Summary
Luigi Mangione, charged with the December 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, released his first public statement through a new website launched by his defense team.
He expressed gratitude for widespread support and acknowledged the letters he has received. The website provides case updates and a fundraiser, which has raised over $400,000.
Mangione has gained a following among those frustrated with the U.S. healthcare system. A poll found 41% of voters under 30 viewed the assassination as acceptable.
His next court date is Feb. 21.
Crazy how we can see numbers like this and then see other articles saying only “dark corners of the internet” support Luigi.
IDK if it’s the case here, but a poll that goes 40% yes 10% no 50% no answer usually gets reported as “40% yes” without context if they want to insinuate the no is in majority.
It’s the same as when Trump’s Greenland poll got reported as “80% no” without mentioning the 12% “no answer” and the 8% yes part.
Surprised it’s not higher actually.
People are saying that this is a low percentage, but I think it could be considered high. Murder (i.e. not necessarily killing a human in general) is classically and in general a really bad thing. Even if people don’t care for the parasitic company’s CEO and might be glad that he’s dead, I could imagine that their gut feeling would tell them to not consider an assassination acceptable.
Hmm, you say that but people cheer when villains are killed in movies. Brian Thompson killed tens of thousands of people and caused immense suffering to millions of people. In our darkest hour, when it looked like the oligarchs had won and were untouchable, Luigi took a stand against evil and gave us all hope. Luigi is a hero.
I mean, people from the dark corners of the internet are probably pretty good at finding polls about things they’re interested in, lol
to be clear, voters under 30 is what like 40% of all the voting public? So we’re talking like less than 10% of the voting populous, probably at most.
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