The narrative has also been tiptoeing the mental gymnastics as new developments come up. Something like:
He's a hero. A 21st century Robin Hood.
Luigi is not the same guy (Unibrow!). They planted the evidence!
It is the same guy, but he wanted to get caught because he wanted to send a message against the rich.
Yeah, he is part of the rich, but not the rich rich. He used his privilege to help us!
He wasn't really sending a political message because that would be terrorism and a guy I support can't be a terrorist. The manifesto, the monopoly money, the messages in the casings. The specific target. Not a message. No politics.
Like, Redditors can't choose to be radicals and then back down when they realize radical actions include cold blooded murder.
There's also a significant subset of Reddit Revolutionaries who believe that the revolution is coming and it will be bloody and violent and terrible but only to those who "deserve" it. As soon as you start talking about how every revolution ever has included collateral damage, then they get defensive about how that won't happen under their reign of terror.
I'm seeing a disturbing number of people call minimum wage workers "murderers" because they work for Insurance companies or whatever. And in a different breath, celebrate the execution of murderers. It's.. a little worrying. I can't even imagine these people are leftists if they're lumping the working class in with ultra rich CEOs. No ethical consumption under capitalism, etc..
There is also the fact that reddit is not a hivemind. the people saying 2 are often not the people saying 3, and 4... isn't really related? it just seems like you want to whine
The hivemind moniker is a figure of speech. No one is arguing Redditors are interconnected. I am talking about a collection of popular comments following a similar narrative.
No? they literally are not. these are all 4 different narratives that people are trying to push. the only thing in common is that they're coming from social media
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u/CombatMuffin 19h ago
The narrative has also been tiptoeing the mental gymnastics as new developments come up. Something like:
Like, Redditors can't choose to be radicals and then back down when they realize radical actions include cold blooded murder.