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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Seize his assets, and if he complains beat him up until he ends up in a wheelchair.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago

long as he doesnt force a trump endorsement in its place, it could be an arguement for impartiality

[–] [email protected] 384 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Wow, a hugely wealthy oligarchical capitalist facilitating the rise of fascism?

How completely unpredictable, with no historical precedent whatsoever!

Who could have possibly expected this?!

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Certainly not Prescott Bush!

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Man... that's one of the things that seems like a conspiracy theory to a great many people, but just actually is true.

Dude literally got caught doing massive amounts of money laundering for literal Nazis during WW2 and by all rights should have been convicted of treason.

Its like how most people don't know that IBM machines enabled the Germans to tabulate and keep track of the holocaust, that their machines spit out the UIDs that were tattooed onto the victims at the death camps....

... I think that 'War is a Racket' by Smedley Butler really needs to be added to the basic K-12 curriculum alongside 1984 and Brave New World...

But oh oops, the Republicans already destroyed our education systems, nevermind.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (9 children)

How much money do these fuckers need before they are content enough to not rat fuck American democracy so they can eek out a few percent more on their billions?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

... The answer is infinity.

Capitalism requires constant growth, constant extraction, constant return in investment, constant tendency toward monopolies and wealth disparity until you end up with a neo feudalistic caste society.

You can either attempt to restrain and regulate the system, which we are currently doing a rather poor job of, overthrow the system, which is nigh impossible given the precarity of the average prole, or you can just watch as we head closer and closer to... some kind of hybrid of the handmaids tale and elysium.

... Or, maybe, escape to a slightly less insane foreign country, but you're gonna need a lot of money or a very lucrative skill set as an employee to do that as anything other than an illegal immigrant.

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[–] [email protected] 198 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Has this f*ing idiot never heard of the Streisand Effect? The fact that they broke a decades long tradition to do this makes a louder thump than their endorsement would have.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

He's not a calebrity reliant on publuc opinion. He doesn't give a shit.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

Louder to people who know who they're voting for already

Quieter to people on the fence

[–] [email protected] 163 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

The Washington Post: "Democracy Dies in Darkness"

Bozos:

Turn the Light off, turn the light off.

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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I know this isn’t intentional, but the broken image makes the comment 10x funnier.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No shooting, but does this work? Homer gets a light bulb to the head

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Also, cancel your prime subscriptions you cowards!

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sigh.

Canceled my subscription.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well that subscription is cancelled

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Jeff Bezos killed

Well this should be interesting.

Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

Oh, nevermind.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (9 children)
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