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.
never ask rexy where she was on january 6
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!
This episode.
I did find the “watch me turn off the TV” GIF but not not the lights :(
No shooting, but does this work?
Democracy Dies in Darkness
We just didn’t realize this was a mission statement.
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.
If Kamala really wanted to get back at Bezos for this, the best thing she could do is promote union membership in tech and in the press.
It has been Bezos’ kryptonite for years, and while I hold zero hope that unions will grow in popularity in the US, having a president push for them might be enough to make big businesses shut up.
She shouldn’t be “getting back” at people. That’s Trump’s MO, and a major part of the reason that makes him so unsuited for the role. She should do what’s best for the country. So ultimately I agree she should be pushing for unions.
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.
To that end I’d say unions would be best for the country
Bezos is worth so much there is no hope of a single president reigning him in.
It would require a group of countries all going at him at once. Otherwise we are not only stuck with Bezos for our whole life but his children and family will also be unstoppable.
These men should be disrupted. The “move fast and break things” was their mantra. Now they demand nobody move and nothing changes including wealth vectors.
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If there is one thing that authoritarians are any good for, that is using their unlimited power to deflate millionaires’ ambitions and keeping them in line e.g. Jack Ma https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56448688 (but yea, despots will help billionaires fuck everyone over if it benefits said despot enough)
Not really Nazi Germany was a robber baron’s wet dream. All those train tracks in and out of the concentration camps were build with US investors money.
Loving the 8k+ comments of people cancelling their subscription.
But just think of the juicy government contracts
Coward is afraid of Trump exacting retribution if he wins. Fucking megacoward.
tax them until they learn to mind their own business
Since he owns the Post, it is very strictly speaking “his business”.
On one hand, I’d love to see the Post endorse Harris, but on the other hand, I do feel that the owner of a company absolutely should have this level of control over their own company.
It might be different if he were compelling the paper to compromise on it’s integrity or something, but simply preventing his own paper from endorsing a political candidate is absolutely something that he should be able to do.
Please note that this isn’t a commentary on his immense wealth, or the role of the ultra wealthy in America…simply an observation on what a business owner should be able to do with their own company.
well he did it. why? looks like he’s trying to help by trumping the editors opinion. only they were bypassed because story’s out. pay site drama is not worth it. wsj and wp paywalls have always been not worth it. subs leaving in droves like TwX.
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.
I certainly much hope he has to justify that decision to a jury and later a deity
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.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-bezos-killed-washington-post-endorsement-of-kamala-harris-.html
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
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
File this under “why billionaires should not exist”.
NGL, I had to reread the headline because my brain got too excited.
Sigh
Canceled my friday.
Not for nothing but what would even happen if someone like Bezos got caught red-handed killing someone on twitch.
I don’t think very much. Free shipping to come in before 10am is just too good to pass up.
