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I’m not necessarily convinced either, it does seem really convenient how they found him.

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The sooner we realize the “left vs right” battle is a facade put up to distract and divide us, the sooner we realize what terrifies the upper class: we’re much stronger together.

Unless you’re a Nazi, then you can get fucked.

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Bernie said it in 2000. The right uses single issue tactics to divide us. The real war is against the rich and poor.

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Bernie has been speaking truth to power on this longer than I’ve been alive, which is why the ruling class killed both his presidential campaigns.

Now, we’re seeing the logical conclusion that plays out when people feel like there’s no way to win this fight at the polls.

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Amusingly, this kind of thing makes me think about gun laws.

Everyone believes it’s impossible for gun control, but I would bet my life that if the rich got too unsettled we would see some swift and heavy restrictions set up.

It’s all class warfare. Always has been.

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No, police arrest and kill rich black people in the US too.

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https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775 (Pelosi defends lawmaker stock trades, citing ‘free market’)

Our political “left,” ladies and germs.

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pelosi ain’t left at all. not by a long …road

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We have maybe 2-4 individuals in all of Congress, none promoted within the DNC as that is determined by how well you “fundraise,” aka demonstrate you’re willing and able to get the biggest bribe checks, that might actually hold some economically leftist ideals.

They are hated and undermined by both parties harder than either party fights the other. The DNC and leaders like Pelosi and Schumer are far more at ease with Trump being President than They would with AOC.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-and-nancy-pelosi (Nancy Pelosi ‘Making Calls’ to Undermine AOC’s Bid for Top Oversight Role)

Behold Democrat leadership’s priorities a month before Trump takes office, kneecap the farthest left member of her chamber yet again.

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Exactly their point, it’s not left vs right, it’s the ruling class vs the laborers

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But how will red Fascists justify their governments if they can’t claim the people wanting freedom are evil?

What of course doesn’t disagree any bit to what you said. But expect some coordinated and well founded opposition every time you try to claim “left” and “right” are bullshit.

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That’s true, but the opposition has shown their strategy already: to redirect public unrest towards marginalized groups and social policies, and away from the bourgeoisie. The result is right-leaning people getting captured in a funnel that starts with “society is too woke” and ends in full blown fascism.

So how do we counter it? By maintaining a grassroots effort to bring people out of that funnel by showing worker solidarity and uniting against the ruling class.

If you push someone away because they voted for the wrong candidate or don’t agree with you on some social cause, some fascist talking head on YouTube will be right there to swoop them up.

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If you push someone away because they voted for the wrong candidate or don’t agree with you on some social cause, some fascist talking head on YouTube will be right there to swoop them up.

I feel that about my older boomer relatives and friends - they are very right wing, but they have more in common with leftists than the true interests of the Republican Party, and if they’d just stop believing dumb shit, they will be ready for a change (of whatever form that may take). They are also firm belivers in the second Amendment and drive large trucks. I wonder where the right will land on gun control if, heaven forbid, copy cat CEO killings occur.

We’ll see if they fall in line or if shit gets real, I guess?

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Any proof that he is right winger, that’s not made by some fundamentalist?

Because last bullshit I read is that he was right wing because he liked technology…

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I read he complained about “woke” a lot.

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Idk what’s more woke that offing a CEO.

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Not offing CEO

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Heart attacks have probably killed more CEOs than anything, but I wouldn’t call them woke.

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I complain about Woke a lot and I’m a dyed in the wool leftist to be fair. There’s a broader spectrum of opinion out there.

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*on american scale. Most american lefists wouldn’t look out of place in russian coalition of right forces.

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What I read is his friends identified him as economically leftist, but took issue with identity politics

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Which depending on context could be as simple as “I dont care ill mind my own business you mind yours.” which I suspect is what most folks opinions boil down to.

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Identity politics will be the downfall of democracy if Democrats don’t stop that bullshit

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I wouldn’t say “right-winger” - he was apparently a “rationalist” aka gray tribe, a loose philosophy that places rational thinking above ideologies.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/luigi-mangione-gray-tribe-manifesto-twitter-brian-thompson-b2663767.html

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Greys are into eugenics, they’re weird.

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The idea of being a ‘rationalist’ or ‘realist’ is literally almost always just one finding excuses to not call themselves nihilists

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Nihilist here. Nope.

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They are very right wing lol

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Don’t think so. “For the greater good” - heavily associated with left wing - is a rationalist take.

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Because last bullshit I read is that he was right wing because he liked technology…

Man, I miss technology being left-wing.

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Left Vs. Right is old and busted

Poor Vs. Rich is new hotness

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Seriously. There have been profiles of his online interests. He clearly was not a political partisan. What he was more than anything was anti-establishment. He was a big fan of both AOC and Joe Rogan. However, the corporate media is doing what it always does - try to divide us along artificial partisan lines.

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An MIB reference?

I salute you friend.

o7

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Indeed it was

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Class solidarity is exactly what we need, and if billionaires and multimillionaires break rank to join us, we most certainly can welcome them, with caution of course.

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A liberal who realized something was wrong is something a lot of leftists once were. Accepting him should come from a place of empathy.

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Can confirm, gave up on the whole “Democracy will repair itself” thing after the election.

Call me naive, but I really had hope the majority of Americans would at minimum be willing to vote against a rapist/insurrectionist/fraud

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gave up on the whole “Democracy will repair itself” thing after the election.

Comparing to russian opposition, it surprises me that “democracy will repair itself” is popular. It was understood somewhere in 2013 by nationalists, “right” and “left”. “Democracy is a muscle, that needs to be excercised regularly” as Ekaterina Shulman (recently) said.

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Absolutely. I feel empathy for the United CEOs family, while also recognizing they are going to be financially fine. They also have a chance to reflect on any grief and how affected families may not be sympathetic for valid reasons. Whether they do or not depends on whether they value healing, or greed/retribution.

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I don’t. They benefited from it, same as him. Were happy to do so. They are nearly as demented as him.

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