There are a lot of reasons for the downfall of the #USA but a big one is the purchase of traditional #media by plutocrat goons

Look at this fucking shit:

EDIT: some people are angry that i am potentially misleading because this isn't a recent headline. i am trying to make a point about the decay of traditional media and our current state of things. but yes, this is is from 2014, after #bezos bought WaPo. my point still stands, and you should follow my account for commentary, not breaking news

@benroyce No one wants to click. I don't blame any of you. Here is an archive.ph link: https://archive.ph/Uiu60

Apparently it was written by Ian Morris who claimed to be a professor at Stanford back in 2014. Also, apparently Obama is an illegal president. Or so it says.

Democracy dies in darkness alright — and they were at the forefront of trying to spread that darkness even back then.

@nazokiyoubinbou @benroyce

Unrelated to the main topic but it's worth mentioning that archive.today have been doing some shady shit. I'd steer clear of them if for no other reason than to not risk being part of the botnet. Wikipedia recently banned them as a source because of that and them manipulating their archive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

archive.today - Wikipedia

@boo_ @benroyce I don't particularly trust or like them, but what the heck else can I use?

No archive.org doesn't work the same. It seems to be pickier about saving pages (well, an older one like that might be in there, but often new stuff isn't. And there seem to be a lot of limits on getting them to actually archive something at will.) Sometimes one just wants a quick little snapshot of some dumb news article that isn't worth truly saving.

This one doesn't *deserve* archive.org really...

@boo_ @benroyce (BTW I'm not being sarcastic. If you know of anything else I can use I'd be super grateful. The main catch is it has to be able to handle those stupid "give us your email address or we won't release the rest of the article" popups.)