Saruman, not frodo, was the true ring bearer.

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Thompson “grew up in a working-class family in Jewell, Iowa,” a tiny farming community north of Des Moines, Amy Julia Harris and Ernesto Londoño report. “His mother was a beautician, according to family friends, and his father worked at a facility to store grain.” Thompson’s childhood was spent “going row by row through the fields to kill weeds with a knife, or working manual labor at turkey and hog farms.”

is true... then he's a class traitor; not a hero. he made his money fucking over the working class. that's not heroic.

No industry is perfect

No....

— nor is any health care model

True, true, but this is like talking about Jeffrey Epstein and saying "we all like to have sex sometimes"

— and insurance companies make terrible calls all the time in the interest of cost savings. But the idea that those companies represent a unique evil in American life is divorced from the experience of most of their customers.

Nope. Very very incorrect. American healthcare ranks near the top of the most expensive and most obstructive in the world.

Bret Stephens sucks.

Yeah, who gives a fuck about what his parents did for a living, he fucked over people's health and lives for profit.

They are deluded. They still think about the American dream as if it wasn't a nightmare. Yeah, leave all your people behind, let them die or rot in poverty, as long as you make it.

"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.

Thompson "grew up in a working-class family in Jewell, Iowa"

A class traitor, then.

The NYT's true colors are showing more obviously every day.

The Onion really needs to take that headline and run with it in their special way.

This is such a bad editorial it isn't just the worst one of the year, it's on the short list for worst oped of the century. Right up there with the guy who said that we should replace libraries with Amazon stores.

His tongue must be so sore from all that bootlicking.

These guys don't get it, maybe on purpose. What makes one "working class" is having to work to live, not being poor. Or, in this case, being just an injury away from losing it all.

The middle class is a myth.

Just when you thought the NY Times' reputation couldn't get any worse this year ...

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".

Someone needs to get Bret Stephens a stepladder so he can climb down from being so far up his own asshole

Does print media have the equivalent of the Razzies?

If they do, this article will be in the running.

Brett Stephens is here!

Bullshit.

All this suggests that Mangione may prove to be a figure out of a Dostoyevsky novel — Raskolnikov with a silver spoon. It’s a familiar type. Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, was a lawyer’s son whose mother moved him to London before he went on to become an international terrorist. Osama bin Laden came from immense wealth. Angry rich kids jacked up on radical, nihilistic philosophies can cause a lot of harm, not least to the working-class folks whose interests they pretend to champion.

Congratulations, you just identified pretty much the only subclass of people who have led successful working-class revolutions.

That's capital for ya.

When Mom doesn't understand the vibe. "No, we have working class hero at home."

Geez, NYT, how’s the boot taste?