People need to cancel Amazon prime instead
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I'll be doing that soon enough...
Same just gotta do this last dog food order..
bezos would learn his lesson if his actual life was in danger and not just his money. people will have to get serious if they want to send a message.
Over 250k now
next start finding alternatives to Amazon
Yeah but what am I going to do for my next space flight? The options are down to Bezos, or Musk.
Why can't someone like Taylor Swift start a space exploration company?
we will likely die before we need space flight so we might as well take Amazon down with us
I'm glad this happens in a world where newspapers endorse candidates, but I also don't get why newspapers are allowed to endorse candidates in the first place. I guess that is the least of our concerns when you look at media bias, but still....
Newspapers are allowed to endorse candidates because the first amendment protects free speech. While I may agree with you that endorsements and news media stumping for ANY candidate is problematic and reeks of propaganda, it is, for better or worse, protected by the constitution.
Indeed, it's a shame that companies are considered people.
For anyone seeing this, there is a great documentary from decades ago called "The Corporation". It's extremely prescient at all times, but especially now.
Think of it in terms of "out in the open". Fwiw most (all) media orgs have a bias and as such are more likely to endorse a certain candidate. That could be President, it could be mayor. Would you rather have that endorsement in the open or hidden in context?
I'd rather have neutral, fact based reporting. That one party endorses “alternative facts” was a choice by that party. It doesn't mean that people more grounded in reality are biased.
In other words: if you are an US-American news source that reports neutrally, the vast majority of your staff will be voting Democrats.
You ain't wrong. That's what makes this world increasingly fucked up.
What's that saying? "The truth tends to have a natural bias to the left" or some shit like that.
Because I don’t follow the ins and outs of local news or local politics. If the journalists following the school board controversies on a daily basis have a better opinion on who should be on the school board or county judge role, I will trust them.
I mean when the choice is either facism or democracy, I'd assume being unbiased is a little hard. After all, the nazis did attack the press first to instill propaganda.
Freedom of speech
I stopped reading Washington post when they made everything paywall.
Don’t regret it at all, plenty of other better articles online.
It would hurt this sociopath Bezos a lot more if people also canceled Amazon services en mass
To anyone unsubscribing: Remember to subscribe somewhere else instead. If not you're just helping Bezos achieve his goal of the death of journalism.
@[email protected] is one good alternative.
As others have said, if you want to hurt Bezos, target Amazon.
Most of the web runs on AWS good luck avoiding Amazon
Just about a third anyhow. Remember the great fiasco where an engineer was turning off one server and mistakenly turned them alll off and Facebbok etc was down for 6 hours? Like a goddamn dream... a wonderful place.
Like setting fire to the Amazon and stuff?
As a species we're clearly doing our very best
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WaPo - "Democracy dies in darkness"
Bezos - "I can deliver darkness to everyone in America in 2 days or less"
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Something darkly funny to me is all the people who work there whose job it is to grow subscribers seeing their last three years of hard work flushed down the drain on the whims of the owner.
I'd love to sit in on performance reviews for Q4's end.
I’ve been there. It sucks sooooooooo much. Especially if you’ve made family sacrifices (missing events etc.) to travel to get those deals closed - just to see them just evaporate in a whim.
That’s why I got out of Tech Sales and into management.
Finally got around to canceling my Prime membership. I've been relying on Amazon to get all the shit I can't buy in person, but I'll figure out some other way to get those.
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The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
200,000 so far
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Holy shit, that number is huge, in terms of their paid subscribers.
Man, Trump is such a bad businessman that he kills other people's companies as well.
It looks like Trump owns Bezos.
Race is on to be the worlds first Trillionaire. So many people to shit on to get that high score and only one person will help them get there.
Three of the top 10 viewed stories on the Post’s website Sunday were articles written by Post staffers outraged by Bezos’ decision. The top one was humor columnist Alexandra Petri’s piece, headlined, “It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president.”
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