Yeah I was being hyperbolic for effect, but the point is that he owns the WaPo so that he can use it for his own personal social and political gain, not to make money off of it. I doubt the WaPo readership will substantially drop from this. And I have many questions about the people who still read his rag

The Post could lose all its subscribers and Bezos could still easily cover costs. He isn’t in the newspaper business for the money. He bought it for exactly moments like these. 8% is how much he just paid to hedge his bets

Well yeah, he wants a pardon

Burner email and phone number

In general that would be pretty easy to identify. If the number of votes were large enough to impact an election you’d see voting numbers that are far greater than you expect based on the population and demographics of the area served by a particular voting office. In addition you’d see counts greater than you expect when certain people are working but not for others.

In addition usually you have to check in at a desk or table to get your ballot. An official dishonestly stuffing the ballot box would also have to somehow fabricate real voters checking in at the desk, or else there’d be more ballots than people who checked in and they’d identify the fraud. Where I live you check in with your ID card so unless the official had a bunch of IDs of valid registered voters they’d be caught.

Lastly voting fraud is a crime pretty much everywhere, so getting caught is bad.

A more realistic version of voting fraud is what is being planned in the US: getting supporters of a candidate (in this case Trump) to volunteer at voting locations and having those people fabricate evidence of fraud. This can just be their testimony, but it can be used later in lawsuits to give face value validity to accusations that the election was stolen, and used as justification for violence or a coup. This is what Trump tried, poorly, in 2020. They will try better in 2024.

No no you see, I have been assured that the Ukrainians are the real nazis. The proof? Well, the Russians said it. And, uh…hexbear! So…you know.

The science of space flight is largely figured out? That will be news to the scientists on spacex’s staff. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about

Moving things into orbit requires a substantial amount of science.

Good thing in what way

Because they are impressive in the way NASA was. Which is the problem - we should be doing this as a nation and not subsidizing whatever a billionaire fancies at the moment.

What about all the good guys with guns? We can stop this guy with guns in his car but school shootings? Impossible to prevent.

That book really grabbed me for about 25% of it and then I just lost interest

The risks of observing Israel commit war crimes. Props to them for staying and fuck the IDF for firing on the UN.

He wasn’t. He’s trying to maintain the image that he’s above the fray while being deep in it

He’s not serious. Roberts is an arch conservative and has been for a long time. This is posturing to try and paint himself as a moderate, like he has been doing since before he was appointed to the bench. Fuck him.

No shit

Go full Vader in the negotiations. Pretty hard to make airplanes without workers

Hmm, perhaps. But…recurring revenue sure is easier than…whatever you said.

Yes but then how do they get that sweet sweet recurring revenue

Has it gotten worse? They’ve been dogshit for a long time, maybe they’ve gotten worse and I haven’t noticed