UHC Shooter Update: He is an Ivy League Tech Bro with Chronic Back Pain
UHC Shooter Update: He is an Ivy League Tech Bro with Chronic Back Pain
They took down the gofundme. He’s got a bit of an online footprint that’s being actively picked over. Apparently, he got picked up in Pennsylvania, for “being weird”, presumably from staying awake most of the last week. . So far he has not said anything. Whatever manifesto they got him with has not made the rounds, and frankly I’m not overly enthused about getting ahold of it, but yeah., If I have an excess of time and money in the coming seasons . We’ll be hearing from him and helping Mr. Mangione out.
Like I said, extensive online footprint that is being picked over as we speak. I saw a LinkedIn profile that has since been deleted, but of course it was screenshot. People disappear in a lot of the important ways when they go to prison, but we’ll do what we can.
We don't have to call everybody who works with code a "tech bro". He seems like a perfectly normal and relatable person.
But I've been saying that and being downvoted for it for years.
232If anything it sounded like he wanted to be a game dev and gave up on it (probably because it actually kind of sucks as a cog in a AAA company) and that sounds like a ton of people I know.
55The serious back injury would explain the hard turn his life made.
Also, if you really want to hate the insurance companies, it's easy: get surgery in America. I thought his rage was from a friend who wasnt rich enough for cancer treatments; here it's a bad skiing accident and the years of bill negotiation that pushed him over the edge.
But that could be me in the same situation. I have a back injury that is never going to improve, but its progress is slowed by proper care and lots of help. A bad turn if I was American and even my good tech job wouldn't be enough. At-will state and I'm laid-off like that, no job means no coverage, no coverage means I sell my everything for anything. Ich bin copaybacker.
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25Human interaction is important. One of the problems with capitalism is the commodification of that human interaction (or what that human interaction used to provide for free). Really only the last point diverges, but it is somewhat related in that a shared set of activities can bring forth positive human interactions (e.g. progressive movements have come up or gained momentum from church gatherings, see the civil rights movement in the US).
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You only say he is relatable because he wanted to kill a rich guy who profited by being terrible.
-24I worked in Tech Startups, not in the Valley but in London UK, and the Tech Bros aren't the Techies, they're the Founders and nowadays (unlike back in the 90s when I also was in the Industry) Founders are generally not Techies but rather people from a salesmanship-heavy background (so Finance types, Marketing types and so on).
Blaming Techies for the shit from Tech Bros is just profound ignorance, since the mindset that make a person good at coding (such as attention to detail and favoring precisision and clarity) are the very opposite of the Tech Bro behaviour (promising the impossible, weaving fantastic stories about Tech and making broad and vague claims about how Society works and what Tech can do).
26Yeah! Like, no doubt there is at least something else relatable about him.
22I worked in tech for decades. We’re not all ‘tech bros’, bro. Most people I worked with are entirely normal.
12He's relatable because, aside from going to fancy schools, his life experiences are very similar to mine.
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Maybe you relate to people who went to a $40k/year private high school. I certainly don’t. I even interned as a math teacher at such a school.
Try getting kids to study algebra when they just missed 2 months of school on a vacation with their parents backpacking through Europe.
-27I taught school in a correctional facility for youth. I was the first person on either side of my family to get a college degree. I was given chicken bouillon as a kid when I was hungry and we didn't have food and wore hand me downs.
So no. Fuck off with your assumptions.
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Nope. He still didn't do it. I don't care what links I have shoved in my face. This guy didn't do it.
65Side note, The Back Mechanic really helped me.
Years of chiropractic didn’t fix shit. Couple weeks following that book? Huge improvement.
59Thats awesome!
Unfortunately I'm not suprised chiropracics didn't help, it's rooted in complete bunk pseudoscience, which is frustrating when they take money from people who really need help with chronic pain or other ailments
I'm really glad you were able to find your solution, back issues are miserable
80Anecdotal, but I know someone who has back problems and goes to a back quacker once a week and it does help him.
Would I go to one? Probably not, I would rather have someone walk on my back to pop those hard to crack spots, like the upper back, instead of risk internal decapitation because some jackass got a certificate online.
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You want a quality physiotherapist not a chiropractor. This is what much of the rest of the world does without marketing.
71Finally someone making sense in comments
10Starting lifting weights fixed all my back issues. I didn't have anything major going on and if you do you should definitely see a professional but if you're just having aches and pains it could be that you just need to work your body more.
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As always the real pro tip is in the comments.
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Wow. She had enough money to live in a million dollar house, send her kids to expensive prep schools but that kind of money is nothing in the face of severe medical expenses in the US of A. It’s worth remembering that if you don’t have 10’s of millions or really hundreds of millions of dollars, you’re a bad medical situation away from physical, mental and financial ruin.
47I’m glad they took him alive, and that the jury will get to hear/read this.
33Seriously. Dude is traumatized by what happened to his mother.
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Christ... What a grim read. :(
17Holy fuck. Luigi Mangione is a hero. May he live to find a cure for his pain, and may his name inspire us to take action.
12Oh my god, his mother’s story is nearly identical to mine, down to the same tests and meds (steroids don’t work, and now I take gabapentin and tizanidine, along with enough acetaminophen to thoroughly wreck my liver). My neuropathy is secondary to other things, but there’s no hope of relief because care has become too expensive.
I know too well we’re all just one health incident away from ruin. I was in tech and had a good career, which is gone now – along with my health insurance, since it was tied to my job. Medicare is broken, and I can’t afford the required gap insurance. I’ve become destitute, can’t afford food or copays, and am now staring down homelessness. Of course the stress of it all just makes my health worse.
I fully understand and empathise with him. It’s unfair and tragic that the system has pushed him to this, all so greedy sociopaths can become richer.
8Can we stop posting this? Likely fake. It has been circulated as the manifesto, but is roughly 1500 words despite authorities stating the real one is handwritten and 262 words.
Also if you look at snapshot history, there are only any from today and yesterday.
3Just feel the need to remind everyone that this is unverified and Ken Klippensten on Bluesky is saying he does think it's real
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Soon you are only allowed to buy an AR15 provided that you are in perfect health.
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend
15Back pain is a killer.
9Chronic pain can make people do things they normally wouldn't do
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