Summary

Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to give his son Lachlan complete control over his media empire has failed.

A Nevada court ruled against Murdoch, stating he acted in bad faith and attempted to manipulate the family trust.

This decision, if upheld, will likely impact the future of Murdoch’s right-wing media empire, including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.

  • @PoopSpiderman
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    1472 days ago

    Why hasn’t this fuckhead died yet? He’s a fucking scumbag.

    • @Maggoty
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      602 days ago

      Anxiety and stress actually do take years off your life. Sociopaths do not suffer from anxiety and stress.

      • @Warl0k3
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        Uh… what. Yes they do. Where on earth did you get the idea they don’t?

        • @[email protected]
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          Being too rich to have to worry about money spares you a shitload of stress and anxiety.

          As does being too amoral to worry about how your actions affect other people.

          They probably don’t get ZERO stress and anxiety, but they get so little compared to regular people as well as access to top notch healthcare and the best food that it’s literally not unusual for them to live at least a decade longer as a result.

          • @Warl0k3
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            Yeah, I won’t argue that these sociopaths don’t have lives that cause them to be particularly stressed or anxious. Probably should have just assumed that.

        • @Maggoty
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          72 days ago

          We’re talking about the pop culture definition of someone who feels no shame, and just takes the most direct path no matter how fucked up it is.

          • @Warl0k3
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            So, yeah, I understand what you’re saying.

            But can we maybe start calling these people monsters because of the choices they make, not because of a disability they may or may not have? The popular idea that being a sociopath automatically turns you into the lovechild of a heartless CEO and jack the ripper (with a dash of narcissist mother in law) is just… wrong. There are plenty of sociopaths out there in the world trying really hard to fit in to society and who by any regular measure aren’t bad people. Hell on top of that, it’s a spectrum disorder - plenty of sociopaths out there can feel affection for other people, it’s just harder for them to do than the average.

            I guess it’s just kind of tiresome to constantly be scapegoated as to why these people are awful. “Oh, they must be sociopaths, that’s why they’re like this”. No, listen, they’re like this because they are awful people. Being a sociopath makes it easier to be an awful person, but the guilt still lies with them and the choices they make, not because a disability made them like this or some sort of genetic fatalism.

            • @DNU
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              ++, i think i need to rewatch Killing eve

            • @Maggoty
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              Hmm, I get where you’re coming from. I get the same way when people misuse PTSD. I’ll try to find a better way to state it next time.

    • @[email protected]
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      Because only the good die young:

      Reagan: 93
      Thatcher: 87
      Pinochet: 91
      Pol Pot: 91
      Kissinger: 100

  • @[email protected]
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    912 days ago

    Let’s hope they do the classic rich spoiled kids thing and drive the entire thing into the ground with pointless infighting and power struggles.

    • @[email protected]
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      562 days ago

      If I remember correctly, the reason for all this was that his other kids really aren’t on board with daddy’s political opinions, and would be able to overrule their brother. We’ll see how it turns out.

        • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie
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          If CNN and Fox flip it will be so funny. Your liberal grandma being all upset about trans people and wokeness and your conservative grandpa rooting for universal healthcare.

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            Amongst my kin its actually the business owning conservatives that are the most pro universal healthcare. They really dont like the insurance companies, also itd be cheaper for them.

  • Chozo
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    Was really hoping the headline would’ve read “loses battle to cancer”.

    • @[email protected]
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      I find this to be actually better: his empire will either be split up and weakened by the kids infighting, or turned into something completely against everything he worked all his life to accomplish.

      We get the added bonus that he will know this, think about it, and be angry about it, until the day he dies.

      I, for one, am very happy.

      • @madcaesar
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        112 hours ago

        In my lifetime everything right wing has gotten worse. Whenever people hope for better it gets worse… Watch FOX news get over by a literal Nazi and cut to us hoping it goes back to the “sane” days of the Murdochs…

  • @fluxion
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    262 days ago

    Can we just donate it all to charity to recoup some of the untold damage he jas done to America

    • @FelixCress
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      untold damage he has done to America

      UK would like a word.

      • @glimse
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        Pretty sure the whole world deserves a piece of that pie

      • @Serinus
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        I’m not sure the UK gets to say much about the direction of the world.

  • @[email protected]
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    Damn, I was hoping it was going to say he lost a battle with ass cancer. Fuck that guy with a rusty trombone.

  • @RememberTheApollo_
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    The courts are weak against wealth. Will have to see what happens.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 days ago

      This isn’t a large corporation fighting a little guy, these are extremely wealthy people fighting each other. There’s no one involved in this who can’t afford to pay the best attorneys to fight as long as it takes

  • @800XL
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    Musk will buy it, don’t worr-

  • @ThePyroPython
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    42 days ago

    Odds on a bunch of dead Murdochs in the next couple years?