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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Immediately unsubscribed.[/quote]

Yes me too. I held off when he directed paper to not endorse Kamala as that could be somewhat neutral position. Now it is full on ideological propaganda.

Will also try to shop less at Amazon and Whole Foods.. [/quote]

Try to shop less at Amazon and, wait for it, Whole Foods. That’s rich. As if in this area you can’t find alternatives to Amazon, albeit slower and more expensive in many cases. As if you can’t go to MOM’s Organic Market and similar non-billionaire, pro-worker outlets for products you pick up at Whole Foods.

Like the non-AOC Democrats in Congress, this isn’t really THAT important to you. You’re unsubscribing from the paper which for now is still engaging in legitimate journalism on its news pages. So unsubscribing to the paper undercuts the reporters and editors trying to maintain the news operation. But, y’know, it’s a good sound bite at bbq’s and cocktail parties.

But Amazon and Whole Foods, where Bezos makes so much of money? Well, you’re going to “try” to shop less with them.

Just as our non-AOC Democrats in Congress are going to “try” to advocate for us even though they are in the minority. They will write sternly written letters and posts on Elon Musk’s X platform. They will meet with mere millionaires concerned about the business climate. They will go ahead and cast votes opposing Presidents Trump and Musk, and make speeches on the floor. They will pose long-winded question/speeches in committee hearings that witnesses can easily evade. Why they will even go to the HQ of USAID and politely ask the Musk security goon to let them inside, and then stomp their feet outside for the cameras after said goon smirks at them and tells them no chance.

What’s missing from the non-AOC, non-JohnLewis Democrats is the willingness and courage to make “good trouble”, “necessary trouble”. Oh, yes, on MLK Day we celebrate his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, and the civil rights marchers who persevered through police attack dogs sinking their jaws into them.

Your points above about unsubscribing to the Post and “trying” to patronize Bezos businesses less will work just fine at bbq’s and cocktail parties. You won’t have to encounter the little people suffering job loss and bankruptcy and hunger and homelessness. But if you do, I’m sure your fake-sympathetic platitudes and “thoughts and prayers” will go a long way towards comforting them.[/quote]

PP, I imagine that you’re probably rich, at least by many standards, and definitely arrogant.  Now a senior citizen with a fixed income, I deliberately chose to move to a convenient, walkable neighborhood. I don’t drive, and that’s a decision that makes it safer for all of us.  When I moved here, I could walk to a Safeway (now closed), a Giant (now an Amazon Fresh), and, eventually a Whole Foods — now owned by Bezos.  There was also a bookstore— now long closed. Bezos, deliberately or not, has taken over some of the most essential aspects of my walkable, convenient neighborhood— that, 20 years ago, supported multiple, local, independent businesses and smaller chains.

PP, you’re very vehement in your disdain for the PP that you’re responding to.  “More expensive “ is nothing to you, and it’s hard for you to envision how hard “trying” might be for some of us. “What’s missing” is an understanding of the barriers that others with limited resources might face, and “what’s missing” is actual offers to help remedy those potential barriers. So, PP, I have two questions :

- Do you have any practical suggestions that are safer — for all of us — than having me wandering around with difficulty in my visibly “comfy” shoes from the Metro with my granny cart in search of a MOM’s?

- Do you understand that when some of us were making “good trouble” the communities involved were banding together offering rides, meals, and places to stay to people who needed them — in our collective struggle for justice?  I ask, in part, because someone who “tries” is surely doing more for justice than someone who does not. If, with your diatribe, you alienate the “triers” it surely does not leave us in a better place as communities or as resisters who are doing our best if and as we can. NP (I’m one of the “little people “ that you seem to think your diatribe is helping.)

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