Luigi’s parents’ names are unclear at the time of publication. However, multiple outlets reported that they own the Turf Valley Resort and the Hayes Country Club, which are both located in Maryland.

The Hayfields Country Club’s website indicates that the venue is a “family-owned, private country club overlooking the spectacular views of Oregon Ridge” in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The club offers members “exclusive access to an elite golf course, practice facilities, recreational activities and casual dining.”

https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/luigi-mangione-parents-5352657/

I’ve read details about his grandfather’s wealth. He did well. But I believe I read the grandfather and grandmother had 10 children and there are at least 30 grandchildren. Did all that wealth trickle down? Did the 10 siblings all go into their father’s business and do as well, or better?

Luigi’s High School tuition was in the elite tier, but I’ve heard of wealthy grandparents setting up funds earmarked for prep or boarding school for all their grandkids.

I don’t have an opinion on his parents’ wealth, one way, or another, it’s just that I keep reading “Luigi’s family was wealthy” but haven’t seen specifics.

Not sure if you’re familiar with Henri de Lubac but Dostoevsky features prominently in his work, especially in regard to nihilism and secular humanism. For what it’s worth I think Lubac is an unrecognized genius.

It’s in striking contrast to the last high-profile killer who came to our attention last July, Thomas Crooks, another young man with a similar background …His age was similar, his engineering background was similar, his working in a nursing home was similar
But we hear nothing of the level of information Mangione got from this miserable freak — little about his political motivations, which political party he identified with, what his political views were, who his friends were, nothing about his very strange family who threw away their silverware to prevent police from finding it in a home search after the killing and attempted assassination, nothing about the strange associated classmates who could have been involved in the attack.
We know nothing about the strange ad he made for Blackrock, or the 18 burner phones in his backpack. We don’t know who he was talking to on the phone, seen in a video, before he launched into his assassination bid. If he had a manifesto, we haven’t seen it. And his social media accounts were quickly scrubbed and shut down.
Now, some of this can be explained away by Mangione having an internet presence and being a non-misfit socially, which made more information available generally.
But that doesn’t explain all of it. Where are the classmates who knew him? Why is his family so silent? Why has his social media presence been suppressed? And why is the Secret Service seemingly going out of its way to obstruct Congress? There have been quite a few shouting matches at this point.

The commission of the crime was sloppy. Showed his face before hand in the hostel and elsewhere. As if there could be no connection. Speaking of which, what was the connection before…there was a connection? Did they manage to track him, in his masked and hooded anonymity, back to the hostel?

He kept the gun?

If he hadn’t had the gun when picked up, what would there have been on him? Constant surveillance coverage, unbroken (honest, the NYC prosecutor promises) coverage back to the hostel or coffee shop, of a guy in the jacket and mask. And then the face.
DNA is no good until you have him, so whatever he left around wouldn’t help to find him.
Pitched the back pack. So you arrest anybody you find who doesn’t have a back pack? No, probably not. You have to connect it to him. Which you can’t do until you have him.
So the face in NYC and the face in Altoona and…the gun. Without the gun, this might be a tough case to make.

Four fake ID? What’s the point? If you have them, and it might be a good idea to have a handful, don’t carry them, for heaven’s sake. Just the one you think you need. Store the rest for future adventures.

Just how bad is his back? In any of the surveillance, or in his behavior since arrest, is there any indication of restricted or painful movement? Is the presumption this is an issue anywhere near relevant?

His shouting about various items once arrested leads me to think he hasn’t watched Law And Order and so doesn’t understand the Miranda thingy. Might convict himself in a fit of public righteousness.

Ordinary lefties I’ve talked to or heard can make the case for assassination, just as soon as finals are over or something, without any moral qualms showing. But actually doing it…. Practical issues, but no problem if somebody else does it. And among them is the tiny fraction who can manage their qualms, if any, and figure the practical side as well. Maybe this guy, with the leisure and lack of immediate problems one enjoys with money, had time to drink the lefty stuff to a surfeit.

But how did he know the schedule?

I agree that people with no religion are probably more inclined towards nihilism and/or hedonism. But there are also religions (Islam, for example) that lend themselves to extremist violence.