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But it's pretty obvious left-wing communities are supporting this guy, while right-wing ones are condemning .

It's pretty obvious that's bullshit. I was pretty shocked at how broad-based the lack of sympathy for the CEO was.

Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh got destroyed in their comments when they tried to make this into a "look how evil the left is" issue, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bimRF1K3Bzw , and note his YouTube comments are usually very supportive. The contrast in the audience reaction to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agu2gRzUSDY , his commentary on the Daniel Penny case, is stark.

You realize you linked to a video of a right-wing persona condemning the killing?

I can't determine who is downvoting/commenting on the video, but I know for sure the speaker is a right-winger.

Yes, my point is that right-wing talking heads are trying to make this into a "right vs left" issue, and they are getting destroyed for that characterization by their right-wing fan base. When you say "I can't determine who is downvoting/commenting on the video", that's specifically why I added the Walsh's video of the Daniel Perry case. Or heck, look at any of his videos, which normally always upvote his main ideas and tilt heavily right. If you think it's just a left-wing brigade flooding his comments, why don't you think they'd do the same on any of his Daniel Perry videos?

It could easily be a brigade by the left-wingers, because he is explicitly blaming them.

Daniel Perry video doesn't blame anyone. And most people, even on the left (though definitely not everyone), seem to have a normal reaction to the outcome.

>It could easily be a brigade by the left-wingers

I am surprised that more people don't know this type of brigading to influence public opinion. Left-wing brigades are orchestrated on private Discord servers. Smaller right-wing brigades are orchestrated on private Telegram channels.

The left-wing brigaders pretending to be right-wing CEO-killing-supporters could have gotten away with it if they had limited themselves to populist MAGA spheres.

However the Ben Shapiro fanbase are boring middle of the road pro-capitalist/neocons who would never support killing CEOs. Pretending to be his fanbase was their fatal mistake.

The amount of conservative comments stating to the effect of, "today I learned that I'm a left winger." would say otherwise.

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