The story at that link is about 1 month old, but someone posted about this mural on Reddit yesterday.
Thoughts?
My main thought is that this is very reminiscent of the way saints are portrayed in stained glass.
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It was a popular image floating around a little while ago
Shame bout the watermark
This is the oldest copy I could find, which unfortunately still has the watermark:
There are older copies (all of them originating from Imgur), but unfortunately they all were deleted before I was able to retrieve any of them from TinEye.
Random things saved to my phone's photos from Lemmy coming in useful:
Pretty clever use of the arch and the golden painted bricks to create a piece reminiscent of an icon.
Honestly, aside from what Mangione did and whether it can be justified, I just think this shows how America-brained so much of the UK is. The guy lives and committed his crime on the other side of the ocean in a context which does not exist in this country. I would personally prefer for him not to be executed but I don't understand what anyone's thinking when they use him as an icon over here.
Are you being purposefully obtuse? You could say the exact same thing about Robin Hood.
It just goes to show how England brained America is. What business does America have making movies and TV shows about a 12th Century English folk hero? America hadn't even been discovered in the 12th Century, how can you have context in the US for his actions?
It's a story about a little guy who broke the law to stand up for the greater good while risking his own life to do so. That kind of heroism is borderless. Luigi Mangione may have killed one person but the person he killed was responsible for the death and chronic pain of thousands. I think we English understand that very well indeed.
Fictional characters and real people are not actually the same kind of thing, and how people read them are not equivalent.
I don’t understand what anyone’s thinking when they use him as an icon over here.
We are also governed by billionaires who own our press and control our politicians. It doesn't matter that Mangione did what he did three and a half thousand miles away, what matters is that he is a symbol for the ultimate sanction the people can have against a billionaire class who are otherwise unaccountable and untouchable.
Brian Thompson was not a billionaire. As for the 'unaccountable' class our side of the pond, just yesterday a prominent political megadonor and former hedge fund manager was banned from working in financial services, so neither side of your analogy stands up to very much scrutiny.
EDIT: I mean, guys, you could try the path of 'You can't trust the systems any more! The only choice is to ignore the law and inflict arbitrary punishments on people we dislike!' but it is not one that leads to leftist utopia.
I'm sure there are greedy shenanigans that happen without consequence in the UK, too.
I just think this shows how America-brained so much of the UK is.
Yep, they already had the majority of brands and culture back in the 80s and 90's but since the internet and especially since social media we've never been so american
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM Comments are turned off.
Speaking as a Dutchie, I hope the big American middle finger (and Hitler salute) will at least lead to their culture not being so omnipresent in European countries anymore.
I'd like that for Feddit too, actually...
Mangione has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder as an act of terrorism
Act of terrorism? Yeah sure...
Well made mural art, but it will get removed in the next few weeks now it has been made public and getting traction !
It might still be there. The article I got the OP image from is about 1 month old, but someone posted photos of it on Reddit yesterday: https://old.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1jdgavu/luigi_mangione_in_bethnal_green/
How is this related to the UK?
That’s where London is traditionally found.
Teach us your ways, oh wise one.
I don't want to mass respond to all the replies but what I meant was:
- The UK healthcare system is as predatory as the US one
- This is a crime (arguable justifiable) which has taken place in another country
- We shouldn't transpose politics from other countries onto our own where they don't fit. A lot of the moral intricacies of this case are idiosyncratic to USA's crazy system.
mural is in london