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

  • hypnicjerk@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

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

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      “Just”… ? no. There’s a certain vetting process that makes sure they tell the right lies.

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          16 hours 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 journalistspropagandists have been very carefully selected- and have indeed worked very hard to get the job of fucking over americans.

        • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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          17 hours ago

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

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        17 hours ago

        the precipitous fall of print media over the past couple decades is something that would one day be written about in the history books if they weren’t also full of shit.

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          17 hours ago

          Decentralized media like fedi is the only hope of the working class.

          Owners either own or control everything else government, fake news, TV, Hollywood, publishing, corporate socials.

          Wikipedia will be deposed in time, they are already mawing at the foundation

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works
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      17 hours 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
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        14 hours 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.

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        17 hours ago

        i don’t think it’s lying, necessarily. i suspect that it’s embellishing, and it’s inarguably providing an incomplete, intentionally flattering picture.