Democracy Dies In Dorkness: WaPo Roasted Over Trans Sorority 'Sister' Sob Story
Or, why everyone hates Elon Musk
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Don’t get me wrong. I am not pleased with all or even most of Elon Musk’s decisions as owner of Twitter. But he does own Twitter. He bought it, so he gets to break it. The same goes for Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post. It’s a free country, and the freedom of the press belongs to the owner of the press. If you WANT to shill for a man who gets off on convincing women to let him hang around and leer at them, you are free to buy a newspaper-of-record and pursue that interest. Fine. Whatever.
In a democracy, I am also allowed to tell said newspaper-of-record that their proverbial emperors are wearing no clothes. So I popped off a standard reply, a variation on a question that I have posed maybe a thousand times on Twitter/X without ever receiving a good faith answer from anyone on the other side of the issue. I asked the newspaper-of-record to tell me the difference…
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