Jfc I am so tired of conspiracies asserted so confidently anytime anything interesting happens. Can y’all just wait for like two goddamn seconds for information to come out instead of letting XXpatriotXx or whoever on YouTube and tiktok whip y’all up into a frenzy? Or are we all just going to start acting like tinfoil hat rightwingers desperately trying to make their lives sound more interesting?

I'm not normally one for conspiracy theories, but there's a massive motivation for the US government to find anyone who looks about right and is disgruntled and then frame them, or plant evidence on someone they found through an illegal means. The US surveillance state uses parallel construction all the time to hide the actual (often illegal) ways they find someone.

Plus, if you don't have a suspect, the message to all the proles out there is that you can kill CEOs and get away with it. The internet just showed that the only reason the working class aren't doing The Purge on CEOs is fear of consequences. That's a critical threat to the ruling class, and they will 100% frame, pay to take the fall or blackmail someone into it rather than not convict somebody.

It doesn't line up at all that he brought a handwritten copy of his manifesto plus his fake IDs and his recently used murder weapon to a Macdonalds. Especially after being careful about escaping the city, and the amount of practice he had to smoothly clear the jams when he shot Thompson shows this was premeditated.

Unless he takes the jury stand and uses it to verbally blast the ruling class and try to incite more violence, this ain't the shooter IMO.

Theory I heard is that he wanted to be arrested, because he has a plan, maybe using court as a stage for making a public statement.

And that he may even tell the mcDonald worker to rat him out and collect the money.

Probably far from truth, but it would be cool if all that was true.

Who handwrites an essay before going out to kill someone? That just feels hard to believe.

The kind of person who writes a message on the bullet casing (and fully expects to get caught).

The pictures of Mangione don't even match the other pictures they've put out of the suspect. Dude's brow line is completely different.

Also he had the same fake ID he used to check into the hostel? What the heck is this guy doing? While it seemed likely he would be caught eventually, disposing of the ID, his guns, the manifesto, and staying in his basement for a while would be by far the best course of action, not going to a McDonalds and eating it inside

But I can’t help but find the whole thing really suspicious.

He was America's Most On TV Human for the last week. I'm not shocked someone recognized him. And its not like he was picked off a bus in Manhattan at random. The guy was traced all the way to Pennsylvania.

He probably could have gotten away if he'd laid low for another week or two. But this absolutely sounds like a guy with some serious mental health issues who was not thinking ten steps ahead as everyone in the fandom wanted to believe. He was just some angry 20-year-old doing a more newsworthy version of a school shooting, not The Leftist Jackal plotting elaborate Mission Impossible style assassinations.

Who handwrites an essay before going out to kill someone?

The same kind of person who signs their bullet casings.

The rest of y'all really not have a few manifestos just laying around?

Article in question. AP news has like 5 articles all about this single investigation.

The 'unrelated charges' were possessing fake IDs and an unregistered firearm.

Already does I believe, new one star reviews saying it has a rat problem.

The employee that called it in been all over the news today.

Can't go through life just assuming every single person you meet is going to be a Team Player.

Says something that he made a half a week and across state lines without anyone ratting on him sooner.