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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

no, Kennedy was seen as a champion for the common man, cooperative leadership, civil rights and progress, so his assassination was nearly universally devastating and Oswald was universally reviled, even abroad.

The grassroots support for luigi is completely different; people are supporting any sort of resistance against what is appropriately viewed as an uncaring, extortionate system that has broken the social compact.

[โ€“] cryptiod137 3 points 3 days ago

Not as far as I've ever read or even heard anecdotally.

At least outside of Langley.