• @finitebanjo
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    19 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      239 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.

    • @Old_Yharnam
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      188 hours ago

      Do you have to be a slave to fight against slavery?

      • @finitebanjo
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        -118 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      57 hours ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      78 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.

      • @finitebanjo
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        17 hours ago

        His family owns a lot of real estate.

    • @Jumpingspiderman
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      37 hours ago

      Neither were most revolutionaries. This is a pattern that has long historical support.

      • @finitebanjo
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        16 hours ago

        Sure hope this doesn’t follow any patterns, based on past outcomes.

    • @[email protected]
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      48 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 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…)

      • @finitebanjo
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        -58 hours ago

        Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro…

        Oh hey I can think of one poor one, Adolf Hitler.

          • @finitebanjo
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            Just naming successful revolution figures, that’s all.

              • @finitebanjo
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                16 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 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.

      • @nomous
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        58 hours ago

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

        • sunzu2
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          18 hours ago

          “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