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[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Frantically attempting to spin this in favour of predatory finance capitalism.

[-] JayObey711@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

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.

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

cia media gonna cia

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 hours ago
[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago

Anything to distract from the class war.

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 54 points 23 hours ago

Not a criminal until a guilty verdict...

[-] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 23 points 22 hours ago

It's also not a crime to eradicate a parasite.

[-] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Except in texas

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 21 hours ago

I mean it’s a “crime” technically but that doesn’t mean we can’t nullify it!

[-] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 hours ago

Not a crime against society, so possibly not a crime.

The word, crime, is subjective. Much like the word, value.

Really what is wanted is play court and feel special.

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

Yes breaking the law is a "crime" but to be a criminal you need to have the verdict saying you committed it. Innocent until proven and all. A "not guilty" or null result means not a criminal.

[-] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

Guilty's meaning depends on whose the listener

That you present the set of possible states of guilty poorly aside, are assuming everyone shares your POV.

I can present your bullshit more clearly. So lets do that

For someone to be labeled a criminal they must have been convicted in a court of law by their peers and all avenues of appeals have been exhausted. This is the only situation where the word criminal can be used by anyone besides paid liers and illusionists.

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

No it's a poor journalistic standard to cast guilt before trial. If some random person was saying it who cares. This is a large public facing news entity though.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 points 20 hours ago

If Biden and Trump can decide the law does not apply to certain people, then so can you.

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

The law only applies where and when it is enforced.

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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 8 points 19 hours ago

Thank you!

Being neutral cute both ways, he is innocent until a jury of his peers decide to vote guilty.

Just hope he doesn’t sign a confession, there is plenty of resources for him to fight this.

Also, I think all people charged with a crime deserve this benefit or the doubt.

[-] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 hours ago

There's that word again

What peers?

The rando software dev is a genius being extradited to a State full of boot lickers and sell outs.

His peers are minimally accomplished well known FOSS devs.

There should be a higher burden of evidence which includes reproducible unittests and his peers should be well acquainted with writing maintainable and sufficient test suites.

Then lets talk about peers and courts.

[-] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 25 points 22 hours ago

It's NYT. If you can't defend Thompson as being worth keeping alive, may as well play the woke race card and say we only like him because he's an attractive white male.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 7 points 17 hours ago

NYT is a very conservative newspaper, they are only "woke" in the very shallowest sense when convenient to them.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago

Knowing our history, it's still funny to me that I-talians are considered plain ol' white now.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago

Whether or not Italians are white depends on what's convenient to the people in power at the moment. Same goes for Jews

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 46 points 1 day ago

It couldn't be because we've been starved of seeing anything resembling actual justice could it?

Horrible people do horrible things and have been getting away with it since before I was born. No wonder people are reacting the way they are.

Being handsome doesn't hurt, but people like him for what he did. He could be a hunchback and there'd be supportive quasimodo memes I'm sure.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Post links to articles, not screenshots of articles. Downvoted and reported.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

+1

Or at least an archive link.

At least it’s Bluesky, not Twitter?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 109 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

people didn't react negatively to this because literally everyone in the country has been negatively affected by people like that CEO.

Also outside the US country. I'm Brazilian, I've been following the news about this event, and I can't help but notice there's a hope inside me that this event could somehow result in CEOs all around the world (especially in the southern hemisphere) changing and ditching their greed. Well, of course it's very unlikely to happen, maybe I have some tiny optimistic side buried under tons of massive pessimism of mine.

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago

They won’t, they’ll tighten their security. Anyone who goes against the shareholders will be removed and replaced by somebody who will maximize profits at all costs.

Doesn’t mean there won’t be copycats who are successful. A whole lot of people have been wronged and the justice system doesn’t work.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

changing and ditching their greed

No they won't because while they of course are greedy, it's not really greed which is fueling that on the systemic level, but the inherent capitalism mechanism to concentrate capital. Companies compete and that competition ultimately leads to either monopoly or formation of cartel, the ones with more profits are the winners and the losers get eliminated from the market.

What they will do, is to hire more bodyguards, isolate themselves from society even more and fund more propaganda like the article in topic.

The only thing that can change things, as proven historically, is not adventurism (however cool is to dish at least minuscule part of overdue justice) nor the spontaneous outrage, but the organized workers power threatening the capitalist class and their government servants.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

I get you, but let us have hope for 5 minutes. It’s more than we’ve had in our whole lives.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

Ok, you can have even 3 hours

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[-] circuitfarmer 79 points 1 day ago

NYT is as corpo as media can get. We must remember what side they are on. Journalism is dead.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 8 points 19 hours ago

Wtf. Journalism is definitely not dead. We just need to stop linking to corporate news outlets.

Zateo, democracy now, the intercept, truth out, common dreams, etc. There's loads of great media outlets out there...

Maybe we should just ban the corporate ones from this community? Or create a new community that only allows links to nonprofit news outlets?

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeah. When people complain that the media is dead or that the narrative is controlled regardless of sources, they usually talk about the mainstream/corporate media. They don't go their way to find alternative or "underground" sources shall we say.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeah I wouldn't call any of these sites underground. If we dont know about them, blame Lemmy users and mods.

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[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago

The NYT is at least partly responsible for the Iraq war 2. Fuck them.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

NYT has always been pro-corporate.

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[-] Godnroc@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago

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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[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 72 points 1 day ago

Corporate media is going to protect their advertisers by shotgunning bullshit articles trying to change the narrative

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