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You know what's great about America?

It's the fact that you can go into any store and just take what you want and never have to pay for anything. It doesn't matter how much time a person puts into making that thing, or how many people depend on their livelihood on the making of that thing, or the cost of producing it -- if you want it, just take it!

Did you know that all that news content costs money, time, and effort to produce? Don't give me the conservative MAGA reflexive response that news reporters are enemies and deserve being ripped off. I am assuming you think the content of the pubs you cite is valuable, or you wouldn't want it. Even if you want to make the argument that New York Times and Washington Post reporters work for wealthy corporations with an agenda, there are still working people who run the press, deliver the papers, as well as advertisers who invest their time and effort in making the thing YOU WANT TO STEAL.

I bet you have, or had, a newspaper in your hometown. Maybe they had to put up a paywall to counter the meaningless drivel that news reporting is a public commodity, so no one needs to respect the effort it takes to produce it. Well, because of skeevy little thieves like you, there are fewer people to work at the paper and even fewer papers that even exist. And while it may make your heart glad that people who gave their whole lives to a craft are now starving, and their children have no health insurance, that also means that you don't know what your local government is doing with the taxes they extract from your paycheck, and there's no one to account for the hundreds of misdeeds, small and large, that they are getting away with in city hall, the county commission, the state government and the Congress of the United States.

On the other hand, it is kind of poetic that your small act of theft means that you yourself are being robbed of knowledge, of taxes, and even of your own right to govern yourself.

Go fuck yourself you piece of shit.