shevek_

Serious question how much does this guy spend on PR

This is the story of our entire media. No, they didn't line by line come in and edit the article, but any media outlet is going to self-censor to not lose a big sponsor. I think that's pretty self-evident at this point. The classic Manufacturing Consent does a deep dive into this dynamic.

Related, newspapers are historically unprofitable. Why would someone like Jeff Bezos buy the Washington Post? Like any investment, he expects some kind of return. And the return in this case clearly isn't direct revenue.

It is not a controversial statement to say that an election shouldn't be run with closed software made by a private company with financial, personal, and professional ties to one of the candidates. If something like this happened elsewhere in the world the US would use it as pretext for intervention.

From 2018-2019, we saw teachers protests and strikes lead to massive concessions being gained in 7/9 states they occurred in, most of which were red states. The working class has a considerable amount of power when wielded correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_education_work...

Eric Blanc's Red State Revolt is another great source on this

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2955-red-state-revolt

US inmates in 2018 are paid worse than prisoners in Soviet gulags in the 1950s https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leonid_Borodkin/publica...

* doesn't apply to warehouse workers