First a little background. On December 4th UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in the early hours on a Manhattan street by Luigi Mangione. Mangione then fled and was arrested in a McDonalds restaurant five days later in Pennsylvania.
As with most high-profile cases this prompted intense interest in the suspect, it wasn’t long before Mangione was dubbed the ‘hot assassin’ by ghoulish social media mongs, desperate needy women and even more desperate and needy fruity men. This sick adulation was based purely on his appearance, as it began to overshadow the seriousness of his crime.
The fawning over criminals is nothing new of course just the medium in which it is expressed that has changed. Ted Bundy was charming and charismatic during his televised trial until his date with Old Sparky. Serial killer Richard Ramirez aka the Night Stalker exercised a cult like grip over women with regular groupies at his trial and eventually marrying one in prison.
I suppose its inevitable that the US healthcare system will be put on trial as some kind of justification for the murder, Brian Thompson the evil corporate bigwig profiteering off the misery of desperate and poor Americans and Luigi Mangione their avenging poster boy. The question has to be asked if Luigi Mangione had looked like a constipated John Prescott or if the victim had been a prominent doctor sterilising trans kids would there have been the same outpouring deluded fandom?
At the end of it all, Brian Thompson a father of two and a husband is still dead and that should be the real story.
Nominated by Liberal Liquidator.