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Healthcare CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione has connections to the videogame industry, claims to have worked on Civilization 6

www.pcgamer.com Healthcare CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione has connections to the videogame industry, claims to have worked on Civilization 6

Luigi Mangione has now been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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........ And?

Why do we give a shit?

Why is this newsworthy?

Are we going to hear about his time working in retail soon? I'm sure it will provide deep insight to find out which store he worked at for 3 months, 8 years ago. clearly that's relevant information.

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- Because it's a opportunity to trot out the low hanging fruit of 'Videos games promote violence', providing a convenient target to point the finger at.
  
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  Didn't the disbarring of Jack Thompson teach them anything?
  
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- I don't want to be conspiratorial but this helps stop the class awakening all of this was helping bring about. The more we know about him, the more people will identify or not identify with him and then we're back to culture war being the conversation instead of class war.
  
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- Because they are going to milk every click they can, except anything that scares the billionaire overlords
  
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- Wait till you hear he played amongus with friends on discord.
  
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  I hear they're even worse than GTA players and 4channers combined!
  
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  ref
  
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- CIV6 clearly radicalizes young people.
  
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Seems like an irrelevant detail.

Wait, you are telling me he drank water too???

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That just makes him even more likeable

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- True
  
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Media on their way to doxx and leak every single detail about a guy who killed some rich heartless exec

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- Media on their way to doxx and leak every single detail about a guy who MAYBE killed some rich heartless exec
  
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- Just wait till they extend that to his entire family.
  
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- Let's start doing the same to the journalists
  
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My man's gonna get Epsteined

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- I prefer if he gets Nelson Mandela'd
  
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  Goes to jail for 27 gruelling years and comes out to a reform and becomes president?
  
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I knew it! it's because of his Nintendo or Gameboy!

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- Grams Theft Auto singlehandedly causes all crime in America. We should've known it was the games all along.
  
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I submitted a bug report that got a typo fixed on a Minecraft mod with 20 million downloads, where's my headline? :(

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- you forgot to shoot somebody
  
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Blatant attempt to cash-in on his celebrity status.

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