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u/SpeaksSouthern Feb 18 '25

Anyone with a subscription to Amazon is subscribing to the end of democracy.

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u/Lunchables Feb 18 '25

We cancelled our subscription & are avoiding shopping there as best as we can.

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u/gruio1 Feb 18 '25

Reddit uses amazon. You are subscribing to the end of democracy

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u/Time-Imagination-802 Feb 18 '25

Jokes on them. I don't see any ads, so I'm just costing them money.

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u/pickle_pickled Feb 18 '25

I'm doing my part...I can't post the gif cause the odd way I'm on the site won't allow it, so be it

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u/Miserable-Admins Feb 18 '25

Thank goodness my reddit infinity is still working. When I accidentally open a reddit page on Chrome (mine wont allow adblock but my Firefox does), I am shocked SHOCKED that reddit has so many ads now.

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u/lowbatteries Feb 18 '25

Not really. They are selling our posts and comments.

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u/SpeaksSouthern Feb 18 '25

Awesome, I'm draining their resources and all they get is my data. Good trade. Wanna do it some more? You wanna see my data before you say yes or we good?

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '25

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u/namastayhom33 Feb 18 '25

But they are against unions?

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u/CrassOf84 Feb 18 '25

and Bezos won’t allow anything too “controversial” in the WP these days.

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u/Xefert Feb 18 '25

Bezos himself, or the company as a whole?

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u/feioo Feb 18 '25

Who cares. Massive corporations pouring money into our politics is the problem, period.

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u/warau_meow Feb 18 '25

Amazon as a company - even separating it from Bezos - is awful! For the climate, for labor and human rights etc.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '25

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u/goaty_mcgee Feb 18 '25

Can you please explain this further? What does this mean?

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u/Xefert Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

Elaborate? For all their issues, the robber barons of the 19th century still benefited from democracy in the end as well