I’ve written about the Luigi Mangione case before. But this post isn’t really about him. And it certainly isn’t about taking the side of Luigi or the CEO who was killed. This is something different. This is about what this case says about us. Let me start with something that shouldn’t even have to beContinue reading “Luigi Is a Test”
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Luigi Mangione Just Pled Guilty, and I Already Know Where His Defense Is Headed
Yesterday, on 8/14/26, Luigi Mangione stood up in a Manhattan federal courtroom and pled guilty to two federal stalking charges connected to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He admitted, in plain language, that he shot Thompson and that Thompson died. No plea deal. No negotiated sentence range. Just a straight guilty plea inContinue reading “Luigi Mangione Just Pled Guilty, and I Already Know Where His Defense Is Headed”
The Last One: I’d Rather Be Right Alone Than Wrong With Company
This is the last post I am going to write on Luigi Mangione for a while, not because I have run out of things to say, honestly I could keep going, but because I think I have said what I actually came here to say, across all of these, and at some point repeating yourselfContinue reading “The Last One: I’d Rather Be Right Alone Than Wrong With Company”
A Guess, Not a Diagnosis: Is the Online Left Drifting Right Without Noticing?
I want to be upfront before I even start this one, because I think it matters more here than it has in any of the previous posts, everything I am about to say is speculation, it is my best attempt to make sense of a pattern I keep watching play out, not a claim IContinue reading “A Guess, Not a Diagnosis: Is the Online Left Drifting Right Without Noticing?”
They Took the Account Down, Not the Argument
So it looks like my Tumblr, LuffyMonkey1227, is gone. I do not have confirmation of exactly why, Tumblr does not exactly hand out detailed explanations when an account disappears, but I have a pretty strong guess, and the guess is that a mass reporting campaign from people who did not like what I was sayingContinue reading “They Took the Account Down, Not the Argument”
The Missing Claim: Why MAGA Won’t Take Credit for a Guy Who Sounds Like One of Their Own
There is a detail sitting in plain sight in all of this that I have not seen enough people actually stop and sit with, and it is this, the political movement that would, on paper, have the most obvious claim to Luigi Mangione based on everything documented about his actual beliefs, has not claimed himContinue reading “The Missing Claim: Why MAGA Won’t Take Credit for a Guy Who Sounds Like One of Their Own”
The Ideological Inconvenience Nobody on the Left Wants to Talk About
There is a particular kind of cognitive dissonance that happens when the facts of a story refuse to cooperate with the story you have already decided to tell, and I think we are watching that dissonance play out in real time with Luigi Mangione, because the more that actually comes out about who this guyContinue reading “The Ideological Inconvenience Nobody on the Left Wants to Talk About”
Facts, Not Vibes: Why Calling Out Luigi Mangione’s Privilege Was Never About Being Popular
I want to be clear about something before I go any further, because I think it matters, my position on this has not moved an inch since the very first post I made about it, and that consistency is not an accident, it is not stubbornness for its own sake, it is because I wasContinue reading “Facts, Not Vibes: Why Calling Out Luigi Mangione’s Privilege Was Never About Being Popular”
A Prediction: What Happens to Luigi Mangione’s Fanbase When Luigi Mangione Eventually Does Something Wrong
I want to make a prediction here, and I want to be upfront that it is speculative, it is not something I can prove in advance, it is a bet based on watching how these online defense movements tend to behave over time, but I feel confident enough in it that I am willing toContinue reading “A Prediction: What Happens to Luigi Mangione’s Fanbase When Luigi Mangione Eventually Does Something Wrong”
Twenty Four Hours Later: Why Defending Luigi Mangione Is the Least Leftist Thing I’ve Watched the Online Left Do
It has been a day since I put the last piece up, and if anything the response has gotten weirder, not because anyone actually engaged with the substance of what I said, but because the mockery has just kept rolling in, the same laugh reacts, the same dismissive one liners, the same little chorus ofContinue reading “Twenty Four Hours Later: Why Defending Luigi Mangione Is the Least Leftist Thing I’ve Watched the Online Left Do”