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Greta is exactly the kind of person I have in mind when I think about Luigi. I knew the right hated her in weird pathological ways, but it seemed like the liberal establishment was handing her a career as the official Climate Change Child if she towed the line. There was real material incentive for her to remain liberal even if her immediate circumstances should propel her leftward. I was surprised she overcame that background to be as radical as she is.
Luigi is a fancylad who experienced Joker (2019). Now he's a celebrity slave who's popular with most normal people. I could be pro-Luigi with any random coworker and they'd probably agree with a story about how a similar company killed their relative. I think being forced into an environment of extreme proletarianisation should make him more of a leftist in perspective at least, but neither he nor Greta in her liberal darling moment could say what Greta can in 2025 and keep their relevancy. It'd be nice if he learned from his experience and at least became a useful symbol with some quotes. His background and current broad appeal both push him toward this reddit-coded liberalism.
Yeah I mostly agree. I will caveat and say that if he pisses off the right people by saying the wrong things then that could propel him towards the remaining supporters in the left that continue to support him even after he pisses off the liberals and the right.
He's going to completely avoid that until after the trial though. And even after the trial there will be a pressure upon him to be a middle-of-the-road preacher of non-violence because he's never going to want to risk this being dug up again even with double-jeopardy or whatever the rules are I wouldn't risk it.
All pressure currently exists pre-trial and will continue to exist upon him post-trial to have an image of being a non-violent american patriot. That is what is in his best interests and the most likely road he'll go down. Yeah maybe some of that will be "tax the rich" at some point but he won't be able to go further.