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Subject: Re: The Hypocrisy of Luigi Mangione's Leftist Fandom
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:10:19 -0500
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On 2024-12-25 3:57 PM, moviePig wrote:
> On 12/25/2024 3:22 PM, shawn wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:28:07 -0500, Rhino
>> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-12-25 1:50 PM, super70s wrote:
>>>> On 2024-12-25 01:36:44 +0000, BTR1701 said:
>>>>
>>>>> According to the Left, the death penalty is unfair, unjust, 
>>>>> immoral, and
>>>>> evil.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unless you have the opportunity to walk up to a rich guy you don't
>>>>> like on
>>>>> the sidewalk and shoot him in the back. The only form of the death
>>>>> penalty
>>>>> that's okay for the Left is the form that doesn't include a judge,
>>>>> jury, or
>>>>> court, and where the executed person has not been charged with, 
>>>>> convicted
>>>>> of, or even accused of any specific crime.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the actual position of millions of leftists in this country.
>>>>> Not a
>>>>> straw man. It's what they believe.
>>>>
>>>> Why do you presume Mangione's fandom is "leftist" exclusively?
>>>
>>> Because you leftist types love anything that can be portrayed as a blow
>>> against capitalism and assassinating a CEO absolutely SCREAMS "Down with
>>> Capitalism!"
>>
>> The only people I see supporting Mangione were just average people on
>> Twitter. While I'm sure some would be considered on the left I
>> couldn't tell you if they were all on the left or just partly on the
>> left. I don't see any media types on the left or right supporting him.
>>
>> What I do see is many people hating on the current health care
>> industry and supporting anything that gets them to change their ways.
>> The problem is that it's not at all clear that killing that CEO does
>> anything but get the other CEOs to close ranks. I've seen posts from
>> other CEOs decrying the attack but not commenting on what the CEO had
>> done as the CEO of that health care company. (Having the largest
>> number of rejected claims by far from every health care insurance
>> company.)
>>
>>>>
>>>> I thought Donald Trump (allegedly) had this big populist appeal going
>>>> and one would think that would include sticking it to health insurance
>>>> companies.
>>
>> Has he even commented on the reasons behind the attack? I mean
>> everyone can (or should) be able to say that murder is bad, but that
>> still leaves the reasons behind the attack unsaid by many.
> 
> Giving him such a podium would be proclaimed politically incorrect.
> 
> 
Huh? It's politically incorrect for the soon-to-be top politician in the 
land to have an opinion about a political matter? That's absurd.

-- 
Rhino