There is a detail sitting in plain sight in all of this that I have not seen enough people actually stop and sit with, and it is this, the political movement that would, on paper, have the most obvious claim to Luigi Mangione based on everything documented about his actual beliefs, has not claimed himContinue reading “The Missing Claim: Why MAGA Won’t Take Credit for a Guy Who Sounds Like One of Their Own”
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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”
Facts, Not Vibes: Why Calling Out Luigi Mangione’s Privilege Was Never About Being Popular
I want to be clear about something before I go any further, because I think it matters, my position on this has not moved an inch since the very first post I made about it, and that consistency is not an accident, it is not stubbornness for its own sake, it is because I wasContinue reading “Facts, Not Vibes: Why Calling Out Luigi Mangione’s Privilege Was Never About Being Popular”
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”
Flipping the Script: The Inversions Between 2020 and 2025
Introduction: The years 2020 and 2025 may seem like just a short span in the grand sweep of history, yet they are bookends of profound societal shifts that have altered the fabric of global politics, culture, and technology. As we look back to 2020, the world was in the midst of a pandemic, rising politicalContinue reading “Flipping the Script: The Inversions Between 2020 and 2025”