It’s not just the Fascist Far-Right who exploit the human tendency for Tribalism, the Neoliberal Far-Right does it too, they just mix it a bit more with exploiting other cognitive weaknesses in human beings.
That said, the latter political group did fail miserably in getting people to feel like the Healthcare Insurer CEO “is one of us” and Luigi “is one of them” possibly because all the usual group definitions the Neolibs tried to push to get people into group-oriented thinking on the side of the CEO (strivers vs skivers, family man vs lone wolf and so on - just read the newspaper articles and you’ll spot the framing) failed as people already felt more like the victims of businesses like Healthcare Insurance than “winners” of the profits such business make.
So much of this is filtered through the national corporate media. Quite a few people bat an eye at the vulgar abuse of power by insurance adjusters. But they aren’t afforded a platform on your Cable News outlet of choice.
Vanishingly few people were sympathetic towards an unknown CEO of a notoriously skinflint insurance company. But he was lionized and eulogized on every national news station.
In the same vein, most people slept through Kapernick taking a knee. It wasn’t properly news until weeks after he first did it, in large part because it took that long for right-wing anchors to notice. By contrast, the Elon Fascist Dab was headline news within seconds of him performing it and only got talked down to “Autistic Man’s Arm Just Did That And It’s Ablest Of You To Notice” after days of equivocating in papers and news channels of record.
Omfg I’m gonna stab someone. How the hell are they trying to use autism as an explanation?
This is not how any of this works. You don’t start stimming in a perfect right wing gesture. He never did something like this before in public. He also doesn’t look startled or anything.
I’m mad now. How did this chipmunk become a government advisor? I want him to trip on Lego so bad.
Oh yeah, Luigi definitely came up as a topic of discussion over the holidays when I was visiting the conservative side of my family. I considered it a win that they at least acknowledged that the legal system and media works differently for the rich and powerful. I mean, common ground is common ground.
It’s a similar comparison to Luigi Mangione
One person was responsible for killing or leading to the deaths of thousands and possibly millions of people to an early death - no one bats an eye
One person was responsible for directly killing one other person - the whole country loses their minds
It’s not just the Fascist Far-Right who exploit the human tendency for Tribalism, the Neoliberal Far-Right does it too, they just mix it a bit more with exploiting other cognitive weaknesses in human beings.
That said, the latter political group did fail miserably in getting people to feel like the Healthcare Insurer CEO “is one of us” and Luigi “is one of them” possibly because all the usual group definitions the Neolibs tried to push to get people into group-oriented thinking on the side of the CEO (strivers vs skivers, family man vs lone wolf and so on - just read the newspaper articles and you’ll spot the framing) failed as people already felt more like the victims of businesses like Healthcare Insurance than “winners” of the profits such business make.
So much of this is filtered through the national corporate media. Quite a few people bat an eye at the vulgar abuse of power by insurance adjusters. But they aren’t afforded a platform on your Cable News outlet of choice.
Vanishingly few people were sympathetic towards an unknown CEO of a notoriously skinflint insurance company. But he was lionized and eulogized on every national news station.
In the same vein, most people slept through Kapernick taking a knee. It wasn’t properly news until weeks after he first did it, in large part because it took that long for right-wing anchors to notice. By contrast, the Elon Fascist Dab was headline news within seconds of him performing it and only got talked down to “Autistic Man’s Arm Just Did That And It’s Ablest Of You To Notice” after days of equivocating in papers and news channels of record.
The Consent, folks. Its being Manufactured.
Omfg I’m gonna stab someone. How the hell are they trying to use autism as an explanation?
This is not how any of this works. You don’t start stimming in a perfect right wing gesture. He never did something like this before in public. He also doesn’t look startled or anything.
I’m mad now. How did this chipmunk become a government advisor? I want him to trip on Lego so bad.
Oh yeah, Luigi definitely came up as a topic of discussion over the holidays when I was visiting the conservative side of my family. I considered it a win that they at least acknowledged that the legal system and media works differently for the rich and powerful. I mean, common ground is common ground.