Yes, keep making enemies of the billionaires that got this administration into office and spent millions of dollars to do so. I’d very much love that for you.
Good thing this isn’t a country that came about because a bunch of rich white dudes got tired of being taxed and started a revolution.
That’s possibly reframing “no taxation without representation” a bit but I don’t entirely disagree with the sentiment.
They thought funding Trump would get them representation. They were wrong. Trump cares about no one but himself.
he was only ever representing putin, and MSB never the billionaires in the us.
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In the most literal sense we have representation, but it sure as hell doesn’t seem like it in practice… :(
Literal only in the terminological sense. We elect “representatives” but they don’t actually represent us in any meaningful way.
Don’t they? Look around you.
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When elections are fraudulent, its the same as no representation. Besides, pretty soon they’ll be suspending elections altogether. It doesn’t get more “no representation” than that.
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I don’t know, I don’t see anyone saying that here.
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I really don’t understand the aggression, I was talking about the old rich dead people propaganda concerning no taxation without representation 200 years ago, I never said anything about the fuckwads we have today.
If you think I’m saying something different, explain what you read and allow me the opportunity to clarify my intent.
Saying I’m full of shit at this point is just asinine.
The billionaires have thus far been too cheap to amass private armies to directly enforce their own will. Why, when you can lobby Congress for the price of a used Hyundai Sonata to get the Army to do what you want?
The government holds the power of violence and Trump holds the power of the government. The billionaires will be reminded of that if they get out of line. Coincidentally, this is the arrangement of modern Russia.
they have been too cheap thus far.
I’m pretty sure that Bezos had enough money to bribe moderate chunks of the army.
Personnel is one thing.
Modern warfighting is outrageously expensive. Guided munitions can cost hundreds of thousands each. Armored vehicles cost millions. Combat aircraft, tens of millions. And it continues to cost tons of money just to keep them in a bunker ready to go.
They will balk at the cost of owning/operating even a single Arleigh-Burke destroyer.
There is a reason they’re all too happy to keep letting you and me indirectly fund their military aspirations through taxes.
You can have all the expensive equipment you want. They don’t have the numbers. When your enemies are all around you and this military historically fucking sucks at combating insurgency, you’re going to lose.
The military would be smart to tell this dude to pound sand before they, and a bunch of people die in a new civil war that they can’t win against the most armed civilian population on the planet.
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You are in agreement with the person you responded to.
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They will balk at the cost of owning/operating even a single Arleigh-Burke destroyer.
They don’t need one. They need a sniper.
its mostly asymmetrical/cyberwarefare now anyways. russia and china are both are good at this, but not militarily.
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That’s the crazy part, unless they’re “outlawed” billionaires should try and improve people’s lives since it means they would have more money to spend on the crap those billionaires are selling! It’s hard to sell stuff on Amazon if everyone is struggling to afford housing and food.
UPS just laid off 20K workers on the expectation that Amazon deliveries will be way down.
Container ships are down 60%. More than any month during the pandemic.
Trump is imploding the entire economy.
Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.
They could work to remove the destitution and desperation of working people. But if their workers weren’t in such dire straits, then they wouldn’t have so much power over them. Workers with good pay and a healthy work-life balance also have more time to pursue unionization and other political activities. Even if improving the lives of the people would objectively increase the wealth of the ultra-rich, it would still decrease their power. And ultimately, the only reason people ever obtain that level of wealth is because they desire power more than anything else. People who aren’t power-hungry monsters cash out and retire early long before they reach billionaire status.
Workers with good pay and a healthy work-life balance are unlikely to pursue unions. That’s the stuff unions are trying to achieve.
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In the article, Amazon already back peddled and said it was just in the idea phase and they never really planned on implementing it.
He’s brought down Tesla (bankrupt in 2 years, MMW), and now Amazon. We shpuld start a betting pool for who-s next. META? Google? Microsoft?
He’s trying to kill all those US companies.
Wouldn’t that be wonderful? Those corporations are what helped this “voting” travesty into power.
Corporations don’t have peoples’ well being in their sights except as target practice.
Power to the people, not corporations.
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That’s the thing that was always gonna happen. They were always gonna bring themselves and subsequently society down. It’s just the crit multi of Donald Trump a lot of people seemed not prepared for.
That’ll get the people grumbling.
Walmart should also do this.
Grocery stores too.
Thoughts on how to make this happen:
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Whenever a shopowner is already critical of Trump, call them and suggest it directly.
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Ask your local cashiers and other store clerks how come the prices rose, and whether that really is all tariffs. Again and again. And ideally so that other shoppers overhear it.
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Make angry social media posts explicitly asking the same, explicitly tagging your local store and/or the chain to which they belong, and muse about looking into their competitors.
I get that you want to aggrieve the owners but that last • tactic feeds into Reichwingers absolving Trump. Asking in person, where they have a chance to say, “yes, see this here is the tariffs amount” puts the blame where it belongs (and can also bring price-gouging into the light, because for sure some will happen).
Gouging will happen in every industry, by every corporation. The only ones that might not are locally owned, which has been dwindling since at least the 90s.
It happened with covid, it happened with bird flu, and it’s about to happen the biggest ever with tariffs as the excuse.
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Well, it’s never going to happen in the first place
«Amazon moved to distance itself from the report, saying the idea had been considered by Amazon Haul, the company’s recently launched low-cost shopping hub, but had been rejected.
“The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen,” said Tim Doyle, Amazon spokesperson."
Telling people how much the Trump Tax costs them is now considered “hostility”. Got it.
You aren’t supposed to make the President look bad. That is illegal.
will be illegal.
Retroactively
As is tradition
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You are not supposed to wake up the zombie voters. That is illegal.
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would be a great add-on for firefox, though
1000%
Same immediate reaction
Anybody want to bet Bazos backs down?
Annnnnd he did. You called it.
Pathetic boot licker bezos
What a little fucking bitch baby.
At least Jeff Bezos is very philanthropic - shows his emotional intelligence
Oops sorry he’s not at all, meaning this was an incredibly hostile comment. Sorry for exposing low EQ, pls call me after Fox Morning Show mister pres & I’ll retract like a very strong smart man
lol so many dollars and so little anything else, how can someone show their face in public being so small
Bingo!
According to the article they already did
I learned from this very thread that the administration has already bribed Amazon with $40 million for a documentary on Melania. Planet Earth cost around half that.
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Amazon .com denied a report on Tuesday that it planned to disclose the cost that U.S. tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump were adding to its products, after the White House blasted the initial story.
Bezos is a sniveling coward.
The dude looks like he keeps a half billion in cash on him at all times to try and buy his way out of the angry mob(s) that will eventually come for him… Because he’s that much of a doucher.
What’s really insane is that even with all his money, the best he can do for a wife is some kind of plastic surgery experiment that looks like it came out of the Tool Prison Sex music video.
Just so afraid of losing a small amount of the fortune he can’t spend in his lifetime, that he’s given up the true power that comes with that type of wealth. The power to help
Hey, talk for yourself, there are a lot of us who would love to be married to anything from a Tool video, and we don’t like being insulted
Mostly MJK, thank you very much
Maybe this will show him that you can’t buy Trumps loyalty because he has no loyalty. However, I have my doubts that even Trump going from going from “My good buddy Bezos” to “Amazon is the enemy” in the course of a day will be enough of a object lesson for Bozos.
He’s already backtracking.
I know, but but even so the whiplash move from “best buddy” to “enemies list” (and probably back again after this capitulation) should tell anyone who wants to ally with Trump what a futile of a move that is. It doesn’t matter how much you schmooze him, how give him, or how much he owes you; the moment you’re not useful to him Trump will throw you under the bus.
You see Jeff, once you start groveling to the autocrat you are not allowed to stop.
“but all I wanted was an even more negative tax rate and to be able to fire workers for getting hurt on the job! I didn’t want the dictator to threaten me with the window treatment”
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say:–
"We invaded you last night–we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:–
"Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:–"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"- Rudyard Kipling
Seemingly because their stock price started to fall due to the Trump admin’s reaction. Which, what? Why would that negatively impact their stock?
Fucking pussy.
exists in reality, logically examines reality, does rational thing
HOW DARE YOU
“The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen,” said Tim Doyle, Amazon spokesperson.
Lmao some poor team gets thrown under the bus
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Cool! Send Bezos to El Salvador.
Amazon never did it.
Chickened out I see
Nah, not chickened out, they’re in cahoots. Example … 40 mil for a shitty Melania documentary is outrageous. For reference, BBC’s planet earth cost 25 million. So… yeah…
Who the actual fuck cares about Melania? I get watching a documentary on Chris Chan cause at least that’s largely a self contained train wreck, but the fuck has Melania ever done that’s even passingly notable?
By the Allfather I can’t even fathom the fucking vanity of these pissants.
Eh, it’s mostly about the bribe, I’m sure. Having people pretend to be interested in her is just a bonus.
Probably mostly the bribe, but for them to settle on a fucking documentary is just alien to me. Like it’s just asking for folks to take a find toothed comb through her shit, the concept alone makes me want to climb into a hole and further blend into the paint. But I am admittedly coming from a background that utterly encourages being unnoticed except to those you like, good way to not be shot.
Easy to produce, spend the bare minimum, “spend” the rest on “marketing” and voilà, ez 38 mil in Melania’s pockets. Nobody said anything about the documentary being thorough or factual or anything of the sort, you’re thinking of the alternate reality where truth is a thing and Gwyneth Paltrow and other cunts aren’t allowed to peddle their bullshit
A documentary about watching paint dry would have more character and fun facts than anything related to that evil old hag
I’m pretty sure that’s just an episode of How Its Made on history channel circa 2010.
CamelCamelCamel should add it anyway
“How dare you offer clarity about what we’ve done!”
I do so wish they would. Certain they won’t.
Bezos bent knee & kissed the ring. Chances he’ll grow a spine? 1 in a few million.
They’ve already had a phone call about it and Trump is back to calling him the most amazing leader of a beautiful American company or whatever. He stepped down in 2021.
He’s still on the board, but yeah he hasn’t been at the helm for a while now.
Yeah, no shit it’s hostile. This Administration is being hostile to their business! What in the fuck did they expect to happen?
Wonder if Bezos will ask for his money back
I’m sure there is a newer version available; probably an Amazon off-brand even.
AmazonBezics
He gets credits on Prime streaming.
