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Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero (archive.ph)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 338 points 3 months ago (46 children)

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Thompson “grew up in a working-class family in Jewell, Iowa,” a tiny farming community north of Des Moines, Amy Julia Harris and Ernesto Londoño report. “His mother was a beautician, according to family friends, and his father worked at a facility to store grain.” Thompson’s childhood was spent “going row by row through the fields to kill weeds with a knife, or working manual labor at turkey and hog farms.”

is true... then he's a class traitor; not a hero. he made his money fucking over the working class. that's not heroic.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 months ago (20 children)

you really think someone would do that? just go on a once-respected publication and tell lies?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (15 children)

"Just".... ? no. There's a certain vetting process that makes sure they tell the right lies.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Not sure if you didn't get it, but that's a reference to an Arthur meme. altr

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

I'm aware of the arthur reference, but it's really important to realize these aren't off-the-cuff lies.

This is a planned, coordinated effort that has been going on since before I was even alive; and the ~~journalists~~propagandists have been very carefully selected- and have indeed worked very hard to get the job of fucking over americans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

*Arthur

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There are two jobs where you can go on national TV, lie and not get fired. President and weather man.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fox News personality.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Plot twist: the Fox News weatherman tells the truth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The one thing their audience are experts in is what's going on directly outside their window

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It’s snowing! Therefore climate change is a demoncrap hoax!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Press secretary, too.

Also, weathermen aren't necessarily lying. lying requires an intent to deceive, and most times, weathermen don't mean to deceive, they're just factually wrong. (FWIW, predicting the weather more than a few days in advance is a crap shoot.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Press secretare is just a modern herald or crier, they are the voice of the king.

As for the weatherman bit, your right, but thats also the joke...

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