NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - In the days since Luigi Mangione was charged with murder for gunning down a top health insurance executive, more than a thousand donations have poured into an online fundraiser for his legal defense, with messages supporting him and even celebrating the crime.
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Most of the messages on the crowd-sourced fundraising site GiveSendGo reflect a deep frustration shared by many Americans over the U.S. healthcare system - where some treatments and reimbursements can be denied to patients depending on their insurance coverage - as well as broader anger over rising income inequality and soaring executive pay.
GIvesendgo legal fund for those who want to see.
The most fucked up thing is right below his page, all the people needing money for healthcare related costs. Cancers/surgeries/live saving treatments…the fact that to survive in the usa you have to hope strangers send money to you is totally fucked.
What’s really funny is that’s how socialised healthcare works. We all pool money together based on income and it goes into this neat little fund that ensures no person ever goes without healthcare.
Corporations like United Health can’t profit from this so they’ve been working and lobbying lawmakers in my country and others for decades to gut the public health and education sectors to cause more deaths and get a foothold for private care.
In my eyes this is a corporate act of war and should be condemned to the highest degree. Our forefathers died in trenches to prove our worth and ensure we could practice this social democracy. American terror organisations sow doubts in the minds of my people and poison the waters of meaningful progress.
There is calculable effect on the people of my country in housing, health and education because of these profiteering fucks. These predatory animals could disappear tomorrow and nobody would give a flying fuck.
I wish it didn’t need to be done on Givesendgo but I guess they’re the only ones allowing it to stay up.
For anyone not aware, from its wikipedia:
At some point you’re gonna have to decide which one is more important, your hatred for religion or your hatred f for he rich.
I don’t hate religion and I’d be perfectly fine with a Christian version of Gofundme (even if I weren’t to use it myself). My problem is they were used as the main financial backing to the 2022 “freedom” trucker convoy in Ottawa, Canada. I lived in the middle of this shit for nearly four weeks. I got harassed the minute I left my house and I have friends who had to leave the city because it was too much for them.
My issue is not that the site is Christian but the fact that they played a large part in funding that whole event and apparently a bunch of other nasty things too.
Sorry you had to deal with harassment. I did not live anywhere nearby so I don’t have a first person account but from my view, they were protesting oppressive tyranny and government overreach just like anybody else. Perhaps some individuals misbehaved but overall I think they had a just cause their hearts were in the right place.
FWIW I actually did donate to the convoy back then but my money got refunded because the Canadian government threatened to confiscate all of the funds the minute they were wired over. Do with that information what you will.
I donated and I don’t even live in the states, I just support the cause. Looks like it’s gaining momentum, too.
Looks like that might have been fake.
It went down for an hour.
It feels dirty using a christian money raising site. Are we sure this is real?
No idea, but I’m willing to gamble £10 on it.
Good point. And, thanks for the international support.
How do we know for sure the money will go to McShooty? I couldn’t find any guarantee on the funding page. I’m worried it’s yet another grift…
From the givesendgo page …
I read that as well, I just wish there was a better way to ensure the funds would go to him. We just have the word of whomever setup that fundraising page. I don’t know if I trust it.
We should wait until we hear from his family or defense team.
Says it’s unpunished
Doesn’t work. Probably fake.
It went down for an hour, I think due to traffic.