Too much stuff just doesn’t add up to me.

  1. His family is very rich. They own at least one country club, possibly multiple, and he graduated from an Ivy League school. The wealthy class have phenomenal healthcare in the US so why would anyone rich want to whack a healthcare CEO?
  2. Why would any intelligent killer keep the murder weapon, the jacket he was wearing, the fake ID he used near the scene, and a manifesto on his person a week later? How incredibly convenient for the pigs to find.
  3. Why would any intelligent killer, with a wealthy family, be out in public at a McDonald’s less than a week later, and not lying low on family property somewhere for months?
  4. Why does Luigi have such an obvious digital footprint when the Adjuster planned so well? In less than a day the media dug up stuff like his Goodreads account.
  5. Why do the photos the NYPD released look like at least 2 different men?
  6. Why did a grand jury indict Luigi so fast?

I think the real Adjuster is still out there and the pigs are absolutely desperate to have a “solved” class warfare incident. Luigi is either a plant or he’s unlucky to have been nearby, doing “Suspicious Stuff”, and is being framed with plenty of planted evidence.

Edit: Luigi claimed in his bail hearing that he had no clue where the $8,000 in cash he was “arrested with” came from and suggested it was planted on him. The prosecutors used it to deny him bail on the basis that he was “evading authorities”. The pigs also claimed he had an additional $2000 in “foreign currency” on him, and that to me sounds like an obvious lie or plant to make him look like he intended to leave the country and get his bail denied

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    Less seriously: the media expect me to believe that Altoona Pennsylvania is a real place and some guy named Luigi Mangione isn’t a character from a mobster B-movie?

    C’mon. No way those are real names.

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    It doesn’t add up for me either, but on your first question: you can fight for justice and have empathy for people without a particular issue affecting you personally.

    See LGBT allies for an easy example. It’s pretty normal to care about issues that aren’t yours, e.g. all the support Palestine is getting, even though most people supporting it have never been there and don’t know a single Palestinian.

    A principled person usually cares about more than themselves.

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    It is bizarre, I’ll grant you, but some people lack common sense. There are people who’ve led such charmed lives they don’t consider the down side with any seriousness, because they’re incapable in some sense. The background noise of their lives is to feel untouchable by life’s sordid underbelly by virtue of their own privilege.

    I get that it doesn’t make (common) sense. Why keep a 3D printed gun? Worse, wear the same clothes and spend time in a building filled with people who could use the reward money just to be able to afford groceries and gas. A handwritten manifesto is less weird when you consider how popular journaling is with the kids and young adults right now.

    A middle aged white woman who dropped out of high school would probably do better at not getting caught based on the high probability of having absorbed months worth (in real time) of true crime. Jokes aside, I get the doubt regarding his reported lack of common sense.

    But privilege and a charmed life can do that, can make you dumb in other ways.

    Also, have you ever pulled up the images for the Floyd protests in Portland OR? A sea of white. I challenge you to find black faces in those crowds. My point being, standing up for “the other” is done. This is a hallmark of liberal elite in it’s true essence Vs whatever it is right now, especially over in DC. Mr Luigi over here pissed about healthcare and engaging action for it (not endorsing or encouraging) when he’s probably had healthcare without issue his entire life just means he has empathy.

    ETA: or I’m completely wrong, green text just posted this: https://archive.is/2024.12.09-230659/https://breloomlegacy.substack.com/p/the-allopathic-complex-and-its-consequences.

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      Yep, he’s already been charged with 5 separate crimes in New York and at least two in Pennsylvania. It happened about 6 hours ago. That’s lightning-fast, isn’t it?

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      A grand jury can indict someone in less than 10 minutes. I’ve been in one when it happened. There are no rules about how much evidence the prosecutor has to present, just that the grand jury has to reach the numbers needed to indict. The only reason a grand jury is delayed is because the cops or prosecutor is taking their time about it. Since we know that the cops and prosecutor care about rich folks and want to make sure they’re ‘taken care of,’ it makes sense that this was brought in as the first case on the prosecutor’s list.

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    Anyone read Fahrenheit 451 and the bit towards the end where the police prove the robot dog always gets his man?

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    He does really look like the taxi pic tho. Also it may be that he wanted to get caught. Maybe given his profile and background he might think he can have an impact, proving the rich they’re not safe in their class either, to watch out for traitors inside. Maybe he has something to say, now his face is everywhere.

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      His wanting to be caught would answer several of my questions, but makes me question his motives and plans even more relative to what happened.

      If he wanted to be caught, why even flee New York? Why visit multiple cities in Pennsylvania after leaving NY? Why use a fake ID at all?

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        Maybe he had some loose ends to tie, he had to to do something before giving his life away.

        Or it’s not him