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.
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Oligarchs dont caee who wins since for them either one is W lol
Normies in shambles to finally figure out that elections are a clown exercise to provide owners puppets legitimacy.
Didnt LA times have a similar situation haha
>"Oligarchs don't care who wins"
>Jeff Bezos provably and directly interfered with an endorsement of Kamala Harris.
You could not have picked a dumber time to comment this, could you have?
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Everyone talking about billionaires and how they endorse, support, finance, fund, hold lotteries to influence an election and everyone still thinks they exist in a democracy.
It's an oligarchy or a plutocracy
Call it whatever you want ... but it certainly isn't a democracy
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
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Loving the 8k+ comments of people cancelling their subscription.
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.
File this under "why billionaires should not exist".
I saw the first three words of this post and was like, "HOLY SHIT! FINALLY!!"
Dude, same. I almost wanted to stop reading there.
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If Idocracy is a documentary, what does that make Elysium? It seems like we are headed that way more and more.
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.
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Why are newspapers endorsing candidates?
It was an opinion piece by one of the editors
Rep. Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California, in his own tweet on the news wrote, “The first step towards fascism is when the free press cowers in fear.”
I don't know if this is the free press cowering, or the free press being bought out by rich people. Either way, it's some bullshit.
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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
The Richest People on EARTH supporting Trump is PROOF that the Middle Class will be BETTER under Trump! Jeff Bezos and Elon Dipshit are KNOWN to Treat their Workers EXTREMELY WELL!