• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Not sure how transparency in the “most transparent administration EVAR” is hostile or political.

    Honestly, every vendor should have this kind of transparency. Why shouldn’t I know how much donvict is taxing me?

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Amazon already walked back this plan. Story should read, “Capitalist only brave enough to stand up to the poors.”

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    12 hours ago

    TFW Jeff Fucking Bezos is a voice of reason in this shitstorm…

    Should double down and put a goofy orange face saying “I did that” pointing at all the Trump tariffs.

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      10 hours ago

      What are you talking about lol. Jeff Bezos is doing the only thing Jeff Bezos does, stuff that’s good for Jeff Bezos. This is giant leverage that tells the Trump administration “we have big tools at our disposal if you don’t make us happy with whatever economic policies we do end up with”. He displayed that leverage, it turned into a news story, and behind closed doors, a shift occurred, likely minor, in the ever-evolving power dynamic between the two pricks.

      Don’t get it twisted. These dudes and the rest like them will never help us except in the most casually incidental way.

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    13 hours ago

    Greed finds a way to get too big. However, it is self-destructive and therefore short-lived. Greed is so selfish, it eats itself alive till there is one last malignant tumor cell standing, and with him ends the entire disease, sometimes only to reappear a few decades later when old memories have faded and the wisdom wasn’t fully taught and/or learned. Like a body fights a foreign body, humanity collectively needs to isolate, acknowledge, and curb the evil of greed. Humanity will eventually evolve to learn this important lesson and make sure this mistake isn’t repeated.

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    15 hours ago

    Did MAGAts think the guy who made his employees piss in Gatorade bottle would just absorb the cost of these tariffs?

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      11 hours ago

      The far right keep comparing this to some kind of effort in the past like WWII and things like “victory gardens”.

      Thing is - they have not explained to anyone what the hoi polloi are supposed to get out of any of this mess? The idea of shifting the tax burden on the poor and middle class so that supposedly jobs will at some future point maybe possibly, without any kind of plan, will come back here…but the rich will DEFINITELY benefit if income tax is dropped.

      But yeah, we are all supposed to plant “victory gardens” and raise chickens or whatever the fuck, because Faux “News” says so. So yeah, dipshits like donvict’s Nazi Barbie probably really do think Amazon should eat the cost. You know, for “freedom”.

  • Wilco@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    Isn’t this what he purchased … I mean, the campaign he donated to … or, what he voted for?

    It’s so stupid. Trump yelled “Tariffs Tariffs”, people on the left said that’s dumb and won’t work, people on the right Googled “TF is a TARRIF?” (spelled wrong). Now they are shocked because Trump implemented Tarrifs.

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    15 hours ago

    “Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?” Leavitt asked.

    Because Biden didn’t affect Chinese inflation? You fucking rubes.

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    16 hours ago

    Sure it’s Leopards, but how is Bezos reporting the truth of the cost a hostile act?

    This is such a Cluster B personality disorder style reaction. Malignant narcissists lash out at anyone who contradicts or provides evidence against their false reality, and every malignant narcissist constructs a false reality for themselves and the people around them. Classic. Toxic. Definitely a page from the cluster B personality disorder playbook.

    I’m no defender of Bezos, but the additional costs need to be publicized.

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    16 hours ago

    Imagine being such a psychopathic piece of shit that you would unironically complain that telling people the truth about what you’re doing to them is a hostile act.

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    16 hours ago

    Maybe if Amazon gave our Non Corrupt President just a COUPLE MORE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in “donations” then they can get an Exemption?

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      My fear is that’s the plan all along. The tariffs created such a mess that it is nearly impossible to even follow the law and pay exactly as much is required.

      It’s possible that the idea is the businesses will get exemptions for cooperating with the government.