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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man who censored editorials claims to support free speech.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

You’re free to say anything you want so long as you don’t want to say something against the ruling class.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago

Irony so dense it throws off navigational equipment.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago

Nothing says free speech better than banning certain topics.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Democracy dies in dumbness

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Democracy and Capitalism cannot coexist equally. Capital will always win.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Free speech as long as you say what I want you to say.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

"Free speech" = fascist speech. "Free markets" = monopolistic megacorporations.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

The free markets owned by the rich?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Has the Post — or any American newspaper — ever published an editorial against "personal liberties and free markets"?

So the WAPO goes full libertarian. It's just a further enshittification of a newspaper that was once pretty good ... but that was a long, long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

No-one has ever explained hypocrisy to this man.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Why has the entire staff of the WaPo not walked out? With this, it's solidifying itself as a right wing publication.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The piggies are getting scared

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Love that pic. Say hello to the new oligarchy, same as the old oligarchy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

"You are free to say what you want and express your opinion. Just not publicly or privately, or thinking it to yourself."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why did so many of them read 1984 like a manual and not warning?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Zuckerberg looks like someone just farted in his USB regarding slot.