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And I just killed my subscription to the post fuck them.
I've never agreed with journalistic organizations endorsing candidates. Report on them? Yes. Scathe them if necessary? Yes. Endorse them? No thank you.
There should be a law for owners of media being kept at arm's length.
This is that "liberal news media" that Republicans keep yammering on about.
The one that's owned by six corporations.
As long as you mean 'neo liberal open to fascism' then yeah I guess they're all liberal....
But just think of the juicy government contracts
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.
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, they will help them fuck everyone over if it benefits them 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.
long as he doesnt force a trump endorsement in its place, it could be an arguement for impartiality
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.
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.
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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.
Free press in the USA? LOL, it becomes more and more difficult every time a US oligarch buys a news outlet.
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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.
My first reaction was that it was cowering in fear, since trump keeps threatening newspapers. But after thinking about it, why would Bezos give a fuck if trump threatens the paper? He wants his paper to be a trump propaganda outlet because he wants trump to win. Not because he likes trump but because he wants the fascist movement to win so he can get richer (see Blue Origin govt contracts for one thing). Because having hundreds of billions of dollars is simply not enough, so fuck democracy.
Private ownership of a news outlet breaks every definition of "free" in "free press".
A "free press" no longer exists.
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“The most consequential election in our country, a choice between Fascism and Democracy, and you sit out? Cowards. Unethical, fearful cowards,” wrote one reader.
Haha, yep.
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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?!
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