She made only one direct reference to Kirk, quoting his own words:
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. - Charlie Kirk
democracy dies in darkness
They need to make the slogan true
Condolences to Karen for the BS firing. On the topic of “shit charlie says”, here’s his wikiquote entry. (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk) I love going on wikiquote because it acts as a summary of texts & thinkers that I don’t have the time to read. I say this because normally wikiquote is full of very aspirational quotes, but Charlie’s is very abysmal AND it’s recent too! These aren’t old quotes. These are from as early as this year. His anti-feminist quote (“Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.”) was uttered in 2025. His anti-black and anti-civil rights comments were made last year in 2024. ("I’m sorry, if I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, “Boy, I hope he’s qualified.” January 2024.)
Isnt wapo bezos’ bragger
The same Washington Post that reported with 100% confidence that the shooter was definitely, absolutely trans? And still hasn’t redacted their lies?
The Washington Post is really trying to become the New York Post
It’s owned by Bezos. Nuff said!
I honestly don’t know why anyone who isn’t a right wing ball licker even looks sideways at either of those shit rags. They aren’t news outlets, they’re propaganda distribution hubs for the neo-nazi right.
Where do you get news from?
AP, Reuters, Guardian, and a half a dozen others including highly liberal rags like Mother Jones, Pink news, and MSNBC. Very occasionally CNN and WSJ. Very very often Lemmy, Piefed, and reddit.
Anyone who uses just a single source for news is a fool begging to be lied to and told what to think.
Look at Ground News and Tangle
Watching the media try to whitewash this piece of shit is a real mask-off moment for them.
apparently this piece of shit is gonna get a funeral service at football stadium. What a fucking joke
Washington post is owned by Jeff Bezos, no?
Affirmative, and it went downhill quick
I’d like to see how sharing someone’s own public words is disparaging their memory. Isn’t that how he’d want to be remembered? Did he recant those words? Because if it is wrong to quote him, that implies those words shame his memory. But then why is it shameful to quote him, but not to speak the words in the first place?
I’m sure this is rhetorical, but in case anyone doesn’t know the game plan: they want to exploit the sudden uptick in people looking into Kirk to draw more people into his ideology, which works best if the newcomer thinks he was well liked and respected.
If someone sees his true beliefs from the beginning, they’ll be more likely to see it for the putrid vomit that it is, but if they first believe he was an intellectual free-thinker brutally murdered for speaking the truth, they may give his bigotry more weight when they stumble upon it later.
To quote Death Cab for Cutie, “he was a bastard in life, thus a bastard in death.”
It’s really funny watching American corporate power fight federal regulation for decades only to immediately line up behind an authoritarian government to obey in advance the whims of a babbling narcissist who is purposely crashing the economy to satisfy his need for egotistical revenge. If all of our speech is tied up in media companies bought and paid for by corporate interests, or social media tech giants that deliver surveillance data to the government at will with our own tax dollars, how can it possibly even approach being “free”? It cannot, and that is pretty much the goal.
Retaliation just for quoting Kirk, a man who built a media and legal influencing juggernaut on his protected speech, is especially ironic given the great efforts made to develop and spread his ideas.
crashing the economy
The stock market is doing great. The ownership class is lining up behind Trump because he’s making them billions and they just need to stroke his ego a little bit.
Sounds like a slam dunk wrongful termination suit, though now that rag gets even more raggedy
I don’t have faith that the courts will rule wrongful termination for telling the truth, the defence will simply cite all the ways that move damages their reputation and call that cause.
I don’t know if it is, it absolutely should be. But I don’t know if it is. Republicans and Democrats have so weakened labor power. And I’m sure the owners will try to point out something in the contract that justifies them doing this no matter how bullshit it is.
All media is currently Fascist, trust nothing from any news organization. It’s all carefully crafted to shift the national conversation ever more to the right.
What do you think about the guardian
I lived in the UK for over a decade and read The Guardian for most of it, as well as for a few years after leaving.
For starters, they see themselves as Opinion Makers, not Journalists.
Then almost all of their journalists and columnists are scions of the British upper middle class people who frequented expensive private schools as kids (which, curiously, in the UK are called “public schools”) something which only about 11% of children in Britain do. This gets reflected in the takes they have, some of which are ridiculous - like the regular columnist Identity Warrior Feminist who wrote an article about the evils of “men who use sex dolls” (I! Kid! You! Not!) with not even the least bit of awareness that it was the same kind of thing and in the same style as decades ago was written against the “perversion” of homosexuality - a fashionable rich girl “Identity Politics” take rather than the “people should be free to do what they want with with their bodies” principled take, hence we get moralist articles in the same style as used to be done against homosexuals but since they’re against targets which are not part of the “groups it looks bad to criticize nowadays” they get written and published there as if they’re Progressive when in fact being Regressive.
The Guardian are mainly the voice of the British Upper Middle Class, so strongly Neoliberal and not at all concerned with things like Equality or Social Mobility unless it’s for the upper middle class (for example, they do care about the “glass ceiling” stopping upper middle class women with a priviledged “public school” education from becoming extremelly well paid CEOs, but they don’t care about the rest of society not having a chance in hell of getting anywhere near that).
It’s thus not suprising that they spent more than a year spreading pro-Israel messaging during the Gaza Genocide, which means things like quoting what the IDF said as fact, and still today use differently charged language depending on the side (for example Palestinians “die”, Israelis “are killed”).
They also gleefully participated in the slander campaign against the last leader of the Labour party some years ago to get him out - to be replaced by the guy that’s currently getting old ladies arrested as “terrorists” for demonstrating against the Genocide - which was done in cooperation with Israel-aligned Jewish groups in Britain and involved accusing him and the party under his leadership of anti-semitism, which was so extreme that at one point a Jewish Holocausts Survivor was deemed an anti-semite to try and get to that Labour Party leader by association (they sat together in a panel in a conference for Palestine).
Even further back, I remember how they strongly supported British participation in Bush’s (Junior) invasion of Iraq “because WMDs”.
Oh, and they also do the same shit as in America (but not done in most of Europe) of explicitly chosing and supporting a political side in elections.
They’re basically a Neoliberal propaganda outlet, out to convince people to side with certain ideologies and certain political and economic interests, only “good” if in comparation to the rest of the British Press because the Press environment over there is trully horrible (the least trusted in Europe, according to a poll some years ago).
Then of course, like almost all of the British press they have this heavy nationalistic Great Britain is Great and Wise, Foreigners Are Not - basically, Brits always know better than anybody else, foreigners are inept an incompetent and everybody looks up to Brits or should - take on pretty much everything international.
In summary, they’re not there to inform, they’re there to convince, don’t actually have Journalistic Integrity and pretty much always take sides, especially when it comes to British internal politics.
That said, IMHO they have exactly two columnists who are honest and left of center: George Monbiot and Owen Jones, plus Ben Jenning’s cartoons don’t pull any punches.
Also their coverage of the US is in general sorta independent (still slanted on the neoliberal side) mainly because except for the one or two columnists who do live in the US, they’re basically outsiders looking in and don’t really have a stake on certain outcomes or supporting certain factions there so are far less likely to pussyfoot around criticizing one political side or the other.
They published that Kirk’s high-school friend said he was a leftist (gave no details), then later retracted it because he said he couldn’t actually remember.
Maybe they should’ve corroborated that with some more of his friends before unleashing that?
They’re okay… I also read an article from The Nation that was okay. But these are not really what I would call mainstream. I should have said mainstream in the original comment
It’s the third biggest broadsheet paper in the UK - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom
Welp. I had cancelled after the last debacle, but resubbed on an extremely cheap offer.
I guess I’ll have to cancel again.
why are you giving corpos more money
Because I wanted a reliable source of news and they offered it for $2 a month.
I also want to support real journalism.
Reliable source of news and real journalism. And you go with that rag lol
Anyone wanna bet she will be replaced by a white conservative dude?
No thanks, I’d rather keep my money
Or some blonde pile of plastic surgery.
I had no idea the Post was run by Reddit mods.
