no 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.

  • boog [none/use name]
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    6 hours ago

    The guy has dumbass politics but frankly that's unimportant and even secondary.

    What's important is the public's reaction to his actions. Individualism is usually a stupid thing because it ultimately doesn't really have a structural impact on anything. But again, the main story in this assassination is not even the assassination per se, it's how people are reacting to it. You don't need to embrace Luigi or his politics (in fact, you should not). What you DO need to do, however, is claim the action itself as a righteous, leftist action. Make the right defend this overwhelmingly unpopular piece of shit CEO and healthcare industry. This is a moment of mass class consciousness and solidarity - an extremely rare one in America. The left would be idiotic not to capitalize on it.

    • asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]
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      5 hours ago

      Individualism is usually a stupid thing because it ultimately doesn't really have a structural impact on anything.

      So how is the Austro-Hungarian empire doing these days?

      I agree 100% on the rest of your comment, but I also believe that individual actions can be the catalyst for structural change, and I hope we see that happen in this instance. Collectivism is the culmination of all the individuals acting, but it has to start somewhere.

      • Clippy [comrade/them, he/him]
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        5 hours ago

        to be fair, iirc the region was primed for conflict with a bunch of smaller conflicts having previous happened - but i understand you, a spark in a room filled with gas can set off greater things

        though how it goes depends how well organised the factions are within the general populace at the moment of the spark if they are fascists, communists, or anarchists

        also pretty much agree with you