I really don’t wanna dunk on anyone but i wonder if the eagerness to claim framing with mangione is an effect of the dude being an insane rightist instead of the woke working class hero
Why would anyone want him to be a ‘woke working class hero’?
This is the best case scenario for change, really. Even a kid who doesn’t have a coherent political ideology yet, but leans right, breaks against his class interests for such a “working class hero” ic act.
It means it won’t just be written off as a militant communist that we can do a new red scare with, but actually something people have to take seriously. He’s a normie and the health insurance industry even radicalises him to murder.
Yeah, I agree.
And, I don’t know if I even believe anymore, at this point, that he could have been framed.
I mean, I was thinking for a moment that if NYPD did give up on finding the real guy and pick him to take the fall, maybe they picked him for having incomprehensible politics so that people couldn’t all rally behind him.
But that doesn’t seem to be the effect, regardless. It’s the opposite: this has all just made it clearer that people all over the political spectrum hate insurance CEOs and sympathize with whoever did this.
so, whether he’s the guy who did it or not, it’s kinda amazing to see how the people who wanna spin this as a thing no one can rally behind don’t have any real options at all