Thanks @happybadger@hexbear.net for sharing the person’s profile in the other thread

https://xcancel.com/pepmangione

79 points

what no theory does to a mf

permalink
report
reply
69 points

Materially done more than most online MLs tho to be fair

permalink
report
parent
reply
21 points

He’s not throwing away his shot

permalink
report
parent
reply
19 points
*

The right has done more this year than the left has on decades. The first trump shooter. Arguably the second trump bush guy. And now the adjuster.

Pretty pathetic

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

Should the left be planning more political assassinations?

permalink
report
parent
reply

What got accomplished here? United replaced their CEO the same day and their stock price went up. This’d be a viable take if there were any copycats; and honestly, will be a viable take if copycats DO jump out-- but they haven’t yet. Words are wind. Let’s see some motion.

This isn’t the one to lionize. Like, I’m not hunkering down in a foxhole next to some cracker I know was talm bout “DEI” and “woke” just last week, if anything, that’s the mfer I’m gonna use as a bullet catcher when I need to move out and draw fire.

permalink
report
parent
reply
29 points

Subscribing to a grounded theory is banned in Ivy League schools. Prove you are a genius and invent your own theory!

permalink
report
parent
reply

The more complicated and granular it is, the more writing-on-mirrors tortured genius it must be, I assume. (Nobody is going to check)

permalink
report
parent
reply
66 points
*

Forget the brainworms.

The only thing that matters is working class vs ruling class.

Brainworms can be solved if you can first get people on working class vs ruling class. You have them listening to prole agitators instead of the bourgeoise. The brainworms were injected by the fact they’ve been listening to the bourgeoise in the first place, once you get them away from that and into a communist sphere of influence you can melt them away.

permalink
report
reply
24 points

I agree with you completely. It’s clear he gives a shit about the greater good even if his analysis sucks. The latter can be fixed. Well not in this guy’s case — he’s fucked.

permalink
report
parent
reply
30 points

Yeah my point is not so much about this guy but how discussion about this guy can be channeled. Not just this guy but the sentiment “shooting CEOs is good actually” is literally everywhere now, which is NEVER going to be something the right supports.

A highly upvoted comment on Ben Shapiro’s video condemning the shooting was “if the left supports this call me a leftist then”.

All we have to do to actually get people to hear us out is use the right language when they open the door, then fix the brainworms once they’re actually listening to us. The biggest barrier is getting them to listen in the first place.

permalink
report
parent
reply
20 points

Gotta strike while the irons hot. People are temporarily amenable to radical action, so they will be more willing to listen to ideas they normally tune out

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

To be true, it need to be consistent against discrimination that divide the working class (such as racism, patriarchy and imperialism). So one who imply in class struggle, shall not be class first However I honestly didn’t get how this kind of position could be right wing. There is consistent left position in both atheism and religious. Moreover, both religion and political atheism are trusted by far right.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

I don’t think we need to create perfect communists.

What we need to create is a party large enough and organised enough to seize the moment. And a proletariat angry enough to do revolution.

ANY party that is large and well organised enough to… ORGANISE… Will defacto become the vessel of revolution because people will be forced into supporting whatever is realistic and available when it happens.

Hamas for example has all the weapons, largely because of supporting allies in Hezbollah and Iran. This used to be the PFLP but then the soviet union fell and that’s where their supplies were from so they’ve dropped off as the most realistic vessel for resistance in Palestine, people support the most realistic thing that can do resistance and that thing happens to be who has the most weapons.

The same scenario plays out in revolutions around the world. Those with the most organisational power (and the most ability to do violence) will leap to the forefront of a revolutionary situation. The people will want neither of the main parties, they will want whatever the most realistic next possible is. The job of communists is to become that and be ready for the opportunity, then seize it decisively when it comes and fend off opposition.

The members of the party need to be perfect communists, for obvious reasons, the party needs to be led well and have good ideology. The people that follow it do not, it’s beneficial but not important for purism among the proletariat itself.

permalink
report
parent
reply
51 points

once again a shooter turns out to be a worm brained individualistic libertarian freak

permalink
report
reply
Removed by mod
permalink
report
parent
reply
51 points

This is from 2022 though. NY Post was claiming he was posting anti-capitalist and Ted Kazinsky shit somewhere. I haven’t seen it. His twitter stops 2022 and I suspect that’s around when his relative got fucked by United. I suspect he becomes a theoryless anticapitalist or anarchist.

It should always be assumed that lone wolf assassins have some wild highly individualistic personal theories if any.

permalink
report
reply
35 points

He reviewed Kaczynski’s book on Goodreads apparently

permalink
report
parent
reply

Americans (and most people really) are gonna have incoherent politics without clear ideology.

permalink
report
parent
reply
23 points
*

he was still retweeting up until June (i think NY post is just lying)

permalink
report
parent
reply
20 points

Bah I was confused by the pinned tweet. Yeah he’s an Ivy League tech bro through and through.

permalink
report
parent
reply

While tragic, him being a right winger doesn’t un-shoot the ceo

permalink
report
reply

permalink
report
parent
reply