In the world of crime, few people have recently captured the internet’s attention quite like Luigi Mangione, a man now infamous for allegedly assassinating Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. While his crime is without a doubt very serious, the reaction of the internet has been anything but conventional. In the aftermath of his arrest, social media has done what it does best: make memes. Here we have collected the funniest examples. What do you think? Is Luigi Mangione a hero or a criminal? Or both? Let us know in the comments below!
When you are an unfree slave and have a fake healthcare system.
Might I suggest protest & boycott, rather than murder?
An accused murderer/assassin as a source of humor! Sick!
Republicans shooting Republicans. I can imagine many can’t see anything wrong with it. It’s just loud freedom. Bang bang.
Ivy League wannabe communist revolutionary. Surprise surprise.
An innocent man, with a family. was murdered in cold blood.
Yeah, let’s make funny memes about and give them a thumbs up.
How sad….
@Lydia
I’m pretty sure he wasn’t so innocent. At the very least not ethical. Same as his murderer.
From my European view, I’m just wondering why this or something similar hasn’t happened already. I’m pretty sure that there are enough victims of USA’s flavor of capitalism who don’t have anything to loose anymore.
Lydia, innocent is a big word.
Do you know how many truly innocent people and families are condemned to die by a society defined and designed by rich people? Health insurance is just the top of the iceberg. One of the many heads of the hydra, ancient greeks would say.
You must be rich enough to live the privilege of not having this kind of real-life problems. I can agree with you about “having some grace” and not joking about nobody’s death. This is nordic/gen z humor. You can get it or not. Freedom of speech include also this kind of bad taste humour.
But, please, reflect on the meaning of the word innocent and try to put that on poors’ perspective. From what a poor can see, this really looks like a small drop of justice in an ocean full of really graceless people counting money on other people’s death.
If only this would be a wake-up call to the corrupt health care system. But it won’t. Those in power will continue to do whatever they need to do to make more money than they need while the rest of the population suffers. Every man for himself is the motto for those in government and in corporate America.
Regardless, Luigi is still sexy.
The problem is systematic. Healthcare companies are considered for profit companies which means the number 1 goal is…to make a profit, is it not help the less fortunate.
@JustAnotherProtoplasmicBlob which is why we need to genuinely start doing what Luigi did on a MUCH larger scale. Thompson was a killer. He was a murderer. His way of killing just wasn’t as visceral which is why he was able to get away with it. Since words do not work on the elites of society, violence becomes neccessary.
This will be a wake up call to health insurance executives to change the way the do business. They will just take a little of their excessive profits and hire guards. But then they will deny the guards healthcare too. “You should have worn a bullet proof vest when you took that bullet for me. Besides, that was a preexisting bullet hole.”
@Daniel + @Middle– I really can’t understand why the American people haven’t risen up against the for-profit model for health care long before now. This is not a partisan issue; this a class issue regardless if you are Democratic or Republican. I have no idea what it would take for us to finally get fed up enough. It’s bad enough as is.
Because they are brainwashed slaves. They are told that the European healthcare models are communism or socialism. They don’t know what both means but they are well trained doggies and bark at everything marked as that. Even though Europe’s countries are capitalistic economies. They just invest in social services, education, infrastructure and healthcare. Because it is an investment in the country and its citizens. Healthy, educated people and a good infrastructure garantee a well oiled economy and progress. That’s why life quality in Europe is so much better than in the U.S. and the productivity is so high despite many countries being much smaller. Europe is in the 21st century while the U.S. are still stuck in the end of the 20th. Their politicians blame the opposition, immigrants, other countries or any scapegoat they can find. So they don’t have to do anything to change it.
I’m pretty sure there are no boomer McDonald’s employees.
Then you are mistaken. Who do you think is running the company. A twenty-something? THe CEO is GenX but there are older employees in the company’s HQ.
A super rich terrorist murders a working class self made man. I’m glad it amuses you!
@Anon–Yes, I agree with you. Yet interestingly, Social Security and Medicare are popular among our population. It takes some mental gymnastics to disregard the socialistic nature of these programs but this they accomplish.
There is nothing socialistic about the American healthcare system. 😂😂😂
@book of pain
He obviously forgot where he came from. He also was confronted with accusations of fraud and insider trading. He definitely wasn’t a boyscout. Looks more like a greedy criminal killed by mentally unstable criminal.