'It Had to Be Done': Luigi Mangione Manifesto Revealed | Common Dreams
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"A reminder: the U.S. has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy," the 26-year-old accused of assassinating a health insurance CEO reportedly wrote.

Common Dreams Staff Dec 10, 2024

[contains transcript (corroborated by NBC) published by Ken Klippenstein]

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
    9·
    22 hours ago

    His alleged manifesto. Cops have been caught too many times planting evidence and breaking the law to be taken seriously.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      I’m not convinced he was really trying to evade. I mean who gets on a bus for a getaway. Your trapped on it, and most have cameras. I think he was kind of half assing the evade part, not really expecting to get away, just to stall a little.

  • Lyre@lemmy.ca
    39·
    2 days ago

    Ah yes, the manifesto he wrote, the one where he conveniently confesses to the crime and never destroyed. The manifesto that he never destroyed but also never released to the public like anyone else with a manifesto would do. The manifesto that he was just kind of holding onto for no reason almost as if it was designed to serve as evidence against him. That manifesto. Of course…

    • zeroday
      3·
      1 day ago

      Even if it was fake, this manifesto makes a good point. We, as a people, would have far less miserable lives if every CEO in the Fortune 500 and billionaire dropped dead tomorrow. Just saying, we’d be way better off with them dead, and we all know it. Left, right, doesn’t matter. If you know the pain of being exploited by these rich fucks then we’ve got an enemy in common.

      When someone else kills a CEO we need to do everything we can to hide them, aid them, and celebrate them as our heroes in this war.