The Washington Post: "Democracy dies in darkness... and for a brief moment we have been mourning with you... but now that that's out of the way 'IT'S TIME FOR AN OLIGARCHY! OLIGARCHY FOR THE WIN!!!!'"

@folaht · edit-2 2 years ago

The Washington Post: "Democracy dies in darkness... and for a brief moment we have been mourning with you... but now that that's out of the way 'IT'S TIME FOR AN OLIGARCHY! OLIGARCHY FOR THE WIN!!!!'"

@pinknoise@lemmy.ml · edit-2 2 years ago

I thought the US was pay2win already?

@folaht · edit-2 2 years ago

They want to make it more official.

@DPUGT2@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

True, but they have to pay to have some proxy win it for them. They’d prefer to just be able to appoint a president directly. Perhaps even themselves.

@drone621@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

I had a WaPo subscription for like two months, and I had to give it up. Couldn’t stomach that I was paying the salaries of the people that write these opinion articles.