President Yoon's Failed Attempt at Becoming a Dictator + the Assassination of the UnitedHeathcare CEO
As promised in my post about Bashar al-Assad, I will finally talking about the recent martial law declaration by President Yoon in South Korea 🇰🇷. As an added bonus, I also be talking about the recent assassination of the UnitedHeathcare CEO Brian Thompson that took America 🇺🇸 by storm.
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President Yoon's Failed Attempt at Becoming a Dictator
Needless to say, this completely shocked the world. No body saw it coming, especially not the South Korean people 🇰🇷. I didn't even know about it until I saw jokes about it in the comment section of last week's weekly Korean War 🇰🇵🇰🇷 episode on the Korean War 🇰🇵🇰🇷 channel by TimeGhost. President Yoon Suk Yeol just announced it out of the blue, falsely claiming that the opposition party, Democratic Party (no relation to the Democratic Party here in America 🇺🇸) were colluding with North Korea 🇰🇵, and pretty much threw the entire country into chaos. Thankfully, the martial law didn't last long as the brave lawmakers from the Democratic Party made it back to the National Assembly (with the help of protesters 🪧) and voted down the martial law order, forcing President Yoon and his cabinet to lift it. Not the opposition not acted as quickly, had the South Korean people 🇰🇷 not protested so strong against what Yoon was attempting to do, South Korea 🇰🇷 would probably be a dictatorship right about now.
For people here in America 🇺🇸 to understand why President Yoon's decision to all of a sudden declare martial law was so strongly opposed by the opposition party, by members of Yoon's own party, and by the South Korean people 🇰🇷 as a whole, you have to understand a little bit of South Korea 🇰🇷's own history. South Korea 🇰🇷 was not always a democracy, in fact, for most of its history it wasn't. Like Taiwan 🇹🇼, South Korea 🇰🇷 was once a dictatorship, however unlike Taiwan 🇹🇼 which had the same dictator up until the 1970s, South Korea 🇰🇷 had several dictators throughout its history until the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. First, you had Syngman Rhee, who was the country's first president, leading the country through the Korean War 🇰🇵🇰🇷. He became a dictator until he was thrown out by a student uprising in 1960. Then there was Park Chung Hee, who overthrew Syngman Rhee's successor Yun Po-sun in a coup in 1961. Park Chung Hee would rule the country for about 17 years until he was assassinated in 1979.
Then there was Chun Doo-hwan, probably the most infamous of the dictators here (yes more infamous than Park Chung Hee), who democratically elected president in 1980 after Park's successor Choi Kyu-hah resigned after Chun staged a coup against him. Chun, to no one's surprise, became a dictator and ruled the country until 1988, and was just as brutal, if not more brutal than Park was. Though, according the Wikipedia page, his constitution was less authoritarian than Park's, but he still used extreme violence to maintain it.
His lasting legacy was his violent crackdown on the Gwangju Uprising, which resulted in 600 to 2,300 deaths 💀. The uprising is still commemorated to this day, and Chun is still hated by the majority of older South Koreans 🇰🇷 who lived during that time. People in South Korea 🇰🇷 actually cheered on his death in 2021 when he died from myeloma, as they were glad this man ♂︎ was gone. Afterwards, South Korea 🇰🇷 democratized and became more or less what it is today, but only after a successful pro-democracy protest movement 🪧 in 1987 forced Chun to open the country back up to free and fair elections.
However, even though South Korea 🇰🇷 became democracy, it still has had to deal with a lot of corrupt leaders, including Park's own daughter Park Geun-hye, who was the country's first female president ♀︎ and was impeached and then convicted of several corruption charges in 2017. This likely has to do with the massive influence of the massive mega corporations that dominate South Korea 🇰🇷, the chaebols, which include Samsung, Hyundai, LG, SK Group, Lotte Group, Hanwha Group, GS Group, CJ Group, and Hanjin Group. These corporations not only dominate the private sector in South Korea 🇰🇷, but they wield significant political power and influence within the government. A lot of South Korean politicians 🇰🇷 are under the influence of one of or all of these mega corporations. The chaebols have their fingers in the pockets of many politicians within the government.
This is why many people say that South Korea 🇰🇷 is a cyberpunk dystopia and why it embodies the worst aspects of capitalism, corporations wield too much power and influence within the country, especially within the government, the country has one of widest wealth gaps and worst wealth inequality in the world, it has one of the worst unemployment rates in the world, it has one of highest suicide rates in the world due to unrealistically high education standards and due to the crushing pressure of cutthroat business practices and lack of respect for workers' rights, and it has a declining population with one of the lowest birth rates in the world. This is why people say Korea is a dystopia no matter which side of the peninsula you're on, north or south. North Korea 🇰🇵 embodies the worst aspects of communism ☭ while South Korea 🇰🇷 embodies the worst aspects of capitalism. They're both dystopias, it's just that One's a communist dystopia ☭ and the other is a capitalist dystopia. And before the 1990s, being dictatorships was another thing that they had in common.
In a lot of these cases, martial law was used to give these leaders broad executive power and rule as dictators. Park Chung Lee and Chun Doo-hwan were both generals in the South Korean army 🇰🇷, Park was a major-general, and Chun was a general, and they each ruled the country as a legit military dictatorship, ruling under their own constitutions. So, the majority of South Koreans 🇰🇷 are pretty wary whenever martial law is brought up, or whenever the prospect of it being declared seems likely.
Even if they themselves didn't grow up during the dark times when any of those dictators I mentioned were in power, their parents and grandparents likely told them stories about what it was like living under these dictators, these corrupt strongmen, and told them to be wary whenever a sitting president unilaterally declares martial law or if the military up and decides to do a coup. And even if they didn't, their idea of living under a dictatorship appalls most South Koreans 🇰🇷, it completely turns them off 😖, especially since the life of the average South Korean 🇰🇷 (who isn't a millionaire or a billionaire) is miserable enough as it is.
Martial law is often an easy shortcut for the leader of a country to become a dictator, that's how it's often done, and this is how the South Korean people 🇰🇷 see it. Because this sort of thing hasn't just happened in South Korea 🇰🇷, it has happened before in other countries including Asian ones. Martial law was declared in Taiwan 🇹🇼, which is why Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT were able to stay in power for so long there, and martial law declared in the Philippines 🇵🇭, which is how Ferdinand Marcos Sr. became a dictator in that country, and why he was able to stay in power there for a total of 21 years. The country was under martial law for 9 of those 21 years, from 1972 to 1981.
That's why they reacted so strongly when Yoon all of a sudden declared martial law and why the opposition party in the National Assembly acted so swiftly to vote down the martial law order and force Yoon to lift it, despite the military's attempts to prevent them from doing so. The protesters 🪧 helped the opposition party politicians get back to the National Assembly, help them climb up the gates that the military had closed to the building, and pushing back against the military's other attempts to block the opposition from entering the building. One of the protesters 🪧 went viral when this one female protester 🪧♀︎ grabbed the barrel of a soldier's gun that was pointing directly in her face. I don't even know if it was a protester 🪧, I think it might've been an actual opposition politician.
Once the opposition politicians were in the building, they barricaded the doors to prevent the military from barging in to the building and arresting them and dragging them out of the building and preventing them carrying out their civic duty. South Korea 🇰🇷 still has a draft in place, and South Korean men 🇰🇷♂︎ are required to serve in the military for at least 1 year and 6 months. So, many of the opposition party politicians had served in the military before, so they knew how to create barricades, and if you look at the pictures from that day, those barricades were pretty sturdy. They looked like something people with military training would make. It would've taken a bulldozer to get that. Some of them even slept inside the building 😴 to make sure that they were there for the vote, and they couldn't be a situation where they'd be prevented from voting.
Though, I'm not fully sure on that, I might be thinking of the impeachment vote that happened afterwards, after the martial law order was lifted. But because of these brave politicians who were willing to put country before party, and stood up to Yoon, the martial law order only stayed in place for about 4 or 5 hours. People could've been completely ignorant to the fact that martial law was declared, or that the country was under martial law, and by the time they did learn that martial law was declared, it was already over. Imagine the emotional roller coaster 🎢 for a lot of people in South Korea 🇰🇷 went on when this all going down.
As for why Yoon did it, besides his own bogus and conspiratorial claims for why he did it (North Korean infiltration or collaboration 🇰🇵, defending the nation from the increasing threat from China 🇨🇳 and North Korea 🇰🇵), most people who have looked at the situation and looked back at the events that happened before Yoon declared martial law concluded that he did it as a knee jerk reaction to prevent himself from being impeached, prevent his wife the First Lady of South Korea 🇰🇷 Kim Keon-hee from being investigated, and to prevent the opposition from voting down his 2025 budget proposal.
Yoon was already deeply unpopular before this all took place, having some of the lowest approval ratings of any president in South Korean history 🇰🇷. His approval ratings were even lower than either Trump or Biden's in the US 🇺🇸 to give a comparison that Americans 🇺🇸 can understand and relate to. And the reason why people hated him was because of his far-right views, but also because he failed to or flat out refused to address any of the issues that are currently plaguing the country. His wife Kim was also involved in some corruption scandals, and that definitely hurt his popularity in the eyes of the public.
So many experts, and opposition politicians believe that he declared martial law in order to stay in power and eliminate all of his opposition in the National Assembly so that he could do the things that he wanted to do and he cared about, which was mostly fighting against North Korea 🇰🇵 and China 🇨🇳, and also supplying Ukraine 🇺🇦 with weapons to fight Russia 🇷🇺 (and North Korea 🇰🇵), who Yoon also considers a threat to South Korea 🇰🇷's national security. That's not to say North Korea 🇰🇵, China 🇨🇳, and Russia 🇷🇺 are not threats to South Korea 🇰🇷's national security, but even people who oppose North Korea 🇰🇵, China 🇨🇳, and Russia 🇷🇺 and think that supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦 is a good idea think that Yoon went about it in the worst possible way.
You don't fight dictators and authoritarianism by becoming one yourself, and I think most national security, foreign policy, and geopolitical experts understand this. They understand that if South Korea 🇰🇷 were to do this, if they did declare martial law and slip back into dictatorship, they would lose all credibility and would lose the moral high ground to North Korea 🇰🇵, China 🇨🇳, and Russia 🇷🇺, to the Axis of Upheaval, which includes all of those three countries as well as Iran 🇮🇷. They knew that with South Korea 🇰🇷 going authoritarian, the Axis of Upheaval would be to able to point and go, "You see, you see 👉, they're no different than us. They're just as bad as we, if not worse. They're a bunch of hypocrites that have no business criticizing us or telling any other country how to run their affairs." Even the current Japanese prime minister 🇯🇵, Shigeru Ishiba was "deeply disturbed" by what Yoon did 😧, even though he was an ally of Yoon's, he's a foreign policy guy just like Yoon is, and is kind of a crazy far-right guy himself, he's a hardcore Japanese nationalist 🇯🇵. Even he didn't like what Yoon did.
He also addressed his unpopularity in the worst possible way by trying to silence everyone and make himself absolute ruler of the nation unaccountable to anyone, and all that did was make him even more unpopular. The whole thing blew up in his face, and he knows it, but is still doubling down, lying about it, trying to spread conspiracy theories, resisting calls from even his own party to resign, and trying to resist any attempt at impeaching him or holding him accountable. It's also a shame that his party is largely standing by him, and going along with it, trying to protect him and prevent him from being impeached. He fired the previous leader of his party after he spoke out against him and demanded that he step down and replaced him with a loyalist who is willing to vote against impeachment. I mean, Trump and the Republican Party have pretty much acted the same way here in the US 🇺🇸, even worse than what Yoon and the People Power Party (PPP) have been doing so I'm used to kind of behavior and these kind of talking points 😒.
Regardless of why he did, most people agree that this amounted to an attempted self-coup, a coup where a sitting incumbent leader who was elected legitimately through legal means tries to illegally stay in power beyond their term limit or mandate or whatever. It's also called an autocoup in case you hear anyone use that term instead of self-coup. It's just like how the January 6 insurrection was a self-coup. Trump was elected president in 2016, it was a free and fair election, he won legally and legitimately, but then he was voted out of office in 2020, falsely claimed the election was rigged and stolen from him, and then tried to illegally stay in power by filing lawsuits to get election results overturned or falsified and switched to him, and then send a mob of his supporters to the US Capitol 🇺🇸 to block the certification of the election results thereby blocking the peaceful transfer of power. Bolsonaro attempted something similar with his supporters in Brazil 🇧🇷 in 2022 after he was voted out of office and tried to illegally stay in power, and that too was a self-coup.
Right now, as of the time I'm writing this, what's going on in South Korea 🇰🇷 are the impeachment proceedings. The first impeachment vote failed. The opposition party, the Democratic Party or DPK for short even tried to push for a vote to investigate Yoon's wife first, and then have the vote to impeach Yoon himself, but both votes failed, with the DPK lose the vote to investigate Kim by two votes. So, they're going to definitely try again, it took several tries before Park Geun-hye was finally impeached, and what Yoon did was arguably worse than what Park did.
But, Yoon gave a speech recently where he not only defended his decision to declare martial law but also vowed to fight any attempt by the DPK or even by those in his own party to impeach him. So, he will resist any attempt to impeach him, even if the majority of South Koreans 🇰🇷 (even those in his own party) want him to be. Far too many PPP members are on Yoon's side for comfort, and I'm Jake Broe and others like him will argue that Yoon should stay in office you know for the good of Ukraine 🇺🇦.
I bring up Jake Broe because he's a former US Air Force officer 🇺🇸 who was stationed in South Korea 🇰🇷, and often talks about how great South Korea 🇰🇷 is especially when compared to North Korea 🇰🇵 "the worst country on Earth 🌏" in his words, and has pushed for South Korea 🇰🇷 to supply Ukraine 🇺🇦 with lethal aid and Yoon was one of the people really pushing for that within the South Korean government 🇰🇷. Like I said before in the foreword of my post about China 🇨🇳 and North Korea 🇰🇵's relationship, Jake just cares about Ukraine 🇺🇦 and just cares about beating Russia 🇷🇺, even if some of the things he advocates for would undercut those things he cares so much about. What good is a Ukrainian victory 🇺🇦 or a Russian defeat 🇷🇺 if South Korea 🇰🇷 is a dictatorship under martial law, or if the US 🇺🇸 (his own country) is a dictatorship too and is also pro-Russian 🇷🇺? Luckily, all of those people, Yoon loyalists within the PPP and Yoon supporters, are outnumbered.
The Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun was arrested for his participation in the martial law declaration, like he was the one who suggested to Yoon that he declare martial law and made sure that the military would enforce it once it was declared. For this, he's been accused of committing an act of insurrection and an act of treason, like he will likely go to trial and will be prosecuted for insurrection and treason. He apparently tried to commit suicide after he was arrested and was being detained in a detention facility, which reminds me a lot of when Hideki Tojo (Japan 🇯🇵's prime minister for a good chunk of World War II) tried to commit suicide when the US Army 🇺🇸 arrested him so that he could stand trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, but he survived his suicide attempt and they had to give him a blood transfusion 🩸 and they had an American soldier 🇺🇸 do it, give his blood 🩸 to Tojo.
Why did they insist on it being an American soldier 🇺🇸 donating the blood 🩸 to Tojo for the transfusion? Just to spite him. Just so that he would have to live with the fact that he had American blood 🇺🇸🩸 inside of him. Which wasn't long since he was convicted for nearly all the crimes he was accused of, and sentenced to death by hanging. Being one of the few Japanese leaders 🇯🇵 to be convicted and the only one to my knowledge to face the death penalty for war crimes and genocide related to Japanese conduct 🇯🇵 during World War II.
Tojo shot himself in the chest but missed his heart 🫀, which is why the US Army 🇺🇸 was able to do a medical procedure on him to keep him alive and able to revive him so that he could stand trial. The Wikipedia page on Kim Yong-hyun doesn't specify how he tried committed suicide, like what was the method of his attempted suicide, it just says that he tried to commit suicide. But, I assume it wasn't as violent as Hideki Tojo's attempted suicide, you know, Kim Yong-hyun didn't pull out a gun and try to shoot himself. I think he probably tried to hang himself or swallow a cyanide pill 💊 he had hidden in his jacket or something. Tojo also did it before he was caught, whereas Kim Yong-hyun did it while he was in custody. This technically means that Kim Yong-hyun is apart of that 25.2 suicides per 100,000 people statistic. If he is convicted, he will likely either face life imprisonment or even face the death penalty.
That probably explains his attempted suicide. When those are the two most likely sentences of a conviction, of a guilty verdict, it's no wonder why he tried to commit suicide. His life is over regardless, so might as go out of his own terms and avoiding trial, escaping accountability and escaping justice. Luckily, it didn't work and he will be put on trial, he will be held accountable, he will face the consequences of his actions and his decision to coax President Yoon to declare martial law, and then agreeing to enforce that martial law order by using the military to seize the National Assembly and arrest the legislature or block them from entering the building. He won't get to go out his own way on his own terms if he is indeed sentenced to death.
I hope that the same thing happens to Yoon himself because he’s a co-conspirator, he agreed to the plan that Kim Yong-hyun came up with, and he carried it out by announcing the declaration. I hope he’s arrested and put on trial, and isn't just allowed to go Scott free and live out the rest of his days in luxury and comfort. I mean, if Park Geun-hye can be to arrested, put on trial, and then sent to prison for the corrupt things she did, I don’t see why Yoon can't or shouldn't. His crimes are a lot worse than her crimes, he committed insurrection, he tried to commit a coup against himself, and illegally stay in power and become a dictator. Park Geun-hye's corruption charges look minor by comparison.
I also wish that the US Justice Department 🇺🇸 had been this tough and swift when it came to prosecuting those were involved in January 6th. Trump should've immediately been arrested and put on trial for what he did, along with every other co-conspirator involved in the insurrection. Merrick Garland was a complete and total failure. He was the worst guy for the job, he should've never been Attorney General and I'm glad he never became a Supreme Court justice because he would've been bad at that too. He, more than anyone else, helped Trump win the election, he helped him escape justice. That was one of the main reasons why he wanted to become president again he wanted to stay out of prison, and Merrick Garland gave that to him, almost on a silver platter. So, Merrick Garland shares a significant of the blame for why Trump was able to run again in 2024, and why he ultimately won. He failed the Justice Department and he failed the country.
But look, even if Yoon is eventually impeached, his and South Korea 🇰🇷's reputation has been tarnished, maybe not forever but certainly for a long time. South Korea 🇰🇷 is now seen as a declining democracy or as a weakened democracy and will still probably be perceived that way even more if Yoon is not impeached. It's hard to rebuild your country's reputation once it's been tarnished. The US 🇺🇸 still hasn't fully rebuilt its reputation from the Iraq War 🇮🇶, the War in Afghanistan 🇦🇫, the War on Terror as a whole, and the Trump years, and probably won't be able to rebuild it any further especially now that Trump is heading back into the White House in January. In fact, the US 🇺🇸's reputation will be damaged even more, perhaps beyond repair, for the next four years (or more) that Trump is in office. This is what happens when you elect a fascistic buffoon who knows nothing about how the world actually works or how to properly run a functioning government to be your president.
Even South Korea 🇰🇷's closest ally in the region, Japan 🇯🇵 is starting to lose confidence in South Korea 🇰🇷 and is starting to have doubts about whether or not it can be trusted or relied upon. This incident and the outcome of impeachment proceedings could easily strain Japan 🇯🇵 and South Korea 🇰🇷's relationship after Biden and Yoon himself tried so hard to build it up with Japan 🇯🇵's revolving door of prime ministers. South Korea 🇰🇷's ability to criticize countries like North Korea 🇰🇵, China 🇨🇳, and Russia 🇷🇺 has lessened as a result of Yoon's martial law declaration because South Korea 🇰🇷 almost did slip back into authoritarianism itself and would just look hypocritical if it were to criticize those countries now.
I am glad that Yoon's martial law declaration and attempt to cease complete and total power didn't last long, and the South Korean people 🇰🇷 resisted it and rejected it, and the majority of South Korean politicians 🇰🇷 want to impeach him and will keep trying to until they finally do. I just don't have confidence in my own country, the United States 🇺🇸, I don't have confidence in the American people 🇺🇸 that they would step up and do the right thing if something like this were to happen here. If Donald Trump does become the dictator he keeps promising he will be and like the MAGA movement 🇺🇸 wants him to, and he uses martial law or something similar like emergency powers or the Insurrection Act (how ironic) to do it, I don't have the confidence that the majority of Americans 🇺🇸 or at least enough Americans 🇺🇸 would stand up to resist it. I fear that majority of Americans 🇺🇸 will just stand by and let it happen.
Even Americans 🇺🇸 who would be against such a move by the incoming president would just stand by, watch, and complain about it as it happened, but won't actually do anything about it. They won't go out in the streets and protest 🪧 or help the Democrats get back into the Capitol or do their job and push back against it like the people in South Korea 🇰🇷 did. When the Democrats pushed back and resisted January 6th, they largely did it on their own. They had help from some Republicans who were rational and sensible and not completely insane, but that's about it.
There was no counter protesters 🪧 by Democratic voters or by Biden supporters or by pro-democracy activists to fight back against the insurrectionist mob storming the Capitol or to help the Democrats get back in the Senate chamber to do their job and certify the results of the 2020 Election 🗳️. It's not exactly the same situation, but you get what I'm saying. The 2024 Election 🗳️ and other recent events have kind of made me lose a little bit of faith that the American people 🇺🇸 are still capable of doing the right thing in face of tyranny and the normalization of political violence and bigotry. All this tells me is that South Koreans 🇰🇷 care way more about their democracy than Americans 🇺🇸 do about theirs. I hope I'm proven wrong, but that's where I'm at when comes to comparing this to what has been happening in America 🇺🇸.
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The Assassination of the UnitedHeathcare CEO
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I really don't have a lot to say about this. I had a lot more to say about the South Korean martial law declaration 🇰🇷. When I heard about this, and when I saw people online (including those on the Left) cheering on the death of Brian Thompson and turning his killer, who we know now is a named Luigi Mangione, into kind of folk hero, all I could think was "what is this country coming to." To me, this was just an another sign that our country has lost its way, and is going in the wrong direction. Yes, UnitedHealthcare is a terrible company, I'm glad I don't get healthcare coverage from and that I get it from Medicare yes, the healthcare system in the US 🇺🇸 overall is bad and doesn't help everyone, yes we should have universal healthcare just like the rest of the world and privatized healthcare shouldn't be a thing.
But, we aren't going to solve the healthcare problem in this country by murdering a guy ♂︎. Do any of you cheering on this man ♂︎'s death ever stop to think what will happen as a result of this assassination? Do you really think this is going to change a thing? No. It won't change a darn thing. They'll just replace Brian Thompson with another billionaire, in fact the meeting that he was heading to before he was killed proceeded anyway on the day even though he had just been murdered. CEOs and other corporate executives will just increase their own security detail and ensure something like this can't happen to it. People who are still with United Healthcare still won't get the coverage they need, and United Healthcare will continue to deny claims just like they were before Brian Thompson's death. Nothing will meaningfully change. Luigi's assassination did nothing, nothing good anyway.
All it did was deprive a 16 year old boy ♂︎ of his father and normalize political violence and vigilantism, even more than it already has. All you people on the Left who cheered this on and said that Brian Thompson deserved it and that Luigi Mangione is a hero, you no longer have the moral high ground, you are no longer in any position to complain the next time when the Right engages in political violence or vigilante justice. I mean, while everyone else was focused on this, a white guy ♂︎ named Daniel Penny committed murder, he killed a black homeless man ♂︎ named Jordan Neely on a subway train 🚇 for being a "nuisance," this was a bona fide white-on-black crime, and he got away with it. He was acquitted by a jury, and was allowed to go free, and the entire MAGA right 🇺🇸 cheered on this man and made into a hero. You leftists don't get to complain about that by saying Daniel Penny's a monster (which he is) and that the Right shouldn't made him into a hero when you yourselves did the same thing with Luigi Mangione. There really isn't a whole lot of difference, it's just that one was racially motivated and the other was motivated by resentment towards the healthcare system and right wing conspiracy theories.
I was wary when people (especially those on the Left) were trying to turn Mangione into a hero for what he did because as it turns out, he's not only a rich guy 🤑♂︎ but it also seems to had right-wing conspiratorial beliefs. He's not some common man, he wasn't working class, he wasn't low income, he wasn't some disgruntled United Healthcare customer who was denied a claim or received bad service, he wasn't dealt a bad hand, he was a rich guy 🤑♂︎ who came from a rich family 🤑. So really, this was a situation of rich people 🤑 killing rich people 🤑. And he did it not because he's one of us, but because bought into crazy right-wing conspiracy theories.
He'd be much more at home in MAGA 🇺🇸 than he would on the Left. On his social media, he talked about how much he hated "wokeism," he talked about how he hated porn 🔞, he talked about he hated DEI programs, he expressed concern about fertility rates, he expressed concern about the increase in secularism, he expressed concern about the decline of Christianity ✝️, and he wanted to promote traditionalist ideas. He expressed skepticism about the medical field as a whole, not just the healthcare system, and skepticism about doctors. He hated Biden and Trump, and seemed to have supported RFK Jr. before he dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump. Does this all sound like some enlightened leftist who wanted to help the little guy and stick to the Man, and wanted to spark a revolution or "eat the rich 🤑?" No, not to me it doesn't.
This is why don't think people should jump to conclusions about a situation before all of the facts have even come out. The Republicans and the Right as a whole made this mistake after that assassination attempt on Trump happened back in July, they so wanted the culprit to be a left-wing lunatic and a Democrat, when it turned the killer was actually a Republican and a right-wing lunatic. He may have hated Trump, but if that is the case, it seems like it was more of a thing where he didn't like him because he wasn't far-right enough, rather than some principled pro-democracy stance that Trump is a fascist and is a threat to democracy. It's even a hundred percent certain that the assassination attempt on Trump was political motivated or not. Now leftists have made that same mistake. Jumping to conclusions before all the facts have come out, and even when they have, they just ignore them and believe the myths that the Internet 🛜 has made up about the killer that he's a warrior for justice and he was on their side. He was on the side of the little guy.
Every so-called Robin Hood that comes along always turns out to be a fake, a fraud who played with people's emotions and their legitimate grievances, and who people projected their own beliefs onto. People see what they want to see, and what they want to see isn't the truth. Luigi Mangione has gone from being a mere killer, a mere murderer, to being a symbol to a lot of people and it kind of troubles me since a lot of the people who turned him into a symbol and idolize him (even having the hots for him 😍 just because of his good looks) don't know (or don't care) that he was against pretty much everything they hold dear.
Do I think this will spark some kind of revolution? Do I think this will lead to a civil war? No, but I do think more political violence will occur. More vigilante murders will occur. Potential killers saw the reaction to this, and they now think that if they commit a murder especially of a wealthy person, then they'll receive praise for it too. But, the next time something like this happens, it won't happen to a rich person 🤑, it won't happen to someone know or care about, it will either be against a woman ♀︎, LGBT person 🏳️🌈, or a person of color. It's already happening with Daniel Penny. Trump's re-election opened the flood gates for these kinds of vigilante murders to occur, and not always to people who other people think deserve it. Had Kamala Harris been elected instead, would any of this have happened I wonder? Would Luigi Mangione have still gone out and shot Brian Thompson to death with a 3D printed gun (oh the things you can do with 3D printers) in the streets of New York? Would Daniel Penny have still choked Jordan Neely to death at a New York subway stop? I'm personally leaning towards not, but it is something to think about 🤔.
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