The Washington Post’s opinion editor, David Shipley, is exiting as the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, steers the section in a libertarian direction.
In an email to The Post’s employees on Wednesday, Mr. Bezos said that Mr. Shipley was stepping down amid a narrowing of the opinion section’s focus to defend “personal liberties and free markets.”
“I am of America and for America, and proud to be so,” Mr. Bezos said. “Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical; it drives creativity, invention and prosperity.”
In his note, Mr. Bezos said that he asked Mr. Shipley whether he wanted to stay at The Post, and Mr. Shipley declined.
Minimizes coercion?
From the guy who coerces his employees to piss in bottles to be able to make insane delivery speeds?
From the guy who has a 20 year history of employees crying at their desks from being coerced into overwork?
If this wasn’t such a slap in the fucking face it might be funny.
This is the only correct response. Unfortunately, my yearly subscription renewed just before he flew his fascist flag last year.
I debated cancelling before and just waited since my sub also renewed just before. I pushed the button today, though. Fuck Bezos.
Now that the fascist won, the billionaires can go mask off safely. Huzzah huzzah.
Thanks 49.whatever% of America.
Thanks 49.whatever% of America.
49% of Americans who chose and were not denied the ability to vote.
Thanks 49.whatever% of America.
*22.7%. Of 340 million people only 156 million chose to vote, and of those only 49%ish voted for the Nazi’s.
No. Nobody who saw everything that Trump had done previously, and what he said he would do if elected again gets to hide behind an “I didn’t explicitly vote for him” excuse. Trump is going to cause untold suffering across the globe and your own country. And I don’t care if voting was hard.
While that is true, if we’re going to go into that, I’m putting those who chose to sit back and allow fascism over doing the least possible thing to prevent it in with the rest of the fascists, which would make the number much worse than 49.whatever%.
If you were prevented from voting, it’s one thing. If you said “What’s the point?” and opted to turn on your favorite sitcom over taking 30 minutes out of your day, you’re not much better than the chuds casting a vote for fascism.
I mean… This paper is done right? Is anyone still reading this?
I haven’t read it since he bought it because obviously this would happen.
Imagine being able to read and reading this paper… Wild 🤷
Bezos wouldn’t know freedom or liberty if it came up and slapped him in the face
I don’t know. Billions of dollars can buy a lot of fucking freedom and liberty. But only for him.
