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Reading, Politics, business, video games & tech. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Frank Wilhoit
![Krassimir Ivanov Ivandjiiski (Bulgarian: Красимир Иванов Иванджийски, born 15 June 1947) is a former Soviet-era Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Trade official who, since 1994, has been the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Bulgarian political news website, Strogo Sekretno (Bulgarian: Строго секретно; English "Top Secret"). Krassimir is also the father of Daniel Ivandjiiski, founder of the U.S.-based financial right-wing website, Zero Hedge.[1][2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qgzvffftepu4x6rhqhu3cjgt/bafkreicwlvau3bo2c6e5xmlepjhroihgwteq3sp54eajlny3dibh4nyrky)
![In the last scene of Terrence Malick’s 1973 film, Badlands, a recently arrested spree killer is sitting handcuffed next to a state trooper. Unperturbed by the prospect of the electric chair, the killer compliments the trooper’s state-issued Stetson. “You’re quite an individual, Kit,” the trooper says. Kit looks at him and deadpans: “Think they’ll take that into consideration?”
Luigi Mangione, the man charged with murdering the CEO of UnitedHealthcare last week in Midtown Manhattan, is quite an individual: hard-bodied bookworm, certified computer genius, scion of Baltimore wealth. Or at least, he seemed like he was quite an individual, until he was found with a manifesto on his person, and it made clear that Mangione’s politics are as commonplace as they are deplorable.
The manifesto, according to a police report, says, “Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.” It then lists a few false or misleading statistics about America’s health-care system. The companies “abuse our country for immense profit,” Mangione says, before complimenting himself for being “the first to face [the problem] with such brutal honesty.”
Read: Murder is an awful answer for health-care anger
The clichés give away the absence of thought. Brutal honesty—I find that honesty and brutality are often opposed to each other. Mangione acknowledges that others understand the failures of the U.S. health-care system better than he does. So what’s really novel is not the honesty but the brutality, which his manifesto suggests is honesty in its pure, medical-grade form.
In addition to this social critique, Mangione reportedly had personal frustrations with medical care for a bad back. He resided in a co-living space in Honolulu, and R. J. Martin, the commune’s leader, told The New York Times that Mangione suffered from persistent back pain that made sex impossible. Back pain is a nightmare, but it’s unclear what form of it stopped him from having sex while apparently leaving him free to stalk and](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qgzvffftepu4x6rhqhu3cjgt/bafkreiajnclolwzxnnztd6373ffxpbcmqzoxpzwuawgbhq3nlzkblm4cle)
