This is the last post I am going to write on Luigi Mangione for a while, not because I have run out of things to say, honestly I could keep going, but because I think I have said what I actually came here to say, across all of these, and at some point repeating yourselfContinue reading “The Last One: I’d Rather Be Right Alone Than Wrong With Company”
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The Ideological Inconvenience Nobody on the Left Wants to Talk About
There is a particular kind of cognitive dissonance that happens when the facts of a story refuse to cooperate with the story you have already decided to tell, and I think we are watching that dissonance play out in real time with Luigi Mangione, because the more that actually comes out about who this guyContinue reading “The Ideological Inconvenience Nobody on the Left Wants to Talk About”
A Prediction: What Happens to Luigi Mangione’s Fanbase When Luigi Mangione Eventually Does Something Wrong
I want to make a prediction here, and I want to be upfront that it is speculative, it is not something I can prove in advance, it is a bet based on watching how these online defense movements tend to behave over time, but I feel confident enough in it that I am willing toContinue reading “A Prediction: What Happens to Luigi Mangione’s Fanbase When Luigi Mangione Eventually Does Something Wrong”
Twenty Four Hours Later: Why Defending Luigi Mangione Is the Least Leftist Thing I’ve Watched the Online Left Do
It has been a day since I put the last piece up, and if anything the response has gotten weirder, not because anyone actually engaged with the substance of what I said, but because the mockery has just kept rolling in, the same laugh reacts, the same dismissive one liners, the same little chorus ofContinue reading “Twenty Four Hours Later: Why Defending Luigi Mangione Is the Least Leftist Thing I’ve Watched the Online Left Do”
Rich on Rich Violence: The Uncomfortable Class Math Nobody Wants to Do
I keep coming back to a phrase, half joking, half not, that I think actually captures something true about the entire Luigi Mangione saga better than most of the earnest political commentary surrounding it, and that phrase is rich on rich violence. I say it with a little bit of a smirk because it soundsContinue reading “Rich on Rich Violence: The Uncomfortable Class Math Nobody Wants to Do”
The Populist Costume: How Luigi Mangione and Donald Trump Wear the Same Disguise
There is a peculiar kind of American theater that plays out whenever a rich person convinces enough people that they are, in fact, one of the little guys, and nowhere has that theater been performed with more success in the last decade than in the cases of Donald Trump and Luigi Mangione. On the surfaceContinue reading “The Populist Costume: How Luigi Mangione and Donald Trump Wear the Same Disguise”