• Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    Or could it actually be that Bezos is pissed at Trump and is sticking it to him to make him look bad?

    Sometimes, things are actually as they seem. Straight paths are straight.

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      I admit that I’m being conspiratorial here. But even if it’s wasn’t a planned ahead, doesn’t the fact that Bezos folded minutes after the public learned about this tariff pricing scheme serve the same purpose?

      To all the business people, Bezos looks like the first guy to fight the gorilla, but I’m having trouble accepting that he was either brave or ever in any danger.

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        The fact that Bezos folded after a short time is because Trump is just fucked enough in the head to try and destroy his business or kill him. Remember, that barely sentient cantaloupe has the might of the US military behind him.

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      Yeah I think this is the right take - and for the record this is a well known weakness of fascism that consolidating power in a unified center is difficult because of all the different fashy interests duking it out for their own piece of the pie and sometimes it spills out onto the streets in a situation like this.

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      11 hours ago

      Bezos has one goal: self enrichment.
      If Trump’s in the way, he’s going to be a petty bitch about it.
      Honestly as big of a piece of shit as bezos is, he’s ten times better then musk.
      Musk has multiple goals:

      1. self enrichment.
      2. create a fascist state.
      3. do as much irreparable damage as possible
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        Honestly as big of a piece of shit as bezos is, he’s ten times better then musk

        While I don’t disagree on character level, I think what bezos has done with amazon is probably much worse for the climate than anything Musk has done.

        Amazon really enabled consumerism on steroids, where people buy tons and tons of goods often not because of real needs but because corporations through ads and influencers have talked them into wanting the new shiny stuff. These goods are produced cheaply and with little regard for the environment (or for the people producing them), in some poor asian country and then shipped half way around the planet, often even sent by air mail just because people lack self control and “need” to have their order in the mail immediately. And then, be it because it was an impulse purchase or because of cheap construction or the thing not being hip and new anymore, the stuff goes to a landfill after only months or a few years of use, wasting tons of resourses and energy consumed in prodiction and turning into a burden on the environment again.


        All that is not to say Musk is somehow not as bad, but to say they are both equally very bad people, just for different reasons

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          4 hours ago

          Nazi? No, but very, very bad man? Yes. He’s as bad as you can possibly get without becoming fulll-blown Nazi.