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User statement on the demonization of Luigi Mangione
Removed by modno idea why he's being demonized by the mod team as "just a fascist" when he's objectively done one of the coolest things in recent memory for reasons that almost every American resonates with
he's a fascist, sure, but it's cool as hell he killed that CEO and I'm not going to pretend that it wasn't cool
is he a revolutionary hero and communist icon for it? no, shut the fuck up that's not what anyone is trying to say (I'm certainly not saying that)
feel free to ban me if you think killing CEOs isn't cool. I stand by my statement.
Quick 2 cents: I have critical support for the guy and his actions. Art from the artist and all that. But one thing that irked me I saw is some comrades all but saying it's impossible for people to change in the span of 2 years (his last tweets were in 2022) and hearing that makes me a bit scared for myself because I used to be a reactionary. I don't talk about it that often but I've made it known in discussions that I was heading down the path to being a fascist until I changed in 2017 (life events). So I'd implore people to maybe be more open to people changing. After all isn't that what reeducation is? We can't just kill everyone out there with bad takes.
You don't want to know how stupid my politics were at 26
I was the same age 26 and making antisemitic jokes and blaming "The Jews" for everyone's problems. I had /pol/brain, I was literally a Chudjak, I was that guy we all hate around here. So yeah, kind of hard to top that when it comes to having bad politics. But I think there's a nugget of truth in saying that's just how every american is, I think we're going to need some proper actual like education first for the masses then we can start chipping away at reeducating people to being decent in the imperial core.
I was a Maoist at 26.
Based
My friend's mom also gets me Mao shit every time she comes back from China, because her DIL is a HK Lib and won't let her read red book to baby.
I've recommended she sue for grandparents rights.
Bro, same. You are not alone.
I am forever indebted to my marginalized friends who pointed out my shitty approach to politics early on (20-21), from there it was the simple Bernie -> Bernie is a sellout -> Bernie isn’t going far enough pipeline
Yeah by 2020 I was already fully into leftism and was big into Bernie too and used to post on the old chapo sub on reddit.