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Mr.WeRP

(1,098 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 02:02 PM Oct 2024

America Is Run By Oligarchs

If you have any doubt, just look at the owners of the WaPo and LATimes.

They have broken tradition since their founding: Presidential Endorsements?

Why? Because their billionaire owners are cowards and do not want to offend Trump. Both papers were set to endorse Kamala. If Trump wins, they expect retribution from Trump when he's President and want to avoid that, or worse, they want Trump to be President and so are withholding their editors' endorsements.

If you need more proof, just look at all the people who have been convicted so far of Jan 6. It's all the peons. Not one person who funded and/or orchestrated the failed coup has been convicted yet, including the head.

We didn't need Jan 6 to know this though. Just ask the uncountable number of people who have been wrongly convicted as part of the Prison Industrial Complex in this country. If you've got wealth, you have a get out of jail free card in your back pocket. These fuckers could shoot someone on 5th Avenue in broad daylight and get away with it.

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America Is Run By Oligarchs (Original Post) Mr.WeRP Oct 2024 OP
Cancel All Things Prime Farmer-Rick Oct 2024 #1
That's what I'm doing. No more Kindle. No more "Subscribe and Save" Coventina Oct 2024 #2
I'm all for that but we will need at least 20 million people to follow to make a dent. Mr.WeRP Oct 2024 #5
I'm doing it because I need to live with myself. Coventina Oct 2024 #6
Greed is disgusting lame54 Oct 2024 #3
They're fools if they think he will not go after them anyway if he gets reinstalled. n/t Liberal In Texas Oct 2024 #4
Ashley Babbitt orangecrush Oct 2024 #7

Coventina

(29,604 posts)
2. That's what I'm doing. No more Kindle. No more "Subscribe and Save"
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 02:14 PM
Oct 2024

It will hurt, a lot, but it must be done!!!!!

 

Mr.WeRP

(1,098 posts)
5. I'm all for that but we will need at least 20 million people to follow to make a dent.
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 03:30 PM
Oct 2024

Amazon has over 200 million subscribers.

It would be better if all the artists took their content off Amazon but that won’t happen either.

Coventina

(29,604 posts)
6. I'm doing it because I need to live with myself.
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 03:32 PM
Oct 2024

I can't knowingly enrich Bezos while he actively suppresses the freedom of the press.

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