Saw this posted to fb
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Wow - that’s an incredible likeness. So has the photo on the left been altered to make it look so similar or is that the actual photo, untouched?
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I can’t verify 100% but think it is quite possible that it could be a still pulled from the video. A Google images search brings up a number of very similar - although not exact - images.
Beyond it’s visual similarity, I also think it’s interesting that someone would make that kind of comparison.
I wonder if they took the still and did some kind of reverse google image search to find that?
I definitely noticed Eric Adams’s face right behind Mangione in all the photos from yesterday. (This case sure is putting Adams’ troubles on the back burner!! 
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But this perp walk and all the various photos are only adding to Mangione’s aura, they are not having the intended effect of making him look like a pathetic criminal. Keeping his face out of the press would be a better strategy in my humble assessment.
This was on a fashion account that I follow, with the caption “it’s giving Saint Laurent”
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Good luck in the Metropolitan Detention Center silver spoon.
There’s a whole cottage industry of this stuff. My favorite is this one …
OMG, I’m watching the video now, it looks like it’s actually unaltered. I guess they could have staged it to look just like the artwork but still, wow! Not the correct look if you want to portray a murderer.
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I love art but make it sports account. That guy is brilliant
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“The Arrest of Christ (kiss of Judas” image has been digitally altered to resemble the picture of Luigi Mangione en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_of_J…
I did a search for that image. Couldn’t find it.
This is the actual painting referred to in the X post.
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Same thing happened with the Boston bomber on the cover of rolling stone. Does anyone care about him now?
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Good catch - I had been focused on whether the Luigi pic had been faked and hadn’t consider the fresco had.
I still find it a very interesting meme as clearly there are people who very much want to draw a parallel between Luigi and Christ to call him martyr or whatever else.
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Really bizarre IMO. The other comparison is Christ is a murderer and equally bizarro. Social media sure gives a window into the twisted psyche of a certain segment of the populace. .
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According to my daughter, those in her age group are thinking he’s a bit of a hero (and hot). She had a gynecologist appointment today for a specific issue, her doctor wanted my daughter’s opinion, she was so into the conversation that she forget to check what my daughter was there for and had to ask her to hop back up on the table.
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My kids don’t see it that way, at all. And none have commented on his looks. He took someone’s life.
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Absolutely indefensible. And any argument that “he had it coming”- revolting. The generation that considers cow’s milk/honey ethically troubling thinks murdering a man in cold blood warrants heroic status to the murderer?
I am shaking my head.
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Well my kids don’t feel that way either (although he’s not bad looking), but this is her take after being out on the town every day/night for the past week. I think being so close to NYC is also a factor, and everyone here being Italian American. Her doctor also has the same feelings as a lot of people, killing the CEO is 100% wrong, but something legal needs to be done with the system (not a surprise bring a physician).
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I’m pretty positive my kids have no opinion about this because they pay little attention to the news in general. Especially anything after the first week in November
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All 16 executions in federal prison since 1988 were done by lethal injection.
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Mine either. However, my husband surprised me by saying you can only push people so far and they will revolt. He’s always been concerned about the direction our government is going from we the people to the haves and have nots. But hey, as he said (facetiously), we’re okay, “let them eat cake!”