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Bezos deletes 'LGBTQ+ rights' and 'equity for Black people' from Amazon policies
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Mask off season.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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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!
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I tried to save yall by voting for Kamala
same here homie, same here.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not saying you shouldn't vote with your wallet, but it is basically in vain. Amazon is all but a tax subsidy at this point.
I've held off for a while because I'm somewhat rural and I do order a bunch of stuff, but I can't keep paying this asshole.
Just sucks I'm going to be spending a lot more now that I'll have to pay for shipping costs :(
Are your shipping costs higher because you’re rural?
I ask because a lot of people assume going off Amazon will be pricier, but I’ve often found that Amazon prices are inflated mask the price of shipping.
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I commend your efforts... But like, now you're paying exon more for being part of a less streamlined delivery logistics pipeline.
It's just like... Unless we're talking food, or basically becoming Amish, voting with your dollar makes almost 0 dent in evil. Capitalism is Bloodsport.
And even with food... Like, other than buying eggs from your neighbor who keeps chickens and buying produce at a farmers market, we're pretty much had by the balls as far as being forced to pay some evil piece of shit to exist.
Yeah it's definitely a "which planet destroying fascist enabling asshole" do I want to pay...
Great choices we have. :/
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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.
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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.
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Oh yeah, by all means, stop using all Amazon related services, then realize that about 50% of web services for banking, agriculture, logistics, infrastructure, telecommunications, research and development, industry, transportation, healthcare and energy are hosted on AWS
"Oh but my service is hosted on GCP"
Yeah and what do you think is the fallback in case of DRP?
I mean we can all do our small part. 🤷♂️ Something is better than nothing.
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Yes AWS is the standard for most of the internet, but do you think Amazon won't notice if a whole bunch of users en masse decide to stop buying things from their warehouses?
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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.
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"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.
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Okie-dokie.
I guess I can delete "slow down if I see Jeff Bezos crossing the street" from my policies.
Sounds like another great reason for Amazon workers to organize a labor union.
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.
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@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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wonder what makes the author of the article think that Bezos did this. The CEO of Amazon has been Andy Jassy since 2021.
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In case anyone needs some toilet break literature:
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.
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Taking the first steps to leave Amazon entirely right now. I am never ordering anything from them again.
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Remember when Bezos pretended to be in opposition to Trump? That was nice while it lasted.
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:
- FB + IG -> PixelFed
- Reddit -> Lemmy (lemm.ee)
- X -> BlueSky
- Tesla hasn't been on my wish list for a while -> Rivian or another alternative... wish I could say Xiaomi
- YouTube -> PeerTube, LibreTube, piped.video, invidious
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?
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