i know these sort of fitness, podcast listening guys. they're not ideologically driven. they're reactionary, most people are. but they like bernie! it's coworker politics. they feel screwed by life, they CAN understand class consciousness. gotta reach them before the right does.
so much to be said about all this. and unfortunately i'm not smart enough to put the words together best. but the news of the luigi's political beliefs should only motivate you bc these kind of guys *CAN* be swayed away from charlatan tech fascists and towards coherent politics.
I remember a woman who survived being mauled by a bear (it RIPPED HER FACE OFF) did an ama about her experience and said the worst part of the whole thing, attack, rescue, recovery, years of healing, many surgeries, was dealing with the health insurance company
also, most americans have indecipherable politics! the goal should not be claim (or reject) somebody as one of “ours” but to recognize that there is a collective desire to smash these broken systems and replace them with something better
wow I can’t believe the shooter was an attractive and courageous buffoon with beliefs that were all over the place…NOT! what is this, your FIRST DAY in AMERICA?
@judily_art There's a major difference between simply being born into wealth and choosing to become an executive at the company that kills sick people for money
so the cops were utterly wrong about the shooter's gun (like most of us were saying, it was a normal 9mm probably something like a polymer80 or a simple 3d print) and they did not have this guy's name anywhere before he got fingered at Mcdonalds
Kyle Rittenhouse is allowed to get away with murder. Daniel Penny is allowed to get away with murder. Cops get away with murder all the time. The people pearl clutching about this CEO killing are really concerned with who was killed, not the act of killing.
This is the product of thinking politics happen entirely online. Musk was nominally liberal and then was radicalized as a reactionary first because Tesla workers in Fremont had the audacity to file for a union, and second when his kid came out as trans. It wasn’t Jacobin writers
The fact that so many people - including those who are otherwise left-leaning - are insistent that "porn addiction" is anything more than evangelical propaganda is a pretty clear sign that we're living in a reactionary period