I nominate this NYT opinion piece for shittiest take of 2024!
“Oh look, Brian Thompson has some characteristics of you poors, you should consider him your hero!”
This article is literally based on feeding class warfare. There’s something people have to understand - “second class” is just the supposedly the right way of doing things so you can eventually live well and make sure your children live well. The amount of assholes in today’s world who are either rich assholes and remain rich assholes who give no shits about the right way of doing things, or poor people who are like them and rise above everything else because they are assholes and embrace it, is far too high. The absolute shamelessness of this article as the second class is being dismantled because it’s just better for rich assholes for everyone to remain poor except the ones willing to become as much of an asshole as them just speaks volumes about the state of American society.
Does print media have the equivalent of the Razzies?
If they do, this article will be in the running.
The shit take award, shaped like a polished turd
Well the headline and take are both hot garbage, but it’s interesting new information to know that both parties in this case were class traitors for different sides lmao
Saruman, not frodo, was the true ring bearer.
81 percent of insured adults gave their health insurance plans a rating of “excellent” or “good.”
In related news, 81 percent of diners at Michelin star restaurants rated their own food security as “excellent” or “good”.
Also kind of ignoring the fact that the point of insurance is that most people, maybe around 81% for instance, don’t need to use it to its full extreme. And obviously those people are going to be more likely to have a generally positive view of it.
I think if you sat people down and showed them how much they pay for health insurance, showed what they got out of their medical insurance, and the actual cost of those procedures, that very few people would rate it highly.
For a system like capitalism that prides itself on market forces, no one has a clue about how and why insurance operates the way it does.
Well, pointedly, the question was not: “Does your current health insurance provide good value?”
I’m betting a hell of a lot less than 81% of people would rate value as “excellent” or “good”.
When Mom doesn’t understand the vibe. “No, we have working class hero at home.”
Bullshit.
Absolutely. Shit from a very unwell bull that has been refusing to eat anything except for the shit of other bulls for a week.
The Onion really needs to take that headline and run with it in their special way.
Like just printing it as is?
Whoever said the onion’s job is getting harder because reality is catching up to them on being satirical is so, so correct.
Just when you thought the NY Times’ reputation couldn’t get any worse this year …
Why post this at all?
It won’t work, so money?
The NYT’s true colors are showing more obviously every day.
Its an editorial bro… Why are you shitting on genocide apologist of record?!
Yeah! They employ this stooge specifically to dispense bad takes. As a joke or something idk
The NYT only put the Holocaust on the front page 26 times when it was happening. Only 6 of those times were Jewish people identified as primary victims.
They have never cared about actual news, only manufacturing consent.
North Korea, without hyperbole, is jealous of the NYT.
It’s almost as if for-profit journalism is, in fact, for profit, not for the truth.
The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is. They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world. (Note: This quote is fake and does not appear in Simulacra and Simulation. I tried to delete it, but the system doesn’t allow that because this quote has “too many fans” lol.)
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Stephens is known for his neoconservative foreign policy opinions and for being part of the right-of-center opposition to Donald Trump.
You guys, this is “The Point”, it’s supposed to be polemic. I’m not saying the opinion’s not dumb, but it’s literally the column’s job to incite a ton of debate by publishing like journals on quantum gravity.
It belongs here for sure. What in the world ?
