Botond173
29d ago
I've heard about Italian examples though.
The assassination of Sergio Ramelli, which also includes a redemption arc (sort of)
Botond173
29d ago
It's undoubtedly more accurate to say that he was a victim of a self-radicalizing cultural milieu that normalizes leftist political executions.
Botond173
29d ago
The leftist pantheon has long included fake-ass martyrs.
the hero pioneer Pavlik Morozov
the Red Army peace envoys under white flags supposedly gunned down by fascist monsters in 1944
Botond173
29d ago
Are you specifically talking about the current American (Republican) Right?
Botond173
29d ago
Is your argument that violence-promoters on the Right are successfully rooted out by strictly enforcing laws against them, so if the same is done with the violence-promoters on the Left then the same result can be achieved?
Botond173
29d ago
I think it’s a lot more ‘cringy’ to make memes about a widow trying to carry on in public life after her husband gets murdered in plain view.
I'd also mention that in other similar situations the normie woke-adjacent line of thought is usually that people mourn in all sorts of different ways, you don't know what they're going through, it's petty and cruel to openly mock and criticize their attitude etc.
So I’ve read the discussion. Maybe I just wasn’t paying enough attention but it seems to me that nobody mentioned the obvious elephant in the room. The old farts in leadership positions in either mentioned party obviously seem hesitant to recruit or select 40-somethings or 50-somethings as candidates for higher positions because they’re afraid of them turning out to be rabid ideologues of various stripes incapable and/or unable to make compromises, and/or weirdoes that are not presentable to normies and are prone to cause scandals, and if there are actually not such people themselves then they’re likely to be surrounded by such staffers and advisors etc.
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