.

      And yet, I can’t say that it will be a completely bad thing. If the mass shootings must happen, (and America apparently says they must) then I’d rather it be a rich asshole who bites it than a classroom full of grade schoolers.

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        Killing one specific person and then fucking off does not, a mass-shooting, make.

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          No, but it’s the same sort of pattern that you see in mass shooters.

          Disaffected young men. Educated, but with minimal meaningful job prospects. Little to no family, or no close ties.

          The sort of young man who wouldn’t mind dying, or killing, for a cause, even if that cause is just gaining people’s attention.

          In the US, those sorts of young men do all sorts of things, many live productive lives. But almost every single mass shooter is one of those young men. Luigi is one of those young men, That’s why the comparison is apt.

          He just decided to kill a rich asshole instead of a bunch of randos. All because his particular radicalization was via pain instead of the usual right wing internet shitholes.

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            Disaffected young men. Educated, but with minimal meaningful job prospects. Little to no family, or no close ties.

            Yeah, those are in short supply.

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            Disaffected young men. Educated, but with minimal meaningful job prospects. Little to no family, or no close ties.

            It’s almost like society is getting more dangerous for everyone cause we’re letting young men become disaffected.

            It’s their privilege that allows them to act out in a violent manner.

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            Howzat three letter paycheck? Or do you suck that short ripoff for your sole and a lying crock or righteousness?

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        A lot of people in this sub could be put in “potential killer” territory based on the comments made but that doesn’t mean they are/were