You know, lmao, when I read the note from Bezos the first time, I was like "Yeah that's pretty nuts but ya know standard evil billionaire stuff drafted by unfeeling PR teams".
But now, reading it again, I am actually flabbergasted at how palpable Bezos' own voice is through that note. Like I genuinely believe Bezos sat and Tweeted that out himself. What an insane man
The idea that “free markets” need further boosting in the pages of capitalist, for-profit American newspapers is hilarious. Bezos is really taking a hint from Donny Deals about making the barely subtext into laughably explicit text.
Did Jeff Bezos sustain some sort of traumatic event/injury at some point, or did he possibly overdue the steroids, causing such a change in his personality? His support of the Post in the early years was inspirational. Very sad situation now for us all.
He's never been anything besides a power hungry megalomaniac. You don't become Jeff bezos if you are a decent normal person. All billionaires are bastards
I think you might be overestimating both the size and the patience of the Post's remaining subscribers. Some might stay, they keep lowering the price until it's less for a year than many Substack subscriptions. However $30 annual subscriptions won't keep Wapo going. We've already seen how Bezos reacts to the paper bringing in less money. Lay-offs upon lay-offs and when that didn't help he brought in Will Lewis and Matt Murray along with the attempt to bring in Robert Winnet. I feel like that was the definitive beginning of the end of the paper's integrity. Bezos could easily fund a dynamic and wholly independent Washington Post, a fully staffed one even, painlessly. He'd rather put wretched people in charge and cause his staff to live in either fear or shame or both.
We let our Post subscription lapse this year. Part of signing up originally was absolutely #Resistance but it was also nice to be reminded of places around VA I had visited growing up. Now that we're back in the Commonwealth, I can visit those places again if I so choose (Also, a hearty fuck off to Florida a place I do not miss).
I'm personally heartened by the way some independent news outlets seem to be doing with more people finding them, as well as larger outlets not enthralled by Trump (Thinking specifically Wired here). I hope more people find this very outlet too, as it continues to be clear eyed about what got us into this mess and who isn't going to help us get out.
Silly question but why don’t these guys spend some cash on endowments for great causes ? I know Bezos’s first wife has done amazing things and we have Buffet and Gates but it amazes me why these oligarchs do not see the animosity building toward them.
You stop Medicaid to 75m people and you will see a violent reaction. This hits rural America hard and they have guns. You deport a few hundred thousand Venezuelans and they will make reaction to Bay of Pigs look like a party.
They have enough money to be completely walled off in their own world of silly looking clothes and other weird shit that they think looks cool. They also have private security, likely courtesy of Erik Prince. They have no idea what's going on with the proles, and I really don't think they care.
that photo is kind of gross . . . I am not sure if this will be tagged with the correct photo as it looks out of order here. It was the photo of bezos and his blow up girlfriend
Not out of character for them, though. That photo is representative of how Bezos and “blow up girlfriend” Lauren Sanchez have chosen and continue choosing to present themselves.
𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 - 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘯
Historians and English majors will cite this sentence as the exact point where irony died.
You know, lmao, when I read the note from Bezos the first time, I was like "Yeah that's pretty nuts but ya know standard evil billionaire stuff drafted by unfeeling PR teams".
But now, reading it again, I am actually flabbergasted at how palpable Bezos' own voice is through that note. Like I genuinely believe Bezos sat and Tweeted that out himself. What an insane man
The idea that “free markets” need further boosting in the pages of capitalist, for-profit American newspapers is hilarious. Bezos is really taking a hint from Donny Deals about making the barely subtext into laughably explicit text.
Did Jeff Bezos sustain some sort of traumatic event/injury at some point, or did he possibly overdue the steroids, causing such a change in his personality? His support of the Post in the early years was inspirational. Very sad situation now for us all.
He's never been anything besides a power hungry megalomaniac. You don't become Jeff bezos if you are a decent normal person. All billionaires are bastards
Exactly this.
I think you might be overestimating both the size and the patience of the Post's remaining subscribers. Some might stay, they keep lowering the price until it's less for a year than many Substack subscriptions. However $30 annual subscriptions won't keep Wapo going. We've already seen how Bezos reacts to the paper bringing in less money. Lay-offs upon lay-offs and when that didn't help he brought in Will Lewis and Matt Murray along with the attempt to bring in Robert Winnet. I feel like that was the definitive beginning of the end of the paper's integrity. Bezos could easily fund a dynamic and wholly independent Washington Post, a fully staffed one even, painlessly. He'd rather put wretched people in charge and cause his staff to live in either fear or shame or both.
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I for one am excited to read jeff's own contribution to the op ed pages, "this is the ideal make body"
We let our Post subscription lapse this year. Part of signing up originally was absolutely #Resistance but it was also nice to be reminded of places around VA I had visited growing up. Now that we're back in the Commonwealth, I can visit those places again if I so choose (Also, a hearty fuck off to Florida a place I do not miss).
I'm personally heartened by the way some independent news outlets seem to be doing with more people finding them, as well as larger outlets not enthralled by Trump (Thinking specifically Wired here). I hope more people find this very outlet too, as it continues to be clear eyed about what got us into this mess and who isn't going to help us get out.
Does Jeff have ambitions to be el presidenta one day ?
So Bezos is juicing.
… oops, not Bezos.
Silly question but why don’t these guys spend some cash on endowments for great causes ? I know Bezos’s first wife has done amazing things and we have Buffet and Gates but it amazes me why these oligarchs do not see the animosity building toward them.
You stop Medicaid to 75m people and you will see a violent reaction. This hits rural America hard and they have guns. You deport a few hundred thousand Venezuelans and they will make reaction to Bay of Pigs look like a party.
They have enough money to be completely walled off in their own world of silly looking clothes and other weird shit that they think looks cool. They also have private security, likely courtesy of Erik Prince. They have no idea what's going on with the proles, and I really don't think they care.
Sounds it. Even Roman rulers lived in fear of the mob.
that photo is kind of gross . . . I am not sure if this will be tagged with the correct photo as it looks out of order here. It was the photo of bezos and his blow up girlfriend
i used this photo because it shows bezos and his girlfriend at a F1 race, the sport probably most associated with billionaire oligarchs
I thought for sure that was some WWE has-been. Had to look her up.
Not out of character for them, though. That photo is representative of how Bezos and “blow up girlfriend” Lauren Sanchez have chosen and continue choosing to present themselves.