#but now its just. oh. youre like super rich actually. this is your heroic marxist moment
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It's also a little bit funny that other people are calling the guy who shot a healthcare CEO with bullets that said "deny defend depose" and was carrying a manifesto about how corporate America is evil a "Nikki Haley Republican" or part of the "center right." I guess based on the fact that he went to an expensive private school was messing around in Hawaii pretending to develop a video game as work until recently? Like. This guy left a goodreads review about how the Unibomber was an "extreme political revolutionary." While also traveling around the world on the money his parents made off of real estate and owning a chain of senior rehabilitation facilities.
I think a lot of you are really uncomfortable with how common champagne socialism is and frankly I think a lot of this is projection. This guy is very obviously someone who considers themselves a leftist revolutionary, and yet everyone is kind of re-framing him as a "Nikki Haley Republican" because they're uncomfortable with acknowledging that far leftists are often very privileged and hypocritical people. I've been talking about this for a long time, but a lot of the left (at least on the internet) is quite in denial about the fact that a lot of their beliefs aren't widely shared by the working class. That often, the loudest voices in the movement are those belonging to the wealthy, who are at the end of the day cosplaying and are more interested in acting out heroic fantasies than improving life for the working class.
#idk man#i kind of got it when i thought this was a revenge quest over someone who died bc who could blame him really#but now its just. oh. youre like super rich actually. this is your heroic marxist moment#that totally ignores that this will not dismantle the american healthcare system at all#this guy's cousin is a republican senator. just working to get that guy out of office would be more effective at enacting change#but rich ppl are never actually interested in that#gingerswagfreckles#luigi mangione#united healthcare#united healthcare ceo#united heathcare ceo assassination
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