Re: The Hypocrisy of Luigi Mangione's Leftist Fandom

On 2024-12-25 3:22 PM, shawn wrote:

On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:28:07 -0500, Rhino
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On 2024-12-25 1:50 PM, super70s wrote:

On 2024-12-25 01:36:44 +0000, BTR1701 said:
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According to the Left, the death penalty is unfair, unjust, immoral, and
evil.
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Unless you have the opportunity to walk up to a rich guy you don't
like on
the sidewalk and shoot him in the back. The only form of the death
penalty
that's okay for the Left is the form that doesn't include a judge,
jury, or
court, and where the executed person has not been charged with, convicted
of, or even accused of any specific crime.
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This is the actual position of millions of leftists in this country.
Not a
straw man. It's what they believe.

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Why do you presume Mangione's fandom is "leftist" exclusively?

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Because you leftist types love anything that can be portrayed as a blow
against capitalism and assassinating a CEO absolutely SCREAMS "Down with
Capitalism!"

 The only people I see supporting Mangione were just average people on
Twitter. While I'm sure some would be considered on the left I
couldn't tell you if they were all on the left or just partly on the
left. I don't see any media types on the left or right supporting him.
 

How are you determining the political inclinations of people on Twitter, particularly if they are "average", which presumably means unknown to you, as opposed to famous people? In other words, how do you know that these "average" people aren't just as far left as AOC or Bernie Sanders?

What I do see is many people hating on the current health care
industry and supporting anything that gets them to change their ways.
The problem is that it's not at all clear that killing that CEO does
anything but get the other CEOs to close ranks. I've seen posts from
other CEOs decrying the attack but not commenting on what the CEO had
done as the CEO of that health care company. (Having the largest
number of rejected claims by far from every health care insurance
company.)
 

I've seen claims from people in comments under news stories about Mangione that say they've mysteriously found themselves getting their claims approved since the murder, claims that had previously been rejected. I have no idea how credible those claims are. I can't help but wonder if they are part of an initiative to give oxygen to the crowd that is cheering on the murder: "See? Kill one of their executives and claims start being accepted. Maybe we need to think about killing more of them...." Of course this could be a complete lie.
Why doesn't someone start a health insurance firm that is willing to set itself an objective - and promise its customers - that they will be satisfied by a profit of, say 10% per year with any additional profit being paid back to customers in rebates on their premiums or reduced co-pays? If they could be satisfied with a modest profit, I would think they would be attractive to customers.

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I thought Donald Trump (allegedly) had this big populist appeal going
and one would think that would include sticking it to health insurance
companies.

 Has he even commented on the reasons behind the attack? I mean
everyone can (or should) be able to say that murder is bad, but that
still leaves the reasons behind the attack unsaid by many.
  

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Rhino