Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position [as editor at large at Washington Post] on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump’s meeting with executives of Bezos’ Blue Origin space company the same day th...

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@IAmDannyBoling Mouthpieces of money and power, it appears — with many good people working for them, but the decision-making control lies at the top with people who themselves are rich and powerful and deeply embedded in structures of affiliation to other rich and powerful people.

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@jwd630 Yes, I think this craven (and immoral) decision by Bezos will definitely create a big chill for anyone who may otherwise have turned to the Washington Post to pursue valuable information and stories.

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@DanaDee I agree, and I share your interest in figuring out how I can avoid Amazon — boycott Amazon — insofar as possible now. I don't want Bezos getting a penny from me if I can help it.

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@noyes A proposition to consider.

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@Finitum Yes, disgusting, isn't it?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CompassionNow Thank you for this great reminder of one of the big puppetmasters behind what we've seeing unfold in the US right now.

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@TCatInReality For sure.

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@MGD1616 I agree.

[rogueplayer@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy l

God forbid that Bezos and WaPo had actually endorsed Harris and then, hear me out....sway voters to vote for Harris so she can win the election and he wouldn't have to worry about the tariffs that asshole wants to impose.

I know. Weird concept.

[compassionnow@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy They have this down to a science at this point, unfortunately.

[i_gvf@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy Oh, that makes it completely different.

Sorry Jeffy. All forgiven.

WTAF?!

[dingsextrem@mas.to]

@wdlindsy i don't buy the "intimidated"-part. Bezos is not intimidated. He's just cool with fascism and WANTS to support Trump

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@dalek_fan I'm not sure the word I'd use is "able." Pretending flies in the face of so much we Americans do know about our history, if we choose to know. I think the truth is that many of us know we're not able to pretend but continue to do so anyway.

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@peachfront Yes, thanks for that reminder. The Supremes absolutely did that.

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@Piousunyn Amazon in general is hard to quit. It has insinuated itself everywhere in our culture like a drug on which we become dependent.

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@philip_cardella I agree!

[juliehuz@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy @philip_cardella At least German business leaders waited until Hitler actually came to power...our @$$hat billionaires are kissing the ring before its even on his finger

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@juliehuz @philip_cardella Yes, though I think the strategizing of German business, military, media, and academic elites to help Hitler rise to power began before he rose to power and played a bit role in getting him into office.

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@Dingsextrem That's my take, too.

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@i_gvf You don't mean that Kagan or Lazarus are saying that this explanation exonerates Bezos, do you?