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Oligarch Bezos Acting Invincible: WE the People Need To Boycott

LeeAnn Hall at the nonprofit National Campaign for Justice(https://bit.ly/4qtWBsB) reports that Bezos is collaborating with another oligarch Peter Theil’s software company Palantir to create an ICE surveillance data network through its AWS(Amazon Web Services) cloud server

This report comes on top of the recent layoff of 30% of WaPo(Washington Post) by Bezos as many view this as a neutering of the once prominent news organization and spending $75m on the flopped Melania documentary(Rotten Tomatoes rating 5% most recently) Bezos wants to automate Amazon to continue his layoffs going forward

So Bezos has become like Theil and Musk an oligarchic pawn for the Cheeto led Nazi Republican party The corporate greed fuels this whole Cheeto enterprise and rest assured these oligarchs will in some way try to subvert the 2026 midterms which is already underway with Musk pouring millions into Nazi Republican political campaigns thinking they will be able to buy the elections

Amazon as a company needs to feel economic pain as much as WE the People can muster WE use the service for convenience but WE need to find other ways to get products

Yellow Dog's avatar

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Yellow Dog's avatar

Capitalism kills. Period. Full stop.

Roslyn Reid's avatar

I'd be very surprised if RFKwack receives any blowback for this. Look at the SCOTUS judge confirmations during Donald's last reign. Every one of them lied during confirmation hearings, even tho that's a federal crime.

Yellow Dog's avatar

This is why would should have (and must in the future) expand the court. These sphincters impersonating justices are young. Expansion is the only means by which we can answer these never-say-die injustices.

Roslyn Reid's avatar

Sphincters, LOL! Actually I am more in favor of reducing the court. Fat chance, since it's a lot harder.

Lukium's avatar

I'm with you here. I'm for removing some of the Justices currently on there. Thomas for corruption. All 3 put in by Trumpstein because anyone who fomented an insurrection should not get to have any lasting impact in the country (would be down for some kind of partial/full nullification of his terms. And just like the Constitution doesn't say that the Senate "must" immediately provide advice and consent (McConnell's trick), it doesn't say you can't nullify a president's term either.

Roslyn Reid's avatar

I like the idea of nullifying a president's term. But what basis could we do it on? Also, I don't think we would be able to remove those 3 justices just because the president who nominated them was impeached--they were confirmed by Congress. :(

Lukium's avatar

On the basis that he essentially murdered Americans for exercising their 1st/2nd Amendment rights, and that he violated the civil rights of what will likely be hundreds of thousands of people by what amounts to kidnapping and trafficking them out of the country, sometimes to torture/death camps (when you get to CECOT they typically tell you that you're not leaving alive), on the mere assertion that they're gang members without ever allowing them due process. Plus he tried the insurrection/coup back in 2020/2021. This is so far beyond 'impeachment offences' that I can't see another solution, and anyone that has done that (and by proxy any party that has aided/allowed these things to happen) should not get to keep any "political gains" from the time periods. To allow that to happen is to create an incentive for it to happen again. I say nullify both terms and everything that happened throughout them that was of a political nature. (no need to nullify regular procedural stuff, though anything of durability like the tax cuts/BBB/judicial appointments would go out the window)

Roslyn Reid's avatar

Are you familiar with "Helter Skelter"? Suggested reading. What you're saying is a kind of Charlie Manson situation--technically, Charlie didn't murder anybody (which he said til the day he died). Nevertheless, he was convicted on first-degree murder charges; but getting it done was very tricky. The only advantage we have with Donald is that everything was public & on video. It's making the connection beyond a reasonable doubt which is difficult. And it will prolly take forever.

LAURIE KAFKA's avatar

This was child abuse. And once again, no one will ever pay for this crime. Our country is mess. I believe that anyone who thinks this is okay has deep psychological problems. We will not see even one of the Rs in Congress say a word about this because they have become fascists themselves. But this was anti humanity, and heads SHOULD roll.

Jack WAUGH's avatar

Which people are meant by "trans people"?

Yellow Dog's avatar

People who are trans. One cannot present as “smart” and “bigot.”

Jack WAUGH's avatar

How can they tell whether they qualify as "trans"?

Lukium's avatar

How can you tell you’re hungry — and what would it even mean to prove it to someone who’s determined not to believe you?

Jack WAUGH's avatar

From a pattern of having the same feeling after not having eaten for too long and not having the feeling right after eating. I don't know that a feeling can be absolutely proven if doubted, but there is evidence that we and other animals change behavior in response to history of eating, consistent, by and large, with needs for survival and reproduction.

Lukium's avatar

Right, so it's an inner feeling you experience. Same thing with gender. It's an inner feeling that you experience about how you fit in the world around you, independent of the plumbing you're born with. Not something that can be determined by pure examination anymore than someone can determine whether or not you feel hungry by pure examination.

Jack WAUGH's avatar

Do you experience gender as an inner feeling?

Yellow Dog's avatar

Accept what they say. That’s what secure people do.

Jack WAUGH's avatar

And if asked about myself? How do I determine the correct answer?

Lukium's avatar

It's between you and those who you trust to help you understand yourself, whether it's your family/doctors, and nobody else's business.