I’ll admit I know very little about Gandhi but I do know a bit about Jesus and MLK and I don’t recall them ever calling for cold blooded assassinations
Jesus violently overthrew a temple because the people were exploiting the poor. He told People to arm themselves with swords. He was very much a peace-first figure, but he wasn’t a pacifist either.
Exhibit 2: the man who killed former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe killed him because he and his party supported the Moonies cult. The shooters mother had lost everything to the cult.
After his killing Abe’s party lost power and the cult has been banned.
Abe’s political party did not lose power all together, but they lost control of the upper house for the first time in 52 years which allowed things like banning this cult to pass.
Also - he's not the leftist hero people want to believe. He's an alt-right tech bro with decidedly right wing beliefs, who committed murder for personal reasons. He isn't fighting for healthcare rights. He was made that a botched back surgery ruined his perfect white privileged rich boy lifestyle.
Regardless of his intention, if it was even him, he shone a very bright light on an issue that’s been plaguing this country with almost no oversight. People are tired and their support of Luigi reflects that they want change. There’s way more nuance here than “that’s how laws work”
I didn't say I support it. But nobody should be surprised if they go out and commit premeditated murder, on camera, in public, and get caught, if that becomes the end result.
I don't consider him a hero. There are a million other ways he could have aired his grievances besides murder.
For that matter, even if it WERE coming from the legislature this would just be a mirror-image version of all the credulous posts you see whenever some right-wing lunatic introduces something crazy in some state house somewhere. ("GOP Bill Proposes Outlawing Horniness").
Like, any idiot can be in a state legislature, and can "introduce" whatever nonsense they want! And yeah, you can circulate petitions to get whatever madness on the ballot that you can dream up!
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After his killing Abe’s party lost power and the cult has been banned.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-unification-church-dissolution-d5e1fdf3cb671d6ffeb45d75620ef8b2
People shrugged about his death and they're banning the scam church that even uplifts a bunch of right-wing shit across the globe
the gun killed not just the man but the very idea of the man
Good.
I don't consider him a hero. There are a million other ways he could have aired his grievances besides murder.
Proud to be a dork.