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?
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To quote Death Cab for Cutie, "he was a bastard in life, thus a bastard in death."
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.
Years ago I was banned from the politics subreddit for quoting the constitution articles on treason. This was during Trump's first term.
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.
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.
The same Washington Post that reported with 100% confidence that the shooter was definitely, absolutely trans? And still hasn’t redacted their lies?
Watching the media try to whitewash this piece of shit is a real mask-off moment for them.
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.
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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.
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Anyone wanna bet she will be replaced by a white conservative dude?
No thanks, I'd rather keep my money
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democracy dies in darkness
They need to make the slogan true
They still haven't fixed that typo! It's supposed to be "died" now.
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Washington post is owned by Jeff Bezos, no?
Affirmative, and it went downhill quick
apparently this piece of shit is gonna get a funeral service at football stadium. What a fucking joke
Isnt wapo bezos' bragger
Welp. I had cancelled after the last debacle, but resubbed on an extremely cheap offer.
I guess I'll have to cancel again.
She should do the Bari Weiss thing and say she's being silenced because they're scared of her speaking truth.
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