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    23 hours ago

    Some Canadian outfit should try selling “11th Province” or “4th Territory” merch to us Oregonians and Washingtonians. We’d buy it.

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      Yea exactly, maybe I’m naive but I hope we’ve chosen Lemmy to eschew the tech oligarchy, including Mr bezos at Amazon inc

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    Rule #1: companies have no ethics. Ever.

    The only way Amazon will change is if it costs them more than it makes them.

    The answer is to boycott them. Cancel your Prime subscription. Find other retailers, or do without. And do NOT go back as soon as they capitulate.

    Companies need to understand that shitty behaviour will lose them customers for life.

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      The answer is to force proper rules upon these US hyperscalers. Fuck them all, if they want to do “business” outside of the impoverished united states, they have to obey the rules of proper countries

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      Economists are the least moral people from any field. My economist friend agrees. They see money as a number, not as a resource people need to survive.

      An economist may agree with the statement: “A starving honebee requires more honey to recover than it will produce in its life. Therefore saving it is a waste.”

      What the statement lacks, is context. Why is the bee starving to begin with? They eat nectar from flowers. So there aren’t enough around. Humans are good at mowing their lawns and placing tiles in their gardens instad of anything useful. Another part is, where is their honey? The bee’s life saving they use to survive winter? Who took it? The humans. And who has the audacity to define the life of a single bee by it’s ability to produce honey? The human.

      Now swap worker bee with working class, human with the rich, and honey with money.

      “Oh these people require medical aid? As if their labour is worth the investment in ther health!”

      Remember, any person providing a service to society, is a valuable person. Be it store cleric or garbage man.

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        Argue enough and you can sometimes even get the full term back! I did! Really laid into them about their union busting and political donations.

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          Cool beans, I should do this.

          Edit: I did this thank you for the suggestion, I was just going to let my account run out and not renew it. I have not used my account for about 2 months and just planned on not renewing bitting the bullet and not worrying about it but now I get $109 back!

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    Fuck it it’s the same crap as Ali express now why not just order from there and cut out the greasy American middle man

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        Not to worry.

        Canada Unity worked hard to scrub it from their servers after the fact, claiming it was being used incorrectly (aka they realized they had published evidence on their website after having whipped up a frenzie about authoritarian rule (and fell silent just a couple years later when the Premier started doing actual charter and rights violations)).

        They also did an award ceremony for the on the ground leaders; I guess if you instigate enough fights with homeless people in shelters and cause X billion in economic damage, you gather enough PPoints for a victory lap and some timbits.

        But it’s been archived.

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        For none Canadians, they are called honkies because they honked their horns for week, not because they are country bumpkins.

        I’m positive there was some overlap, but still mostly separate circles in a Venn diagram.

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        Try selling/saying/teaching/thinking something pro Palestine in the united states (are they even a real country when it’s just a bunch of gay states in a civil union?) and see what happens.

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            Ahshhhhahhaa

            You mod conservative.

            That explains why you got so twitchy about the fact you live in a gay state that is illegally married.

            Suck the shit out of Satan’s asshole you twiddly cum drunk musktard.

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              …You are aware of what happened to the Conservative community, right? Satan runs it because it got taken over after being unmoderated and it was funny to take control of it from the actual conservatives. It’s not an actual conservative community anymore, it makes fun of them instead.

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                The conservative communities I run are very much for conservatives and satire isn’t allowed.

                Now that bigotry, transphobia and misinformation aren’t allowed they aren’t as active as they once were though.

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            They’re just united states. It isn’t really a marriage. Just states, joined in unholy matrimony. How can they be a real country if it is just a civil union?

            Under the current admin civil unions (gay marriage ) will soon be illegal.

            Also, musk said Canada wasn’t a real country so it’s also a play on that.

            Edit: Aww. Two Sad people with no humour who love America and no reading comprehensiom skills (redundant, i know) Well at least i don’t live in that shithole country. If you think I am being homophobic or hyperbolic, your reading skills need work.

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      See the thing is there are tons of these fucks who have badges….

      There is a Rage Against the Machine song that comes to mind.

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    I’ve stopped using Amazon since November - also canceled my Prime. I realized how awful this company has made us become.

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    It’s just much easier to stop using them. Remember: its founder and largest shareholder (I guess) was one of the billionaire groupies standing behind Trumd during his inauguration. Canadians should not be shopping on Amazon.

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      I had planned on just stopping using them, it was going to be simple I was just going to bite the bullet and not renew my plan. Someone else suggested you can cancel your plan and get a refund for your remaining time, however it was suggested by someone else that you call and you lay on the union busting card and you can get the full year refunded. I did that now in 3 to 5 days I will get $109 credited back to my card, the number you call is 1 877 586 3230.

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    I’m on like year 7 of an Amazon boycott.

    Amazon will not remove these I guarantee it. At best they’ll say it’s free speech and ignore the comments.

    Boycott them. It works if we all do it.

    (I know our boycotts are working because I just got an email offering a $300 4 night stay in Orlando with $100 USD restaurant gift certificate. The suite offered usually goes for $820. Keep at it!)

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      I was going to ask them what they were requiring to redeem that offer, but you’d have to go to Orlando.

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      I just got an email offering a $300 4 night stay in Orlando with $100 USD restaurant gift certificate.

      To subscribe to Amazon Prime?