• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    18 days ago

    Major news papers owned by capitalist daddies are hedging their bets?

    I wonder why they would do such a thing lol

    Also, why ius there an expectation that they would endorse her anyway? Are DNC clowns finding out media belongs to owner?

    DNC can’t even get basics done anymore lol

  • Buttons@programming.dev
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    17 days ago

    The journalists and the culture at the newspaper wanted to endorse Harris, but the billionaire owner swooped in and overrode all of that. This is obvious.

    I realized there’s another layer to how messed up this is though. A newspaper changed it’s journalistic practices to benefit an aerospace company (Blue Origin). Why is a newspaper connected to an aerospace company?

    More and more companies are being owned by fewer and fewer people. The American dream is dead, the free market is a myth at this point.

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      17 days ago

      A primary function of Capitalism is to concentrate wealth. Preferably in as few hands as possible. Regulation is required to keep that from happening, particularly to such extents that cash/speech proxy crosses the threshold beyond which private citizens are no longer bound by State controls.

      We probably blew through that tipping point sometime in 2012-2016, so now the train is off the tracks.

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      17 days ago

      Washington Post won’t be endorsing a candidate (which was without any doubt going to be Kamala) this election because the paper’s new owner (Jeff Bezos) said not to.