I’ve written about the Luigi Mangione case before. But this post isn’t really about him. And it certainly isn’t about taking the side of Luigi or the CEO who was killed. This is something different. This is about what this case says about us. Let me start with something that shouldn’t even have to beContinue reading “Luigi Is a Test”
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The Last One: I’d Rather Be Right Alone Than Wrong With Company
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”
A Guess, Not a Diagnosis: Is the Online Left Drifting Right Without Noticing?
I want to be upfront before I even start this one, because I think it matters more here than it has in any of the previous posts, everything I am about to say is speculation, it is my best attempt to make sense of a pattern I keep watching play out, not a claim IContinue reading “A Guess, Not a Diagnosis: Is the Online Left Drifting Right Without Noticing?”
They Took the Account Down, Not the Argument
So it looks like my Tumblr, LuffyMonkey1227, is gone. I do not have confirmation of exactly why, Tumblr does not exactly hand out detailed explanations when an account disappears, but I have a pretty strong guess, and the guess is that a mass reporting campaign from people who did not like what I was sayingContinue reading “They Took the Account Down, Not the Argument”
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”
The Laugh Reacts: What Watching the Left Defend a Rich Kid Taught Me About Tribalism
I want to start with the moment that actually broke something open for me, which was not some grand political betrayal or a policy fight, it was small, almost embarrassingly small, it was a string of laugh react emojis under a comment I made pointing out that Luigi Mangione grew up wealthy, went to oneContinue reading “The Laugh Reacts: What Watching the Left Defend a Rich Kid Taught Me About Tribalism”
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”