We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
Just dragging this newspaper into the right wing muck at full speed now
I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void.
“Market of ideas” but you’re only allowed to say what I like
what’s “stunning” about the statement?
All I saw was:
- Opinion Editor did not want to continue to be a meat puppet for this propaganda outlet
- Bezos accepted resignation
- Bezos to look for new meat puppet
I assumed the stunning part was this:
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
It’s just pretty blatant.
free markets
This one is especially hilarious in the Trump Tariffs era.
Bezos accepted resignation
Bezos constructed resignation, which is legally termination, not resignation at all.
Wow, you mean he was an enormous sack of shit the whole time??
Buy your axe grinding wheels now before it’s hard to keep them in stock.
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
Mmm. Well, I’ll take a look at their editorials, see where this is going. I don’t have a problem with personal liberties and free markets, but there can be baggage that comes with that.
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Ah yes, the “personal liberty” to just accumulate wealth without limits or taxation because that is a “free market”. Never mind Amazon drives on roads built with federal dollars—they are a job creator and everyone should lick their boots for that.
It’s a good thing I stopped bothering with the Washington Post even before Bezos bought it. In fact pretty much every news organization that is owned by a singular entity is completely worthless nowadays.
I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away.
That is termination, not resignation.
Fucking scumbag.
Maybe it’s time for people to start submitting Opinion pieces detailing how we can use the free market to make companies regret discontinuing their DEI programs or Pride merchandise, or telling how bodily autonomy and control over one’s reproductive equipment is a central pillar of personal liberty.
You’re right, it’s time. Apes together strong.
Your mistake is assuming that these people actually care about “free” “markets”, “personal liberty”, etc.
“Democracy dies in Darkness”
-Washington Post
“Nah, I knifed that bitch in the back in broad daylight.”
-Jeff Bezos
“Democracy dies in darkness”
Honestly, the whole paper should just be entirely blacked out.
Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.
So buying a major newspaper and firing (or putting pressure on) anybody who doesn’t agree with the new owner’s “pillars” is not coercion? Did Bezos get this buff from the mental gymnastics?
Everyone should resign. Or strike. Striking would be better
Bezos can get fucked.
And not in the good way.
I propose a backwards pineapple
I wrote a haiku for this sort of thing!
Anal pineapples
Should be administered
Sideways foreverI’ve got a rusty pitchfork. Will that work?
Zuck’s taking care of that with Jeff’s wife
Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.
this is a very interesting sentence to find in a post that outlines the ways in which the opinion page will be losing some of its editorial freedom.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
In the grimdark future of the 2nd millennium, there is only way.
It’s also gotta be one of the worst sentences I’ve ever read, yikes. Maybe get an editor to look it over.
Yeah two em dashes in a single sentence is too many, and that one’s got three
They did. They just looked at it and said “hell yes” while sweating profusely.
Hey, I like to think that sometimes I might feel the need to write remarkably similar sentences to the kinds that you, u/bearboiblake might have referenced in this particular editorial expression of human nature and sentiment in America, today.
-You know, badly,
