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Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero (archive.ph)

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I nominate this NYT opinion piece for shittiest take of 2024!

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[–] FuglyDuck 336 points 5 days ago (46 children)

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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.

[–] bizzle 3 points 5 days ago

When I went to IA State, I used to drive through Jewell on the way to see this girl I was dating. The only notable thing about the town was the fact that it harbored a puppy mill.

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