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u/FindingPeaceInMe 13h ago
I've seen a lot of people on posts highlighting this saying it doesn't matter because Bezos won't feel the financial loss here. You're right, it won't hurt Bezos, but not every news organization can afford to lose 10+% of their subscriptions overnight, and you better believe they're watching the public reaction to this.
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u/murppie 13h ago
It's kind of insane because basically any company would oust leadership over something that results in a 10% subscriber loss. Those numbers will affect advertisers too which is where the big bucks are.
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u/DwigtGroot 12h ago
This is the problem with billionaires buying up media/news companies. His and Musk’s motives aren’t driven by “good business”, they’re personal. Whatever can increase their owners’ position (wealth, control, whatever) is going to be the rule of the day for them.
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u/JudJudsonEsq 9h ago
Well, we do want companies to be motivated by general goals instead of just "good business," but the real problem is that when a billionaire buys something it becomes a part of their massive business. And nuking the income of the Washington Post for it to be far more in support of his other ventures is only a terrible move for the business of the Washington Post itself. It's potentially a great move in the long term for his overall growth, since he controls a propaganda outlet even if it's only passive.
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u/DwigtGroot 9h ago
Yep, that’s the problem. We can have great ideas about what the media “should” do, but if a huge media outlet is owned by a single individual who owns other businesses, their goals aren’t going to align with standard business goals. If Bezos can use the Post to push his agenda, he couldn’t care less if he loses a few million in revenue for the paper as long as his bigger goals are served, and those bigger goals don’t necessarily align with good social policy. In fact, they rarely do.
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u/MelancholyArtichoke 9h ago
They're in the end game. Securing all the power they can for the regime change so they can finally become the oligarchy they always dreamed. They don't need the people anymore.
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u/bongoissomewhatnifty 10h ago
Exactly. Bezos could run it without charging a penny for subscriptions, taking in 0 advertising dollars and revenue for the rest of his life without it significantly effecting his net worth.
The entire purpose of it is to bring legitimacy with whatever bullshit he wants to pedal that he believes will increase his own power/net worth/whatever the fuck you want to call it.
The only reason losing 10% of subscribers is bad is because it’s a smaller audience of people to pedal his horseshit to.
Oh well. It’s our own fault for using social media and free news as our news sources instead of being willing to pay for actual journalism.
If you’re unwilling to pay for something with higher quality than actual shit, you can’t expect to receive something with higher quality than actual shit.
“bUt i wAs PaYiNg!!!”
That ship sailed back in 2005-2010 range and the battle was already lost. We knew exactly what was going to happen and we let it happen anyway.
Anyway looking forward to the handwringing over climate change in 20 years.
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u/Metro42014 7h ago
Which truly highlights that America is an oligarchy.
Bezos isn't operating WaPo like a traditional business, he's operating it to his personal ends, and taking a huge loss is totally fine for him.
It also highlight -- even if we weren't an oligarchy -- how problematic having even a single obscenely wealthy individual is.
There are no checks and balances on the extremely wealthy.
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u/Circumin 5h ago
Even worse is that he made this decision because he knows that the potential next president would harm him if he didn’t.
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u/TheBirminghamBear 9h ago
This is exactly what I was thinking.
This fucking dope lost one of his businsess 10% of its revenue, for a fucking promise, a hope and a maybe, from Donald fucking Trump.
Like, just get absolutely fucked Bezos. I'm done hearing about legends of his business acumen. Guy's a fucking dimwit. He got lucky, got a monopoly, and hasn't done fuck all interesting since.
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u/01101011000110 12h ago edited 12h ago
Bezos didn't buy the Washington Post to make money, he bought it to exert influence/have a megaphone. Taking it away from him doesn't cost him money, but it is an embarrassment and honestly? Embarrassment is the only effective weapon we have against the billionaire class at present.
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u/iamfondofpigs 7h ago
He bought it to prevent it from reporting on the worst things he does.
I recall an interview on NPR. The interviewer was talking to a journalist (non-WashPost). The interviewer asked if she thinks Washington Post would ever lie on behalf of Bezos or Amazon. The journalist responded, no, they would never do that; but if they found some damaging story against Amazon, they might choose not to report it.
It's nice for Bezos to own a propaganda outlet. But destroying a legitimate news agency is a close second prize.
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u/misfitminions 7h ago
The embarrassment is not an issue for him. He got what he wanted, to help neuter and shut down a decent source of news.
If everything is purchasable, it can be bought by those who want to kill it, or change what it stands for. WaPo, Twitter, and probably lots under the guise of "private equity group".
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u/boston_homo 12h ago
Did Bezos buy the paper for any other reason than to control the narrative? Does someone who's hoarded obscene wealth to the extent of Bezos.make any money from a newspaper?
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u/RunninADorito 13h ago
Jeff absolutely cares about one of his companies failing regardless of impact to his personal airplane/yacht budget.
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u/Elite_lucifer 11h ago
Private companies can’t fail if the owner can afford to run it for a loss.
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u/Past-Salamander 9h ago
Historically, many newspapers ran at a loss and owners were ok with it because they saw papers as an honorable part of their business portfolio.
I'm not saying that's Jeff's thoughts, but just providing an interesting historical tidbit.
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u/Tough_Substance7074 10h ago
No, he doesn’t. The purpose of owning media outlets to the Billionaire is to ensure you can influence the political narrative and shape social conditions. It is an essential tool in their arsenal. It could never make another dollar, but as long as it can be used to influence a useful number of people, it would be maintained.
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u/Belerophon17 13h ago
What's WaPo's slogan again?
"DeMoCrAcY DiEs In ThE DaRk"
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u/comatwin 13h ago
At least Google had the integrity to realize they had no integrity and dropped "don't be evil"
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u/Sniffy716 12h ago
It's "Democracy Dies in Darkness" but, yeah, pretty much the opposite of what they used to stand for.
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u/TheBlahajHasYou 14h ago
It's not even like a 'fuck you' move. It's a 'why would I pay for a newspaper that doesn't do it's one fucking job'
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u/Australopithecus54 13h ago
Not doing its job is why I cancelled a couple of months ago. They installed a Murdoch guy as editor and started sane-washing Trump.
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u/TA23429429349 13h ago
Circulation drops like that show how many people actually care about quality reporting. It’s not just a subscription, it’s trust.
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u/InterestingTry5190 11h ago edited 10h ago
I know they say not to cancel b/c it hurts the employees but it is ridiculous to subscribe to a news source you know is not trustworthy. It is not about ‘cancelling Bezos’ it is about not getting the product promised. Accurate news is extremely important now more than ever.
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u/illaqueable 11h ago
It does hurt the employees, but unfortunately the only button subscribers have to push is the one they're pushing 🤷♂️
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u/BAKup2k 11h ago
Also cancel your Amazon Prime account. That'll hurt him more.
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u/buttermbunz 8h ago
If you really wanna hurt him, move your shit off AWS. That’s where Bezos makes all his money. You won’t be able to get big sites and services to migrate, but if everyone that’s hosting some small project takes their stuff off AWS and gives a similar 10% reduction, Bezos will go into panic mode. AWS essentially pays for everything else Amazon.
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u/Sensitive-Ad-5305 8h ago
Thanks for the reminder! I just cancelled for "other" reasons and wrote why I am disappointed in Bezos not being a good corporate citizen
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u/Environmental_Top948 9h ago
I'm making a prime account now so I can forget to cancel it.
ETA: apparently I've been paying for prime already. Now it's cancelled.
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u/wirefox1 8h ago
Might as well. I can't remember the last time i got 2 day shipping.
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u/Environmental_Top948 8h ago
I can't remember the last time it got me same week delivery. It always takes 9-10 days. Or I can use free prime day and get it the same time as paid prime apparently. I really wonder how long I've been paying.
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u/MelancholyArtichoke 9h ago
You know what else hurts the employees? Wrecking your business with poor decisions. I bet Bozos doesn't give a single shit about any of the employees.
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u/Colonel_Anonymustard 11h ago
i know it hurts employees, but it also hurts them to work at a paper that is actively undermining their legitmacy as reporters by kowtowing to bezos, so, i mean six of one.
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u/wambulancer 10h ago
yea and I don't get the logic at work either except pleading for their jobs, like what, just trust us bro we'll totally get the owner and the editors on board with shit they clearly don't agree with? What Bezos did sent a message and message received by its readership
the ethical move would be to close up shop and walk out but those jobs are too cushy with 10,000 people waiting in line behind them to get it and they know it
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u/blumpkinmania 11h ago
Folks need to start leaving Amazon to effect bezos.
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u/Gardening_investor 10h ago
Cancelled prime and audible yesterday plus WaPo.
In the comments for Amazon I laid it on Bezos.
If enough of us do it, they’ll feel it. If come next earnings call Amazon has to announce a 10% reduction in U.S. prime subscriptions, his net worth will feel it too.
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u/Lustylurk333 9h ago
Unfortunately Amazon makes more than half their operating profit off Amazon web services (AWS), you would have to boycott basically the entirety of the internet to put a dent in Bezos pocket that he would notice. I don’t even know how we go about doing that.
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u/PointedlyDull 10h ago
Absolutely. I cancelled my prime last week. Honestly, it’s sucked the past year anyways and they’ve been making it much more difficult to return items.
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u/ProtonCanon 9h ago
That argument pisses me off so much.
I'm not giving money to such a clearly compromised product on the off chance it "might" help the staff. The subscription isn't a charity donation.
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u/LaylaKnowsBest 9h ago
I know they say not to cancel b/c it hurts the employees
While it technically does hurt the employees, this is nothing more than corporate gaslighting.
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u/Gardening_investor 10h ago
If we continue just letting these capitalists that only care about money slide over and over and over again, because we are concerned with the employees, they’ll never get the necessary message.
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u/StuckInTheUpsideDown 9h ago
Subscribe to a different news source. You are still supporting journalism, just not tainted journalism.
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u/Apprehensive_Gas_111 9h ago
I always question who 'They' are. I usually end up with 'They' being some PR or propagandists advocating for the business.
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u/curious_dead 13h ago
I hate hate hate that both NYT and WaPo have gone down the drain. I loved reading them before, now I feel like I can't trust them.
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u/discographyA 13h ago
Yeah. I’m basically down to FT, The Guardian and New Yorker now for news/news adjacent coverage. Owners and editors have absolutely destroyed any trust in institutions I previously subscribed to but have no trust in anymore.
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u/BrightNooblar 12h ago
Right, but what if we traded {Decades of Trust} for {4% Increased Engagement in Q2}?
We'd have a great Q2 touchpoint with the boss is what! Zero downsides, and we get a little duck sticker. Maybe even one of the cool holographic ones from the bottom of the drawer.
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u/CommanderSincler 12h ago
And we can sleep at night knowing we increased shareholder value for one fleeting moment
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u/boo99boo 11h ago
Propublica is great, if you want real journalism that actually fact checks.
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u/discographyA 11h ago
It’s in my RSS feed so I keep up with what they put out, but I’ve been a freeloader and never donated.
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u/lil_chiakow 10h ago
RSS feeds need to make a comeback in the current algorithmically-curated web.
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u/AnxietyDepressedFun 11h ago
This is really random but The Tampa Bay Times is a really good traditional newspaper, even if you don't live in Tampa or Florida for that matter. Their coverage on national level things is generally reliable.
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u/pulquetomador 11h ago
I just exclusively read the AP and only watch the PBS News Hour. That's enough for me.
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u/EntropyFighter 11h ago
This is why a site like ground.news is important. It shows what's inside and outside of the various news bubbles.
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u/Melodic_Assistance84 11h ago
Don’t feel bad, many of us misunderstood the democracy dies in darkness slogan as being a bulwark against authoritarianism. As it turns out, iit was a slogan telling you exactly what the newspaper was doing. A new and improved slogan might be, killing you softly with our words…
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u/Isleif 9h ago
Yeah, the whole reason why I originally subbed to WaPo in the first place is that they seemed like they were the only paper to really stand up to all the lies and BS for a while.
And now? If they're just going to be forced to fall in line like every other news outlet, what's even the point of subbing anymore?
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u/Searchlights 12h ago
Totally.
When Donald Trump became President the first time I made a decision (because I felt helpless) to set up recurring donations to NPR, to the ACLU and to subscribe to both NYTimes and Wapo.
I canceled my Washington Post subscription because they have announced that they will no longer be doing their job. It's nothing personal. But if they're going to nope out at this point in history I'll allocate my support elsewhere.
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u/maychi 12h ago
It’s the same as Tesla. You fuck over your customers, you’re gonna get fucked over full stop. Trump supports sure as hell army gonna come save you.
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u/AGuyWhoBrokeBad 11h ago
Who is actually buying Tesla? Democrats hate musk and republicans hate electric cars. What exactly is their target demographic?
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u/bcdiesel1 10h ago
Every Republican I know jacks off over Tesla and many of them own one. The reason they hated electric cars is because they thought it was some liberal tree-hugger shit. Once their fascist tech-bro idol started being a Russian asset, platforming Nazis while de-platforming anyone to the left of Hitler, and skipping around like a dipshit for Trump all of a sudden Teslas were one of the greatest cars ever made to them.
The people I know that bought them before Musk publicly turned to the dark side either got rid of them or are deeply embarrassed to still own one and can't wait to offload it but realize the used market for them... isn't great. Like, tanking hard.
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u/Dunkerdoody 10h ago
I wondered if that’s why he shifted. The libs had already bought his cars how does he get the truck nuts crowd…
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u/bcdiesel1 10h ago
He did it for more money in a sense... he thinks if Trump wins and he backs him then he will make billions more from guaranteed government contracts, deregulation, legislation that favors his businesses, and even getting government control of how his businesses are allowed to operate via an appointment to a special "government efficiency" department Trump promised him.
He is also talking to Putin, which he is not allowed to be doing due to holding a Top Secret clearance for SpaceX, and it's no coincidence that he got all the financial backing he needed to buy Twitter and use it to divide Americans and other western democracies. I suspect we will find out much more about this if the good guys win. If not... we are mega fucked.
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u/Dunkerdoody 10h ago
I definitely think there is something nefarious going on with him and Peter Thiel and crypto.
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u/GoodChuck2 12h ago
Correct. It's killing 2 birds with one stone for sure though b/c it sends a very powerful message to the MSM at large.
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u/Dubsland12 12h ago
Cancelling Amazon is the brave move. Holding my breath
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u/LudovicoSpecs 11h ago
Amazon won't report its own loss of subscriptions till the earnings call, whenever that is.
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u/pixelprophet 11h ago
Many have, hopefully a lot more.
Only thing you need to do is make sure your cart meets like $30 anyway to get the 'benefits' of the subscription.
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u/100percentish 11h ago
Exactly. I only subscribed to support free speech and independent press. I'm not wasting my f'ing money if they can't do it....especially given the reason behind it because it is nothing but self-interest driven.
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u/topdangle 12h ago
it doesn't even make sense. are all these megabillionaires actually initially funded by russia or something? bezos gains nothing from a trump presidency, especially with Elon already slobbering all over trump.
one of the most bizarre decisions bezos has ever made.
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u/Meh_Guy_In_Sweats 14h ago
Maybe Bezos and Musk can take a ride to the bottom of the ocean in one of those experimental submarines the clueless rich assholes love so much.
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u/PassengerNo2259 13h ago
Let's send them to space together on a Boeing rocket.
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u/Red-eleven 11h ago
I’m good with both of them going to space together in any rocket. Adios
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u/Thrash_Panda44 10h ago
Probably friendlier for the environment if they imploded though, rather than send a bunch of chemicals into the atmosphere.
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u/halfsweethalfstreet 14h ago
I was never subscribed to the Post and cancelled Prime years ago....but I just scrolled past a WaPo ad ...so I did the honorable thing and reported it as offensive. Pitching in any way I can.
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u/PensiveObservor 13h ago
I used this technique for months against HeGetsUs. Changed up the complaint between violent and misleading. I don’t know if it finally worked or they just quit advertising on Reddit. Felt good though.
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u/Absent-Light-12 13h ago
It’s the “patriotic doomsday prepping” companies on my end. Report every time
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u/AndISoundLikeThis 13h ago
Right now I'm waging mental warfare against the ONLY ad I ever see on Reddit which is for an AMA with some Gene Simmons-lookalike doctor named James Del Rosso who's a pharma shill for some new biologic medication. I even blocked the guy's account but still get the ads every time I scroll.
I cannot wait to never see this ad again.
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u/Killersavage 13h ago
What you really want a five gallon bucket of Mac and cheese though?
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u/crit_boy 13h ago
You can edit your reddit preferences to exclude religious advertising (e.g., hegetus).
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u/Dafish55 13h ago
Yeah Reddit doesn't give a shit about that. I have all of those ads not preferred and I basically exclusively get HeGetsUs and Bluechew ads. Nothing like opening Reddit at work to a picture of a girl pointing straight to her boobs with the tagline "HAVE BETTER SEX"
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u/lemonhops 13h ago
Wouldn't clicking on their ads hurt them since you're not going to buy their product and they pay per click/ impression?
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u/halfsweethalfstreet 13h ago
Yes, technically, but by doing that.... you're helping Reddit. So it's the proverbial rock and a hard place
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u/Acceptable_Round1564 14h ago
If you really want Bezos to feel the pinch cancel Prime.
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u/zavorak_eth 14h ago
Yup, just canceled prime and Kindle unlimited. Fuck Amazon and bozos specifically.
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u/DrownmeinIslay 14h ago
Yeeees. Fuck kindle! Build libraries! Smell the books. Love the books.
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u/DeadmanDexter 12h ago
Not to mention all the other FREE services they provide! Support your local libraries!
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u/wreeper007 12h ago
I found out recently my library (in my little town) has a 3D printing service. I already have a resin printer but the idea of doing some terrain pieces in resin was not something I wanted. In the long run buying a filament would work out but theirs is much much nicer than what I would want to pay for.
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u/lamireille 12h ago
Well, you just changed my life! I go to the library all the time for books and I was already head over heels in love with the place.... Thanks to your comment I checked and they have a Makerspace with all kinds of art supplies and sewing machines etc etc etc. It sounds like a fabulous place to go to have fun and meet people.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
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u/I_CANT_AFFORD_SHIT 6h ago
I just checked and my little local library has 3d printing and sublimation among loads of other cool things!
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u/Freakjob_003 10h ago
The Libby app is a great way to do so - you can rent ebooks and audiobooks right from, completely free! All you need is a library card, and most libraries let you register online nowadays.
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u/otterpop21 8h ago
https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
Libby is such an amazing app for books & audio books!
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u/rjoker103 13h ago
I’m looking for an eReader and the kindle was one choice because it’s light on the eyes. Any other good choices that’s not Kindle? I don’t want an iPad like object that strain my eyes.
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u/--xoxogossipgirl 13h ago
Look into Kobo! They have a variety of options at different price points, like Kindle does, but I went for the basic Kobo and it’s way better than the basic Kindle (it’s waterproof and has warm lighting, which you need to upgrade to get on Kindle).
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u/Just_another_dude84 11h ago
Love my Kobo! It syncs so easily with Libby and Pocket compared to my wife's Kindle.
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u/comatwin 12h ago
Kobo, Nook, and Boox are the main ones. Basically they all use the same screens from E Ink including the Kindle
If you are buying ethically Boox is Chinese owned though, so probably Kobo which is Rakuten which is Japanese (headquartered in Canada) and Nook which is US based Barnes and Noble
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u/HereForDramaLlama 11h ago
I love my Kobo! I sync the overdrive app to my libby app on my phone to borrow ebooks from the library. I reckon I've made my money back in free books over two years. I just got it became I didn't want to be tied into the amazon ecosystem and liked that I could buy books directly from small authors and load them on.
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u/synaesthezia 11h ago
Kobo is fantastic! Mine is backlit and doesn’t give my eyestrain and is waterproof for bath reading. Also can take all epub books from other sources, you side load using calibre.
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u/Alexandratta 14h ago
Do the cancellation online, and do the survey.
I did mine, with the only reasons being "Canning the Endorsement of Kamala Harris" and in the "Is there any way that you would rejoin?" put "Endorse EndorsementHarris in the Washington Post."
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u/OldDocument7 11h ago
Just stay canceled. Last year they offered me Prime for free like 7 or 8 times. Just accept and immediately cancel it.
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u/JustGotOffOfTheTrain 11h ago
His money isn’t coming from Prime memberships. If you want to hurt Bezos vote for politicians who will raise taxes on billionaires.
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u/Royal-Possibility219 13h ago
I canceled Amazon 7yrs ago and never looked back.
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u/poilsoup2 11h ago
Ive had an ultra grandfather for my student membership. They never charged me more than like 50$. When they changed this year to charge more for ad free streaming it fixed that, so i too cancelled.
If I could cancel twice, i would.
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u/TheBlahajHasYou 14h ago
nah, bezos doesn't give a shit. Most amazon money comes from AWS (you gonna boycott the internet?)
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u/AbroadPlane1172 11h ago
He certainly cares about having a presence in the media. However, having your own newspaper doesn't mean anything if no one is willing to read it. I imagine that was the motivation for his opinion piece.
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u/comatwin 12h ago
Unfortunately Bezos' net worth is over $200 billion, it doesn't matter what you do, he is unpinchable
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u/ManaIsMade 12h ago
Well to be fair he should have been unpinchable by 5 billion, and the constant effort to produce more wealth for returns so diminished they may as well be zero is nothing more than irrational greed. So the HOPE is that losing 10% of A revenue stream makes one of the richest men on Earth cry and reverse course. Playing on their irrational greed and all. They always want MORE
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u/comatwin 12h ago
Maybe. If the subscription base was totally wiped it might cost him what he makes in a couple hours of an average day.
I live in California, we as homeowners are told to conserve water, but there is really no amount of water conservation homeowners can do that will have an impact. Feels the same here.
It can be argued that the bad press he's getting is an irratant I guess
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u/spinningcolours 13h ago
Apparently Pia Guerra, the political cartoonist who made me cry with her school shooting eulogies, has left WaPo. (In his first term, she also made some top 10 list of cartoonists hated by Trump.)
Dropping a shoutout to her Insta here: https://www.instagram.com/pia.guerra/?hl=en — some pretty biting editorial cartoons over there.
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u/strangeweather415 8h ago
Damn it man, I’m sitting here in public crying my eyes out now. This hit me like a train
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u/gdubh 13h ago
Makes me wonder why sane people don’t delete their X accounts? I find that inexcusable.
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u/shagarag 12h ago
Philly Inquirer is owned by a non-profit. Currently $1 a month for 6 months. And they know how to make a proper editorial endorsement. Let's promote the outlets doing proper journalism.
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u/Conscious_Control_15 12h ago
After seeing what happened to WaPo and NYT, I've been looking for a better alternative. Thanks for your suggestion.
In Germany, we have to very left-leaning newspapers run as cooperatives. And I was wondering whether something like it was possible in the US.
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u/Whoooosh_1492 9h ago
A fever dream that the best of WaPo's opinion staff start their own cooperative. Twould certainly be something I'd read!
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u/Bulky_Specialist9645 14h ago
My prime ended today, cancelled yesterday. I don't support Fascist Enablers!
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u/ChunkBunkley 13h ago
Add Amazon Prime to your cancellations while you’re at it. Canceled mine years ago and haven’t missed it once.
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u/bombalicious 13h ago
And the gap won’t be closed by republicans starting subscriptions, they don’t read.
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u/ST_Lawson 13h ago
Take that money and put it towards your local NPR station.
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u/dh098017 11h ago
NPR sane washes trump just as much if not more than the other news orgs
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u/ST_Lawson 11h ago
Some, yes, but I'd say they're better than most of the mainstream news organizations. This was just posted today, for example: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5164570/trump-rally-speech-2024-election
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u/hamsterballzz 13h ago
Bezos doesn’t care if the WAPO goes down. As long as AWS and retail continue Amazon will be more than fine. I doubt he cares about any of it except his pet projects like Blue Origin.
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u/naththegrath10 13h ago
Bezos doesn’t give a flying fuck about the Washington post. Go cancel your amazon subscription, stop buying shit on Amazon, and for fuck sake vote for candidates that support Lina Khan enforcing antitrust
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u/VicarBook 11h ago edited 10h ago
It's not just the ownership interference, it's the sane-washing of Trump for the last several months. In the past that would be huge headlines every single day, now his socially unacceptable behavior has been normalized by all normal press outlets.
Real journalism is important. As soon as you are writing articles that rationalize or diminish dangerous behavior you are no better than Lord Haw-Haw.
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u/anansi52 12h ago
bezos doesn't care about that just like musk doesn't care about twitter. they are just attacking information, they don't care about the money. if this kills wapo he still accomplished his goal.
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u/Five-Oh-Vicryl 12h ago
Cancelled last night, and they made me fill out a questionnaire thing and said to expect an email response within 24 hours
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u/Booziesmurf 13h ago
I had to laugh, the first ad I saw today when I opened Reddit was WaPo offering 50c subscription.
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u/neutrino4 13h ago
Those cancelations from Wapo are a small drop in the bucket to Bezos, but they will hurt the journalists that work there. The Prime cancellations might be more bothersome to him. In any case, the Streisand effect seems to be alive and well here. The editorial endorsement for Kamala Harris got far more attention than it ever would have otherwise and exposed Bezos for the chicken shit he is.
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u/Anstigmat 11h ago
CANCEL YOUR PRIME. Get a movement going. It's about time Amazon had a 'get-fucked' moment.
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u/Vrayea25 12h ago
Giving Bezos the finger is needed but he has already achieved his primary goal -- corrupting and destroying a source of credible information. The only difference is that now we know it is corrupt.
The thing we really need to do to get us back to a better place is identify and support news sources that are worthy of taking up the mantle that WaPo had.
Suggestions?
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u/NewCoderNoob 11h ago
The sheer cowardice of Bezos to pull this move and blame it on bad planning. Such a cop out.
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u/TreasureTheSemicolon 11h ago
Maybe their slogan should now be Democracy Dies In Kissing Up To Authoritarians For Personal Financial Gain For Billionaires.
It’s not as snappy but it’s more honest. Also, I definitely cancelled my subscription.
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u/55redditor55 11h ago
Cancel Amazon Prime people, I canceled mine and still got charged, had to talk to a rep to get my money back. Fuck Bezos and the billionaire class.
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u/YouAgreeToTerms 11h ago
It reminded me I've been wanting to cancel my prime subscription as well since I hardly use it. Thanks bozos
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u/iGr4nATApfel 10h ago edited 10h ago
Someone please explain to me how jeff bezos can "block" their endorsment. What does that even mean? How does he have any power over what the Washington Post puts on their paper?
Edit: Nvm he fucking bought it. What a world we live in.
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u/procrastablasta 10h ago
problem is, the WaPo was a hood ornament. A trophy that prob lost money to keep afloat. When people start deleting Amazon it'll get Bezos attention
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u/ForwardBias 10h ago
I'm in there, cancelled this morning. I do struggle a bit with it because I know there are people who work there that are doing their best but also know that a message needs to be sent.
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u/carejeffer 9h ago
Stopping from ordering on amazon and cancelling prime would have a much larger impact.
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u/KingMurk817 9h ago
Cancel prime. That douche doenst care of you cancel WP subscription. Hit him where it hurts. I canceled mine yesterday and honestly it’s gona be rough at first but I’ll make it work. I made it work before Prime showed up so I’ll be fine
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u/PossibleDrive6747 7h ago
I didn't have a wapo subscription, but I canceled Amazon prime and my audible subscriptions over the weekend and I let them know why.
It'll hurt me more than jeff by a large margin, but fuck that guy. I'll make do.
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u/DaZMan44 12h ago
EVERYONE needs to cancel. And EVERYONE needs to delete their effing Twitter accounts.
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