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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 69 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The richest men in the world, folks.

Bezos is a roided up freak with private security and he's still too scared to stand up for himself.

All of these men are the biggest fucking pussies alive, bowing down to the biggest pussy of all, Donald Trump.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 22 points 3 days ago

Bezos is a roided up freak with private security and he's still too scared to stand up for himself.

He is probably more scared for his government contracts in case orange cheeto wins, than some maga retard trying to physically attack him.

[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

Billionaires are a scourge of humanity.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ian Bassin, a democracy expert, calls these moves “anticipatory obedience”: fear by owners that if Trump wins he could take vengeance on companies that cross him. They noted that the leadership at CNN and the Post changed after the Trump administration tried to block the takeover of CNN’s parent company and tried to deny a cloud computing contract for Amazon, whose founder, Jeff Bezos, owns the Post.

That is so fucked up

[–] kevindqc@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

"We're of afraid of the fascist, so we will help him get elected"

Ok.

[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Spineless cowards.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

One editor has now resigned:

https://www.semafor.com/article/10/25/2024/editor-resign-subscribers-cancel-as-washington-post-non-endorsement-prompts-crisis-at-bezos-paper

"The first prominent journalist, editor-at-large Robert Kagan, resigned Friday in response to the decision, Semafor first reported. But there may be more: “people are shocked, furious, surprised,” said an editorial board member, citing internal discussions around resignation. “If you don’t have the balls to own a newspaper, don’t.”"

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unsubbed.

Don't need to be giving my dollars to the spineless, or worse, to a fascist-supporting media owner.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

Remember when all of the companies came out against Jan 6th? They said they wouldn't donate to the RNC again if they were like that.......

Then they started donating to the RNC because it's a 2 party system so we might as well place bets on both sides.

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is how politics are run in banana republics. Is US a banana republic?

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 days ago

🌎👩🏼‍🚀🔫👩🏼‍🚀

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They think tRump is gonna win and don't wanna be on his execution list.

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