I mean, if he can away with it while not undermining his original intentions, why not do it?

There’s various ways he could go unpunished that would prevent a retrial and so he’d then be set up to be influential in some kind of healthcare reform.

Heavy on the cope though.

That doesn’t explain why he keeps mogging the camera, or what he yells to the journalist in that one video.

I don’t know if it’s him, but I think whoever it is, is just following their lawyer’s advice, not trying to be a martyr

Maybe if it happens enough, we can normalize billionaire CEO murder as well.

The problem here is the frequency of the crimes. If CEOs were being shot on a weekly to bi weekly average in groups of 3 or more, this crime would become one of the many others the American media wash over.

Sandy hook was instead normalized, and happens multiple times over across the nation annually. Pew pew ‘muricuh

If someone would say this shit on the news in real time, I might actually watch it. But it’s all so scripted and tame I can’t bring myself to care.

You’ve got far right militias blowing up America’s electric grid infrastructure, threatening politicians, having standoffs on federal property, and patrolling hurricane impacted areas trying to capture federal employees that are there helping, and I’ve never heard those people referred to as terrorists.

Did he care about the domestic violent extremism before it started to affect the wealthy?

No, not at all. They’re only mad because for the first time, the elite feel mortal.

You ever heard of the “less dead”, well, Brian Thompson is “more dead”

And for those who haven’t “Less Dead” is a saying used to describe people who’s deaths the police don’t look into because they’re “not important enough”

Many serial killers get away with their crimes simply because they’re smart enough to only kill those who would be deemed “less dead”

Yeah, the rules of society say they won and they think all the losers beneath them just have to accept it. The social order and status quo are great for them. That something would violate it is extremely disturbing to them and provokes an emotional response.

I think that’s why they seem to be so clumsily overreacting to the murder. Maybe it’s working in segments of the population I don’t see, but everyone in my social network is either outright happy it happened or at least get why it happened. Some will have perfunctory “murder is wrong” statements, but the thrust is about what a corrupt and evil business health insurance is. That’s all the way up to the boomers and crosses political boundaries.

Things like the perp walk, excessive charges, and corporate comedy pretending everyone just thinks Mangione is a bad guy just highlights the us vs. them of class war rather than trying to somehow quell or redirect the bubbling unrest. I think they’re doing this because their peers and masters are emotionally demanding a visible and recognizable show of power and obedience. If they knew what was good for them they’d be triple-timing it to make some token effort to reform the system, but even a token effort in response to the killing of a rich person would infuriate them, so clumsy performances it is.

What about the domestic terrorist corporations who assassinate whistleblowers? Or are there so many hands involved there that it’s not worth the trouble to dismantle those terrorist organizations?

Mayorkas said white nationalists are the biggest threat to domestic security. He was impeached by Nazis. He doesn’t repeat bullshit about immigration. Not necessarily a standard asshole that fails upwards.

What about them? They just got their picks elected as the next president and dipshit-in-chief.

The terrorism charge is absolutely the dumbest thing they did. Now it’s on them to prove it was more than just murder.