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The fucking dumbass media will stay surprised by how people feel about this, and the working class people among them will feign shock for the cameras. But the reality is that CEOs have been screwing everyone else in the country raw dog for fucking decades, and nobody that works for a living and has lived in this country for a while is truly shocked by the support for Luigi.
I mean hell, to end last season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dennis had a daydream where he ripped a CEO's heart out to reduce his blood pressure.
Do you think the mainstream media is truly surprised at people's reactions or is it simply acting surprised to behave in line with a dog and pony show about how the UHC CEO was the real working class hero and The Adjuster was evil and/or a lunatic that we should all despise?
I think it's a mixture. I've quit watching news coverage on TV completely at this point, but I do still watch some more mainstream comedy shows (e.g. SNL, Colbert, After Midnight, etc). SNL's latest episode illustrated this disconnect, especially with the opening sketch (a Nancy Grace impersonation basically saying "what's wrong with people for liking the killer?") and Chris Rock's opening monologue. Rock started by talking seemingly sincerely about the CEO and how it must be terrible for his family, etc. and then said "Sometimes drug dealers get shot" or something similar.
There's also a comedy narrative that is being established that I think is kind of mainstream media types coping with the reaction to the killing, which is that they're saying "he's only supported because he's handsome"....but I really think they are out of the loop and many are truly surprised and/or still don't understand the public's reaction.
he's a poser, not a class traitor. if he had been a true class traitor, he would have played things smart. he would have united himself in living with the lower classes without forgoing his significant resources, and he would have dedicated his family inheritance and privilege to righting wrongs.
I have seen snippets in the news saying that his family has disavowed him and cut him off so he effectively no longer comes from a rich family unless they change their minds.
Economic class > every other claimed solidarity, including familial.
You're an owner class sociopath first, and everything else second.
It's why they try so hard to impress on the classes they subjugate that they're all just temporarily embarrassed millionaires and billionaires, stops the poors from becoming a threat, and invites wannabe turncoats to undermine any class movement in exchange for a pittance, if anything at all, fucking suckers.
Worked wonders on the McDonald's snitch, a good beaten dog, didnt even get the milkbone they were snitching for in writing, so they undermined themselves and their class in exchange for literally nothing at all. The system is working exactly as intended.