I cancelled my subscription to WaPo. Fuck you, Bezos. Your paper is now more a propaganda outlet than a news outlet. I'm sorry to see a once trusted news source become another Fox News.
'Smash his toy': Commentator says Bezos 'capitulated' to fascism and urges WaPo boycott
Several of WaPo's writers have expressed their dismay at Bezos's decision, and I regret leaving them, but Bezos himself needs to know that, even though he's three orders of magnitude richer than any being should be allowed to be, this is not OK.
Twitter died because of Musk. So did Tesla. (Driving a Tesla is now a political statement: "I'm a fascist douche.") WaPo is dying because of Bezos. Undoubtedly hundreds our thousands of similar statements could be made about good things billionaires have destroyed. If we bring in the environment, then we're into the trillions or quadrillions of things destroyed.
Billionaires should not exist. Period. No human can wield that much power wisely. And when you factor in that the power shrinks their brains to those of nematodes, the point carries even more force.
FTA: "I'm getting sick of people saying 'cancelling subscriptions hurts the writers not the owners,'" Mystal wrote on X. "If we're being real ... NOTHING hurts billionaires. Being a billionaire literally buys you out of consequences."
Once again: Billionaires should not exist. There are a couple of ways to ensure that they do not exist. The gentlest is to simply take away their money.
But since they're in charge, they will never let that happen. Less gentle methods might convince them to adopt more gentle methods.
