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Bravo, Jeff Bezos!”

That was the congratulatory message Elon Musk posted on X, the platform he bought for $44 billion in 2022 and subsequently turned into a pro-Trump bullhorn. Musk’s “bravo” was in response to Bezos’ shocking announcement that he was taking his media outlet, the Washington Post, in a Trumpian direction as well.

The Post’s opinion section will now advance Bezos’ “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” Anyone not on board with this “significant shift” can take a hike, Bezos seemed to tell Post employees, in a note he also shared on X (2/26/25).

That was Wednesday morning. By evening, Bezos was dining with President Trump.

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[-] credo@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

Don’t forget to cancel prime too.

[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Just did. Fuck that piece of trash bezos. He needs to be reminded who outnumbers the filth like him.

[-] CandleTiger@programming.dev 15 points 3 days ago

Every single day for the past 50 years, my father has gotten up in the morning to go get the Washington Post and read it.

And while other people’s parents and siblings have slowly or quickly gone nutso watching Fox News, my father has not, and I could see he’s reading a real news source with real news in it reporting facts about things that happened. Biased, sure, selective, sure, but for all this time it’s been a paper that cares about reporting true things and describing the actual real world.

All I can say now is… fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

My father is not gonna stop reading that paper.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago

I'm probably your father's age and I have cancelled my subscription.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Ban WaPo from the Fediverse

[-] Limonene@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't suggest a blanket ban, because it may be useful in the future to link their articles to discuss how biased they have become.

If someone links to them as a serious news source, remind them of this declaration of their opposition to truth.

The WaPo was establishment propaganda even before JeffyB bought them, so really all that's happening now is that he's saying the quiet part out loud.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

Nah, it's gone from neoliberal establishment propaganda to fascist propaganda. While both are awful, the latter is MUCH worse.

Expect them to for example change their take on cops from "the only way to stop cops from constantly murdering black people is to throw money at cops" to "actually, cops murdering black people is always justified, so let's give the cops even more money and also all the military hardware they want! (Only) Blue Lives Matter!”

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Can we ban Bezos from living? kthxbai

[-] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Hopefully his space ship blows up next time he wants to go to space.

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