seeing many people online "revoking his folk hero status" because he tweeted weird shit and had wacky opinions. idc. he did what none of us have and likely will never do.
seeing many people online "revoking his folk hero status" because he tweeted weird shit and had wacky opinions. idc. he did what none of us have and likely will never do.
His ideology is actually irrelevant. You've got it wrong.
What matters is changing the discussion from the working class division over cultural left vs cultural right into working class vs ruling class.
That's what this event did, because ALL of the working class united behind "killing CEOs is good actually" for this moment. The working class turned on both sides of the electoral spectrum and agreed in us vs them.
The working class vs the CEOs is the starting point for getting a lot of the working class who are stuck in the cultural-right to say "actually all this other crap doesn't affect me unlike these scumbags exploiting us".
Best take I read before
got caught was the best thing for the left is that the bigger story ended up being everyone — everyone — celebrating the CEO getting capped.