2mo ago

an Ivy League graduate vs a son of small-town Iowa

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Bluesky joke
The new narrative is "spoiled wealthy scion brutally guns down humble bootstrapping salt of the Earth CEO, father of two."
- Funny how the most expensive healthcare in the world doesn't prevent even an Ivy League educated kid who made choices seen as ideal in today's Amerika from ending up with an invisble disability because giving better treatment would've been "unnecessary care". And by funny i mean funny in the sense of
- Pretty sure he was estranged from his family for years which makes it all the funnier.

Insert the quote about Zhou Enlai calling himself and Khrushchev both class traitors but from opposite ends here but with Luigi and the CEO.

Luigi Mangione had so much to offer
The world needs one more wealthy reactionary AI guy. We do not have enough people telling me that ChatGPT is becoming sentient in ~~2022 2023 2024~~ 2025 because they can afford a lot of OpenAI stock.
- He did have a lot more to offer. He could've killed more CEOs.
  
  He still can, too

I am mutually exhausted by the "he is a vaunted elite from a special school" and the "he was a plucky corn husking dirt grubber" narratives that get trotted out whenever some new character is introduced to our reality. Neither of which apply to the vast majority of the rest of us. Both are seen as the opposite of the other. Neither represent the third category most of us come from.
Not really commenting on this article here just commenting on the phenomenon that spawned it.

It is pretty sickening how this reporting has all the code words like "lost his way" and "had so much to offer" in it that are always only used when it is a white dude. It's the same diffefence as with white suburban opiate users compared to anyone marginalized.

So how involved do we think Bezos has been with this affair after the 'revelation' he was involved with their not endorsing a candidate lol?
- I've assumed since Bezos bought the Post that the editors try to guess what wants because if they piss him off - he will just fire their ass. I think once Trump is president - the obsequiousness will be even more blatant. Yet after Trump's inauguration somebody in the media like Chris Hayes will have a notable comment. Hayes - or whoever - will say something like "What in heaven's name is going on at the Washington Post? The storied paper's motto is 'Democracy dies in darkness' yet...." as if Bezo's super-billionaire wealth wasn't a problem from the first day he bought it.
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  Ninja edit
  I just realized it might not be anybody at MNSBC at all. They might get sold and their name, POV, etc could be changed. The media under Trump 2.0 will be a trip.

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