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Oh FFS, these unbearably callous idiots! He killed two people, wounded others, you’s fuckers!

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There was a No Kings demonstration yesterday - in Dublin :facepalm:

I think the people who attend these stupid virtue signalling escapades are a bit like this:



We have a class of people among us who are permanently in aggressive “activist” mode (about “causes” they don’t even care about), and who think that what they say here resonates around the world, regardless if it’s totally ignored here. Palestinian flags in house windows in the suburbs of Dublin has to be the most woeful example of a person screaming, PLEASE LIKE ME!!
 
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Even the ultra-woke have to have been shaking their heads at this. Surely!:face-with-tears-of-joy:

 
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Federberg said:
The fuck??

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That’s so funny!! But aside from the obvious hilarity and disgusting deception, the idea of men becoming pregnant falls into the same category of fiction as Frankenstein…
 
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Kieran said:
That's bizarre! They just defamed and gaslit her to get out of paying?
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It seemed to me that's what the article wants us to believe, but, according to the article itself:

She found the statue alone;

She reported the finding and asked for the reward in the very same call;

Her son was in jail for stealing copper. Jail is his alibi, by the way;

According to her, the fact that there was vegetation all over the statue means that she and her son, or anyone contacted by him, could not have put the statue there themselves.

Mind it, all this comes from the story that paints her as the victim, and only has her version of the facts.

At the very least everything is extremely suspicious. I don't even get in which victim group they are trying to pigeonhole her. Maybe as someone who is disabled, as they mention she cannot walk long distances.

I mean, why this is news? There are no established facts. Someone is clearly trying to build a narrative, but what is the freaking point? Someone that was recently in jail for theft is suspicious of committing another similar theft? Are they trying to say that's prejudicial? This particular story?

Mind it, she's not in jail or being prosecuted, she only did not get the reward.
 
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mrzz said:
It seemed to me that's what the article wants us to believe, but, according to the article itself:

She found the statue alone;

She reported the finding and asked for the reward in the very same call;

Her son was in jail for stealing copper. Jail is his alibi, by the way;

According to her, the fact that there was vegetation all over the statue means that she and her son, or anyone contacted by him, could not have put the statue there themselves.

Mind it, all this comes from the story that paints her as the victim, and only has her version of the facts.

At the very least everything is extremely suspicious. I don't even get in which victim group they are trying to pigeonhole her. Maybe as someone who is disabled, as they mention she cannot walk long distances.

I mean, why this is news? There are no established facts. Someone is clearly trying to build a narrative, but what is the freaking point? Someone that was recently in jail for theft is suspicious of committing another similar theft? Are they trying to say that's prejudicial? This particular story?

Mind it, she's not in jail or being prosecuted, she only did not get the reward.
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That’s a good reading of it, better than mine. And yeah, I did wonder what’s the point of the article too, it seems there’s a lot of insinuation but no pay off?
 
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mrzz said:
It seemed to me that's what the article wants us to believe, but, according to the article itself:

She found the statue alone;

She reported the finding and asked for the reward in the very same call;

Her son was in jail for stealing copper. Jail is his alibi, by the way;

According to her, the fact that there was vegetation all over the statue means that she and her son, or anyone contacted by him, could not have put the statue there themselves.

Mind it, all this comes from the story that paints her as the victim, and only has her version of the facts.

At the very least everything is extremely suspicious. I don't even get in which victim group they are trying to pigeonhole her. Maybe as someone who is disabled, as they mention she cannot walk long distances.

I mean, why this is news? There are no established facts. Someone is clearly trying to build a narrative, but what is the freaking point? Someone that was recently in jail for theft is suspicious of committing another similar theft? Are they trying to say that's prejudicial? This particular story?

Mind it, she's not in jail or being prosecuted, she only did not get the reward.
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I agree with most of what you say apart from the "why is this news" bit? The fact that you've read it and posted it, kind of answers that question no? :) Interesting story. I agree with you that we don't know all the facts. It should have been basic journalism for them to interview the authorities to fully understand why they haven't given her the reward
 
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Federberg said:
I agree with most of what you say apart from the "why is this news" bit? The fact that you've read it and posted it, kind of answers that question no? :) Interesting story. I agree with you that we don't know all the facts. It should have been basic journalism for them to interview the authorities to fully understand why they haven't given her the reward
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I read it because I thought it was something else, and posted it as what I found out surprised me a lot, but ok, I do need to explain my point better.

What intrigues me is that at one point this was one of the leading headlines of their website (I guess it still is). And this is CNN, not a small amateur website. The other headlines adjacent to it are related to large scale war (or potential war). So they are treating it as a big deal. In nowaday's crazy fight for online space and visualization, the decision to put something on the landing screen of your website is not taken lightly. You do not put something there that you do not expect to generate clicks and create some traction. And, in the end, this was just a small theft story, like thousands and thousands of others (as the statue itself was quite new, not particularly big, and was not made of anything particularly expensive). But, ok, I am kind of explaining it myself, it is just a click bait. They used the name of the person honored by the statue, and painted the story the way they wanted, to create the bait. But the whole thing still sounds incomplete to me...
 
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mrzz said:
I read it because I thought it was something else, and posted it as what I found out surprised me a lot, but ok, I do need to explain my point better.

What intrigues me is that at one point this was one of the leading headlines of their website (I guess it still is). And this is CNN, not a small amateur website. The other headlines adjacent to it are related to large scale war (or potential war). So they are treating it as a big deal. In nowaday's crazy fight for online space and visualization, the decision to put something on the landing screen of your website is not taken lightly. You do not put something there that you do not expect to generate clicks and create some traction. And, in the end, this was just a small theft story, like thousands and thousands of others (as the statue itself was quite new, not particularly big, and was not made of anything particularly expensive). But, ok, I am kind of explaining it myself, it is just a click bait. They used the name of the person honored by the statue, and painted the story the way they wanted, to create the bait. But the whole thing still sounds incomplete to me...
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lol! You think CNN just publishes epic stories? It's a news service mate :face-with-tears-of-joy:
 
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George Carlin was so far ahead of his time!

 
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