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@mothersmurfer They don't care. They all think UBI is coming and they can go be poets or whatever stupid worthless subject they studied in college.
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WaPo must piss Bezos off to no end, because here he is a guy who really believes that work improves the soul, people are naturally lazy, and they need to be driven - and he ends up saddled with this dumb ass newspaper that just sits there and loses money every single year of its existence.
@cjd @mothersmurfer He bought it for influence. He could kill a story if called on to do so by the kikes.
Sounds like the kind of thing that worked 30 years ago.
A decade ago a big newspaper still meant you had a "voice" and a "seat at the table" of forming "public opinion" (opinion of elderly people).
These days newspapers just get laughed at, you can't even stir up a scandal on someone, the DGAF is so strong that you see media actually just stop trying to scandalize after a couple weeks.
A decade ago a big newspaper still meant you had a "voice" and a "seat at the table" of forming "public opinion" (opinion of elderly people).
These days newspapers just get laughed at, you can't even stir up a scandal on someone, the DGAF is so strong that you see media actually just stop trying to scandalize after a couple weeks.
@fluffy @cjd @mothersmurfer I think people are still influenceable.
True, but now you need Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and probably a dozen other podcasters. And unlike the old days when the media could get on the phone and decide what tomorrow's story will be, these guys can't really do that because if they start talking bullshit, then the second tier and third tier podcasters will start making the story about how they're trying to scam the public, and it all goes sideways.
Now influencing people is more something you do surreptitiously, with jokes and normalizing something without actually saying that it's true.
Now influencing people is more something you do surreptitiously, with jokes and normalizing something without actually saying that it's true.
@cjd @fluffy @mothersmurfer You dance around the truth.
Yeah, or you'd dance around the lie you're trying to tell.
Last year the results of a poll came out about pulling teeth with or without a pain killer. 51 percent of people favored pain killers, 10 percent was against it, and the rest was undecided.
Rosebud!
@DC5FAN @fluffy @cjd @mothersmurfer By this point, society is all power and no control - a bit less predictable than the stock market.
@DC5FAN @cjd @mothersmurfer this. It’s a tax write off and a propaganda outlet. If he really wanted it to be “profitable” hed just “pay” wapo to run ads for prime or better just paywall it behind a prime sub
I don't think he'd get enough subscriptions to break even.
@sapphire @cjd @mothersmurfer So he gets to pay no income tax but has all this clout and prestige. They figure out what makes people tick and tailor the Faustian bargain accordingly. They are devils.
@DC5FAN @cjd @mothersmurfer same reason Disney bought ESPN even though it’s a money pit and why they keep releasing DEI propaganda that flops
If it makes money it makes money, if it doesn’t make money they’re so vertically integrated that it doesn’t actually lose money and either way they propagandize
If it makes money it makes money, if it doesn’t make money they’re so vertically integrated that it doesn’t actually lose money and either way they propagandize
Well, their CEO is stepping down IIRC, so must not have been perfect.
Also I suspect at least some of those DEI losses were being subsidized by something like USAID
Also I suspect at least some of those DEI losses were being subsidized by something like USAID
@cjd @sapphire @mothersmurfer Yeah government news. I think news is dead. It's just information now and you process it through your own bias filter.
@sapphire @cjd @mothersmurfer I think the problem with pay walks is that most people don't want to pay when information is so readily available.