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Oh man the first 3 words got me excited.
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.
Louder to people who know who they're voting for already
Quieter to people on the fence
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The Washington Post: "Democracy Dies in Darkness"
Bozos:
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.
I know this isn’t intentional, but the broken image makes the comment 10x funnier.
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No shooting, but does this work? 
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Sigh.
Canceled my subscription.
Just spoke to my parents. Uninterrupted subscribers since '73.
I called them right after canceling my own subscription and they'd already canceled theirs.
I hope Bezos is happy losing 51-year patrons of his paper.
Look, that's honestly quite sad and very telling of the way things are, but I audibly snorted at the idea of Jeff Bezos noticing his income slightly lower this week, panicking, scrambling to find The Borbendorfs' payment. A single tear wells up, but he wipes it away frantically. Never let them see. Never let them know how it hurts.
Yes, and that's exactly the point, isn't it?
There are some areas of business that are still built on trust and personal relationships and people trying to right by each other so they can each support their families.
But that's not the case in modern politics or tech. It doesn't matter if you have a relationship dating back decades. It's inconsequential to a billionaire who's earning a margin on an all the goods - and increasing share of which are brazenly counterfeit - that he sells globally.
Bezos doesn't care about you, or me, or my aged parents. It's not only that he doesn't care about us, but instead that the billionaire class in general doesn't care about anything besides contingencies to maximize profits and mitigate losses, real-world consequences be damned.
He will never notice any of us. It will not meaningfully affect his paycheck. It is up to each of us, including you, to determine whether to construct meaning in a symbolic act of protest, if an effectual act of protest is no longer an option.
I know. I know. I'm already a converted vegetarian or "bad at it vegan". I'm spending a fortune on an EV car payment. My electricity is from a wind farm. I'm off all the socials. I've been recycling properly for decades and they tell me it was pointless. I'm getting pretty tired of personal responsibility. Can we do the guillotines now? I can't make the first move. I've got kids and a mortgage. Start rounding them up and I can do some small part there too.
Also, cancel your prime subscriptions you cowards!
Anyone who’s still using Amazon and wants to keep democracy is drowning in cognitive dissonance. Amazon is a bigger threat to decent lives for non-millionaires than any single politician, even granting that Trump is a nightmare.
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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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Where are the conspiracy theorists when there is actually something going on? I guess they stand back and stand by...
NGL, I had to reread the headline because my brain got too excited.
Not for nothing but what would even happen if someone like Bezos got caught red-handed killing someone on twitch.
I don't think very much. Free shipping to come in before 10am is just too good to pass up.
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Well that subscription is cancelled
Oh Jeffrey.... that's not how you're aupposed to run a newspaper.
Jeff Bezos killed
Well this should be interesting.
Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports
Oh, nevermind.
I certainly much hope he has to justify that decision to a jury and later a deity
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.
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