I maintain that the leftist mind cannot conceive of the median voter's politics. And yup, this guy is rightward of median in his media consumption, looks like (and that's even considering that the median has shifted right, in media, I think, especially new media).

But it's not really about Luigi anymore. The response is the real story, as class tension is forced onto center stage. Ben Shapiro's youtube comments section (par examplar) is very much opposed to Ben's predictable defense of the wealthy elite and Ben's condemnation of the shooter. But the guy who strangled a homeless dude to death on the subway and was just acquitted is a hero. Maybe they don't fully understand the populism they stoke?? Or feel that their grip on viewers is strong enough to contradict their vigilantism advocacy/condemnation, more likely. Fascism allows, actually, requires contradictions and hypocrisy to survive.

Here's an ai-generated article about United Healthcare's recent implementation of ai in their claims system. Love it. Again, like... don't kill people. But take away their ability to make things better democratically at your peril, maybe.

Yeah, none of this makes too much sense. In related news, I saw four recent quotes from people who voted trump. I only read one. That was enough. People, voting people, generally have no idea about national politics. I know you think that's belittling and no I don't have to be an asshole to their faces but to put it nicely, I feel like underestimating confusion in today's political info environment is a huuuuuuge thing we're mostly all still doing. Nor has the DNC has done anything to rectify that, and the dems went with corporatism moreso than populism, maybe even moreso in messaging than action. Biden was on the picket lines. Huge domestic investments. Some finite amount of attention to climate change. Let's get Liz Cheney in Michigan though. Great. I think Palestine depressed turnout a bit, but there's a lot of leftists who can't imagine the median voter, yeah, simple as that. Can't imagine not being terminally online inside of their narrow lefty media consumption. (I'm not exactly a success story either)

Anyway Luigi wanted to get caught. "Taking my ghost gun and handwritten manifesto to MickeyD's for breakfast babe, i'll be back soon". C'mon. A very 26-year-old thing to do.

Will a jury convict? His legal defense has been crowdfunded several times over already.

I would also point out that the response to any future escalation of class warfare vigilantism (upwards; downwards is fine) will be met with an escalation of the police state. In recent history, perhaps since the Vietnam era, it's never been more clear who the police and "lawfare" serve. And the role of government "questioned" (performatively, and to fascist ends by the movement leaders). Healthcare is an obvious aspect of that right now, but perhaps others will grow. I'm not sure how long the "wealth is meritocratic and American", billionaire worship thing will continue, but it's always longer than I think, so at least several years, I guess. edit: btw the one Trump voter quote I read was "I think he'll fix healthcare".