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Peter Thompson Cl's avatar

Nice try.

But self-radicalized lone-wolf killers don't murder people for reasons bigger than their own deranged egos. It's like saying a school shooter blasted away at his classmates because he wanted a change in the social studies curriculum. They kill for the same reason horrible people kill animals. It's a power thing. "Can I get away with murder if I use a 3D printed ghost gun? I grew up in a world of privilege. I've never been held responsible for my actions. I'll find a guy who is probably morally reprehensible and responsible for immeasurable human suffering in the name of self-enrichment and I'll wrap myself up in "righteousness mitigation" if I ever get caught. To paraphrase Chomsky: Any resort to violence is illegitimate unless the consequences are to eliminate a greater evil.

He accomplished absolutely nothing. He murdered a guy. Nobody is shedding tears for that guy. I certainly am not. But unless there is the slightest chance that REAL CHANGE will be affected (as in, say, murdering Hitler) this is the work of a toxic narcissist. And one who shoots people in the back on public streets. Sure, that's the act of first resort. What if he had missed? What if he shot the wrong guy? He spent more time carving his meme bullets than writing his "manifesto." That's a guy who spends more time sharpening his knife than thinking of why he is actually using it.

Both Lenin and Trotsky (and Stalin) were opportunists, and they used their own versions of righteous mitigation for the same ends as Luigi: to feed their own egos with the lusty-thrill of power.

This guy is not going to turn out to be the anti-corporate hero you seem to think he is.

Shame.

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Amanda's avatar

This woman needs our support.

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Callura Michael's avatar

Lenin won the First World War by Signing a Peace Treaty with GERMANY. Stalin won World War TWO .

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Peter Thompson Cl's avatar

Lenin didn't win the First World War. Russia signed an armistice with Germany and lost a lot of land in the process.

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Pamela Mabbott's avatar

Sheer unadulterated GREED!

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