The Washington Post planned to endorse Kamala Harris over Donald Trump before owner Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, decided again it, the newspaper reported.
  • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Where are the conspiracy theorists when there is actually something going on? I guess they stand back and stand by…

  • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
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    7 months ago

    Oligarchs dont caee who wins since for them either one is W lol

    Normies in shambles to finally figure out that elections are a clown exercise to provide owners puppets legitimacy.

    Didnt LA times have a similar situation haha

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      >“Oligarchs don’t care who wins”

      >Jeff Bezos provably and directly interfered with an endorsement of Kamala Harris.

      You could not have picked a dumber time to comment this, could you have?

      • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
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        7 months ago

        You have poor understanding of the situation lol

        He is keeping his options open bc there is a real possibility that trump will win.

        Yall aint coping well at all.

        Again DNC botched it and yall too dim to appreciate this lol

        Enjoy the fASCism 🤡

        • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          >“Oligarchs don’t care who wins.”

          >“But wait, actually, if Trump wins and his newspaper endorses Harris, then that could actually be bad for him because who the POTUS is suddenly does affect oligarchs whenever it’s convenient for my bullshit rhetoric.”

  • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Bezos has tons of federal government contracts. When Trump was president last time he went after Amazon and others he disliked to get their contracts cancelled. Bezos is concerned that if Trump wins, Trump could fuck with his contracts.

    That’s the reason. It’s fucked up and more evidence of why news media shouldn’t be owned by fuckhead billionaires. Shameful day in WaPos history. Cowardice. Grovelling to placate Trump for the benefit of the paper 's owner.

    Tin foil hat: I am somewhat concerned that our oligarch overlords seem to be hedging in a way that they think Trump might win.

    • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I’m extremely concerned. LA times backing out too. There’s no reason not to, unless they’re afraid the psycho toddler dictator is going to be holding the reigns next year. Fucking traitorous cowards, money over country.

  • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Has this f*ing idiot never heard of the Streisand Effect? The fact that they broke a decades long tradition to do this makes a louder thump than their endorsement would have.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    Wow, a hugely wealthy oligarchical capitalist facilitating the rise of fascism?

    How completely unpredictable, with no historical precedent whatsoever!

    Who could have possibly expected this?!

    • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The motto of the Post is literally “Democracy dies in Darkness”, and it was adopted immediately after Trump was elected. It is deliberately positioned as pro-Democrat and anti Trump. I didn’t have a high esteem of Bezos, but I am still disappointed.

      • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Nobody else finds this ominous? Besos was not exactly Trumps friend. Why is he being a bitch now? What does he know what’s changed

        • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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          7 months ago

          If trump actually…shudder…wins, he could do as he’s said and bring down the fascist military hammer on any type of dissidents. These billionaire ghouls don’t care what happens to the country or world, they just care about their hoard.

        • Billiam@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          I don’t know about you, but I get this feeling there is a massive coordinated campaign between the monied interests behind the scenes. The Republican party is unpopular, by a lot. Voters are super pissed off about abortion, and it’s consistently been a losing issue for the GOP that they can’t help but double down on. Donald Trump is a criminal that a not-insignificant portion of the population think should be in prison. SCOTUS is openly corrupt, Kamala pulled in over a billion dollars last quarter, while Trump’s small-dollar donations have all but dried up.

          Yes, the wealthy typically support the GOP, but like… why this election are they going so hard for Trump? If Kamala appoints a competent AG, there’s a very real chance Musk gets hit with election interference charges. Bezos had to know that this was going to lose WaPo subs, because the right doesn’t trust WaPo thanks to years of distrust sown by Trump so there was no way this wasn’t going to cause a financial hit. Ditto for the LA Times. So just… why? The whole vibe of the thing just feels off.

          • Kalysta@lemm.ee
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            7 months ago

            Almost makes you think they’re throwing it to the criminal so the rest of them can continue being criminals, doesn’t it?

    • vxx@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The guy that “gifted” millions to political commentators from CNN tries to influence politics? No way!

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      How much money do these fuckers need before they are content enough to not rat fuck American democracy so they can eek out a few percent more on their billions?

        • tmyakal@lemm.ee
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          7 months ago

          No, capitalism is feudalism with loot boxes! Because I could win the lottery.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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        7 months ago

        … The answer is infinity.

        Capitalism requires constant growth, constant extraction, constant return in investment, constant tendency toward monopolies and wealth disparity until you end up with a neo feudalistic caste society.

        You can either attempt to restrain and regulate the system, which we are currently doing a rather poor job of, overthrow the system, which is nigh impossible given the precarity of the average prole, or you can just watch as we head closer and closer to… some kind of hybrid of the handmaids tale and elysium.

        … Or, maybe, escape to a slightly less insane foreign country, but you’re gonna need a lot of money or a very lucrative skill set as an employee to do that as anything other than an illegal immigrant.

        • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          You know, I always wondered where the professionals ended up in Elysium. Like there are the medical professionals taking care of the earthlings, but the life saving machines are in Elysium so they aren’t needed up there.

          But like, what about the software folks? Like there’s an epic shit ton of software going on in that movie that just kind of gets handwaved.

          Passification is handled by robots and crazy humans. Other than the one executive who comes down, where are his direct reports? There is no way he was interested in the factory management, that would be a middle management job. And then what about accountants? Researchers designing the tech on Elysium?

          It never really made a whole lot of sense that Elysium was just the rich. They can’t just “get” everything they want up there, it had to come from earth.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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        7 months ago

        Man… that’s one of the things that seems like a conspiracy theory to a great many people, but just actually is true.

        Dude literally got caught doing massive amounts of money laundering for literal Nazis during WW2 and by all rights should have been convicted of treason.

        Its like how most people don’t know that IBM machines enabled the Germans to tabulate and keep track of the holocaust, that their machines spit out the UIDs that were tattooed onto the victims at the death camps…

        … I think that ‘War is a Racket’ by Smedley Butler really needs to be added to the basic K-12 curriculum alongside 1984 and Brave New World…

        But oh oops, the Republicans already destroyed our education systems, nevermind.

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Jeff Bezos killed

    Well this should be interesting.

    Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

    Oh, nevermind.

    • Consumer2747@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Anyone who’s still using Amazon and wants to keep democracy is drowning in cognitive dissonance. Amazon is a bigger threat to decent lives for non-millionaires than any single politician, even granting that Trump is a nightmare.

  • savx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    for years tech bros has been framed as liberal/leftist/team blue supporter. but after years of musk shitposting bullshit and almost not even single one called him out, more and more i have a feeling that they ALL are just magas hiding in the closets, they are not allies at all.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      They’re mostly self-styled “libertarians”, which means they haven’t thought anything through, think they know better than all the country’s institutions, and just want to be allowed to do whatever they want without consequences. This makes them natural allies of the MAGAs, even if they don’t realize it.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Everyone talking about billionaires and how they endorse, support, finance, fund, hold lotteries to influence an election and everyone still thinks they exist in a democracy.

    It’s an oligarchy or a plutocracy

    Call it whatever you want … but it certainly isn’t a democracy

        • Azzu@lemm.ee
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          7 months ago

          It’s not a democracy if the choices available don’t work for the common person, which they both don’t. Democracy means that what the majority says, goes. Which is clearly not what’s happening, because the majority wants to get rid of billionaires and do something about climate change and so on and so on.

          • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works
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            7 months ago

            How would you propose we stop the imminent and terminal influx of right wing fascism across the globe?

            Because it is not waiting around while you organize a better third option. It’s here. Now.

            • Azzu@lemm.ee
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              7 months ago

              It’s naive to think the US is a democracy. It’s mostly an oligarchy with a few democratic features. The only choice is to vote Harris, but she is only barely less right-wing than Trump, from a European perspective. She will continue the oligarchy.

              The only hope there is, is that all the people in the US start to understand they don’t have a democracy. The vote for D needs to become overwhelming. Then, R will die out and an alternative choice on the further left side may emerge as a serious contender. Then, this further left choice needs to become overwhelming.

              Eventually, this will lead to real change.

              Why this must work like this is because the US’ democratic system only supports 2 parties with its first-past-the-post system. Until a reform of this voting system takes place, towards a ranked choice style system, there can’t be good representation. While any organization into a limited number of parties inherently means that almost no one will be represented perfectly, the less parties there are, the more the average divergence of reprentation there will be. 2 is just an unbelievably small number of opinion groupings to choose from, much too little to get anywhere near good representation.

  • slowmotionrunner@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    I’ve never agreed with journalistic organizations endorsing candidates. Report on them? Yes. Scathe them if necessary? Yes. Endorse them? No thank you.