UnitedHealthcare homicide suspect Luigi Mangione espoused a hodgepodge of hairbrained political opinions on social media — with posts starting from calls to ban intercourse toys in Japan, comparisons of recent America to the autumn of Rome, and denouncements of wokeism and DEI practices.
The tech savvy 26-year-old appeared to have an opinion from each nook of the political spectrum, in line with his exercise on Twitter, which included hyperlinks to philosophical books discussing the ails of latest society, together with posts concerning the values of males in society.
Mangione — who graduated from the College of Pennsylvania in 2020 with a pc science diploma — additionally appeared consumed by the results of know-how on younger adults and obsessive about categorizing and theorizing what he noticed because the decline of human advantage.
Hatred for Japanese intercourse toys and the “trendy Japanese city atmosphere”
In April, Mangione replied to a remark about falling inhabitants charges in Japan, musing that the actual drawback wasn’t immigration, however really obsessions with Japanese intercourse toys and pornography.
The options he provided included “encouraging pure human interplay, intercourse, bodily health, and spirituality,” by banning Tenga fleshlights, amongst different intercourse toys, and changing “conveyor belt sushi and merchandising machines” with “actual human waiters.”
A love for Aldous Huxley, Ted Kacynski, Jonathan Haidt, and X rambles to writer Tim City
Mangione has expressed his love for a slew of authors, bloggers, thinkers, and revolutionists together with Aldous Huxley, Tim City, Jonathan Haidt, and Ted Kzacinski.
In April, he replied to a tweet concerning the matrix, quoting Huxley’s e book, “Courageous New World.”
“However I don’t need consolation. I need God, I need poetry, I need actual hazard, I need freedom, I need goodness. I need sin,” Mangione wrote.
Huxley’s “Courageous New World” is a critique of capitalism, the bourgeoise, and the way groupings of sophistication are indoctrinated in society, in line with its description.
Mangione additionally posted a quote on his Goodreads account from wacky anti-establishment Ted Kaczynski, the notorious “Unabomber’’ who terrorized the nation for almost twenty years by mailing lethal bombs earlier than he was nabbed in 1996, sources mentioned.
“Think about a society that topics folks to circumstances that make them terribly sad then offers them the medication to remove their unhappiness,’’ Kaczynski wrote at one level in a quote favored by Mangione.
He additionally ceaselessly reposted, favored, and replied to blogger Tim City, recognized for his web site “Wait however Why,” who ceaselessly dives into synthetic intelligence, area exploration, and the realms of human productiveness.
Mangione has reposted particular posts of City’s, which quote Haidt, discussing the necessity to limit cellphone use in youngsters below the age of 16.
He additionally praised City’s 2023 e book, “What’s Our Downside?: A Self-Assist E book for Societies,” which analyzes the human situation outdoors of the “political axis,” in line with its description.
City not too long ago posted the phrases “um,” and “that’s not the purpose of the e book,” in an obvious response to Mangione’s prolonged X historical past.
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Mangione additionally retweeted Haidt, self-described centrist and writer of the e book, “The Anxious Era” about why psychological well being has collapsed amongst youngsters and younger adults.
Males are made for “not possible conditions and daring feats,” and will take into account selecting up weightlifting
Mangione made a number of posts and reposts musing on the values and nature of males, together with reposting one put up on X about how “Males are made for not possible conditions and daring feats.”
“If you wish to perceive males higher, simply have a look at all the flicks they’ve made, books they’ve written, and video games they devise after they’re younger. Virtually each single one is a couple of younger man being thrust right into a place or state of affairs he doesn’t know if he can overcome. Many instances he really believes he can’t, so he initially refuses the problem,” the put up states.
“Reluctantly, he’s pressured out of the consolation of his house by an unlikely group of future mates or an imposing menace on his life or the lifetime of the girl he loves… That is the guts that society is attempting so arduous to quash. And ladies are those who can assist defend it, ” it continued.
He additionally replied graciously to health influencers about weightlifting ideas that touted the gymnasium as a less expensive and higher alternative for antidepressants.
Mangione nonetheless slammed Jordan Peterson, psychologist and writer typically described as a “manosphere” influencer, for not being concise sufficient together with his language.
He additionally posted about how the state of recent America is mimicking the autumn of Rome, and it might have one thing to do with a decline in religiousness.
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