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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.

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.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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      8 minutes ago

      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.

      • NotSteve_
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        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.