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The Riddle of Luigi Mangione


My interactions with the alleged CEO assassin

After the suspected killer of UnitedHeathcare CEO Brian Thompson was revealed to be Luigi Mangione, a bright young man from a well-to-do family, thousands of pundits rushed to tell us why he did it. Unlike most people who decry others as NPCs, Luigi showed enough awareness to identify that he, too, lived much of his life on autopilot, confessing that he sometimes wasted whole afternoons doomscrolling social media. On the other hand, if Luigi was mentally or physically unwell, it’s unlikely he’d have been able to forge documents, acquire a 3D-printed ghost-gun, plan and carry out a meticulous assassination, and then evade authorities for almost a week while travelling across states in one of the most surveilled regions on earth.

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