• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Luigi wasn’t lower class, tho? You could try to argue his family was middle class but even that’s a stretch, his grandfather donated a million dollars on a single event and Luigi attended both a Private High School where he was Valedictorian and he had a Masters Degree from Ivy League University of Pennsylvania.

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      16 hours ago

      You can be rich and still fight against an oligarchy. That’s why it’s class warfare. His actions line up with the poor fighting back against the rich using the same tools they use: murder.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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        16 hours ago

        To be a Lower Class Hero and Icon you have to be Lower Class, yes.

        Nobody called John Brown the Slave Hero or the living symbol of a Slave fighting oppression.

        People’s perception of Luigi is fantasy fiction.

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          4 hours ago

          Have you ever heard of class solidarity? It’s not us = poor vs them = rich, it’s us = people who have to work vs them = people make money off us working. The fact that this “upper class” dude had to suffer at the hands of the healthcare system should have tipped you off that he’s one of us - the bourgeois don’t have to worry about healthcare.

          • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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            4 hours ago

            You can praise Luigi for betraying his class but I don’t see any reason to replace the truth with fanfiction.

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      14 hours ago

      He’s a class traitor, to our side. So a working class hero, as in a hero to the working class.

    • stevedice@sh.itjust.works
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      16 hours ago

      There’s no higher, middle or lower class. Those are all lies from the owning class to divide the working class and it seems like they’re working on you.

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      16 hours ago

      Worker class is the true unifier. You can be lower, mid, and upper worker class.

      If you have to work to live, you’re working class. If your employer controls a significant portion of your life and time, you’re working class.

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      16 hours ago

      I guess people from lower class can’t stand for themselves as they are busy surviving. Revolutionnary figures were often from middle class (Lenine, Che…)

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                14 hours ago

                He wasn’t in charge, tried to overthrow the government the first time but failed, spent 6 years pandering, and then he was the absolute authority for over a decade leading up to his death. The only thing that stopped him was Germany being conquered by the Allies and USSR.

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      17 hours ago

      As I understand it his family owns multiple resorts and real estate and has multiple companies. Not really what I’d call lower class.

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        16 hours ago

        Family money isn’t necessarily his money, Grandpa may be a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps pussy” kind of guy.

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          “pull yourself up by your bootstraps pussy”

          That’s more upper class, I can’t imagine real rich people would their own like that. But who knows.

          I also don’t approve any attacks on his character via this angle. It is important to discuss but the mans work speaks for itself.

          His class is secondary discussion here.

          IMHO