In response to the article here

I had to really ask myself what kind of Olympic-level mental gymnastics were required to churn out this steaming pile of shit that the NEW YORK FUCKING TIMES decided to publish. At the very least, it’s proof that the whole “liberal media” myth is a joke so big it should be doing stand-up that makes its way to Comedy Central. Silver lining? No? Oh well.

The author here sounds desperate to turn Brian Thompson’s life and death into some tragic fairy tale of noble corporate “ambition” (greed…its greed guys), cut short by “senseless violence.” And cherry on this shit sundae? When corporations fuck over millions, it’s worded as just “business,” but when anyone in the working class dares to push back, it’s called “violence.” Must be nice to write with selective outrage as your moral compass to guide your principles.

Yeah, murder is bad. No fucking shit, Sherlock! That’s not whats up for debate. This article’s holier-than-fucking-thou finger-wagging has nothing to do with justice. It’s about instructions on how to lick the boots of the corpos, to help maintaining their power, and doubling down on a system that grinds people into the dirt and doesn’t even have the decency to hand over the ashes to their loved ones. And this attempt to paint Thompson’s “working-class roots” as some kind of….moral armor? Holy shit. I can’t even…

He grew up in Jewell, Iowa, worked on farms, yada, yada, yada (cue the tiny violins and shitty pop country music). The article trots this out like it somehow erases the fact that this dude spent his career screwing over the same working-class folks he came from. Policies that go out of its way to deny care, jacked up costs, and ruin lives. And for what? All so shareholders could fatten their wallets? Profit > People.

Every.

Mother.

Fucking.

Time.

And don’t give me any of that shit on how the article tries to weaponize his working-class ‘aw-shucks’ origins, daring its readers to feel guilt and shame for criticizing him or the industry he benefited from. Here’s a guy who knew what the fuck struggle felt like and still consciously made the choice to exploit the same people he worked with for everything they were worth.

“Squeeze, Rabban. Squeeze hard” ~ Baron Harkonnen

This is no obituary. It’s an author being paid to do a thoughtless PR stunt. And the pièce de résistance? They throw in Taylor Lorenz as some token strawman, treating her dumb comment as representative of ALL who’s just about had it with the healthcare industry’s bullshit. Meanwhile, the decades of systemic denial of care, exploitation, and death that fuels the public outrage today? Not even worth a blip on the author’s radar. Because if they were to actually address the real issue, it would require integrity, and this article, author and news organization clearly ran out of that a long time ago.

Then there’s the focus on Luigi Mangione, the supposed satanic evil villain of this whole shit show. Sure, call him a Dostoyevsky character if that makes you feel smarter, but the real trick here is how the author uses him to distract from the much bigger picture. It’s not just about ONE man/ONE murder. It’s about a healthcare system that have consistently destroyed MILLIONS of lives.

But who cares, right? Let’s turn Mangione into the main character and hope readers forget about the structurally fucked system that’s actually to blame. I guess this is the part where we’re suppose to say fuck priorities, right?

And the cherry-picked KFF survey claiming 81% of insured adults are “satisfied” with their insurance? Oh, sure, everything’s fine and wonderful with rainbows and flying unicorns until reality hits. Next thing you know, you’re drowning in red tape, denied coverage, or hit with a medical bill that nukes not just your bank account but life savings as well. But hey, as long as a FEW people are happy, we can continue to pretend the system isn’t a dumpster fire. Lazy, insulting, and just straight up dishonest.

If this article has one redeeming quality, it’s as a textbook example of what intellectual dishonesty looks like. This article, along with its context, should be taught in classes. The way the author pathetically props up Thompson as some kind of poster boy for the American Dream: hardworking, respectable, a real bootstrapper (just don’t look too closely at the trail of blood and suffering he left behind) is some grade A bullshit. He’s hoisted up like he’s Simba on Pride Rock, while conveniently ignoring the fact that his “success” was built ON TOP the working class, not WITH them. Their suffering, their ruin, their deaths….that is the legacy they will leave out of the obituaries.

And that smug, clickbaity tone? Absolute gold for the bootlicking class. Take the bit about Senator John Fetterman’s comment that Mangione will soon “die in prison.” What a lazy, edgy, moral high-ground grab. It adds nothing to the conversation and purposefully ignores the root causes of peoples anger, and reeks of crippled posturing.

Lets make this clear once and for all: Nobody (I mean NOBODY) is celebrating Brian Thompson’s death. Let me reiterate, FUCKING NOBODY!!!!! The rage, anger and hate is directed towards a system that has consistently made it a mission, as if it was from god himself, to prioritized profit over the very people they aim to cause misery. But sure, let’s listen to the author and keep telling ourselves and each other that this is about ONE guy instead of an ENTIRE country stuck on repeat, running the same broken record of greed, corruption and suffering.

This article doesn’t just fail, it fails epically. It actively works to deny, defend and dispose the truth. And that’s not just shit journalism, it’s a passive aggressive way to show the people who benefit from the pain of others that the author is one of the “good ones”. Brian Thompson’s death isn’t some isolated tragedy. It’s a giant fucking billboard sign pointing to a system that has consistently chews up the many for the benefit of the very, very undeserving few. And the more this article tries to spin it, the more obnoxiously obvious it becomes: this isn’t journalism. It’s weak propaganda in training that aims to use same tactics that are used in Russia to this day and no matter what they tell us, its not American to me, its not American to us.