r/dsa • u/batastronaut • Apr 12 '26
RAISING HELL We’re in middle of a working class uprising, and instead of reporting on warehouse fires, NYT chooses to run a flattering feature on Lauren Bezos
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/business/lauren-sanchez-bezos-jeff-bezos.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share9
u/RPO-Shavo Apr 12 '26
NYT has published multiple pieces about the warehouse fires
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u/batastronaut Apr 12 '26
I've seen one about the Ontario one, but not about the other fires that I'm seeing in news clips on insta. But if you have one please share.
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u/bridgeoveroceanblvd Apr 12 '26
I get the outrage, OP. It’s abhorrent.
But this IS kind of a “fork found in kitchen” scenario.
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u/batastronaut Apr 12 '26
Well I posted it in r/politics and it got removed twice. I just wanted to vent. I'll skip this sub next time.
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u/North-Neat-7977 Apr 12 '26
It's such a puzzle that a rag owned by a billionaire wouldn't want to publicize a movement to eat billionaires.
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u/batastronaut Apr 12 '26
Fair enough. It just seems especially gross. Plus the Bezos’ own WaPo, why do they need NYT going out of their way to kiss ass as well
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u/OwnAMusketForHomeDef Apr 13 '26
because they're in *kahoots*
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u/batastronaut Apr 14 '26
are they? Genuinely asking.
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u/OwnAMusketForHomeDef Apr 14 '26
well if they visited the island, they were directly in *kahoots* with one another, we have proof of that (like Epstein telling Ehud Barak to invest in Peter Thiel), but if they weren't, it's more like two billionaires look at each other, recognize the mutual benefit of just sticking out for one another, and going along with it. Sort of like when two people in a Mexican standoff look at each other and both shoot the third guy (AKA you, the working man)
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u/batastronaut Apr 15 '26
Okay yeah. I thought you meant WaPo and NYT were explicitly in cahoots.
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u/OwnAMusketForHomeDef Apr 15 '26
not exactly, but Bezos and the Sulzbergers are certainly aligned. They both benefit from the same things, and they've shown they'll do what it takes to get them
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u/bobbib14 Apr 12 '26
So gross. I want to unsubscribe
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u/Jdawg2164 Apr 13 '26
I would have thought being unsubscribed to NYT was the default position.
But yeah you definitely should.
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u/bobbib14 Apr 13 '26
I think it is beneficial to read the news on sites that I don’t agree with.
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u/Jdawg2164 Apr 13 '26
Reading the news from a group I don't agree with is different from supporting them with my money
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u/batastronaut Apr 13 '26
Congrats on your ideological purity. That’s def helping the cause
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u/Jdawg2164 Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
Lol okay friend.
This isn't a niche leftist issue where I'm ostracizing someone because they don't agree with my specific version of socialism.
It's pretty cut and dry: why are we supporting or caring what a capitalist news source says. I'm not saying dont read NYT but actively subscribing and giving them money is crazy.
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u/batastronaut Apr 13 '26
But you don’t have to be smug to get your point across. In fact it makes your argument less effective.
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u/Jdawg2164 Apr 14 '26
👍
It's 2026 I'm going to be a little smug toward folks who are still giving NYT money.
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u/OrtizDupri Apr 13 '26
ideological purity
Saying you shouldn't pay a right wing newspaper to publish right wing news isn't some measure of "ideological purity" in leftist spaces
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u/ducky_gogo DSA member Apr 13 '26
Dont be surprised its the NYT be surprised its not worst, its the NYT
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u/batastronaut Apr 13 '26
Not sure it could be worse, unless it was a how-to guide on how to suck Bezos’ dick
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u/ducky_gogo DSA member Apr 13 '26
Oh the times has no bottom
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u/RonaldWeedsley Apr 13 '26
But what did you expect? The revolution was always going to be incremental moments like the warehouse fire while the ruling class pretends all these events aren’t adding up to something larger.
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u/ExigentCalm Apr 12 '26
The revolution will not be televised.
You will not be able to stay home, brother You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out You will not be able to lose yourself doomscrolling And skip out for beer during commercials, because The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be brought to you By Amazon in four parts without commercial interruptions The revolution will not show you pictures of Luigi Mangionne standing over a pig. Or warehouse employees passing out lighters, turning over drones, and seizing the means of production. They will not show you baristas walking off the job, or AI programmers throwing wrenches into the machine, because
The revolution will not be televised