Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp. chairman
Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp. chairman
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Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp. chairman | CNN Business
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I'm hoping things will change. Things will not change.
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His son Lachlan Murdoch is taking over. Lachlan has been co-chair of News Corp since 2014, and a director before that. Given that Rupert is 92, I'm sure that Lachlan has already been calling the shots for a long time. This is not really a change.
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I'm assuming he's still running he company and this is just for appearances or financial reasons. There's no way he won't have control of what they do or say
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Despair is the enemy of progress.
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So is Robert Murdoch and he is almost a 100
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Things always change. They just never get "perfect" because a new problem is always around the corner. Life is certainly no utopia though, nor will it be any time soon. We will not live to see the end of problems.
That's what it seems like people are hoping for anyway, some kind of problem-free world. It is unrealistic.
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That’s what it seems like people are hoping for anyway, some kind of problem-free world. It is unrealistic.
I think you are mistaken. People are upset for a lack of progress. How the pace of improvement is endlessly kneecapped.
We won't live to see the end of our problems. But there are several problems in our lives that could be ended very, very quickly if we actually gave a damn.
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Can he step down into a wood chipper next?
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Murdoch announces Titanic sub trip
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I'm running some sightseeing trips there using my newly designed submersible called the Schmoceangate Schmiton.
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I’ve got a special helicopter pilot appointed!
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I’m waiting on him to step down from this plane of existence.
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Even if he does, it doesn't really matter. He already caused immeasurable damage to the world, destroyed who-knows-how-many lives and got to live well into his 90s in unimaginable opulence.
Plus he's stepping down on his own terms, nobody ousted him. None of his enemies ever managed to take him down, and he's got his legacy all set up. When he does eventually die, it'll most likely be in a comfortable hospital bed surrounded by some the best doctors in the world making sure it goes as well as it possibly can.
He dedicated his entire life to being an evil bastard and he completely, utterly won. I don't think there's anything much that could even hurt him at this point.
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That's fucking depressing
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Why do the evil always live long lives? Is it because they're pickled in poisonous thoughts?
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I'm not sure you could point to any other single person who has had a more damaging impact to the country than this piece of crap. In any case, it will probably get worse.
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Which country? He has damaged many.
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Pretty sure it's countries, at this point.
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Harry Anslinger!
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Harry Anslinger!
Yup. One of my favorite scumbags to tell people about.
Marijuana was Anslinger’s golden ticket. He used his office to trumpet the association between weed and violence, so that it could be criminalized. “You smoke a joint and you’re likely to kill your brother,” he was known to have said. McWilliams explains that in this effort, “Anslinger appealed to many organizations whose members were predominantly white Protestant.”
From the beginning, Anslinger conflated drug use, race, and music. “Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men,” he was quoted as saying. “There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.”
https://timeline.com/harry-anslinger-racist-war-on-drugs-prison-industrial-complex-fb5cbc281189
Let's include Ehrlichman as a runner up though!
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper’s writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.
"We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news."
"Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviser-ehrlichman-anti-left-anti-black-war-on-drugs-2019-7
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What a blight on humanity.
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His son is also a giant piece of shit but that is not exactly surprising.
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Which son? James doesn't seem too bad.
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I have a hard time thinking of someone who has done as much damage to democracy, truth and decency worldwide as Murdoch. He's a truly deplorable person. May he fade away and no longer darken our futures.
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“Rupert Murdoch created all of this and so much more across America and the globe,” Hemmer said. “His life’s work has left an indelible imprint on the global media landscape. His contributions are both innumerable and extraordinary and we thank him for letting us be a part of it all.”
- anchor Dana Perino
I love how nothing in this paragraph says that he was a good person, good leader, or contributed anything beneficial to anybody, ever.
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I saw his name and was looking forward to reading an obituary. Unfortunately he’s still going to be pulling the strings behind the scenes.
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Hopefully he steps in front of a bus next.
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opposite David Attenborough feelings
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Name a bigger piece of shit, I will wait
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Kissinger. Change my mind.
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This is one of the most dangerous men to ever live.
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Die
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I’ve seen this episode of Succession
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I thought >!he died and did not step down.!<
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Joke answer is that he is actually the nephew of Atilla the Hun and failed to maintain the Hunnic horde after Atillas death by nose bleed.
Actual answer is he's 92.
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Let me know when he steps down from being alive.
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Maybe he was visited by three ghosts during the night... and that's why he's stepping down. I doubt he learned his lesson though.
When you think of evil men, he's gotta be on the list.
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Enjoy that lengthy retirement, Rupert. You've earned every hour of it.
Edit: Minute? Second?
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Shocked to see that from Rupert.
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