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Michael's avatar

I don’t celebrate what he did. It’s awful. Everyone has their hands dirty in the system INCLUDING Luige himself and his wealthy family. Probably should’ve started with himself. He’s no hero

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Carolyn L Zaremba's avatar

I will shed no tears for any capitalist. They know what they're doing. They have always known what they do to working people and they don't care.

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russian_bot's avatar

And I assume the working people know what's being done to them. Despite that every morning they wake up and go to work. Capitalists tell them what to do and they do it.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Do we really think the world is divided into these people. Are we not workers when we go to work, and do very well, out of pharma, animal testing, insurance, fossil fuel extraction, animal farming? If the global majority decided to take the law into their own hands as Mangione has, what would be the cut off income for complicity and oligarch status- seeing as millions of them have nothing thanks to the west?

Perhaps we should all start sweating.

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Jo Waller's avatar

"Capitalist' includes anyone who's benefited from neocolonialism - that's the entire western middle class ( us). We know what we are doing. We've always known what we do to the first and developing nations and we don't care.

It also includes anyone whose ever eaten animal products from a factory farm.

Will I shed tears when one of is murdered?

Depends if I knew them I guess.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

I disagree completely!

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

The "Power Elite" brought this upon themselves. They suppress, oppress, and exploit OTHERS (through their systems or directly through their decisions and actions). The systems are designed so that the "ordinary people" can't fight back (in any realistic or fair way). It seems that ordinary people have no other recourse. So should people just sit back and face the abuses of the systems of the "oligarchs, global corporations, masters of the global financial system, etc." or should they resort to whatever means they have at their disposal? Should people just QUIETLY DIE due to the abuses of UNJUST SYSTEMS so as to not perturb/disturb the status quo of these "Power Elite" or should people fight back against them?

History is replete with events and examples of "ordinary people" fighting back against POWER. What we're witnessing now is nothing new. It has happened thousands of time before in human history.

LUIGI MANGIONE IS A HERO (whether he intended to be one or not), just like AARON BUSHNELL IS A HERO (whether he intended to be one or not).

Billionaires are a curse/virus/disease to humanity AND the planet. Any SYSTEMS that allow the creation of "such obcene wealth" based on the exploitation and suffering of others (as we are already witnessing in Gaza and Palestine) should be OBLITERATED.

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Indu Abeysekara's avatar

Good on you Chang.

Maybe Luige Mangione and Aaron Bushnell have started a Revolution.

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Jo Waller's avatar

In which we buy lots of guns, randomly lash out at people richer than ourselves or set ourselves on fire. Super.

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gypsy33's avatar

Luckily, we already have lots of guns. Chairman Mao: Revolution can only come through the barrel of a gun.

Oh, and I have several pitchforks if anyone need borrow one.

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Jo Waller's avatar

It’s great how well Mao’s ideas worked out for the Chinese people.

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gypsy33's avatar

Or we could employ guillotines like the French did, Jo. That might actually be more fun.

I volunteer to hold the basket.

If you could explain the last peaceful revolution to me, I’d be all ears.

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gypsy33's avatar

Right-fuckin’-ON, Chang!

👍👍👍

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Mary Farrell's avatar

Can’t say I agree with you.

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Sam's avatar

No matter because ‘they’ won’t let you in their club no matter how brown your nose is.

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Jo Waller's avatar

All of us white nosed are pretty much in a club against those with brown ones. Our countries steal their resources and land, keep them in debt and low paid. And we've always known about it, yet because it makes us comfortably off, we do nothing about it.

I think 9/11 was faked to start the Iraq war on 'terror' however, by the reasoning of the supporters of Mangione, the First and 'developing' nations (and there are many more of them than us) have every right for a real 9/11 and to mow each one of us down in the street.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Right on Michael. I think we're in the minority.

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gypsy33's avatar

Yes, you are.

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