• @grue
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    62 months ago

    Stop giving Bezos the benefit of the doubt. There is no evidence that he’s doing shit in Trump’s favor for any reason other than that he likes fascism and wants to support it.

    • @Eatspancakes84
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      32 months ago

      I actually always believed that Bezos was a Democrat, given his ownership of the Post, which has always had a clear anti-Trump message. I think it’s more plausible that he was scared of retaliation or that the GOP has something on him.

      • @grue
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        32 months ago

        That’s a fair argument. It’s very circumstantial and not enough to convince me, though, especially if the Post was liberal before he bought it and it simply remained so through his inaction (which I believe to be the case – correct me if I’m wrong!). The rebuttal to “he must be liberal: he owns a liberal newspaper” is “yeah, but the first time he intervened in it, it was to force it to be more conservative.”

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      “There is no evidence that Bezos favors Trump. Apart from the fact that Bezos favors what Trump supports.”

      My brother in Christ, do you read what you write?

      • @grue
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        42 months ago

        Do you? Because the first half of your misquote was exactly the opposite of what I actually said.

      • @pyre
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        32 months ago

        you misread their comment