The media is trying to paint a picture of him as a right winger so they can better control the narrative. Read his actual social media posts and you can see that it's much more nuanced than that.
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The media is also trying to paint a picture of him as a left winger. But his overall "wing" does not matter when we support him for his message
He didn't kill the CEO of Planned Parenthood or the dean of a liberal college. He killed the CEO of one of the most evil companies in an evil industry - something we can all get behind
Right. It's just yet another example of progressive ideas being popular with everybody, so long as it's pitched in a vacuum without any labels attached. Everybody wants better healthcare. Everybody wants cheaper groceries. Everybody wants privacy in their bedrooms. Everybody wants money out of politics. But most people aren't paying enough attention to realize that they're actually voting against these things when they vote for conservatives, no matter what those conservatives pretend to stand for.
They interviewed one of his friends from college who said that “Luigi tends to be on the left economically but not agree with the leftist identity politics”
We talk a lot about left and right wing and what it means here. If you're destroying elite power structures you are to the left of the king. There is zero ambiguity there.
Left wing, and right wing are a construct to divide us. The video below goes into the history of the term and how it's been used in modern reporting.
If anyone has a peertube or other non YouTube link I’ll edit my comment to that link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MYoA1R38cuc&pp=ygUccG9saXRpY2FsIHNwZWN0cnVtIGlzIGEgbXl0aA%3D%3D
I saw that video the other day. While I think that it’s true that there are social reasons why people adopt their politics. You’re extending that fact a bit far to say that fact nullifies left/right understandings of politics.
That isn’t to say you shouldn’t have class solidarity with right-wingers. But it is a delicate situation because you also must maintain class solidarity with the groups right-wingers have been taught to hate.
That's pretty simplistic and puts the cart before the horse. Political coalitions are not a new phenomenon, nor are picking up your politics from your social connections. That was exactly how politics worked in Rome. Hell in Constantinople their coalitions straight up sponsored chariot racing teams and ended up burning the city down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots . Your membership in a coalition was dependent on who you received patronage from.
My point is, from the essence, from it's meaning to the days of the third estate, breaking down power structures is left wing.
It's always been 99% vs 1%
The problem is that 49.5% think they are on the side of the 1%
Seriously, though. I mean, if you see someone helping an elderly person cross the street, do you go up and ask them what their political alignments are before you decide it was a good deed?
Lol at the comparison. Our boy Luigi out there shooting CEOs and walking grandma's across the streets
Was he right wing?
Or, was he just right?
yup. im as left as anyone but you know if a right wing neighbor is picking up garbage strewn around the local park. im not against it.
Are you comparing a healthcare CEO to garbage in the park?
If so, I'm completely OK with that.
Not a left vs right issue.
Aww the shooter is rightwing? I guess I'm a healthcare CEO stan now :( :( :(
What is better: to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?
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Wise words from Luigi's brother.
He was right wing. Now he's an anarchist.
Eh. The guy reads as purple.
Left leaning people do too good a job of shooting ourselves in the foot by alienating people who don't 100% prescribe to the same beliefs we have. The reality is people are all over the political spectrum and that's not always a bad thing. Finding common ground and working together is what governance is all about.
Left wing, and right wing are a construct to divide us
If anyone has a peertube or other non YouTube link I'll edit my comment to that link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MYoA1R38cuc&pp=ygUccG9saXRpY2FsIHNwZWN0cnVtIGlzIGEgbXl0aA%3D%3D