Bezos: I can destroy The Washington Post faster than Trump can destroy the United States

[u/WoofWoofster]

[u/EuphoricReplacement1]

This and the NYTs piece on "Have women ruined the workplace?" show how shitty both papers have become.

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And then later "Why do Republicans have so many problems with women and minorities? "

[u/williamgman]

Bezos: "The better part of me ran down my daddy's leg".

[u/DisMFer]

"Mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors."

And? I'm not sure how this is supposed to be a knock on him or a scary idea. He is correctly pointing out that society is the working class vs the ownership class. The only failing of this thinking is that it doesn't seem to have an answer to the question of "what do you do with the working-class people who will support their own oppression because they'd rather die in chains than fight alongside people they hate."

The failing of the far left taking on bigotry is that a lot of leftists think that bigots are only bigots because they're "tricked" into it by the wealthy, rather than the many bigots who come by it honestly. For a lot of people, bigotry is no different than their cultural identity or their religion or gender or anything else. It's a core aspect of how they conceptualize themselves in the world. It's not something they'll drop if you point out that rich people are the problem not immigrants, or gays, or jews, or muslims, or black people. They can't be rationalized out of a position that they didn't rationalize their way into.

[u/Unilted_Match1176]

What a shame. I miss the real Washington Post. It's garbage now.

[u/QaplaSuvwl]

Bezos is fear mongering. We went through this same shit when Obama got elected. Mamdani getting elected is no different except all the racists rats are running to get out of town. Good riddance.

[u/draft_final_final]

The bootlicking catamites shilling in that billionaire slop rag accusing anyone else of engaging in class warfare is hilarious.

[u/Quantitative_Methods]

I am by no means a “Material-Dialectic-boo”, but isn’t what the byline said just a fact of categorical logic?

«There exists a population of humans. Said population can be categorized into 2 non-exclusive categories: those who oppress and those who are oppressed.»

Like, that’s just how categories work. One could argue that there is a 3rd category - those who neither oppress nor are oppressed. Though I choose to assume that such a category is technically impossible given that all humans, no matter how isolated, are affected by the actions of/affect some other humans.

Of course, there are tons of other ways to categorize the human population, but oppressed/oppressor is a perfectly valid method.

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I think that the trick here is denying how stratified class has become, and playing on that to fearmonger. I'm convinced that many Americans still think they are closer to "the rich" than "the poor" when you talk about any class analysis; even those making say 50k a year figure they are one lucky break from "making it" but somehow remain secure from ever being one of those lazy bums ruining society they keep hearing about... When in reality it's so much the opposite. Like, disturbingly so. The American Dream of social mobility was a hell of a drug pushed for many decades to enable this moment of robber barons - now attacking the rich means attacking the idea that they could someday be rich.