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https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect
Wanna help get those numbers up?
Best donation I've ever made.
Donated, thanks
Before I donate. How do I know the money is actually spent as proposed? I don't know anything about the site or who raises the money.
European btw.
Here are some news articles that links to it directly or mention the site by name. Hopefully this gives the legitimacy you want
https://www.yahoo.com/news/luigi-mangione-defense-fund-raises-more-than-55000-in-donations-222602587.html?guccounter=1
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/11/luigi-mangione-fundraiser-raises-30k/76917438007/
he comes from like one of the richest families in the country...
I'm sure his ultra right wing family is just throwing money at his defense.
If someone is trying to help; I don't care what family they come from.
They probably are. As long as they aren't gay rich white families will pay for most anything for their kid...
Yes, they will. It's OK to be gay they're rich enough to afford it. What's not ok is being gay publicly.
How does it benefit anyone?
Benefits a hero
A hero who kills one random guy, changes nothing, gives 10k to the police, and lives in prison?
Why would we want that?
Oh, he wasn't a random guy. He was a mass murder. As in present tense at the time he was executed
He worked for a company that redistributed wealth for covering healthcare costs, but kept too much for themselves pushing some people into debt, and that company is still operating exactly the same today as it was before.
He intentionally chose policies that killed people. Boohoo. He got we He deserved.
He and the rest of the organization's bigwhigs chose policies that don't cover the costs of a comparatively small number of people's medical care. As did the guy who took his place.
Luigi killed him for that and nothing changed. Why are we supposed to cheer for nothing changing?
We're cheering for someone actually fucking doing something to try to change that instead of whining on the Internet.
If that was his best try then very clearly some of us are putting our support behind the wrong guy.
You know some of these replies to me are just mask off Tankies, right? That should really put into perspective what sort of people promote this guy: people who don't want to fix US healthcare but rather people who want to tear down the state.
Okay, so what's your plan to improve things and what steps have you taken towards implementing it?
Things that would be infinitely better use of your money than a rich kids' legal defence:
Bernie Sanders' campaign contribution
Childrens Research Hospital Donation
Printing up and distributing localized Union instructional pamphlets
Things specifically better for ending privatized healthcare:
iirc they changed one of their policies shortly after his death. I think it was insulin or something but I can't remember.
Yes, there were definitely positive changes after their CEO was executed with popular support
It's about sending a message
Whats the message?
First it wasn’t a random guy, he went after Brian Thomson specifically.
The message is that people support what Luigi did, or perhaps they don’t condone murder but they support that the industry is fucked and they want change.
I am interested in the trial and whether any meaningful change comes from this act. Either way I think it’s pretty heroic to throw your live, a rather privileged life at that, away for what you believe in. Misguided or not.
Scenario where legal team is able to pull something off:
Brave man gets best legal defense imaginable because of donations
Gets off or small sentence
Shows crazy people and billionaires this could happen again and people will help the suspect out
????????
More progress is made.
This reminds me of the fine Lemming that keeps posting something like "Things will not improve until the rich meaningfully fear for their lives"
That is probably correct.
Luigi's ~~family~~ Father is Rich
Luigi made 6 figures with his tech job and his multiple ivy league engineering degrees
A lot of these fundraisers probably dont even end up used for his defense, some are scams