submitted 1 week ago by ferristriangle@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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In the past few days, I feel like I've seen a significant uptick in CEO sympathy comments, comments expressing righteous indignation about how anyone could possibly be celebrating the murder of an innocent widdle guy, etc.

Especially so in the comment sections of official news media posts.

My conspiracy brain take is some billionaire got upset that there was a little too much class solidarity and anti-CEO sentiment going around, and started writing checks to paid troll farm to try and get some control back over the narrative.

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[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No doubt, but I'm specifically referring to comment sections of news agency posts. I feel (very anecdotally) that it seemed like the reception was near universally positive in the immediate aftermath of the event and the day after, but checking the comments on newer posts from those same news media accounts today feels like a switch has flipped and the sentiments expressed are now much closer to a 50:50 positive to bootlicker ratio.

I don't know how accurate my observations are, and I partly posted this to see if others have noticed the same shift or if I am just extrapolating from too small of a sample size.

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

I’m very skeptical about “online is real life” rhetoric because as you alluded to, it’s just not a great sample size (you can’t assume the internet is American)

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah it’s so tough to tell because there are so many variables at play (emotion being a big one)

And a ton of people have been royally fucked over by private health insurance so I guess it comes down to whether their rage over that outweighs the rage brought about by their reactionary, political views