I also highly doubt that people mugged him for being a nazi veteran, but I could be wrong. He just seemed like a douchebag cracker and an easy victim, and I don’t think anyone should be mugged and beaten half to death, and I highly doubt those that attacked him did it on principle or were committed marxist revolutionaries.
There’s no way this guy was mugged for any political purpose. The result serves no political purpose, besides maybe making more reactionaries. Celebrating this type of crime mostly (1) opens the door for opportunists and (2) separates the left from the masses, who largely view even petty crime as a bad thing.
No AES state has a stance on crime anywhere near that of the online left. Famously, analysis of Soviet archives in the 90s showed that most gulag inmates were there for stuff like thefts, burglaries, and assaults, not political crimes.
The best take on crime stories is pointing out that leftist programs prevent crime in the first place.
I feel/hope that most of us are just meme-ing and don’t actually support this attack. And you’re right, over 80 percent of gulag inmates were there for non-political crimes, and only were imprisoned for 2-3 years, or 4-5. And even the ones arrested for political crimes mostly deserved it as well.
There’s no way this guy was mugged for any political purpose. The result serves no political purpose, besides maybe making more reactionaries. Celebrating this type of crime mostly (1) opens the door for opportunists and (2) separates the left from the masses, who largely view even petty crime as a bad thing.
No AES state has a stance on crime anywhere near that of the online left. Famously, analysis of Soviet archives in the 90s showed that most gulag inmates were there for stuff like thefts, burglaries, and assaults, not political crimes.
The best take on crime stories is pointing out that leftist programs prevent crime in the first place.
I feel/hope that most of us are just meme-ing and don’t actually support this attack. And you’re right, over 80 percent of gulag inmates were there for non-political crimes, and only were imprisoned for 2-3 years, or 4-5. And even the ones arrested for political crimes mostly deserved it as well.