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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

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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.

[-] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

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

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

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

[-] dcpDarkMatter@kbin.earth 0 points 3 months ago

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

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

But they're not lying. It's pretty reasonable to believe both that his parents were working class, and that him becoming a class traitor on such a level does make him a hero in capitalist eyes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

it is, though.

The implication is that Brian Thompson should be/is a hero to working class people.

he's not.

he's an asshole who made millions fucking over people just trying to get medical care. many of whom have died as a result of his fucking them over, and that is especially true of those who actually work for a living- which he has not in a very long time.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's super smart to make a class hero out of a prep school valedictorian and Ivy League grad, grandson of a wealthy real estate developer - definitely a class traitor himself but in a Good Way - and hey, he did suffer from back pain while doing his tech job remotely from Waikiki. So his struggle was real. Power to the people!

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

Bourgeois class traitors should be celebrated.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Yeah I know, the old "It's different when WE do it" routine. Same old same old.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

Yes, because betraying the bourgeoisie is good for workers, whereas betraying the workers is bad for workers. Duh?

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Spoiled rich kid with back pain kills insurance CEO, some industry-wide practices abruptly change.

Public: "Yay, justice at last! Spoiled Rick Kid is a god!!!"

Insurance practices slowly go back to the way they were. New CEO is just as bad.

Public: "The system betrayed us again!"

Duh?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

And now the public knows that killing a CEO had a direct impact. Regardless of the perpetrator, that has an effect on the public imagination!

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not sure you read my whole comment but yeah, it has an impact on Tuesday that will last until next Wednesday, or whenever the usual distractions bump this down to the bottom of people's feeds.

Remember the Panama Papers, which exposed the offshore finance links of the wealthy? Didn't think so.

Or the Paradise Papers, which also exposed the offshore finance links of the wealthy? Didn't think so.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 months ago

Don't talk down to me. Sure, I remember, partly why I'm a communist today. But! Normal people don't care about that nerd shit. What people care about is blood on the streets, that's what grabs their attention.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Grabs their attention is right, until next Thursday when something else does and we're back to business as usual. I wouldn't call it "having a direct effect" I would call it a very temporary delusion of one.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

You're right, nothing ever happens and I should kill myself.

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