The story at that link is about 1 month old, but someone posted about this mural on Reddit yesterday.
Thoughts?
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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Pretty clever use of the arch and the golden painted bricks to create a piece reminiscent of an icon.
My main thought is that this is very reminiscent of the way saints are portrayed in stained glass.
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:
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Great evils create great folk heros. Luigi is a hero forever.
Good to know we aren’t all idiots.
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 !
Americans view themselves as temporary embarrassed CEOs, so yea violence against CEOs is terrorism for americans.
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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.
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.
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The guy lives and committed his crime on the other side of the ocean in a context which does not exist in this country.
The word "tenement" has a negative connotation specifically because of the UK's treatment of the working poor. The Grenfell Tower was only 8 years ago. You guys might not have the health insurance issue we have but you certainly have the "Parasite class killing and causing suffering for monetary gain" problem that is the root cause of both issues.
By far the most coherent response, thank you. I still think the contexts are sufficiently different that I find it odd that anyone would feel the need to paint his face on a wall thousands of miles away.
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.
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Luigi Mangione did not do anything. He allegedly killed someone. He is innocent until he is proven guilty. You cant assume that just because someone is suspected for committing a crime, they actually committed the crime
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I don’t understand what anyone’s thinking when they use him as an icon over here.
i mean cmon usa isnt the only place where a lot of people want some rly rich people to die
I'm sure there are greedy shenanigans that happen without consequence in the UK, too.
You don't understand why a country full of oppressed people enslaved to billionaires would empathise with citizens of another country experiencing similar oppression? Why not?
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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...
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