I keep seeing people either pretending to pity Brian Thompson, or defend Luigi Mangione as some type of hero of the people. The reality is: they both sucked and their respective death and subsequent captures are a net zero at best for the common man.

Luigi had no reason to believe that murdering Brian Thompson would lead to increase claim approvals. He was never even insured by United Health care. He had all his medical bills paid for, and even if they were denied he was from a wealthy family and could have handled it just fine. He had no relations facing denials of life-saving treatments. He had a promising career with an education from a top university. For all intents and purposes, he was a privileged poser who got radicalized online and killed some random guy out of spite. That behavior, and those motivations, are intolerable, and he belongs in prison for a very long time.

Brian Thompson was a p.o.s. who promoted AI’s that denied claims so he could profit off the illness of the common man. Even if Luigi was not justified personally in committing the murder, B.T. still got what was coming to him.

Let’s stop with the false dichotomy and pretending like either person represents some overarching class struggle. The reality is: the B.T. murder is a case of the rich eating the rich, of the problems of the common man being used for cosplay so a privileged person can carry out their violent fantasies. It has no relevance to us.