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Shaman says

You are at risk from racism and racists. And they come in all different colors. It’s no good to pretend it isn’t happening. You have to push back, to turn their perfidy back onto them.

Always keep in mind that this bullshit fascination with racism by the left is a deliberate technique to divide us against each other so we can't unify against the traitors who outsourced everything to China.

They say "racism" and you should reply with "this kind of bullshit is why the elite gets away with outsourcing everything to China". Point out that it drives down their wages too. We should be unified against outsourcing.

ThatGuy says

How do we fix this shit?

You don't.....you learn to live with it...go watch some sports ball and get fatter.

Shaman says

Read some history, bro. Civilizations which are too trusting of their neighbors always wind up conquered

This is why I have relaxed into the Reconquista. We are apparently too weak and foolish now to defend ourselves.
I am a pragmatist/pessimist and I can't game-plan out a win under any circumstances, mostly due to birth rate.
My plan is to improve on my high school Spanish so I can communicate, along the lines of: Sí señor jefe, muy bien, volveré al trabajo.
Or just move the fuck back to Montana and put up with the winters.

https://www.politico.eu/article/data-at-risk-amazon-security-threat/

YOUR ORDER HISTORY. Your credit card information. Even your intimate health data.

Amazon is amassing an empire of data as the online retailer ventures into ever more areas of our lives. But the company's efforts to protect the information it collects are inadequate, according to insiders who warn the company's security shortfalls expose users' information to potential breaches, theft and exploitation.

The warnings about privacy and compliance failures at Amazon come from three former high-level information security employees — one EU-based and two from the U.S. — who told POLITICO they had repeatedly tried to alert senior leadership in the company's Seattle HQ, only to be sidelined, dismissed or pushed out of the company in what they saw as professional retaliation.

We can do some important things, first of all never using Amazon.

Patrick says

We can do some important things, first of all never using Amazon.

Easier said than done for some. It's a lifesaver for those in rural areas that are within a couple hour drive from a warehouse (1-2 day shipping). I'd rather stay at home and not have to drive an hour or two round trip sometimes to get certain products.

My town has a grocery store (small), gas station and auto parts store. That's it for retail products. Otherwise it's all service based, restaurants, hair cuts, gyms, etc.

Time is money and that's why Amazon has become successful. Most consumer products purchased have been planned for days or longer. So getting something 2 days later and spending 0 time getting it is of huge value.

I don't mean not to use any online service, just not Amazon.

https://www.target.com/ is pretty good, and is not Amazon.

Patrick says

I don't mean not to use any online service, just not Amazon.

https://www.target.com/ is pretty good, and is not Amazon.

They're likely just as bad though. They just haven't slipped up or bought an online paper/news outlet. Plus everything in Target is from China anyway.

I'm in no way defending Amazon. I don't like the company. I'm just speaking to my situation. I'd be in the car 5-8 hours extra every month if I didn't use Amazon. Between the wife and I that 60-100 hours a year has value for family time, but also financially. ~2 weeks of work. That's almost $10k of us driving around picking up products that could have been shipped while we relaxed or made more money for whatever the prime fee is ($119?).

It's similar to Chase. I don't like Chase. But I'm making them pay me $5-9k per year in airfare. Tax free. We don't pay interest. Just got back from an awesome golf trip in Phoenix I would have never done because airfare would have been 2 rounds of golf. Chase paid for that. So I'm fucking them over.

If there's any kind of Amazon card open it, get the bonus, pay it off immediately and close it if you so choose. As a partner card you can screw probably Chase (or whatever bank) and Amazon at the same time. Have all your friends do it. These rewards programs cost a lot of money, but for every 2 people that pay it off, 8 don't and pay 20% interest. If there was a disciplined effort like Gamestop, you could move the market.

Unlikely, but if you wanted to stick it to these big guys it's the route to go outside of negative reviews and minor stuff like that.

WookieMan says

Easier said than done for some. It's a lifesaver for those in rural areas that are within a couple hour drive from a warehouse (1-2 day shipping). I'd rather stay at home and not have to drive an hour or two round trip sometimes to get certain products.

That's what's called sacrifice! Not that you don't already, or that you necessarily should in this case.

Imagine if you got your community to rally and people 'picked up orders' for others while they were in town. The larger town, nearby, whatever that is. And news spread so other small communities started to do it. Then amazon got bent. Retailers started to move into your small town, because they can actually survived, etc...

just_passing_through says

Imagine if you got your community to rally and people 'picked up orders' for others while they were in town. The larger town, nearby, whatever that is. And news spread so other small communities started to do it. Then amazon got bent. Retailers started to move into your small town, because they can actually survived, etc...

I like the creativity here!

But still, all retailers are at a disadvantage to Amazon because they need wait staff and a storefront, while Amazon does not.

Yeah, just a utopian idea...

WookieMan says

Time is money and that's why Amazon has become successful.

That and the massive subsidy of non-reciprocated free trade and the International Postal Union rates as a developing country for China.

Trump upped the postal rates for China. Did Joe move them back down?

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/3/1/22307870/amazon-new-app-icon-mustache-shave-change-design-update

Amazon shaves app icon mustache that raised eyebrows



Some stupid liberal thought that the one on the left somehow looked like Hitler, complained, and Amazon changed their logo.

zzyzzx says

Some stupid liberal thought that the one on the left somehow looked like Hitler, complained, and Amazon changed their logo.

Do people have life's anymore? I know we all dick around on patnet, but this is just absurd. It's a fucking logo of a company I don't like, but it's absolutely stupid to complain about a logo. Get a hobby.

zzyzzx says

Some stupid liberal thought that the one on the left somehow looked like Hitler,

It DOES look like a twisted Feminist SJW version of Hitler. I'm sure there are multitudes of people who sold on the Amazon platform to have their unique product copied by Amazon and got undersold into oblivion, who would not find the comparison extreme.

Patrick says

Here is an online alternative to Amazon:

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They don't discount as much off the cover price though.

And every book they promote is Wokie Dokey from Ibrahim X Kendi to "Caste" to "Dear Black Girl". Still, they ain't Bezos.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll sent them a note and remove the links from this site.

Just wait for June when every woke company will try outgay each other making America look like clown world.

Fortwaynemobile says

Just wait for June when every woke company will try outgay each other making America look like clown world.

And next year, a national Pedophile Day.

Every family will be expected to sacrifice at least one child to the pedophiles each year, to prove they are not bigots.

If they refuse, Pantyfa and BLM will set their house on fire.

Then the NY Times and WaPo will call the house burnings "justice".