"Let’s be clear about what this really is. This is not restructuring. This is not belt-tightening. This is not a difficult but necessary business decision.

This is capitulation to authoritarianism.

While journalists were being purged from The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos chose to spend approximately $75 million funding a movie about Melania Trump."

~ Ben Meiselas

#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/a-letter-to-jeff-bezos-and-the-washington

@nazokiyoubinbou @wdlindsy Amazon did an amazing job of convincing everyone that “you need it sooner, we can do it” and…convincing companies that they really didn’t need to have all that inventory, we (Amazon) can handle it for you, as well as shipping.

Even if you order a product from website ABC, there’s a good chance your product will be handled and shipped by Amazon. Them’s the facts.

But each of us could buy less, stream less, get rid of Prime, etc. And buy local if you can.

@grammasaurus @wdlindsy Honestly, I couldn't care less about when I get a thing usually. Plus it's usually only a day's difference anyway. If that.

Again, for many of us, it's about cost. And we can turn to, say, Walmart, or sometimes even Target, but they're both bad too... (Target used to be ok, but not anymore.)

And I mean, buy local is great, but A. costs more as mentioned already, B. going inside COVID-19 infection zones, and C. fewer options.

All we can do is our best I guess.

@grammasaurus @wdlindsy (BTW, the other half of "buy local" is sometimes local = MAGAts... Even if I buy local I'm supporting bad people.)

I just hate so much that everything is like this now.

@nazokiyoubinbou @wdlindsy I don’t have an easy answer for you. When I lived in a town of 1500 people I experienced some of what you mentioned—esp the higher prices part. I did learn to shop a lot less though! Now I’m in a town of 15,000 where a lot of people take pride in ‘buy nothing’ clubs, and repair cafes.

@grammasaurus @wdlindsy I don't really have much income, so the shopping a lot less part I have down pat.

Mostly I just wanted to say the things that just needed to be said aloud. Most of it we already know. Boycotting one means going to another, but the other is just as bad. Boycott them too and you got to something else that is bad.

Really what it comes down to is people, as a whole, never should have let things get this bad. I don't know how we get out of this anymore.

@mathematicalsynesthesia I have no idea. Do you have some links to reliable sources to back those claims up?

@wdlindsy was my source a reliable one?

@mathematicalsynesthesia I don't see a source in what you said beyond your own assertion. If you could point me to a source, I'd be grateful.

@wdlindsy I literally put the website with Jonathan V Last original essay called the case for the empire:

Here once again: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1881387/the-case-for-the-empire-2/

@wdlindsy looks like you were just trying to deflect since I have provided sources and no answer

@mathematicalsynesthesia Sources? What sources?