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Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
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Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Poor people get murdered all the time, a rich person getting murdered is newsworthy.
If a poor person were murdered like this, it would be newsworthy. The fact that this may be a politically charged murder makes it even more newsworthy.
I guess that depends if you meant murdered inside a $2.4 million dollar condo or in a sewer. The latter happens all the time and is ignored.
But a poor person being murdered inside a $2.4 million dollar condo in the same fashion is certainly newsworthy.
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#43This is being connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security. Obviously such claims require evidence, explanation, and reason, not to mention means, motive, and opportunity. Let me attempt to do some of that. First, yes the Russians also murder people. They tend to do it themselves via their own agents and in some exotic fashion to send a message. Chinese style of assassination is to hire someone else. This has…
wow
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't see anything at all about housing policy in the article. EDIT: It appears the link has been changed from (IIRC) a Chicago Tribune article to a New York Times article. My comment is about the original article.
"Luxury Condo" is right there in the headline.
I understood those parts of the article as answering the question “how hard would it have been to get into the building?”
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#45This is being connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security. Obviously such claims require evidence, explanation, and reason, not to mention means, motive, and opportunity. Let me attempt to do some of that. First, yes the Russians also murder people. They tend to do it themselves via their own agents and in some exotic fashion to send a message. Chinese style of assassination is to hire someone else. This has…
ORide was not in any form the "chosen winners" - in fact, they were driven out of the market by the regulation in question.
I know there is the tendency for Westerners to clutch pearls when anything even remotely referencing China is mentioned but at least temper it with reason.
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#46probably similar to the dude who had his genitals eaten after meeting up with an online date.
https://7news.com.au/original-fyi/crime-story-investigator/w...
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
If a poor person were murdered like this, it would be newsworthy. The fact that this may be a politically charged murder makes it even more newsworthy.
I guess that depends if you meant murdered inside a $2.4 million dollar condo or in a sewer. The latter happens all the time and is ignored. But a poor person being murdered inside a $2.4 million dollar condo in the same fashion is certainly newsworthy.
Who is getting cut up into a million pieces and dumped into the sewers? How common is such an occurrence?
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's of note because it's uncommon.
According to whom? In this neighborhood in the last year 9 properties sold for over $2.5m and 8 sold for under, meaning $2.4m is below the median value of the area. Why didn't they just say "Dismembered man found in Greenwich Village apartment"? Edit: The article keeps changing, it originally said 200 W Houston, now it says both 200 East Houston and 365 E. Houston. Edit #2: In a standing proof that local journalism i…
The juxtaposition is what's noteworthy, not that the neighborhood is expensive.
Gruesome murders are salacious enough; it happening to a wealthy entrepreneur inside his expensive Manhattan home is especially rare.
For many reasons, people seem to be interested when tragedy strikes the rich or glamorous.
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Luxury Condo" is right there in the headline.
No value judgment is offered about whether a luxury condo is a good, bad, or neutral thing.
The fact that it's there to begin with implies it was noteworthy enough to include it, and the choice of including something versus not including is a value judgement. If instead the title read, "New York tech entrepreneur found decapitated wearing expensive suit", it would be more likely to strike people as odd, but isn't it essentially the same thing?
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#50Can you imagine the maladaptive psychology required to wield a knife to calmly dismember, decapitate and butcher another human being?