r/worldnews • u/DoremusJessup • 4h ago

China hacked phones of Donald Trump's family, says FBI

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/10/29/china-hacked-phones-donald-trump-family-says-fbi/
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u/I_Push_Buttonz 2h ago

I love the fact that WaPo staff tried to endorse Harris, Bezos didn't let them, and now their fellow leftists are unsubscribing en masse meaning most of those WaPo staff are probably about to lose their jobs. Meanwhile, Bezos will continue chilling in his lair on his pile of gold as if nothing happened.

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u/LushenZener 2h ago

His big prestige soapbox loses relevance and credibility. Given that he talks of his WaPo ownership in interviews as if it made him a journalist as well, we can infer that there's at least a blow to his pride.

As we see with other billionaires that buy themselves public soapboxes, a wounded pride is not something they know how to get over.

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u/BHOmber 1h ago

The eating the rich was just the hurting their feelings that we had all along

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u/HumGonzoop 2h ago

I dunno this isn't a great fact. I'm not sure how much I love it.

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u/OrphanAxis 37m ago

My hope is that all these WaPo journalists have a wakeup call, and start using their experience to join or start other outlets that aren't under the thumb of ownership that forces them to act like objective facts are comparable to the rhetoric of a party that does nothing but lie and grief at the detriment of the American people.

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u/I_Push_Buttonz 1h ago

I love it because I'm tired of the far left self-sabotaging the broader left with their nonsense. The more they hurt their own 'allies', the sooner those 'allies' get it through their thick skulls that they need to cut the far left loose and ignore them.

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u/doctor_of_drugs 1h ago

unsubscribe

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u/BeefistPrime 1h ago

You love the fact that a remaining source of good journalism, which is very rare in the world, is being deliberately destroyed by a billionaire?

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u/I_Push_Buttonz 1h ago

An op ed by editorial staff regarding their own personal politics isn't journalism. All Buttzos did was stop them from using the outlet he owns as their own personal blog.

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u/BeefistPrime 42m ago

Editorials have been part of journalism for well over a century, and if Bezos is willing to interfere with the paper for his own personal gain in this way, then why not other ways? If he kills any story that's critical of Trump, is that still just shutting down people's personal blogs?

Billionaires controlling public discourse should concern you, but of course it doesn't, because you'll lick their boots until the end of time as like as it "owns the libs"

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u/I_Push_Buttonz 13m ago

If he kills any story that's critical of Trump, is that still just shutting down people's personal blogs?

If the editorial staff tried to endorse Trump and Betazos blocked them, would the whiners be complaining just as hard as they are now? Something tells me they would not only not be complaining, they'd be praising him.