Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal Liberties/Free Markets

Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by mmooss on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @07:54PM (#43190161)

> chop

> federal courthouse in Portland

What about it? Did it burn down? How many were injured?

> streamers for months were showing people looting

It's interesting that people criticize the professional news media, then believe whatever they see on social media.

> riots happened

I expect some did, depending on the definition of riot, but that's not 'nationwide rioting' and a call to use the military to suppress the great majority of peaceful protests.

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by rayiner on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @09:54PM (#43190826)

There was rioting in many major cities and it was absolutely appropriate to call in the national guard to put a stop to it. My family didn’t leave Bangladesh to put up with third-world behavior like that.

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by mmooss on Thursday February 27, 2025 @02:53AM (#43192252)

Protest isn't third-world behavior, and part of being in the US is not restricting other people's liberties - regardless of your personal preferences and outrage.

If they are harming others or causing significant material damage, that's another story, but even that is a matter of degree (especially the latter).

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