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God I hate sites that instantly play video ads. Like if I want my phoneplan fast data going to that. Wanted to read. Did not.
"Democracy dies in darkness" said the guy turning off the fucking lights
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.
It is a shame it is always the same companies. I can only boycott them once.
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.
@[email protected] 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 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.
Now will people leave Twitch? What about companies that contract with AWS?
The cooperation of capital and government is an integral part of fascist regimes. They where never your friends and have no ideology beyond their profits by any means.
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.
Taking the first steps to leave Amazon entirely right now. I am never ordering anything from them again.
What a sack of shit