• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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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        If I believed in a deep state (which I categorically do not)

        It’s very real, it’s just not anything like what far-right conspiracy theorists think it is[1][2][3].

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    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.

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      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.

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        I mean i agree ethically and morally. I was just commenting on NYT not understanding how laws work.

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        Depends on how it’s eradicated.

        If the actual assassin, not the patsy, really wanted to make sure. He might be capable of making really really sure.

        Dropping a tank on it or destroying a city block might not be beyond his pay grade.

        A BB gun is not making sure. Just a bit cleaner and quieter.

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      Guilty until proven innocent is nonsense. We are beyond that already.

      Just a patsy

      Using the term criminal is just demonizing a random guy.

      The State and it’s officers are just illusionists. They can’t present evidence or be witnesses. Cuz they are unbelievable.

      So far that is all they got. So when anyone uses the term criminal, i jump straight to innocent and civil suit

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

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      Noam Chomsky talked about how self-serving it is to the powerful to portray the mainstream media as left-leaning. If people think that the NYT is pushing left, then anything further left of that is seen as being so far off that it must be uttered by loony radicals who spend 17 hrs a day buried in leftist theory.

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      Ironically, the GOP has bought it now that they coronated Trump?

      It’s a bit amusing that all the white and not so white lies are now actual belief amongst the leadership. Maybe they’ll end up deconstructing them…

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

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    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.

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    Any place that names trump person of the year is a rag. Although the NYT has been such for quite a while anyways. I refuse to even give them click through a anymore.

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    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.

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    Not to play devil’s advocate (which is what people say beforr they play devil’s advocate) is this clickbait or is there substance to the article. Bastard and innumerable others like him deserve to be punished, but I’m interested in the takr