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    3 months ago

    Pay your journalists or get used to being the product sold to whatever propagandist wants you this year

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            3 months ago

            Which, come to think of it, is exactly what’s happening here with people reposting the text.

            Like, I agree that journalists need to get paid somehow, and that advertising is a cancerous model for that, but I just so, so do not have the budget for random news subscriptions.

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              3 months ago

              Which, come to think of it, is exactly what’s happening here with people reposting the text.

              The cirrrclleeee offffff liiiiiffffeeeee!!!

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          No we didn’t. We’d find them discarded at bus stops…or read the news years later from the bottom of a bird cage. No, I don’t mean WE’RE in a bird cage. I just mean someone we know owns a bird, and we look inside the birdcage.

          Why would you line the bottom of a human size birdcage with newspapers??? That’s just called a jail. That’s silly. You’re silly for even suggesting it, you silly goose!

          OH NOW WE’RE BRINGING GEESE INTO THIS??? THAT’S IT! I’M OUT! GEESE ARE ASSHOLES!!!

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      3 months ago

      While I get what you mean, it’s also important to note that, sadly, Bezos owns WaPo these days.

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        A year subscription to WaPo costs I think like $125, which is 35c per day. You’re saving 9 cents now. And most I think are significantly cheaper than that.