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Re:Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Di... by yowlingcat on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:17PM (#23197535)
> Isn't another of the tenets of a justice system the right to face your accuser, not have someone Wizard of Oz behind the scenes bankrolling things because of their own vendetta?

You communicated it better than I. I was somewhat horrified with the outcome because I (perhaps naively) had some belief that this tenet of the justice system had not yet been compromised. But the old adage that we have N justice systems for N wealth buckets (where N in {[rich, poor], [1%, 99%], ...}) seems to be true.

Re:Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Di... by toasterlovin on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:39PM (#23197799)
But this isn't a case of one party with financial means going up against another party without financial means.
Re:Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Di... by yowlingcat on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:51PM (#23197921)
Clearly, it wasn't enough. Denton's fortune, large was it was, paled in comparison to Thiel's by a factor of 100, in pure net worth terms, never mind the social capital. In my eyes, that made it especially noteworthy.
Re:Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Di... by slg on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:17PM (#23198169)
Even Thiel himself admitted exactly this. He helped justify the bankrolling of Hogan's lawsuit by saying "single-digit millionaires" have no access to the legal system. The more money you have the more power you have. It isn't a binary rich/poor.
Re:Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Di... by yowlingcat on Friday May 15, 2020 @07:14PM (#23198606)
It's true. It's ironic that he proved the rule by proving that double digit millionaires too can effectively be locked out of the legal system by those with greater financial might. After all, are you really justifying the illegitimacy of the system if all you accomplish is merely swapping the places of who is destroyed?
Re:Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Di... by nwienert on Saturday May 16, 2020 @04:26PM (#23206915)
So if I provide one example of a double digit millionaire beating a billionaire in a lawsuit will you take back this claim? We’d have to go to data then, do you have that data?
Re:Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Di... by yowlingcat on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:30PM (#23208991)
> So if I provide one example of a double digit millionaire beating a billionaire in a lawsuit will you take back this claim?

I wouldn't take back the claim, but I would chuckle a bit.

The plural of data is not necessarily a narrative. I would ask you to try again, this time without deliberately ignoring the thread and misreading it.

Re:Vice Media Lays Off 155 Employees with Deepest Cuts in Di... by nwienert on Sunday May 17, 2020 @01:45PM (#23213659)
Yea, you’re the one with head in sand then.