As Chris Geidner reports, Washington Post knew three years ago about Alito's wife flying the insurrectionist flag of white Christian nationalism, and buried the story.
"As Alito provided an essential fifth vote hollowing out the Fourteenth Amendment’s bar to insurrectionists’ holding office, the Post sat silent."
@DigitalTaoist Yes, this is a big part of the problem with the corporate media, that it reflects the perspective of its super-rich owners and the well-heeled managers whom those owners put into place to run their media operations.
@wdlindsy Appalling. Irresponsible. Words are inadequate to express my fury and disgust. I once respected WAPO, but both the editorials and the quality of journalism declined noticeably. Cancelled my subscription a few years ago. No regrets.
@Barbramon1 I agree: appalling and irresponsbible. And almost impossible to avoid concluding that WaPo and similar outlets have actively assisted Alito and who knows which other right-wing Supremes from avoiding much-needed public scrutiny.
@wdlindsy 1/ Plain and simple. It’s all rigged.
The people lose.
Every time.
Only massive upheaval can change it now.
That means pain suffering and sacrifice for most.
But it might mean fear despair and death for the billionaires.
“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too may devices for subdividing property, only taking
“care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind…. another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.”
@bouriquet I don't know what your question about the geometrical progression means. But I agree that we need a fundamental change in our society akin to revolutionary change to dislodge the control the dead hands of the super-rich now exert on our future.
@wdlindsy Jefferson evidently believed in a geometric progressive tax rate on higher levels of income:
“another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1785
The 3 GOP presidents gradually destroyed any hint of that.
@bouriquet Thanks for explaining. I hadn't encountered that statement of Jefferson before. I like it. I live in a state with a high sales tax, and it's very evident to me that this method of taxation places the taxation burden on the people at the bottom of the economic ladder while giving those in top echelons of wealth a break by not taxing their income and wealth proportionately. Jefferson was right!
"In a series of paragraphs that are up there as being among the most shocking I have read in my journalistic career, the Post acknowledged on Saturday — dropped in the middle of the holiday weekend, more than a week after the Times’s report — that they had known about the flag since at least January 20, 2021, and had not revealed knowledge of it until May 25, 2024."
@wdlindsy Can you imagine if Ketanji Brown Jackson had a Black Lives Matter banner at her house? And if she had blamed it in her husband? I don't think they make a font size that big.
@wdlindsy the media is complicit. They’re owned. It’s capitalism. Their primary mandate is not to inform. Let’s stop pretending otherwise and find a solution