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[–] [email protected] 117 points 6 days ago (4 children)

They're trying every angle they can think of to avoid admitting that people didn't react negatively to this because literally everyone in the country has been negatively affected by people like that CEO.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

people didn't react negatively to this because literally everyone in the country has been negatively affected by people like that CEO.

Also outside the US country. I'm Brazilian, I've been following the news about this event, and I can't help but notice there's a hope inside me that this event could somehow result in CEOs all around the world (especially in the southern hemisphere) changing and ditching their greed. Well, of course it's very unlikely to happen, maybe I have some tiny optimistic side buried under tons of massive pessimism of mine.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’ve been hoping it won’t be the last CEO to get deposed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's what the NYT and others are afraid of. Copycats making this a trend and then the whole situation spiraling into French Revolutiom 2.0, or heavens forbid, October Revolution 2.0

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

changing and ditching their greed

No they won't because while they of course are greedy, it's not really greed which is fueling that on the systemic level, but the inherent capitalism mechanism to concentrate capital. Companies compete and that competition ultimately leads to either monopoly or formation of cartel, the ones with more profits are the winners and the losers get eliminated from the market.

What they will do, is to hire more bodyguards, isolate themselves from society even more and fund more propaganda like the article in topic.

The only thing that can change things, as proven historically, is not adventurism (however cool is to dish at least minuscule part of overdue justice) nor the spontaneous outrage, but the organized workers power threatening the capitalist class and their government servants.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

They won’t, they’ll tighten their security. Anyone who goes against the shareholders will be removed and replaced by somebody who will maximize profits at all costs.

Doesn’t mean there won’t be copycats who are successful. A whole lot of people have been wronged and the justice system doesn’t work.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I believed in a deep state (which I categorically do not) NYT would be part of it.

I do, however, believe in giant media companies funded by the 1%, who have just lost one of their own to one of the plebs, staffed by management who will steer things in the needed direction. Any doubt I had of that has been destroyed by their coverage of Gaza.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Not a criminal until a guilty verdict...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (5 children)

It's also not a crime to eradicate a parasite.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I mean it’s a “crime” technically but that doesn’t mean we can’t nullify it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Yes breaking the law is a "crime" but to be a criminal you need to have the verdict saying you committed it. Innocent until proven and all. A "not guilty" or null result means not a criminal.

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[–] Grandwolf319 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thank you!

Being neutral cute both ways, he is innocent until a jury of his peers decide to vote guilty.

Just hope he doesn’t sign a confession, there is plenty of resources for him to fight this.

Also, I think all people charged with a crime deserve this benefit or the doubt.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 days ago (4 children)

NYT is as corpo as media can get. We must remember what side they are on. Journalism is dead.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I was listening to the radio this morning and the dude was saying he'd rather have CEO shootings in the news than all the school shootings. It's not dead, it's just hard to find a pulse.

https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-rfj2f-1765e1f

Here I was heavily paraphrasing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

NYT has always been pro-corporate.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Law/justice is also dead, especially as folks stop believing in any piece of state evidence.

Two seconds later it could be you or me who are picked up and demonized for random stuff.

Truthfully this is my image state power. They make shiat up 100% of the time. So it's not a question of is it true or not. It's a question of how they are lying. Like a puzzle to be solved or exposed for the entertainment, but even that eventually grows old. Oh a cop MSM or a politician corpo said it ... pfft!

Citizens don't believe anything out of the State or Media. Obviously not a healthy situation when everyone is considered an actor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

The NYT is at least partly responsible for the Iraq war 2. Fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

Frantically attempting to spin this in favour of predatory finance capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago

It couldn't be because we've been starved of seeing anything resembling actual justice could it?

Horrible people do horrible things and have been getting away with it since before I was born. No wonder people are reacting the way they are.

Being handsome doesn't hurt, but people like him for what he did. He could be a hunchback and there'd be supportive quasimodo memes I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Corporate media is going to protect their advertisers by shotgunning bullshit articles trying to change the narrative

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

"For the love of God, please stop looking up!" —Corporate Media

[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The classic scapegoats aren't there this time. Can't blame him being the wrong race, wrong economic class, wrong mentally, wrong physically, or wrong sexually. Now people are actually looking at the issue that caused the "crime" and that's not good to some people.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago

Pretty successful and well off kid, definitely not just someone desperate and broke they can tear apart, and he's articulating his position against these fuckers. It's really beautiful. A folk hero.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Luigi is deff what the media has fed society as "CHAD"

Not even being ironic here tbh

Now the only explanation why Chad would do this is "he had bad back"

Alright... go on...

FDR was also part of the elite class and he had his own issues....

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

Anything to distract from the class war.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

His crime is one of the reasons we find him attractive. It's not being overshadowed it's being celebrated.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Tens of millions of lives ruined by "just good business" is the headline.

Stop worshipping profit or everything will get worse, even if there are no violent responses.

Everybody talking about anything else in this case is lying by omission.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's NYT. If you can't defend Thompson as being worth keeping alive, may as well play the woke race card and say we only like him because he's an attractive white male.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

NYT is a very conservative newspaper, they are only "woke" in the very shallowest sense when convenient to them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Knowing our history, it's still funny to me that I-talians are considered plain ol' white now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Whether or not Italians are white depends on what's convenient to the people in power at the moment. Same goes for Jews

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

No matter what the topic, you can always count on the NYT for a shitty take. The NYT has a very distinctive flavor of editorial shittiness that's quite hard to define but instantly recognizable. They want us to catch their carefully curated blind spots.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

I used to read it a lot because it had good arts and literary sections back when actual papers were a thing. Reading the Sunday Times with a cup of coffee on Sunday in my bathrobe was a pleasure. Now they just specialize in these garbage takes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Top recommended on my feed was NYT article headlined "largest immigration surge in US History" under Biden. That was their top number one story today. Suggested both that it was a key factor in Harris loss and that it has already ended because of Trump election

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago (5 children)

The greatest trick the Times ever pulled was convincing the world it had a left-leaning bias[1].

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

The pro-slavery New York Times?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Pro-war on all the wrong sides (Germany in WWII, US in Iraq, Israel at any time), Jewish owned but somehow simultaneously against Jews, especially if poor and foreign.

Their Berlin correspondent wrote about how Hitler was no danger to German Jewry while it was already well documented how terrible they were being treated in 1939.

Absolutely fucking monstrous rag.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Why wouldn't they be? The glamorizing of murderers, rapists, and other criminals in biopic miniseries seems to be a growing point of discussion over the past year or so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

cia media gonna cia

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Hey NYT. Suck it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I mean this is nothing new. Pretty white women have been treated favourably in court and by the public forever. There is a somewhat popular twitter account all about hot criminals. It's a thing and it always has been.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

That had never been a problem before

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