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.