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.

  • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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    5 hours ago

    The solution to this problem is so ridiculously simple that I don’t even understand why people are quarreling about it:

    If you don’t want people to “admire” a politically incoherent dude with some chud tendency who just killed a CEO, then you - the left - should be the one leading the effort. I’m not even talking about killing CEOs, but actually doing something about changing the healthcare situation in the country. Nobody is doing that in America today - this is a fact.

    If you are not willing to do be at the forefront to push for change, then it only makes you sound like a sore loser by also trying to stop others (I mean, just look at how the average people are reacting to this) from cheering for someone who is at least - whether you agree with his method or not - trying to do something.

    Again, the people who complained about this got the order backwards: dude only got the reaction he got because there is no left in America who is serious about challenging the exploitative healthcare system.

    • MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, comrade/them]
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      4 hours ago

      In my overly depressing opinion, it's just the userbase going through the 5 stages of grief, because the CEO assassin turned out to be some normal American guy (and that means incoherent right wing politics, that's normal in the USA from what I can tell) with a personal grudge against the health insurance system from having severe surgery. And not the based communist/anarchist antifa super soldier CEO killer that people projected their desires onto him to be. Even I was fooled by my first viewing of the video of him shooting the CEO, at first I thought it was a professional level hit. Then after a few rewatches, I realised it was just some guy trying to fix his malfunctioning weapon.

      • First it was denial (he's not the shooter, look at this image that consists of five blurry pixels that I cropped! His nose and eyebrows are different.)

      • Then it was anger (how dare you lionise this chud piece of shit! Look at this social media post from two years ago, he retweeted Elon Musk. He even arse kissed the feds in his manifesto!)

      • Now it's at bargaining (the main post we are responding on now, we are here. He killed a CEO, he's based and still our guy despite his right wing political views!)

      • Next it'll be depression (this will happen when all the energy fizzles out, like it did with BLM, and nothing changes systemically and there are no copycats, and jury nullification starts to look unlikely).

      • Finally it'll be acceptance. (The assassin will end up in jail, healthcare insurance CEO's will hire more security and keep their wearabouts private, people's health insurance premiums will go up and they'll pay them because there is no other choice. )

      Again, an overly depressing and dooner outlook. But that seems to be the theme recently.