r/behindthebastards 16d ago

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u/kratorade Knife Missle Technician 16d ago

You're gonna see this buried.

He's not following the script we have for events like this. He's supposed to have a bunch of unhinged weird beliefs in a long rambling manifesto that we can all gawk at.

This... ain't that.

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u/moonstrous 16d ago edited 16d ago

Saw another comment with his full "manifesto" here:

https://pepmangione.com/manifesto/

That URL is the username Mangione used on several social media sites. It's remarkably cogent.

Actions, no matter how shocking, seem necessary to awaken a population lulled into accepting this desolation as normal. My manifesto is a desperate attempt to shake the foundations of a world that has allowed itself to be governed by heartless spreadsheets and corporate-led moral arithmetic. When I act, I do so in the name of humanity, not spite.

He's explicitly not excusing acts of violence, but framing them as a kind of inevitable Thermidorian reaction to for-profit models of healthcare services. I don't know what to make of all this.

Look beyond the sensationalism that will inevitably surround my actions—spun by media outlets that rely on shock value. Penetrate the veil and see the underlying disease. Question every assumption about why a pill costs hundreds of dollars, why a specialist is out of reach, or why an insurance claim can be denied with impunity. Challenge every premise that leads to the commodification of health. 

I can't say whether this site is genuine (if it's a fake, it was certainly thrown together fast). In the interest of scrutiny, the Wayback Machine has only ever scraped the page today. Not sure if that means this was a ready-to-publish hoax, or if the site was just never indexed because there was no reason for significant traffic before.

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u/bookdrops 16d ago

The WHOIS data for that URL show it as created on Namecheap yesterday at 19:41:02 UTC. If it was an official website from Mangione, it was almost certainly published by an associated person or by some kind of automatic website creation tool he set up. 

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u/DefunctFunctor 16d ago

Yeah this should be the first thing you look up for these kinds of instances. Domain wasn't registered until he was already found out, so there's a reasonable chance it's not him