#class traitor

If more of the 1% were like Marie Aurore, there wouldn't be a 1%. If more princesses were like Aurore, we wouldn't have princesses. If more royals and elites were like her, we would have already long since seen the end of the Western capitalist system.

After uncle Ben got blown away in a robbery, Peter's guilt over not saving him and trauma led him to internalise 'with great power comes great responsibility' and led to his refusal to kill (or even allow anyone to die near him.)

That's not so bad, right? I'd come to the same conclusion, but he fell into the neoliberal power fantasy that most heroes do. He's definitely uniquely able to stop monsters like Norman Osborne etc - people with superpowers and crazy tech who kill people. Stopping violent crimes in general is a positive I'd say, but when you get to crimes against capital - shit that harms nobody, he'll usually stick his beak in, and worse, involve the police (snitch!)

There we have it. Using his 'great power' to feed the prison industrial complex is something cops are already working hard at. His willingly and uncritically participating in jailing young people is messed up. Also, he worked for crypto fascist Uber capitalist JJJ for a long time. At least he swindled him with shitty photos of himself in a costume, but Spider-Man is no friend to the poor.

I always forget this one but he's helped bust up a few protests in his time too. His internal monologue about the ethics of peaceful assembly are revealing, though I can't find it ATM.

I'm a bit worried when I see the person who (allegedly) ratted out Luigi Mangione called "class traitor".

Guys.

GUYS.

Not everyone is online 24/7 and sees the interpretations that online spaces come up with as opposed to mainstream media. And most murders, under 99.999% of circumstances, are bad. Most people agree in general that murder is bad and murderers should be caught and put in jail.

What I'm saying is, in all likelihood this person saw a portrait of a murderer on the loose and that was all they knew at the time. Or they knew who the victim was but it didn't change their belief that murder is bad. (Which is actually a valid moral stance. Some of the opposition to the death penalty rests on the notion that murder is bad regardless of who is the victim and who is the killer. We can talk about whether non-violence is effective, but naïve is not the same thing as evil.)

So far I thankfully haven't seen anybody openly wishing violence on this person, but the mood seems quite volatile.

Please be careful and remember that looking for "traitors" is also a way to turn a movement into an infighting mob that achieves nothing.

Love,