Post by robing on Mar 18, 2016 2:13:01 GMT
The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos is the owner of amazon com. He is a multi-billionaire liberal libertarian who prefers the Democratic Party. He is anti-labor, he is contracted with the CIA for cloud information storage, he is a corporate tax dodger and a monopolist. He has used the Washington Post as an attack dog on the Sanders campaign and it's so notorious I don't even know if I have to elaborate. But I will, a little.
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) a non-profit watchdog, recently reported that WaPo had written 16 negative articles on Sanders in 16 hours and said "it must be some kind of record". WaPo reviewed itself and said it was unbiased. A couple of days later, after the Flint debate, the EDITORIAL BOARD of WaPo wrote a piece entitled "Sanders Peddles Fictions on Trade" (or something very close to that, I'll check another time, he definitely said 'peddles'.).
To be "fair", Jeff Bezos and Bernie Sanders are on polar opposite ends of the universe regarding trade so it's not surprising that he thinks Sanders is wrong. But having just claimed that they'd audited themselves and were impartial, having just been criticized publicly by a NEUTRAL highly respected non-profit watchdog, this seems to me disdainful not only of our campaign but of the whole watchdog system. Just contemptuous. And why not? He's Jeff Bezos.
I want very badly to organize a boycott of amazon. I honestly can't see how we are ever going to have a progressive movement if we are allowing a pig like Jeff Bezos to hypnotize us into thinking that we have to buy every single thing from him, when there are plenty of other options for almost everything he sells, and a lot of them are also at reduced prices. I feel that if we're not willing to sacrifice the extreme convenience of amazon, we'll never really be fighters and we won't accomplish much. Bezos treats his workers horribly. I'll provide details.
I simply think we have to break its back. We have to convince the millennials that they/we can't have our cake and eat it too. We're either for fair trade, not free trade or we're not. We're either pro-Union or we're not. We're either against multi-billionaires buying an esteemed large establishment publication to control the discourse that runs casino capitalism and that has brutalized our movement, or we're not.
I think if we're not willing to give up amazon we don't deserve to win. We need to demand that Jeff Bezos provide space for voices favorable to Sanders and other different economic points of view, and we also need to demand that he improve his workers' conditions, and any number of horrors I'm sure we'll unearth about amazon.
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) a non-profit watchdog, recently reported that WaPo had written 16 negative articles on Sanders in 16 hours and said "it must be some kind of record". WaPo reviewed itself and said it was unbiased. A couple of days later, after the Flint debate, the EDITORIAL BOARD of WaPo wrote a piece entitled "Sanders Peddles Fictions on Trade" (or something very close to that, I'll check another time, he definitely said 'peddles'.).
To be "fair", Jeff Bezos and Bernie Sanders are on polar opposite ends of the universe regarding trade so it's not surprising that he thinks Sanders is wrong. But having just claimed that they'd audited themselves and were impartial, having just been criticized publicly by a NEUTRAL highly respected non-profit watchdog, this seems to me disdainful not only of our campaign but of the whole watchdog system. Just contemptuous. And why not? He's Jeff Bezos.
I want very badly to organize a boycott of amazon. I honestly can't see how we are ever going to have a progressive movement if we are allowing a pig like Jeff Bezos to hypnotize us into thinking that we have to buy every single thing from him, when there are plenty of other options for almost everything he sells, and a lot of them are also at reduced prices. I feel that if we're not willing to sacrifice the extreme convenience of amazon, we'll never really be fighters and we won't accomplish much. Bezos treats his workers horribly. I'll provide details.
I simply think we have to break its back. We have to convince the millennials that they/we can't have our cake and eat it too. We're either for fair trade, not free trade or we're not. We're either pro-Union or we're not. We're either against multi-billionaires buying an esteemed large establishment publication to control the discourse that runs casino capitalism and that has brutalized our movement, or we're not.
I think if we're not willing to give up amazon we don't deserve to win. We need to demand that Jeff Bezos provide space for voices favorable to Sanders and other different economic points of view, and we also need to demand that he improve his workers' conditions, and any number of horrors I'm sure we'll unearth about amazon.