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Subject: Re: The Hypocrisy of Luigi Mangione's Leftist Fandom
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:58:32 -0500
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On 12/25/2024 4:14 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2024-12-25 2:44 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> On 12/25/2024 2:28 PM, Rhino 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!"
>> 
>> Umm... why doesn't it absolutely SCREAM "Fuck our health-system!"?
>> 
> If you don't like the health system, you should be changing the
> health system, NOT killing executives from that system. But the Far
> Left LOVES the whole notion of destroying the existing system -
> "burning it all down" - with only an implied claim that something
> better will come along to replace it - eventually - and then failing
> to deliver.

The question is why you'd assume Mangione anti-capitalist ...when his 
most salient role is as a health-insurance CEO, not as a Wall St. mogul.