I nominate this NYT opinion piece for shittiest take of 2024!

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    10 days ago

    All this suggests that Mangione may prove to be a figure out of a Dostoyevsky novel — Raskolnikov with a silver spoon. It’s a familiar type. Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, was a lawyer’s son whose mother moved him to London before he went on to become an international terrorist. Osama bin Laden came from immense wealth. Angry rich kids jacked up on radical, nihilistic philosophies can cause a lot of harm, not least to the working-class folks whose interests they pretend to champion.

    Congratulations, you just identified pretty much the only subclass of people who have led successful working-class revolutions.

    That’s capital for ya.