Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The Hypocrisy of Luigi Mangione's Leftist Fandom Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:22:36 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <_BidnTKOnZIx_Pb6nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 21:22:40 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4b31378c131c384b43f9abc3bd8de08d"; logging-data="2682558"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX180nKhuEOBX3uQ3xKgUWZoXuPbQGg0iXsA=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:mh42rq1JHwmeZ91bp5RbBF8aUtE= Bytes: 3248 On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:28:07 -0500, 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!" 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.