"Payne would have confused the balcony of the hotel room with a possible exit, and as he tried to leave through the balcony, he lost his life in an unplanned fall."
Sounds like they're using the media language reserved for police killings of innocent people.
Oh please. Dude goes to a hotel, hits up the staff for coke, gets drunk and parties too much, passes out. Hotel staff drag him to bed, like they do all rich fucks who come there. Then said rich fuck goes on the balcony after they leave… and then does whatever he did to fall off.
People need to stop blaming other people for their own mistakes.
Oh, and never do drugs you get from strangers. 👍
But did you consider that they were brown people?? And that Liam Payne was a rich white guy? So checkmate
God damn, those guilty fucks!!!!
I was in the UK around the time he died. At first I wasn't familiar with who he was. Then I heard he was a member of One Direction ("oh, he was just a boy band himbo?!"). Then I learned he died through his own over-indulgences and foolishness ("he got hopped up to his eyeballs and fell out a window?!"). And at that point the news coverage made no sense.
Based on the reports and articles, you'd have thought he was some amazing philanthropist and genius musician who only brought joy and enlightenment to the human race. But no, nothing like that. Just another somewhat talented entitled rich boy riding on the backs of better people.
It's the same rose-tinted bullshit we see time after time. Just look at this article from right after Jimmy Saville died - and before his decades of rapping and abusing children made it into the public realm (although it was a very poorly-kept secret even back then).
Now to be clear, I'm not comparing Payne to Saville in their deeds. Payne seems more like a vapid passive user who drifted down life on easy street. Saville was a disgusting monster. But it goes to show how myopic the media can be when faced with the death of a celebrity.
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