If you haven’t already, now is a good time to cancel your Washington Post subscription. - ThreadSky

„Personal liberties*“ and „free** markets“

*for the very wealthy only
**of legal restrictions on actions

I had a super cheap subscription (not sure whether they forgot to raise my price, lol) for many years. Kept it because it was a steal. But just cancelled, and their goodbye message is hilariously ironic and sad...

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mounty.bsky.social•48 days ago

And your Amazon Prime account

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atticushoo.bsky.social•48 days ago

Came here to say this. My family has an infatuation with Prime. Use Amazon as a showroom and order from the MFR’s website.

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sniffit.bsky.social•48 days ago

Everyone should also block the WaPo Bluesky account.

#BLOCKWAPO

Merely bitching about them is not going to send a message.

And anyone who hasn't unsubscribed to everything Bezos is doing it wrong.

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mammoth-mike.bsky.social•48 days ago

And spend a whole lot less on Amazon…

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cloudygrayfox.bsky.social•48 days ago

They actually had a story this am about Musk’s govt subsidies over the years. Would have helped if they’d brought that up during the election. There are better news sources like CalMatters and ProPublica that get my bucks.

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maggiebirdsings.bsky.social•48 days ago

Canceled last year. Wish I could cancel three more times.

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sooskavee.bsky.social•48 days ago

I have had my subscription for decades. I just cancelled. So much for darkness killing democracy blah blah blah

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cmbdmb.bsky.social•48 days ago

Cancelled our subscription and boycotting MSNBC!

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alexwild.bsky.social•48 days ago

By “personal liberties”, they don’t mean trans people’s liberty to exist. They mean oligarch liberties to poison thousands of people if it makes them a dollar.

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tft.io•48 days ago

By free markets he doesn’t mean markets free from rentiers, he means that he gets to do what he wants

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apophis426.bsky.social•48 days ago

i commented elsewhere that the letter immediately reminded of duckspeak from 1984, but on further thought the dynamic is more just plain old newspeak

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bsrken.bsky.social•48 days ago

Done.

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bettyrubble.bsky.social•48 days ago

Does anyone here have a way to download audible stuff...i've lost it somewhere..

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aliveoak.bsky.social•48 days ago

Anyone who actually read WAPO saw this coming and to some extent accomplished many months ago. I cancelled. It used to be a good source for news. Know that Bezos doesn't care if it fails. Hint - The Guardian is free and independent and excellent.

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ruth60jane.bsky.social•48 days ago

This is beyond vile. I hope we can get a mass of people to stop ordering from Amazon. I already have—I don’t need their janky stuff.

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staynot.bsky.social•48 days ago

And your wide ranging network of Amazon accounts.

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alvinchipmunk.bsky.social•48 days ago

Already did, plus any e-mail newsletters

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aspenjunge.bsky.social•48 days ago

I doubt "personal liberties" means freedom to follow a liberal religion.

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patcat13.bsky.social•48 days ago

Father of capitalism says yes, let’s defend capitalist free markets. Agree 100%
Any other economic policy will destroy the very country that protects you. Bezos is truly wise! He knows economics! A voice of reason!

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patcat13.bsky.social•48 days ago

Father of capitalism says yes, let’s defend capitalist free markets. Agree 100%
Any other economic policy will destroy the very country that protects you. Bezos is truly wise! He knows economics! A voice of reason!

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