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Luigi is being celebrated all across the west while support for, say, Cuba, is far more controversial.
Oh I see. And that's a fair observation. Especially online, it's become edgy and cool to take the side of a CEO assassin, while it's still touchy to vocally defend the Castro regime. But you will find people, notably Cubans who fled to America, who were directly affected by Castro and the Cuban government. I don't know any health insurance CEOs, so that might be a factor in the discourse you hear.
But again, it's not like these are the same people. Support for the Cuban government isn't a cause celebre because Fidel Castro has been dead for almost a decade, and few Americans could even tell you who the current President is. Luigi is a source of engagement, the currency of social media. Some Americans only recently learned about Venezuela because we're about to invade their country.
Sure, but at the same time this lack of informed opinion on AES states leads to adopting the status quo opinion.