Mask off season.
more like mask flip season. they will implement it back with the same speed they unimplemented next time democrats take charge. I think one should collect all these news and keep them for four years so one can compare the news four years later side by side with these. that is if Trump doesn't go full monarchy on USA's ass
next time democrats take charge
Love that optimism!
I tried to save yall by voting for Kamala
same here homie, same here.
Deleting LGBTQ policies is nothing compared to the slow drum of global warming that might wipe us out as a species.
I tried to save y'all by advocating for third parties, who would actually bring in the same level of EO you're seeing from Trump but instead to focus on education, military cuts, and moving towards green and nuclear
Voting third party in a two party horse race is a fool’s errand. Especially if you voted for known Putin stooge Jill Stein, who was only running to steal away votes from Kamala Harris. She knew she didn’t stand a chance at winning.
We won't survive this.
But if we did, it would be my greatest wish that everyone understands this was all brought to you by tolerance of Greed and capitalism.
Greedy people are a blight on humanity and mentally ill in a serial killer, society must be protected from them way.
But unfortunately, since most here still see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires that don't want to be part of society but live above it, they'll blame everything but. In that respect, maybe my first point is a silver lining.
That's a weird graph. Why does each label have 2 bars?
because saying 0-10% 11%-20% 21%-30% 31%-40% 41%-50% 51%-60% 61%-70% 71%-80% 81%-90% 91%-100% would create a label so fucking long.
It's implied that each grouping is the top 10% and bottom 10% of each 20% range, to me anyway.
Wait, rainbow capitalism wasn't sincere?
I left the Amazon ecosystem a couple of years ago because fuck Bezos and it wasn't a big deal, really. Accumulating stuff is a mindset I could reason myself out of. I call it the power of No, thank you. I buy mostly second hand now and it's so calming. Saves me money as well.
Don't worry guys, all these corporations will bring back those pretty rainbow logos for Pride Month™ and all will be forgotten.
except this will be the start of the year they stop doing that, because now it becomes the "popular" side to not support it.
Prime? Cancelled.
Kindle unlimited? Cancelled.
Audible? Cancelled.
Twitch? Cancelled.
Not one cent from my wallet will ever be in Bezos’ hands again, from here on out.
I'm over a year ahead of you. Dumped prime when they announced ad tier is default for streaming.
The downside is waiting 2-3 extra days for them to ship something you order, if you do order through amazon. They make sure to not release any order whatsoever without prime for days to entice you to bribe them for standard service.
"Democracy dies in darkness" said the guy turning off the fucking lights
For those that are unaware, it's the slogan of The Washington Post, which Bezos owns.
Okie-dokie.
I guess I can delete "slow down if I see Jeff Bezos crossing the street" from my policies.
The masks are coming off.
I'm proud to say that I've never once bought anything from Amazon. Long before Bezos started to reveal the depths of his psychopathy, the company just grossed me out. There's something about businesses that are that large and that dominant that just makes my flesh crawl (the same reason I never shop at Walmart or eat at McDonald's or get coffee at Starbucks or...)
But at this point, it goes way beyond that - Bezos, alongside Musk and Zuckerberg and Ramaswamy and Thiel and so on - is a direct threat to humanity. He and the other would-be oligarchs, under the umbrella of Trump's ego, are deliberately setting out to destroy the ideals of liberty, democracy and justice in order to build an autocracy in which they will be the masters they believe themselves rightfully to be, and the rest of us will be relegated to being serfs, slaves or corpses.
Sadly, if you're on the Internet then you are providing revenue to Bezos.
@letsgo2themall@lemmy.world You can’t use WalMart either. And didn’t Target remove things after literal in-store attacks by chuds?
What’s your game plan? It can’t be the mall…
And if avoiding using Amazon products is your goal, then large swaths of the internet are off the table too.
I’m not trying to be a jerk. Just illustrating how the oligarchs got us over a barrel when it comes to voting with our patronage.
I haven't bought anything from Walmart, Amazon, or Target in over a decade, probably close to two. Sure it costs a little more, but I try to source as much as I can from Costco which helps balance but otherwise I do almost all my shopping from local groceries (surefine, tops) and local hardware stores (franchises I know but generally locally owned)
Fun fact, almost any complaint, even one extremely minor, will often make Amazon's customer support chat assistants give you a full refund. They'll even let you not worry about shipping the item back if you say you don't want to because it's not your problem.
This surely doesn't lose Amazon money at all, and definitely isn't something that works with almost any item you buy on Amazon, of nearly any value or quality. Definitely don't do this just because you want Amazon to lose money.
we advocate for policies designed to remove barriers to equity
Holy shit that’s the most corpo speak “we don’t believe in affirmative action” policy I’ve ever heard
What a sack of shit
I usually attempt to buy from other sources, but they are fully ingrained in the online market to the point that other vendors usually drop ship from them, sometimes even if there's no price difference because they get commercial discounts that consumers don't.
I haven't bought on Amazon in 6 years. When marketplace vendors from other sites ship Amazon packages to me, I usually report them. I've had two of the marketplaces reply that they had no policy against this, and I let them know that I will choose to shop elsewhere from now on.
It really hasn't been very much trouble to avoid buying from Amazon. There's no shortage of online shops, and Amazon's prices aren't always lower like they used to be.
Well I guess it's a good thing I have begun my 4 years of austerity. I am not spending one dime more than I need to for necessities. I cancelled Amazon Prime a year ago and will be making every effort to buy whatever necessities I usually would get from there elsewhere.
In case anyone needs some toilet break literature:
These idiots have made a mistake, the pendulum always swings back and most Americans didn't vote for Trump.
I hope they don't expect to be welcomed back with open arms once it does.
Taking the first steps to leave Amazon entirely right now. I am never ordering anything from them again.
Remember when Bezos pretended to be in opposition to Trump? That was nice while it lasted.
It's always worth cutting ties with Amazon.
Just about everything is available from somewhere else, and probably cheaper with their enormous fees they charge the sellers.
If it isn't available elsewhere, it's probably an Aliexpress fire hazard anyway.
Just last night I was going through all my subscribe and save items and finding alternatives. I stored them in a spreadsheet (LibreOffice). My last order is already in motion and once delivered that's it. Amazon is gone.
Other changes I've made or am in the process of making:
Where I'm stuck and looking for help: What do I do for my next phone? Android and Apple are both at the table supporting this mess. Linux alternatives seem like huge downgrades at the moment... any advice?
They'll kiss whatever ring they need to kiss. The only moral these people have is "number go up". Fuck this planet.
If only it were easy to opt out of things like AWS.
Just goes to show how corporations actually feel about diversity and equality. They're all racist, sexist and homophobic but they all write their policy to appear like they aren't until they are allowed to show their true colours.
I don't think these jerks quite understand they ain't gonna shove black folks to the back of the bus again. Of course they wont start by trying that but its on their mind.
Good reminder to cancel my Prime membership. My New Year’s resolution was to not purchase anything from Amazon, and so far I’m nailing it.
Hahahaha!
Its funny how these corpos were praised when they raised the LGBT colors, back then they were the moral compas of the western societies, now they're "fascist".
Maybe people won't forget that the companies would do anything in order to increase profits. They never cared about anyone rights, else they wouldn't use slave labor in southeast Asia, or Sub-Saharan Africa.
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