Now this is an Onion headline.
Right? Solid satire, but just to give credit where it’s due, this is from hard-drive.net which is a gaming/tech focused spin-off of a music satire site called The Hard Times. They consistently crack me up so just wanted to take the opportunity to credit them.
Point taken. I meant Onion in the same way you say Kleenex instead of tissue. It’s now a general term for any satirical news article.
Oh no worries, I totally get it! I was just linking for the sake of anyone reading the comments because those are both quality sites that are worth reading. I’ve found the name of this community can be kind of misleading, so it’s not uncommon for people to be unaware of how many quality satire sites are out there besides The Onion.
if Mr. Mangione had spent more time pulling on his bootstraps and less time feeling sorry for himself and obsessing over his debilitating chronic back pain that UnitedHealthcare refused to cover treatment of – for I’m sure for very good reasons – he might have one day helmed a parasitic corporation of his own. Sadly, he chose another path.”
Love the satire, but one important point: Luigi didn’t have UHC insurance. So if he did do this, it wasn’t even because of a personal grudge - it was to strike back at a system in general that fucked him over.
Huh. I haven’t seen that factoid before.
It distances the motive from personal vendetta. It provides support to the narrative that he did this for principles, and not revenge.
Looked it up to double check, as it’s what I remembered reading.
The New York Police Department told CBS News that there are no indications that Mangione was a UnitedHealthcare customer.
Officials believe Mangione may have targeted the company because of its status as the largest health insurer in the United States.
I would imagine it might be because United denies claims more than most (all?) other major insurance providers. I mean, it could be because of that, if Luigi did it, but he’s innocent so this is purely hypothetical.
Ugh… I don’t think he deserves the death penalty
Deserve, by what standard? Moral, religious, legal? How do we measure deserve
how long has trump being prosecuted? Years and years and years…Luigi should run for president, effective immediately so they have to delay the verdicts…
I love how it’s an open secret that basically everyone fucking loves Luigi Mangione and we don’t even know if he did it.
