Two comp sci degrees from an Ivy League school, $1B+ family wealth, living comfortably in one of the most expensive cities in Hawaii while still being able to afford unplanned and whimsical backpacking treks across Asia to do a little soul-searching. If he hadn’t injured himself surfing, he’d likely be halfway through his first memecoin rug-pull right now, and we all know it.

I get that I’m in the minority here, and I’m fine with that. As someone with their own problems with the healthcare system, I sympathize with his pain and his anger. But I don’t see a hero in Mangione, I just see an incredibly privileged kid who exploited more opportunities than most of us will ever see in our lifetimes and threw it all away to kill one person without even resulting in a single policy change. It just seems gross to me, to celebrate this depressing exercise of American futility.

I’m not sure what bias you think I have here. He’s got a rather extensive and public social media presence, much of which has been backed up and preserved and is accessible for anybody interested to review. His personal interests, Ivy League education, past experiences, are all very well known at this point. Not to mention his family’s significant wealth; his uncle owns a country club and he was set to receive a $100M inheritance from his grandmother.

It’s really hard to see him as anything other than a typical, affluent New England yuppie who lost his marbles.

Because a large amount of people have convinced themselves that he’s a working class hero, when realistically he was well on track to become exactly the sort of corpo techbro they despise.

A friend of mine found out a few weeks ago that she’s pregnant. I forget the name of the condition, but she has a medical issue that’s caused her to have two miscarriages in the past, so there’s a significant possibility that her current pregnancy may turn out the same and she may need life-saving care if things progress poorly. She and her husband have already begun taking steps to move out of this hellhole state. His job was able to relocate him without issue, but she’s going to have to quit hers.

They want to start a family. But Paxton, Cruz, Abbott, and their ilk would rather she die slowly and painfully.

Fuck, I hate it when he’s right.

People sometimes forget where they left things. Even important things. Even things where somebody can die if you don’t remember in time.

It’s kind of like asking “what kind of accident are you imagining where someone leaves a baby in a hot car?” Nobody is expecting that to happen to them, but sometimes a person just forgets for no logical reason.

That’s not to say they’re not still responsible for whatever happens, though. But it’s still good to give consideration to the possibility.

Weird seeing you again, and seeing you say this, after you quickly resorted to name-calling over a disagreement in another thread just 20 minutes ago. Do you really not think that you’re a member of the half you refer to? I’m not so sure you actually want “diversity of opinions” or “normal people” if that’s been your response so far.

Don’t make fun of him, it’s a family name.

Fuck the haters, pineapple pizza is delicious.

@[email protected] This seems like a reasonable instance for Fedia to block.

Just one more thing Trump has in common with Hitler.

Who do you think suggested the idea to them? $10 says Elon directed Russia straight to a backdoor. He’s been itching to see Ukraine fail this whole time, I wouldn’t put it past him to directly interfere in such a way.

So you would rather they get off unscathed instead?

Why would this be the only other option?

He originally wrote “sons of bitches”, then scratched it out and wrote “mother fuckers”, then replaced that with “sick bastards”. The final version reads “low-life shit-sucking corpocunts”.

Or so I imagine.

99.99% of the people willing to buy an emotional support robot for their children will have no idea what the words you said even mean.

What proof is there that this is legit? I’ve seen dozens of alleged versions of the manifesto. This one doesn’t have any other source than “trust me, bro”.

Republicans would rather you be dead than autistic.

YouTube already took it down, but he had a video that was auto-published at the time of his arrest. Apparently the video suggests that more details will be automatically released on the 11th.

He admitted to it already, chill out.

Was really hoping the headline would’ve read “loses battle to cancer”.