I have one outstanding order that is already out for delivery. Once I get that, I’m closing my amazon account. I’m done. Buy nothing. Vote with your wallet. Edit: account is closed. get bent Bozos.
lol fucker, we already knew.
Wait, rainbow capitalism wasn’t sincere?
I left the Amazon ecosystem a couple of years ago because fuck Bezos and it wasn’t a big deal, really. Accumulating stuff is a mindset I could reason myself out of. I call it the power of No, thank you. I buy mostly second hand now and it’s so calming. Saves me money as well.I tried to save yall by voting for Kamala
I think the vast majority of Americans on Lemmy did the same.
We did but somehow they still want us to thank them for that being the start and end of their actions.
I hope they don’t hold their breath on getting a thank you from everyone
I’ve never asked for thanks nor have I seen even a single Lemming ask for thanks for their vote.
I have. Go into a comment section on political shitposts
I’m not going to go out of my way for this conversation. Send me a link, otherwise I’ll keep an eye out during my usual browsing.
Also, I think the fact that the comments you claim that you saw are in the political shitposting community should be a sign for you.
“I tried to save you from the empire by voting for the empire”
Honestly, fuck Americans and their insane discourse. Absolutely psychotic, delusional, brainwashed bullshit. You have NO fucking clue what is happening on this planet. This society is a plague on the world, just unleashing an endless series of massacres, and none of you even understand why.
The fact that you would vote for someone complicit in genocide, without even figuring out WHY, and actually think you did something GOOD. My fucking god. And nobody reply to me with this “Trump would have been 5% worse” bullshit, because I’m done hearing it. You are not the heroes of the story. You’ve been indoctrinated to support “global military empire lite” with your fear of “global military empire original”. You sacrifice the lives of the victims of the empire for your illusion of democracy and quality of living, that never existed in the first place. Stop fucking patting yourselves on the back.
Brooooo, it’s not like any of us were thrilled with Kamala either. But in comparison to Trump I was excited for her.
Trust me, we all get that both options weren’t optimal, but we don’t get an optimal option. We get 2 options, and one is usually better than the other. If we keep picking the better one, over time things improve.
People like you tend to protest by not voting at all, or voting third party (which is essentially the same under our current structure). If we had compulsory voting, I highly doubt Trump would have won.
Trust me, we all get that both options weren’t optimal, but we don’t get an optimal option. We get 2 options, and one is usually better than the other. If we keep picking the better one, over time things improve.
People like you tend to protest by not voting at all, or voting third party (which is essentially the same under our current structure). If we had compulsory voting, I highly doubt Trump would have won.
No single drop of water blames itself for the flood. There are 240 million eligible voters, who all have the choice, collectively and individually, to vote for ANYONE. Somehow you are all completely incapable of blaming the entire group for its continual decisions to vote for war criminals and genociders. Rather, you completely invert the blame onto those who DON’T vote for those people. Literally, you ignore the blame for the only people actually responsible, and instead blame the only people NOT responsible. Given the massive efforts to brainwash the public regarding this political system, it’s nearly impossible to not see this as a product of brainwashing as well, because this self-defeating pattern completely neuters any attempt for real political change.
By the way, the Senate just voted 99-0 to confirm Marco Rubio. Including Bernie Sanders, Van Hollen, Booker, Warren, every Democrat. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00008.htm Explain that to me once you get done explaining how the Democrats are really the underdog opposition.
Trust me, we all get that both options weren’t optimal, but we don’t get an optimal option. We get 2 options, and one is usually better than the other. If we keep picking the better one, over time things improve.
Also, no, they fucking don’t. The system presenting you with these manufactured options continually clamps down its chokehold on the world as you continue on in your delusion of political choice. It absolutely boggles my fucking mind how after a year and a half of open genocide you think there’s some kind of autonomy between the Democrats and Republicans.
Do you not understand how FTTP works? Theres too many liberals who genuinely want empire lite, trying to make an actual progressive happen outside the party would just split the left-of-trump vote
There is no solution for a population voting incorrectly than for them to correct their behavior. You have no point.
Well there’s a few, but encouraging them would get me banned. Unfortunately, most peoppe are NPCs, robots made of gore who act entirely in accordance with natural instinct and emotion, you have to politic around that or nothing will get done
Deleting LGBTQ policies is nothing compared to the slow drum of global warming that might wipe us out as a species.
I tried to save y’all by advocating for third parties, who would actually bring in the same level of EO you’re seeing from Trump but instead to focus on education, military cuts, and moving towards green and nuclear
Voting third party in a two party horse race is a fool’s errand. Especially if you voted for known Putin stooge Jill Stein, who was only running to steal away votes from Kamala Harris. She knew she didn’t stand a chance at winning.
Voting “third” party only fails because the great mass of fucking morons who insist on voting for the genocidal, global empire terrorist pieces of shit currently in charge. You can try as hard as you want to deflect that blame, but it will never wash off.
I like your sentiment, but a two party system inherently uses third party votes as spoilers. It is common for the dominate party to support a third party to peel away votes from their major opposition.
One solution to this is ranked voting. Of course many of our politicians recognize this and have already passed laws at the state level to bar ranked voting under the pretense that it is too confusing for voters.
Nailed it - I’ll consider a 3rd party vote on equal-footing once we have ranked/ranked choice voting in place. Right now, I think there’s a higher probability for one of the two parties to consider this so in other words… it’s going to be a while…
Whatever party is in power has a lot to lose from ranked voting and nothing to gain. This will make this reform very hard to pass. I live in Alaska and we have ranked voting that narrowly avoided a repeal this last year after passing the previous year.
There is no legal enshrinement of a “two party system”. Whoever the public votes for wins. The public’s self-defeating mentality is the problem.
Not explicitly. Just effectively. Between first past the post, which naturally evolves into a two party system. And the electoral college which enshrines it. At the national level actual, independent 3rd parties are an impossibility. And they know it.
Theoretically matter could spontaneously coalesce into a Boltzmann brain before a 3rd party could win a national election.
first past the post, which naturally evolves into a two party system
this isn’t true.
FPTP doesn’t naturally evolve into a two-party system. Cultural predispositions cause that. The electoral college does not enshrine it, it - sometimes - hands the elector votes to the majority winner of the state, and some states even have legal pledges to follow other systems. There is no impossibility. I will repeat myself for the fiftieth time in this thread, THE PUBLIC’S SELF-DEFEATING MENTALITY IS THE PROBLEM. The public TELLS ITSELF a third party is an impossibility, the public DOESN’T VOTE FOR A THIRD PARTY. You will resign yourselves to slavery until you figure this out.
What’s the point of voting for a 3rd party when they have no members in Congress or the courts? They’d have to coalition with Republicans or Democrats anyways.
Exactly, it’s not like the president has all power (at least not yet, we’ll see where it is in a couple years). Without supporting members of the other branches, a third party president is nearly useless. That said, I’d take a useless but well meaning president over Trump.
Well, those morons genuinely support those things. A quarter of voters is not winning an FTTP election
Fuck this guy, with his own dildo rocket straight to any assteroid he wants to mine.
Just goes to show how corporations actually feel about diversity and equality. They’re all racist, sexist and homophobic but they all write their policy to appear like they aren’t until they are allowed to show their true colours.
Companies have no feelings. They just do whatever’s best for the bottom line.
Mask off season.
more like mask flip season. they will implement it back with the same speed they unimplemented next time democrats take charge. I think one should collect all these news and keep them for four years so one can compare the news four years later side by side with these. that is if Trump doesn’t go full monarchy on USA’s ass
next time democrats take charge
Love that optimism!
No. It took literal decades to get those initiatives in place. They were implemented veeerry slowly and only because laws were passed.
It’s always worth cutting ties with Amazon.
Just about everything is available from somewhere else, and probably cheaper with their enormous fees they charge the sellers.
If it isn’t available elsewhere, it’s probably an Aliexpress fire hazard anyway.
maybe it helps your conscience but it’s not going to affect any of these massive corporations. it won’t make a dent in their revenue and they will go on oblivious to your ‘protest’. if you want to make a difference, the only way is [redacted]. when are ya’ll gonna figure this out?
Why are you copy/pasting this… joke?.. all over this thread?
because you children don’t understand how the world works.
we’re all lucky to have you here to educate us lol
What right’s do people not have in USA?
We have lost our rights, had our rights restricted, or have had our rights routinely violated on the following issues:
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bodily autonomy – abortion
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unreasonable search and seizure – the federal government (FBI, NSA) digitally track everyone. Cops can legally take your money and property without cause or due process. Cops selectively enforce laws. State attorneys general selectively enforce laws. The TSA (airport security) is arguably unconstitutional.
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torture and indefinitely imprisoning people without charging them with a crime.
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trans people’s right to bodily autonomy, freedom of liberty, equal rights, equal access to healthcare, etc. Florida is forcibly putting trans inmates in with inmates of the opposite-gender and forcing trans people into conversion therapy. Trans people are facing widespread persecution and legislative genocide, depending on the US state. States are trying to make being trans a crime by calling them “sexually obscene”. I fully expect the federal government will try to do the same, as it’s part of the Project 2025 playbook.
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our court system is overall corrupt and corrupt judges do not rule based on facts, science, what the law says, what is morally right, or what is best for the people.
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the right to a speedy trial is being violated. The right to have a public defender adequately represent you when accused of a crime is being abused and violated.
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slave labor is allowed and legal in this country. Prison inmates are allowed daily temporary release to work for private companies but then the prisons and government steal most of their earnings.
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our human right to a clean environment is being violated. Our water, air, and land is being polluted with a lack of regulation and oversight.
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rights of immigrants, asylum seekers, and others is routinely violated and now, once again, millions of people are being threatened with deportation.
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black people have never had equal rights in this country. I can’t even begin to list the extent of their oppression here. Racism is on the rise politically now too.
I could keep listing points for hours, if not days.
None of those are true or accurate. Maybe don’t break the law, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t groom children, and no, there’s no “trans genocide”
You didn’t lose any rights. You just to can’t force your beliefs on others, similar to religious fanatics. Keep your sexuality and religion to yourselves.
You can be trans. But you don’t need to broadcast it. No one cares. No need for pride parades either. I think parents raising their kids to be more decent and accepting of their peers would be more effective than forcing people to accept it.
You already have rights. You just can’t list it as an achievement or qualification on a resume , or expect to be hired just because you’re trans.
Barack Obama was President. Proof that black people can excel. Oprah Winfrey is one of the richest women in the world. Proof that color is not an obstacle.
Education is, however, an obstacle. Who’d rather become a gang member because they couldn’t pursue education?
I’m not attacking you, this is just my perspective. I just happen to disagree. I wouldn’t think that black people would be proud of being hired solely because of their color rather than merit or for their hard work and education, as for all ethnicities
I think education is more important than “trans or lgbtq rights”.
Abortion? If you have unprotected sex knowing what the true purpose of it is to reproduce, then you should have the child.
If you have multiple abortions because you keep having unprotected sex, that’s irresponsible. Abortions should be limited to rape victims, underage females, incest, and if the mothers life is endangered.95% of abortions are because of elective reasons. They chose to abort it knowing that they can’t afford a baby or whatever reason.
Men also should realize that unprotected sex can lead to pregnancies, so they should take the same amount of precautions.
Prison inmates as slave labor? They shouldn’t have broken any laws. They have to contribute to society or be rehabilitated somehow. Another interesting point. Should prison be a punishment or rehabilitation? I know it’s a bit of both but which way should it teeter?
Hopefully you (we) become less miserable as the years go on.
Take care. Even if your list is inaccurate or exaggerated.
I encourage you to take a college course from a non-religious university that covers any of the above subjects.
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It is a shame it is always the same companies. I can only boycott them once.
maybe it helps your conscience but it’s not going to affect any of these massive corporations. it won’t make a dent in their revenue and they will go on oblivious to your ‘protest’. if you want to make a difference, the only way is [redacted]. when are ya’ll gonna figure this out?
Many of the boycotted corporations have faced massive losses. Enough for some of them to have cut ties or divest.
A boycott does not have to bankrupt a company. A few percent revenue loss is more than enough for them to reconsider. As soon as the losses outweigh the profits to be exact.
Closed my account last night. Made my partner close theirs and cancel prime too.
maybe it helps your conscience but it’s not going to affect any of these massive corporations. it won’t make a dent in their revenue and they will go on oblivious to your ‘protest’. if you want to make a difference, the only way is [redacted]. when are ya’ll gonna figure this out?
I generally agree, but I’m not going to knowingly give money to ghouls who are trying to make my existence worse. I’m not at all against using [redacted] but I do think the idea that boycotts are worthless isn’t correct. Boycotts have been successful in the past, it just requires some solidarity and that part is what has been missing from a lot of the wider calls recently. I do think we could impact their profits. But we can do both this and sabo-[redacted]
Anyone have a good alternative to AWS S3?
Literally anyone else unless you’re a giant business, S3 is super expensive.
I only have experience with on prem, but have heard good things about backblaze.
I don’t put any compute on AWS. I just use it for object storage, which costs me pennies. (I still use heroku for compute and db 😔)
I’m actually looking into Digital Ocean. Based on my needs, I can move all my services over there and it will cost me $25/mo.
I moved from AWS to DO. Definitely cheaper, easier for my setup. Monthly fees less and no reserved instance BS
How do I leave AWS?
I use S3, EC2, SNS (or whatever they call it now), email, cloudfront
I want the same fast servers and CDN. I can probably pay someone else for email and sms services
Not sure if DigitalOcean stacks up in similar ways or not. Also not sure what their politics are.
I’d be curious about options as well.
I left AWS
What did you opt for? On-prem? Colocation? Some other vendor?
I moved to DigitalOcean for now, I thought about selfhosting but I’m not in a great situation for that. They are cheaper, easier, and I’ve been mooching off of their tutorials for a decade. I had to dump a 27GB site that I haven’t touched in at least 10 years and am undecided between a phone notification app or SMS to replace SNS. DO has S3 storage and a CDN. The last bit is just one site that needs some email forwarding but it’s very low priority. $7 droplet and $5 S3 and no one looks at these sites but me so the bandwidth won’t cost me anything most of the time
Taking the first steps to leave Amazon entirely right now. I am never ordering anything from them again.
Ok. And?
How about we just call ourselves Americans instead?
The problem is that a significant violent minority refuses to call people with more melanin in their skin than them that.
Or less melanin. Or sexual preference.
Some melting pot, eh
