Luigi Mangione charged with murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

[Beautiful Loser 49,622]

Why did they feel the need to have so many officers guarding him? 

[Deadly Nightshade 12,943]

they want the conversation around the healthcare status quo to stop , so they are doing everything in their power to stop it 

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Aside from all the thirst memes and the on-going conversations around his actions, all I can think of is of how he must feel right now with the whole media circus going around him and the system basically wanting to make him an example to anybody who tries to follow his lead.

I'm 26 too, I've had health issues that do affect my life, however in a different way than those conditions he suffers from (and in a country with accesible + public healthcare), and to think he's had to be in prison with his chronic back pain, trying to process his own actions and the consequences of them. Idk, I can't imagine what's going through his head, but everytime he's being shown off I can't help but think of who he was before all of this: a young adult that basically had it all, trying to navigate his physical and mental pain within a hostile system, snapping one day and suddenly the whole life he had ahead of him put to a halt, now in the uncertainty of what will they do to him.

This case has sort of tugged at my heartstrings, unexpectedly. This end of year truly has been just... smack after smack.