He says he’s proud to be an American. This is absolutely UNAMERICAN! We are truly an oligarchy now.
As hard as it must have been, kudos to David Shipley.
I suspect David Shipley’s reply was far, far more salty than “no”. Perhaps more like: “Bezos, you’re an utterly deranged oligarch fuckwit who got lucky selling books because you liked the tax advantages & posting them was easy - not from a love of literature, knowledge and truth. You bald turd.”
So a bit of thought about freedom soon shows that in the real world, freedom is not absolute, it is necessarily subject to constraints. Absolute freedom is not true human freedom, it is something else, the freedom of an over tired toddler, or of a person in a state of mania.
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Seeking soulless journalist to sell whatever is left of their integrity in service of oligarchy and dictatorship. Must have no conscience. Salary commiserate with experience…
So does this mean WaPo will be publishing lots of opinion pieces supporting abortion rights and transgender rights? Or are those not the "personal liberties" he is talking about?
Bezos and the other techbros want to break the United States up into tiny fiefdoms they call "Network States" they can rule with Libertarianism and crypto
List is growing
John Deere
Harley Davidson
Jack Daniel’s
Ford Motor
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
Boeing
Walmart
McDonald’s
Meta
Amazon
Target
The Smithsonian Institution
Google
Amtrak
Accenture
Pepsi
GM
Disney
GE
Intel
PayPal
Chipotle
Comcast
PBS
Deloitte
Goldman Sachs
Coca Cola
Citigroup
JP Morgan Chase
Bezos is one of many who have squandered the First Amendment, abused it, and deliberately made it irrelevant. In some ways it was appropriate they started with the First, now they can march their way through all of them, destroying as they go.
What a shame that I will miss this. Let the WAPO lapse months ago- about the same time that he let the editorial department’s actual first amendment’s freedom lapse. If you were that rich, would you think you’d do this to get richer or to just be a logo of a prick?
What the f*** you're right f*** Jeff bezos and everybody like them. Their greed is going to kill everybody and it's enough it's unlimited wealth. But if you hoard it, it's going to create a war
The death spiral of the FREE press during #Trump's reign continues- Frivolous lawsuits against news outlets, blocking legitimate press from daily briefings & continuing 2get billionaire newspaper owners 2squeeze their editorial staffs will result in our country looking like #ViktorOrban's Hungary.
It is quaint how on the surface "personal liberties" and "free markets" sound really ethical and quaint. The branding department deserves a raise. (But we all know he doesn't give those)
As if free markets were so in need of a voice. Pretty sure free market capitalism has been fully rammed down our throats since the 80s. But thanks Jeff for looking out.
I canceled my subscription before the election. Living in DC, the Washington Post was our paper. My father used to assign me articles to read, so that I might be well-informed.
I am disgusted, and he would be, too.
I just cancelled by WaPo subscription about an hour ago when I first read this information. It's one thing to print op-ed pieces that support Bozo's world view. It's quite another to not allow opposing viewpoints.
welcome to the oligarchs state run news media. they will tell you only what they want you to hear, but it will be half- truths and out right lies. sadly, many feeble-minded folks will read whatever trash is printed on their fascist pulp rags as the Gospel Truths. indeed, “Fuck You, Bezos!!!”
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As hard as it must have been, kudos to David Shipley.
More like "undeserved." How fucking stupid does this guy think people are?
Fuck these guys.
Presumably not the absolutist or extremist freedom of “Do whatever’s you want to do”?
If Bezos is not a follower of Alistair Crowley, he must be allowing that freedom has limits.
So what limits? We are not free to stab someone at random. But…
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And am I free to pay writers to deny that my product causes harm?
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Harm is affected by degree and time.
To make someone drop dead within a minute of inhaling your product is clearly unacceptable.
To give someone a 1% chance of leukaemia 50 years later is a problem
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So producers should pay in to a fund to enable epidemiological work to take place.
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https://prolib.substack.com/p/the-techbro-plan-to-splinter-the?r=4rc7py
https://banters.substack.com/p/our-most-dangerous-minority-billionaires
Irreconcilable difference of morality.
I can't even...
John Deere
Harley Davidson
Jack Daniel’s
Ford Motor
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
Boeing
Walmart
McDonald’s
Meta
Amazon
Target
The Smithsonian Institution
Google
Amtrak
Accenture
Pepsi
GM
Disney
GE
Intel
PayPal
Chipotle
Comcast
PBS
Deloitte
Goldman Sachs
Coca Cola
Citigroup
JP Morgan Chase
https://www.asyousow.org/press-releases/2025/2/26/987-of-john-deere-amp-apple-shareholdersnbspreject-anti-diversity-proposals
Sure ain't OURS!!!
@peoplepowerunited.bsky.social
So now Bezos is taking over vindictive, petty and autocratic control of the @washingtonpost.com , which is now defunct as an enterprise of journalism
I am disgusted, and he would be, too.
Apparently, Democracy can die in daylight, too. 🤬
https://musingsofanobodyweb.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/a-small-coward-keeps-diminishing-a-once-great-newspaper/
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