In defense of the United Healthcare CEO shooter

I’m pretty sure the news arrived to you all in the last couple weeks when I’m currently writing this: a man by the name of Luigi Mangione, who has covered his tracks nicely for a while before being arrested for it, has shot dead the CEO of United Healthcare in New York City, Brian Thompson, with the song “Deny, Defend, Depose” written in the bullet casings, and filling up a whole backpack out of Monopoly money in the process for authorities to find. This story seems to be certainly elusive to mainstream media, because mainstream media seems to be making sure they will try to protect any more CEOs from being murdered by an angry mob and stigmatize Luigi rather than telling the truth of, say, his manifesto, and the reality behind so many private healthcare corporations in America, which will outright deny your insurance coverage, the one you presumably pay off, for short-term profit.

Yes, violence is bad, I know. Violence tends to breed more violence. The same, way, I don’t agree with Luigi’s opinions on social media on a whole plethora of things, as I find him rather a tiny bit of an accelerationist himself. But this paints a picture of global discomfort and rage amongst the general populace who is subject to every corporation’s pursuit of short-term financial gains, the number-go-up, growth at all costs mentality that permeates every major business all around the globe. That rage, sadly, is justified, since Luigi, presumably, has been denied clinical insurance coverage before for his crippling back pain, just so the CEO can gain a tiny bit extra. CEOs, ever since, are now afraid of an uprising, as they see it crystal clear before their eyes, and I have no clue how now they should be sleeping at night knowing someone out there might get them and murder them. Which is, in some aspect, good. They know what’s coming to them, and now they’re trying to cower behind teams of HR departments, law firms, security firms and the sort to desperately cover their asses. After all, now what’s going to stop anyone from hunting them down? The CEOs of these massive corporations have committed the severe mistake of having names and addresses publicly available to anyone who dares do a minimum of research, thinking they’d be safe because… reasons. Believe me, I had that mistake before putting the place where my home address is a Google Maps review thinking no one would be able to cross those walls, until I realized they could get the goddamn police pigs on me.

For generations, the massive corporations of the world have conned us into the mindset that was presented by Charls Carroll, ironically enough, satirized in a sketch in Million Dollar Extreme’s World Peace, where he’s cooking what’s presumed to be “tap water” (I know… I know, far right propaganda that is a mere deflection of the right-wing status quo and how it dominates behind capitalism, I know that, but still). “The problem with anger is that an angry population of people […], people with a lot of anger and testosterone, usually flip cars over and start killing politicians”. Except instead of “politicians”, you can easily swap that for “CEOs” and it would be barely a difference. After all, politicians are sort of CEOs of political parties most of the time. But I do have a better one as well, coming from Heath Ledger from the Dark Knight movie itself:

“I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hmmm? You know... You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds. Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair!”

Just replace the word “mayor” by “CEO”, like it either way makes no difference. Most of the people who rule over our civilized world -politicians, CEOs…- they think their plans are going “according to plan” because they grown so much in rich-man privilege that they live in such a fantasy world believing they’ll just live like they wish to live. But they fail to account for the basic element which makes their little plan fail: empathy. They’re mostly dumb psychopaths with no capabilities of empathizing with human beings, they didn’t get to grow up to have any. And I believe this is a usual mindset that makes them vulnerable to their plans’ Achilles heel: angry people. Angry worker class people especially, who will, again, flip cars and kill CEOs.

And you want to know the funnier thing about this? One CEO is killed, sure, boo hoo. But imagine all the people killed by their companies’ decisions in denying them basic healthcare from preventable diseases and life-threatening injuries. And not only that, but I can tell we’re getting close to the YOOTOOB reality that I wrote in a far-right book before of mass school shootings happening every hour. For one CEO that dies, nobody panics when thousands, even millions of people die every year from easily preventable shit, like shootings, diseases, and so on. Are you supposed to sit here and sympathize with such negligence from one single CEO responsible of leading a lot of people to die?

Take this for instance: Josh Shapiro, here he is condemning Luigi Mangione as the murderer of the United Healthcare CEO in a press conference, yet he’s the same guy signing bombs that will kill off civilians somewhere either in Israel or either in Ukraine or Russia. You know, the things that kill people?

At this point, I think it’s clearly evident that the people sticking for Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO, act in a selfish act of projection. If that’s not the case, well, call me Miss Potato and call it a day, because I don’t really believe you.

I didn’t ever think an act of violence like this was ever justified since that Antifa guy punching Richard Spencer, a well-known neo-Nazi. But now I see an act of violence like Luigi Mangione did, however despicable it might seem, is justified. Because behind him, there are many, many angry people willing to flip cars and kill CEOs and politicians for all their anger. And that’s good, somehow.

Deny, Defend, Depose. You little bitch.