😂 😂 😂

We just had a blizzard in the Northeast #USA and in #NYC a news reporter just wanted some empty chatter about the weather

But her interview subject had other ideas

#Housing #HumanRights

@benroyce And private equity owns your news channel.
@benroyce I like this fella and want to be his friend. 😆
@benroyce lol she’s really trying. How funny.
@benroyce Thank you, informed citizen 😀

@benroyce

She pulled up to the wrong city with that bullshit. She would’ve gotten the slop shit she wanted upstate. Thank you, Conner, for representing and not falling for the okie-doke.

@eve

A bit of an ironic a sentiment, given that upstate cities are full of people that NYC has chewed up and spit out, literal victims of the system this guy is talking about. But yea, fuck em I guess.

I was referring to the posh ppl upstate who have untied themselves from reality
@contrasocial @eve What a load of hogwash. NYC ain't chewing up and spitting out nothing what are you talking about? I don't even know who EVE is talking about "posh people upstate" is Westchester County "upstate?" If it snows upstate nobody dgaf it's just another winter day. The media is the problem not the people of New York, no matter what part they live in.
I don’t know what YOU are talking about. The topic isn’t about snow. It’s about the homeless having to sleep in abandoned buildings, breaking into apartments to sleep in random hallways, and sleeping in subways because hedge funds are buying up all the property, creating ridiculous requirements to be able to even get an apartment, thus creating MORE homeless people and keeping them in the cold. And since people upstate don’t have to deal with the homeless or hedge funds, she would have gotten a better chance of a vapid response about snow from somebody upstate. That was my point. I live in NYCHA housing in the Bronx and every year we deal with the homeless breaking into our building sleeping on random floors. It’s a problem caused by hedge funds treating residential spaces as products in a store and not a necessity.
@eve FYI I capitalized your name bc you have it sylized in caps -- not because I was shouting or emphasizing it.

@contrasocial @eve

as someone who lived in brooklyn, then midtown manhattan, then the hudson valley, and now between the finger lakes and rochester ny, i don't know why you have a problem with what Eve said

i don't. i know what they're talking about

there is no need to get reflexively angry at Eve just because they didn't carve out special terms and conditions for the residents of Plattsburgh or Oswego 😂

it's a social media post not a legal document

look for intent and calm the fuck down

ya know. initially i was only going to reply with “calm down” and leave it at that, but i let him get under my skin 🤣
thx

@benroyce

We've all seen the Simple Sabotage posts. This is how to do it in the Age of Social Media.

@benroyce spins does not play

@benroyce huh. it played fine on computer. still no on the phone.

good on interviewee tho!

@benroyce

Is he on the Fedi??? lol

@benroyce

Everyone in this city is like this now. LOL.

@futurebird @benroyce and somehow there were people who were shocked that Mamdani got elected
@benroyce Word-on-the-street interviews were so much easier before people gave a shit about important social issues.
@benroyce
Brilliant! He is so focused, she acts like #AISlopCentral… 😐

@Su_G

she's just doing her job. she wasn't angry with him at all. and she let him say it x2. so she helped

@benroyce @Su_G Despite probably having a script designed to front bad ideas :D
Great all-round.

@benroyce

I'm now a big fan of making corporate media reps incredibly uncomfortable. 😉

@benroyce

I don’t care what anybody says, how can you not love New Yorkers?
Now if the rest of the country could get their heads out of their arses.

@benroyce and that was the last time live reporting was sent on tv...

@benroyce

More of this, please, dear USans.

@benroyce
Private Equity is almost Like the langoliers
@benroyce Wonderful! Regards from Sweden 👏

@benroyce

And fuck neoliberal capitalism indeed… 🥳

@benroyce Not really empty chatter when she was trying to frame it as "we had this weather in the 90s so there is no climate change".
@benroyce 😂💜 love this guy
@benroyce Cool. I wish I can be that ready to spit the tea if given the chance. Stellar performance.

@benroyce

Some Heroes Wear Snow Shovels.

@benroyce

Pretty scary how ordinary people are doing the billionaires' jobs for them by instinctively censoring any voices critical of the system. I think un-learning this reflex is one of the most important things we can do right now.

@benroyce
I feel that so much, I also like to always bring up, whenever somebody here in Germany gets nostalgic for the "good old times", that back then we had a wealth tax and train, postal, and telecommunication services were nationalized. Gets some prizeless looks 😁
@benroyce "Starting today we are replacing all live interviews with Real People AI™ generated content for a more authentic and on-brand experience"
@txtx @benroyce Vox pop replaced with vox machina.
@benroyce his delivery is pitch perfect
@benroyce Honestly, I was more interested in the issues that guy wanted talk more about.
@benroyce master class in telling it like it is...

@benroyce

Mainstream US media, an shameful and absolute failure.

Zero journalistic integrity.

#MSM