• ɔiƚoxɘup
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    4 months ago

    Normally, I’d say it’s poor taste to speak ill of the dead. Normally.

    That’s not what the motivation is here. The media are

    • aware that the family can bury them
    • afraid to lose their jobs
    • beholden to their masters shareholders (or their Rupert Murdochs)
    • trying to make this go away
    • not on the side of the American people
    • @Anticorp@lemmy.world
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      44 months ago

      For media companies it’s not usually shareholders that call the shots, it’s one obscenely rich old guy, like Rupert Murdoch.

  • @yarr@feddit.nl
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    864 months ago

    Well, other than drunk driving, insider trading, fraud and failing at his marriage and being a CEO of a firm that prevented people from getting the health care they need, he was a really nice guy.

  • @paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    separated from his wife for years

    Remember that according to the FBI more than half of murderers know their victims personally, and about a quarter are family relations.

    I think the police really need to drop this whole “assassination” false flag and investigate the more probable angles. Could be that he was closeted and killed by a jilted lover, or the husband of the secretary he was banging, or a hitman hired by the estranged wife. No sense in harassing every man with a green jacket over this.

  • granolabar
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    684 months ago

    Fake news don’t see no crime the way we don’t see no murder.

    The Adjuster is a public servant, never forget.

  • @criitz@reddthat.com
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    554 months ago

    Being separated from his wife is personal and not something I’d judge someone for. The rest is ok

  • shoulderoforion
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    And all that does not matter, he headed up a corporation which took peoples money to insure them against costs associated with their health care, and then denied paying out money his company had promised them when they needed it causing suffering and death. Those facts are indisputable.

    • @Coreidan@lemmy.world
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      34 months ago

      Yes but have you thought of those poor shareholders? How are they going to afford to hire their yacht staff if they aren’t rolling in bank? Can’t let a little pain and suffering get in the way of that.

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      Props to Klippenstein, he’s consistently been an examlar of good journalism

      When David Grusch testified that UFOs are real, Klippenstein made a point of exposing that Grusch had past issues with PTSD and alcoholism stemming from his service.

      Examlar indeed.

      • andyburke
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        That seems relevant to me, a disinterested observer. 🤷‍♂️

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          Yeah, it really makes anything he does invalid. The same as it would for you or I.

          Maybe I should also clarify: fuck business ghouls. I’m not here to defend health insurance.

          • @obre@lemmy.world
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            It’s an important factor to consider when thinking about the credibility of his claims. That’s what journalism is supposed to do, give people the facts. I get that discussing people’s medical history and psychological condition is a sensitive subject, but when someone’s making public claims and accusations in front of congress about delusional stuff like “non-human spacecraft” and their dead pilots that level of scrutiny is justified.

      • lol. You guys had me looking up “examlar” thinking I was going to learn a new word.

        My hopes were dashed as I’ve discovered that you two just misspelled “exemplar”. Probably on purpose. I’m sure of it. How dare you!

    • @crusa187@lemmy.ml
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      Kenny Klipps does great work, one of the very few last bastions of actual journalism remaining in America.

    • @minyakcurry@monyet.cc
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      34 months ago

      True, but also consistently under fire for actually being a good journalist. If you’re reading this keep up the good fight!

  • @pyre@lemmy.world
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    mind that if this were a black child shot in the back by a white supremacist they would be researching his life day and night to find maybe one photo where he made a weird hand sign so they can say he was no angel and maybe he was a gang member who knows …

    but an actual demon gets killed and the opposite campaign begins

    • @GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works
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      Nah, they have definitely scoured back years of Facebook photos just to find a single one that isn’t gang signs or posing with an illegal-in-illinois handgun.

  • @ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    It reminds me of the whole “don’t speak ill of the dead” as if them dying suddenly exonerates them from being a massive pile of shit while they were alive.

  • @Anticorp@lemmy.world
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    34 months ago

    Whenever it’s someone killed by the cops they immediately expose anything negative they can find about the victim.

  • @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    34 months ago

    Usually it is the dead horse that you have to tell people to stop beating.

    These posts are starting to sound like Trump talking about immigrants.

    • @yokonzo@lemmy.worldOP
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      Oh boy if you’re sick of it already, good luck, I have a feeling this whole can of worms is just starting to be opened

    • granolabar
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      These posts are starting to sound like Trump talking about immigrants.

      Nice try champ… You sound like Ben Shapiro and Tim Pool, prolly better place for you to hang anyway. bye