The Washington Post: “Democracy Dies in Darkness”
Bozos:
I had to settle for the Jurassic Park GIF because I couldn’t find the one of Homer Simpson using his gun to turn off the lights. If anyone has that GIF, please hook me up.
I know this isn’t intentional, but the broken image makes the comment 10x funnier.
LOL. Task failed successfully!
I just re-linked the GIF to go through my image proxy (originally linked directly from yarn.io which usually works fine. Usually.). Did that help?
It’s also weird that it’s not showing the alt text. Figured that’d have at least come through.
Fixed!
Although I preferred when it looked like Bezos yeeted the file.
There you go!
never ask rexy where she was on january 6
No shooting, but does this work?
Democracy Dies in Darkness
We just didn’t realize this was a mission statement.
This episode.
I did find the “watch me turn off the TV” GIF but not not the lights :(
Not the one you’re looking for for but
Thanks!
Yeah, I found that one but it wasn’t quite what I wanted so passed on it and fell back to Jurassic Park.
The painful part is that I have that episode on DVD, so I have access to the scene. I just don’t know how to go from DVD to GIF. lol
I searched everywhere and couldn’t find it, so I made it. Has to be my best contribution to the internet
Thanks!
You are the best. Saving this! Will probably also upload it as a custom emoji on my instance.
Oh Jeffrey… that’s not how you’re aupposed to run a newspaper.
I certainly much hope he has to justify that decision to a jury and later a deity
Loving the 8k+ comments of people cancelling their subscription.
Free press in the USA? LOL, it becomes more and more difficult every time a US oligarch buys a news outlet.
Majority Report, Some More News. I suppose the on the other side of the aisle it would be Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro.
There is still some of the fourth estate left that hasn’t been bought by oligarchs, it’s just not exactly effective on the leftward side of the overton window.
Isn’t the Daily Wire funded by oil barons? I wouldn’t put them in the same category as MR which is entirely funded by their viewers and a handful of sponsors.
It’s possible, I was just trying to think of right wing pundits that aren’t on main stream media. I only know that Ben’s wife is not having a good time, by his own admission. I just had to look up The Daily Wire to figure out which one it was.
Ben shapiro is funded by a fundamentalist Christian billionaire…
Ahh, I see. I don’t pay attention to him and was just trying to find someone right wing that wasn’t on main stream media platforms
Breaking Points is up and coming. But all these shows still rely on Youtube which can pull the plug at any moment.
Breaking points shills russian propaganda… I wouldnt be surprised that if they also getting russian money like tim pool and lauren southern, similar vibes.
“How do you do fellow plebs”
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.
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.
Where are the conspiracy theorists when there is actually something going on? I guess they stand back and stand by…
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.
He is clearly just wants peace… For his money
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.
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In a 2019 lawsuit, Amazon claimed it lost a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft because Trump used “improper pressure … “to harm his perceived political enemy” Bezos.
That doesn’t really matter. They were just trying to use the system to get more tax cuts and passes.
Kamala wants to raise taxes on the rich 4+%, while Trump wants to lower them by ~1.5% (again). These asshole would want to see Trump harm americans and destroy the system for a few extra % in their pocket.
I agree, but the quote adds some context to why Besos would do such things. I’m not agreeing with it in any way.
Besos would do such things with any quote/ issue his team could dig up
Why are newspapers endorsing candidates?
It was an opinion piece by one of the editors
I saw the first three words of this post and was like, “HOLY SHIT! FINALLY!!”
Dude, same. I almost wanted to stop reading there.
Jeff Bezos killed. Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris. Paper reports.
That’s a big news day.
90% wealth tax is needed
Maximum wealth law. Once you’re worth more than 100 million, 100% of any new income goes to a designated fund for social programs.
100 million is enough money that there is still no real limit to how pampered your life can be, so there’s no argument that the rule would hurt anyone.
Anyone with over 10 million dollars in wealth should be legally classified as a dragon and anyone stealing from their hoard shall not be punishable under the law.
Not so fun fact: The absolute richest dragons in all of fantasy, excluding Smaug, only have a net worth of several hundred million dollars. A Red Elder Wyrm will have, on average, around 2.5-3 million gold pieces of wealth, with an absolute maximum of 5 million gold pieces. That means that the absolute greediest, and richest type of dragon, by far, only has between 100,000 to 500,000 oz worth of gold.
Smaug being the absolute outlier because he had somewhere between 5 to 10 billion dollars worth of gold.
Now if you are wondering why I’m making a big deal about this, it is because 500,000 oz of gold is only worth about 1.1 billion US dollars. But that is the absolute outlier of the greediest type of dragon that there is. Still only looking at Chaotic Evil Red Elder Wyrms, the average would only be about 3.5 million gold pieces, or a mere 350,000 oz of gold. That’s only about $850,000,000 and that is just the most average of the absolute greediest manefestations of greed that our limited minds could imagine. Most dragons would be absolutely fine with between $1,000,000 to $10,000,000. The literal manefestations of greed don’t need more than $10,000,000 according to every treasure table.
Those people that have more than 100 million dollars have already passed the greed alignment chart into Chaotic Evil. They are damn near caricatures of dragons at this point.
You need to read up on Shadowrun.
Yeah, it’s been pointed out before that Shadowrun has some ridiculously wealthy dragons. I think the point still stands since Shadowrun isn’t exactly high fantasy. More like science fantasy, similar to Star Wars.
Right but my point is that when you start to follow the money in Shadowrun, you invariably end up with a dragon. Like, they took the metaphor literally and so the richest hoarders in the world, with their claws in every possible pie, influencing the destiny of entire countries, are literal dragons.
My favorite is always the Egyptian god deciding to save the equivalent of $10,000 usd every day and never spend a single penny of it back in 10,000 BC and they still don’t have as much money as Jeff Bozos.
I believe that the normal person can imagine themselves as a dragonslayer far more easily than a godslayer. A dragonslayer just needs a sword, shield, set of armor, and an unbreakable will. A godslayer needs to be able to turn the entirety of their target, including the things that don’t exist on any Universe Plane, or Prime Material Plane, into a black hole.
These modern “unassailable” individuals that constitute global fifedoms in and of themselves are merely dragons. They absolutely can be defeated. They aren’t the invincible gods that they attempt to claim to be.
Edit: umm, what Egyptian god? They had a lot of them.
Sounds like a Set thing to do. Real prideful and blows up in his face.
Fair enough, I could see Ra or Anubis doing the same, based on your description of “real prideful and having the whole thing blow up in his face.” Certainly sounds like most of the exploits of all three of them.
Nooooooo but there’s no record of him donating money to trump’s campaign therefore he can’t be said to be supporting truuuuuuuump Noooooooooo
This is that “liberal news media” that Republicans keep yammering on about.
The one that’s owned by six corporations.
As long as you mean ‘neo liberal open to fascism’ then yeah I guess they’re all liberal…
