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[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 82 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Jeff Bezos killed

bloomer

—Washington Post endorsement...

sicko-wistful

[–] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 81 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

lol I remember libs saying Bezos had no influence over what WP publishes

so he was okay with endorsing Hillary and Biden but not Kamala? hmmm

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago

that's how you know kamala is actually a far left woke communist

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 50 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Similar happenings at the Los Angeles Times, as the article mentions:

The announcement came days after Mariel Garza, the head of The Los Angeles Times’s editorial board, resigned in protest after that paper’s owner Patrick Soon-Shiong decided against running a presidential endorsement.

Soon-Shiong is a pharmaceuticals billionaire.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Patrick Soon-Shiong is a South African and American businessman

Sir, another South African has struck the journalism industry.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Democracy die in darkness indeed

[–] miz@hexbear.net 40 points 2 weeks ago

we didn't know their slogan was about skin color, but it tracks

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My paranoia says that this is a deliberate "leak" to show Kamala is the enemy of the barons, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so this is actually intended to mobilize voters for Kamala

[–] iie@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Victor Manuel Rocha, a US diplomat who spied for Cuba, pulled a similar maneuver

Rocha's off-the-cuff remark weeks before the 2002 Bolivian general election threatening to cut American aid to Bolivia over Evo Morales's support for the coca-growers movement has been credited with boosting Morales's Movement for Socialism party in the 2002 Bolivian general election — after that, Morales called Rocha his best "campaign manager"

Shoutout to Manuel Rocha

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's intra-office feuding.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

Democracy dies on Bezos’ yacht.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

B-b-but my freedom of the press liberty-weeping

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

She's only giving a 2 billion tax cut to the rich to Trump's 3 billion.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

I look forward to all the libs boycotting amazon. It should be very impressive.

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago

Feel this has to be because Bezos thinks Trump has a decent shot at winning and doesn't want to be in his bad side.

[–] Piment@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think it's funny to imagine a real person who would have been swayed by a WaPo endorsement. the-democrat the-republican

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

For me what makes it funny is that if you are the type of dweeb that makes it to the wapo ed board presidential endorsements are probably the most important thing you can do in your mind, so bezos killing it is just chefs-kiss

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

Lol. Lmao, even.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

The boug are getting cold feet

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

if it weren't for the absolutely zealous support of genocide I'd almost be tempted to voot bloo just on the off chance some of this antitrust shit goes through

Except I don't live in a swing state so my vote means precisely diddly

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Jeff Bezos, welcome to the resistance

[–] ProjectCyberSin@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

Jeff Bezos confirmed PSL supporter

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago