Luigi Mangione & the Making of an American Terrorist

Diabolical Lies

Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Since the passage of the US PATRIOT Act in 2001, the culture of anti-terrorism in the United States has proven fertile ground for at once legitimizing a threat as extreme and delegitimizing the context which produced it. So what does it mean when it’s a label deployed more often for college protestors and disgruntled Florida moms than murderous white supremacists?

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0:00.0	Today's episode of Diabolical Lies was brought to you by Eric Adams' insatiable humiliation kink,
0:07.0	the NYPD's $5 billion annual budget, section 215 of the U.S. Patriot Act,
0:13.5	and Brett Stevens' insistence on pumping the New York Times op-ed section full of the most out-of-touch brain-dead garbage you have ever read.
0:21.5	Oh my God.
0:22.6	Soft girl shit.
0:23.8	Too much?
0:24.9	Just girl stuff today.
0:26.8	That's right.
0:28.1	Caroline, today we are talking about terrorism.
0:33.0	We are talking about who becomes a terrorist in the United States of America, inspired by
0:39.6	Luigi Mangione, the state's suspect in the shooting of Brian Thompson being charged with
0:45.5	terrorism in the state of New York.
0:47.9	This is fucking lit.
0:49.1	I'm so excited.
0:49.9	I'm locked in.
0:50.5	Let's go.
0:51.2	If you're listening to this, that means you're listening to the free preview.
0:54.6	This is actually going to be a shorter preview today because we are talking about some serious stuff.
1:00.9	Terrorism in America.
1:02.1	I don't think Kara and I want to end up on a watch list before our books come out. That would kind of suck.
1:08.3	But in the meantime, since our chosen genre is intellectual shit talking, I figured we could
1:14.8	open today with some of the worst takes about the shooting of the United Health Care CEO
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