• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    2 hours ago

    I couldn’t give less of a fuck what his political ideologies are.

    It never even crossed my mind he was on the right nor that he would be on the left.

    I will say, doing something for the greater good is a very leftist ideology, however doing something out of anger and vengeance would be more universal. Regardless of motivation, the thing he accomplished will (hopefully) be something that inspires change, specifically in regards to healthcare in the USA.

    I’m not an American, and your healthcare, or lack thereof, isn’t really my problem. That being said, I’m more right leaning, and I believe in social programs (like healthcare for all). I have government healthcare where I am and as someone on the lower end of the “economic ladder” let me tell you, it’s pretty great. Sure, I might have to wait longer for some procedures, but if I’m upset about that, I can go to my GP and have my feelings checked… for free.

  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
    12·
    4 hours ago

    This is not about class solidarity. If he’s right (as in correct) he’s right. To deny that because we don’t agree on eventing is stupid

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
    301·
    8 hours ago

    The political spectrum is fake bullshit made to divide the working class. The only ideology of the oligarchs is the acquisition of wealth, and they will assume any political persona in the pusuit of it.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      8·
      5 hours ago

      I’d argue that, among the working class, the right wing of the political spectrum represents either the expectation/ambition to gain much more than others, or distrust of the left, commonly driven by following capitalist BS or having certain reservations or misunderstandings.

  • rational_lib@lemmy.world
    21·
    8 hours ago

    Like many, he was a right-winger until he became the victim of the right wing. Suddenly he became the most extreme example of the “woke” activists he used to attack.

    Your commitment to long-term civilizational success, Elon, is not universally shared

    It’s not even the majority position

    What you call the “woke mind virus” cares about one thing only: equality

    The levelers want to destroy everything because in the rubble we will all be equal

    • Tweet reposted by Luigi, worshipping a capitalist 10x worse than the one he shot
    • Allero@lemmy.today
      6·
      5 hours ago

      Which is not exactly why we should remain in solidarity with those who started figuring something out, not alienate them based on past views.

      Give him a bit of time, he already started looking through some of the BS.

  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
    34·
    12 hours ago

    Dude disappeared for months and had expressed interest in dabbling with psychedelics. He could have easily met people and changed his political compass in that time. He could have completely changed his personality from doing psychedelics. It’s possible that he has a psychological disorder that nobody knew about and he stopped taking meds for. Could be a bad combination of bipolar disorder and psychedelics.

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    52·
    15 hours ago

    Any proof that he is right winger, that’s not made by some fundamentalist?

    Because last bullshit I read is that he was right wing because he liked technology…

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    491·
    15 hours ago

    He nixed a deep right oligarch because they were killing people.

    I don’t know what label you really want to assign to that, But it current it doesn’t seem very Right Wing thing to do

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        12 hours ago

        Yeah you’re kind of need to clarify these days whether they’re the Right looking for upper middle class tax breaks, or the right that’s looking to use the police to hunt non white people to extinction, not that there’s not a significant overlap of those two circles but…

        • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 hours ago

          That is why we need to start using the more specific libertarian right and authoritarian right of the axis spectrum and stop using the regular left-right spectrum

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
    35·
    15 hours ago

    Luigi Mangione is the median American voter

    They’re confused because they still believe the dominant divide in US politics is liberalism v conservatism. It’s not, and it hasn’t been for some time. Increasingly, even if they lack the exact language to explain it, voters do not identify foremost as Democrats or Republicans, progressives or traditionalists, or even left or right. They identify as pro-system or anti-system.

  • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
    43·
    16 hours ago

    See the problem for them is, this isn’t a political issue, this wasn’t about some political rhetoric attacking some mysterious foe, this was a human struggling to relieve their pain because of a corrupt system designed to squeeze every last penny from its victims.

    You can’t pit us against each other over this, you can’t create boogeymen over this, because you are the boogeyman this time, but we’re not afraid of you anymore, we know how to scare the boogeyman now.

    • meep_launcher@lemm.ee
      31·
      13 hours ago

      I think that the left/ right spectrum is outdated, or at least the definitions we give to each.

      I mean, originally the left/ right divide was about whether to keep King Louis XVI around or to have him beheaded.

      The spectrum we know as a communism vs capitalism scale really was useful in the cold war when those were the two sides of a bipolar world. When we still use this as the measuring stick, things become super confusing in the 21st century. Our world is no longer a communist vs capitalist struggle. Russia and China aren’t communist like the Soviet Union. The United States isn’t the same democratic state that it was in 1960.

      I don’t know what our new spectrum is, that’s going to be the research of the next great political scientist, but I do think the old tools we’ve used are no longer helpful. Some are saying “woke vs unwoke”, some are saying “populism vs. globalism”, and some are saying simply “chaos vs order”. Perhaps it’s a little bit of all, or perhaps we should throw spectrums out altogether. Either way, if we use old tools for modern problems, we will end up confused. It’s like how jazz is seen as a super complex genre- it may simply be because we still use the music theory of 18th century European composers to try and understand Miles Davis. Of course it’s going to be a wild ride.

      • Allero@lemmy.today
        1·
        5 hours ago

        On the other hand, if we continuously move goalposts, we risk changing definitions so much that being anti-slavery would be “explicitly left”, and as most people tend to stick close to “center”, whatever it could be, this can really change the political landscape.

  • chetradley@lemm.ee
    1993·
    20 hours ago

    The sooner we realize the “left vs right” battle is a facade put up to distract and divide us, the sooner we realize what terrifies the upper class: we’re much stronger together.

    Unless you’re a Nazi, then you can get fucked.

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
      68·
      18 hours ago

      Bernie said it in 2000. The right uses single issue tactics to divide us. The real war is against the rich and poor.

      • chetradley@lemm.ee
        50·
        18 hours ago

        Bernie has been speaking truth to power on this longer than I’ve been alive, which is why the ruling class killed both his presidential campaigns.

        Now, we’re seeing the logical conclusion that plays out when people feel like there’s no way to win this fight at the polls.

        • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
          24·
          18 hours ago

          Amusingly, this kind of thing makes me think about gun laws.

          Everyone believes it’s impossible for gun control, but I would bet my life that if the rich got too unsettled we would see some swift and heavy restrictions set up.

          It’s all class warfare. Always has been.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      63·
      19 hours ago

      But how will red Fascists justify their governments if they can’t claim the people wanting freedom are evil?

      What of course doesn’t disagree any bit to what you said. But expect some coordinated and well founded opposition every time you try to claim “left” and “right” are bullshit.

      • chetradley@lemm.ee
        9·
        19 hours ago

        That’s true, but the opposition has shown their strategy already: to redirect public unrest towards marginalized groups and social policies, and away from the bourgeoisie. The result is right-leaning people getting captured in a funnel that starts with “society is too woke” and ends in full blown fascism.

        So how do we counter it? By maintaining a grassroots effort to bring people out of that funnel by showing worker solidarity and uniting against the ruling class.

        If you push someone away because they voted for the wrong candidate or don’t agree with you on some social cause, some fascist talking head on YouTube will be right there to swoop them up.

        • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
          3·
          13 hours ago

          If you push someone away because they voted for the wrong candidate or don’t agree with you on some social cause, some fascist talking head on YouTube will be right there to swoop them up.

          I feel that about my older boomer relatives and friends - they are very right wing, but they have more in common with leftists than the true interests of the Republican Party, and if they’d just stop believing dumb shit, they will be ready for a change (of whatever form that may take). They are also firm belivers in the second Amendment and drive large trucks. I wonder where the right will land on gun control if, heaven forbid, copy cat CEO killings occur.

          We’ll see if they fall in line or if shit gets real, I guess?

          • chetradley@lemm.ee
            4·
            13 hours ago

            Your right wing friends and family - their lived experience has proven that the system doesn’t work for them, and they’re rightfully pissed off.

            My Trump loving relatives used to be Bernie supporters. If you can speak to what they already know - that our country is failing them and we need real change - they’ll realize that we all have a lot more in common than the establishment gives us credit for.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    52·
    20 hours ago

    Class solidarity is exactly what we need, and if billionaires and multimillionaires break rank to join us, we most certainly can welcome them, with caution of course.

    • nfh@lemmy.world
      35·
      20 hours ago

      A liberal who realized something was wrong is something a lot of leftists once were. Accepting him should come from a place of empathy.

      • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
        27·
        20 hours ago

        Can confirm, gave up on the whole “Democracy will repair itself” thing after the election.

        Call me naive, but I really had hope the majority of Americans would at minimum be willing to vote against a rapist/insurrectionist/fraud

        • uis@lemm.ee
          1·
          10 hours ago

          gave up on the whole “Democracy will repair itself” thing after the election.

          Comparing to russian opposition, it surprises me that “democracy will repair itself” is popular. It was understood somewhere in 2013 by nationalists, “right” and “left”. “Democracy is a muscle, that needs to be excercised regularly” as Ekaterina Shulman (recently) said.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        11·
        20 hours ago

        Absolutely. I feel empathy for the United CEOs family, while also recognizing they are going to be financially fine. They also have a chance to reflect on any grief and how affected families may not be sympathetic for valid reasons. Whether they do or not depends on whether they value healing, or greed/retribution.