All the libs in my life are completely hysterical over this, sending me apocalyptic screeds about the “death of the free press”.
How should I phrase my response that I don’t give a shit about the latest nothingburger drama at their (formerly) favorite pro-genocide rags? I don’t want to hear yet another pro-genocide cracker acting like they’re a fucking hero for canceling their Bezos Post subscription.
This is like streamer drama but for liberal boomers.
"Death of the free press"
Remind them that WaPo has been owned and influenced by Bezos for years and they believed all its bullshit then. Remind them every news source that forms their opinions is similarly owned and influenced.
They never had a fucking free press
I decided to check how the libs on r/politics were doing, and they're really having a bad time over this and the LA Times. The entire front page is only about this, and now they suddenly oppose billionaires.
I remember the brief period when it was them posting about Chappel Roan’s family. Fuck them.
There is a really funny tweet about a journalist saying that the mass unsubbing from wapo only hurts wapo journalists and not bezos and a bunch of leftist going
Cancelling your @washingtonpost subscription hurts its reporters, not Bezos, and is not the democracy flex you think it is.
Watching libs screech about the lying fake news mainstream media being completely unfair to their tremendous candidate. 🤌
Folks! The media? It's no good! Many people are saying it.
I’ve found the most effective thing is to take your phone out, start scrolling, and respond only with “mhmm” and “wow”
Bourgeois democracy dies at the end of the barrel of a gun
“Freedom of the press” is another of the principal slogans of “pure democracy”. And here, too, the workers know — and Socialists everywhere have explained millions of times —that this freedom is a deception because the best printing presses and the biggest stocks of paper are appropriated by the capitalists, and while capitalist rule over the press remains—a rule that is manifested throughout the whole world all the more strikingly, sharply and cynically—the more democracy and the republican system are developed, as in America for example. The first thing to do to win really equality and genuine democracy for the working people, for the workers and peasants, is to deprive capital of the possibility of hiring writers, buying publishing houses and bribing newspapers. And to do that the capitalists and exploiters have to be overthrown and their resistance oppressed. The capitalists have always use the term “freedom” to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death. And capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion. In this respect, too, the defenders of “pure democracy” prove to be defenders of an utterly foul and venal system that gives the rich control over the mass media. They prove to be deceivers of the people, who, with the aid of plausible, fine-sounding, but thoroughly false phrases, divert them from the concrete historical task of liberating the press from capitalist enslavement. Genuine freedom and equality will be embodied in the system which the Communists are building, and in which there will be no opportunity for massing wealth at the expense of others, no objective opportunities for putting the press under the direct or indirect power of money, and no impediments in the way of any workingman (or groups of workingman, in any numbers) for enjoying and practicing equal rights in the use of public printing presses and public stocks of paper.
Yknow that Liz Cheney endorsement almost got me to vote for Kamala….but she didnt get the Washington Post endorsement :( guess Trump it is…
onion article
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