After a five-day manhunt that expanded beyond the nation’s largest city and across state lines, a suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been arrested on five charges in Pennsylvania and ordered held without bail.
All this about how terrible Mangione’s politics are is exactly WHY they wanted to catch him. It’s not about punishing that guy. It’s about giving a face to a upswell of class solidarity with the hope of alienating people.
The more we focus on the perp, the less we focus on the deed and the good it did, the more the working class falls into bickering about what kind of person he was.
I don’t care about the guy. I wanna know about the snitch. They know which McDonald’s it was. Who snitched?
Yea I’m not too worried about how the guy labels himself he wrote a review of the unabombers manifesto and talked about how peaceful protest will always be ignored and violence against billionaires was self defense for what they were doing to us and the planet.
We see this kind of violence as political, we understand healthcare to be political. He likely doesn’t/didn’t see his bad political takes on twitter as related to killing that guy in any way.
All this about how terrible Mangione’s politics are is exactly WHY they wanted to catch him. It’s not about punishing that guy. It’s about giving a face to a upswell of class solidarity with the hope of alienating people.
The more we focus on the perp, the less we focus on the deed and the good it did, the more the working class falls into bickering about what kind of person he was.
I don’t care about the guy. I wanna know about the snitch. They know which McDonald’s it was. Who snitched?
Exactly, the ruling class wants to keep the rest of us divided
Yea I’m not too worried about how the guy labels himself he wrote a review of the unabombers manifesto and talked about how peaceful protest will always be ignored and violence against billionaires was self defense for what they were doing to us and the planet.
We see this kind of violence as political, we understand healthcare to be political. He likely doesn’t/didn’t see his bad political takes on twitter as related to killing that guy in any way.