The story at that link is about 1 month old, but someone posted about this mural on Reddit yesterday.
Thoughts?
Good to know we aren’t all idiots.
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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
The Hitler 'stache on the new snoo design is on point, though.
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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How is this related to the UK?
I don't want to mass respond to all the replies but what I meant was:
- The UK healthcare system is not 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.
Edit: missed the word "not" from my first point
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That’s where London is traditionally found.
Teach us your ways, oh wise one.
mural is in london
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
The UK: America without so much fascism and with better health care!
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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