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Didn’t read the article.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 weeks ago

Idiotic article.

A hero of the working class fights for working class interests, They do not merely originate from the working class.

Regardless of his class background, Thompson was successful on the terms of the ruling class. This is to say he was successful on the terms of the enemies of the working class.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I read it and it's nonsense, his point is that Brian Thompson is from a working class background, as if there's no precedent for people who grow up working class becoming class traitors later in life.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

Isn't it interesting, 10 years ago bugs like Brett Stephens never would have used words like "working class" or even acknowledge the concept of class as something that exists, now everyone is playing on our rhetorical field and using our terms like it's second nature

If there's been one small victory for the socialist left, it's the fact we've clawed back so much conceptual room and created a kind of nascent half-realized socialist realism in the heart of capitalist realism

Twenty years ago they would've just spammed the terrorist and criminal activist card and left it at that, maybe even used words like "illiberal" or "Soviet remnant"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Some random guy on Twitter called him a bedbug and Bret wrote an entire article about how that was antisemitic. It got enough attention that Trump made fun of him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

He also left a link where he had already typed in the search field "jews as bedbugs" to try and find literally anything to make it antisemitic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasn’t the bedbug comment because he’s a slumlord? I’m trying to remember my citations-needed lore

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It came from an article about how the nyt building was being fumigated for bedbugs and someone on Twitter replied to it with a joke about how Bret Stephens was being taken care of or something along those lines. He read it and got incredibly upset and tried to ruin this guys life.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Moving? Yeah right. Wish it had moved another bullet into [redacted]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

smartest nyt writer

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

thats so funny, man