Far Left Media Outlet Gets Absolutely Roasted By Twitter Community Notes On Walmart Post

If far left media wasn't hypocritical, they'd have nothing left. 

And that got pointed out in hilarious fashion on Monday, thanks to the community notes feature on X, formerly Twitter. 

Jacobin, an extremely far left publication that describes itself as "offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture," posted a laughable article criticizing Walmart for the pay that it offers its employees. 

"Infamous for its starvation wages," the post reads, "Walmart just posted staggering first quarter profits. The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers continue to rely on Medicaid and food stamps."

Except Community Notes doesn't rest. And they absolutely roasted Jacobin in response. 

On the original post, there's now a note exposing that Jacobin, that bastion of socialism, redistributed wealth, and anti-capitalist brilliance, generally pays significantly less than Walmart pays its associates.

"Walmart non-corporate Associates’ average hourly wage is $17.50/hour with full-time benefits. Jacobin pays writers $0.07/word, so a Jacobin writer would have to write 250 words an hour continuously to make the same wage as a Walmart Associate, but without benefits."

Ouch. 

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Socialism Doesn't Seem To Work Well In Practice

Who would have ever guessed that the socialist media outlet doesn't pay contractors well? Or provide benefits, or live up to its stated ideology.

Jacobin, like so many other far-left media outlets or corporations, wants others to live by rules it doesn't apply to itself.

Socialism for thee, but not for me.

Walmart is an incredibly successful corporation, and while low-income workers could always make more, paying $17.50 an hour is well above what many across the country or the world get paid. Clearly, it's more than the hard-working socialist "journalists" at Jacobin.