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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.
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.
glad i wasn't the only one to notice this.