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[–] 220 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's class war. It's been class war all along.

That's why the courts and the legacy media and the bulk of the political establishment have been at the very least enabling him - because what he's in fact doing, and has been doing since the beginning, is working for the explicit benefit of himself and his moneyed class cronies, to the detriment of everyone else.

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They felt fear because of Luigi. Nothing changed. They simply must be removed.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Luigi worried them, he didn't cause them fear. It's also going to take more than one single event. A line in the sand needs to be made with actual lethal consequences for crossing it. Until that happens they'll continue doing whatever makes them richer at the expense of literally the rest of the world. One single Luigi changes nothing. A million Luigi's would permanently solve the problem.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    You know when we say change we mean more fundamental than the capitalist class enacting stricter security. We mean course correcting change. We're still on our way to the splitting of the US and feudal "Network States".

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Blue Cross may have reversed that anesthesia policy but other insurance companies are testing the waters on similar cuts already. https://www.newsweek.com/medical-mutual-insurer-changes-anesthesia-coverage-who-it-impacts-2010638

    The post assassination stock price dip wasn't even the lowest price their stock hit in the last 52 weeks and it recovered pretty much immediately.

    Taking down the "about us" page on their website isn't really a significant change is it?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    The post assassination stock price dip wasn’t even the lowest price their stock hit in the last 52 weeks and it recovered pretty much immediately.

    I was asking about that the other day. I am not even a little surprised.

    As I keep saying, but very few people seem to believe it, as much as I sympathize with Luigi Mangione, you can't assassinate your way out of capitalism. That is simply not how systemic problems are fixed. Especially when literally every person in a corporation, including a CEO, is disposable.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    It's basically what set off WWII and the rise of nazism. The west, monarchies and wealthy owner class saw the rise of communism and wanted to enable or at least let go of the leash that held back a mad dog set on reestablishing a new world order with their friends at the top. It also helped the legacy wealthy people that the mad dog turned his attention to the east and wanted to destroy the heart of communism. It nearly did as it killed 20 million in the eastern front and set back the soviets decades while the west accelerated with wealth.

    It's always been a class war ..... when you think about it, it's never stopped.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s class war. It’s been class war all along.

    War implies more than one combatant. No one has been fighting for the working class.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Very true.

    I still think "class war" is the most accurate term for it though, and the fact that the working class isn't (yet) fighting it is just the biggest reason that the moneyed class is winning (so far).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Class domination, maybe.

    As for someone fighting for working people? I summon:

    Bernie Sanders

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