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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLuigi Mangione is a fellow Penn grad:
https://nbcphiladelphia.app.link/ggiq72IacPbGo Quakers!
(I could write a book about some Penn grads)
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Luigi Mangione is a fellow Penn grad: (Original Post)
PCIntern
Dec 9
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Silent Type
(7,334 posts)1. Post made me laugh. Go Quakers.
tenderfoot
(8,879 posts)2. How about some of Penn's professors? Camille Paglia, Amy Wax...
I'm sure there are several others that are whack jobs.
PCIntern
(27,015 posts)4. Camille I believe was at Univ of the Arts
Maybe a lecturer at Penn?
LeftInTX
(30,610 posts)3. Isn't that where Trump went?
RockRaven
(16,530 posts)6. He calls it Wharton, which is the business school, in order to give the listener
the false impression that he got a graduate degree (he got a bachelors). Traditionally when one in business circles says someone got a degree/graduated from Wharton they mean their prestigious MBA program, not an undergraduate degree. TCF abuses that informality/ambiguity, and it is implausible that he isn't doing so intentionally.
PCIntern
(27,015 posts)7. The bachelor's program is tough...
Maybe not prestigious in the way you describe- but no doubt he cheated his way through no matter what.
UTUSN
(72,703 posts)8. But his (not your) category is: Not so smart as he thinks he is: His models Carlson, Thiel, VANCE,
the Unabomber, Trevor NOAH, Orwell's 1984.
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What the CEO Shooting Suspects Social Media Pages Tell Us About Him
.... ...He retweeted a video in which billionaire Peter Thiel claimed the prevalence of autistic people running startup companies is an indictment of our whole society. ....
Mangione also agreed with Tucker Carlson that modern architecture kills the spirit. ....
In an April 2024 tweet, Mangione proposed a number of solutions to Japans native population decline, including banning sex toys and replacing conveyor belt sushi with actual human interaction with a waiter. ....
Social media users also discovered his apparent profile on Goodreads which has since been made private. Going all the way back to 2017, his reads include Vice President-elect JD Vances Hillbilly Elegy, George Orwells 1984, and Trevor Noahs Born a Crime, among others. His favorites include Michael Pollans How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics and Tim Urbans Whats Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies. ....
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