If they can elect a felon to the white house, so could we.
Edit: Better image, thanks to @[email protected]
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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What's important is what you do.
Not what you claim to be, or what others say you are.
That's why identity politics are a failure. Classifying people between good or bad by a bunch of meaningless labels. The only classification that matters is what one is doing or not doing.
I'm not classifying Luigi as good or bad as a whole. I am just saying that making Luigi out to be some lefter version of Bernie is not a good comparison. I don't think we want kill CEOs to be the message of left leadership. The idea scares me, like the pendulum is swinging to far the other way.
Spoken like an agent provocateur. A key aspect of decent humans (what you call left) is that there is no (moral) authority. That's a concept of asshole humans (a.k.a. "right").
You could argue that Luigi killing the CEO from a utilitarian perspective is a net positive. Things are still playing out, so it is hard to say.
What i feel strongly about is making Luigi a leader would be a net negative from a utilitarian standpoint.
I wasn't arguing in favor of making him a leader, just objecting to the trolling about a "left leadership". The very concept of empathetic people (a.k.a. "left") is to not crave leadership and to encourage diversity in opinions, which also means that we typically never agree on many things. That's the main weakness of people with a conscience versus those who follow an authoritarian cult.
You are correct. I messed up. I miss interpreted the post as suggesting Luigi become a leader. This is on me. Sorry.
After having used reddit until the API changes, lemmy seems way too civilized ;) No biggie, have a good day!
Spoken like an agent provocateur.