Amazon has gone hard at rightoids between shutting down rightoid social media and Bezos' WaPo going hard at everything right of a drag queen story hour organizer.
Are they hoping rightoids have goldfish memories? Or are they just breaching to the neoliberal choir? Because the later seems pointless, they're already on board with whatever Amazon wants.
Amazon acting like federal reps have anything to do with state policies. Lmao. Why do people always do that? Thatās literally not their job at that level.
He won his most recent senate primary with over 90% of the vote and his most recent senate election with over 60% vote. Going by that Vermont seems to support his policies.
Most people who do this type of thing, attack a representative/senator because their state sucks, either doesnāt know how federal congress works or doesnāt care and just wants quick gotchas. Considering that Sanders has been trying to push for socdem policies for decades its the latter and closeted rightoids radical centrists here will eat it up because it owns the leftoids.
Sure but if you really want to change something you do it at the state level. The Senate is basically a prestigious topiary garden that serves to keep dangerous sociopaths busy so that they can't do anything productive. Any politician who gives a shit and had half a brain gets involved in local or state government.
Yeah its usually more effective for people to get involved with state and local government but that amounts to jack shit if the federal government starts swinging its dick around. If someone wants their stateās policies to be effective then they need the federal government working alongside them, pretending that the senate and house just exist as a politicians retirement home is dumb.
Way to miss the point dumbfuck. I was agreeing with your sentiment that local politicians are often more important than federal people but their policymaking wonāt matter if the federal government says ānoā so having representatives and senators to help with that is also important and acting like they arenāt and/or donāt actually want to make change because they are in the federal government is smoothbrained.
I know how the 10th amendment works. I also know that the federal government has spent a full 2 centuries chipping away at it for better and for worse.
yeah poor states, they only have most of the control over housing, zoning, roads, policing, and education
it's not coincidence that the twitter-addicted regions of the country have let these areas atrophy while they rage against the next national political issue
They made federal highway funding contingent on a raised drinking age. If you didn't raise it, your state was on its own paying for maintenance on a massive road network it couldn't afford
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I don't like Amazon Basics Lex Luthor. I also don't like the senile socialist senator. No matter which of them wins I get some schadenfreude and there is plenty of drama.
Yeah that tends to happen when the rest of the senate is made up of neoliberals and conservatives, canāt actually get socdem policies through in an environment like that. Next time try to fit in the three homes meme while you are at it.
How about the fact that heās so lazy he got kicked out of a commune? He couldnāt accomplish anything even if everyone else was receptive to his ideas.
Most of the radical centrists are libs that think berntards are rslurred just like the rightoids in a separate but equal manner, almost like a horseshoe of being rslurred.
Imagine thinking saying radical centrist sounds less rslurred than being conservative.
You're just doing that very common thing where you assume your views are reasonable and moderate and perceive anyone who disagrees as being an embarrassed rightoid. There are almost no actual rightoid approvedcels.
social democratic policies have been proven to work effectively
At what? Depending on your values what you're claiming the do effectively might be considered inherently undesirable.
I could also argue very effectively that the bulk of political science would indicate that what you call social democracy (assuming you're using a definition that includes things like universal suffrage and minimal checks by which the will of the majority can be dismissed) is undesirable from the perspective of someone that wants to avoid collapse into anarchy followed by tyranny, conquest, or immediate tyranny.
And that's even if we argued from the perspective that had values which would consider European social democracies successful.
But that's neither here nor there.
Not in today's political climate
Props for self awareness and admitting to being a leftoid š
sub has a bit of a rightward bent
I would agree that this sub has a rightward bent compared to the rest of Reddit in some respects. It's certainly economically right of most of Reddit, but that's more a function of our neoliberal users than right wing ones.
Socially we're extremely gay. It also has a long and storied history of cheering on the extermination of whites people. But given that it's also a place for edgy takes and the left are the moralizers these days, that is arguably right of the rest of Reddit. It's iffy though.
But in both cases, the sub is solidly to the left of the average American voter.
And I apologize for all the words words words. I broke my toe and took a pain pill, which tends to make me ramble.
Federal politicians do have power over state policies. You think no Vermont local politician could be influenced by Sanders? They just listen to Burlington Cost Factory and that's it? It's called lobbying. Not just businesses do it.
Isn't Sanders and company doing the same thing? Why just Amazon. I remember when walmart was the bad guy. Why not them? Or fast food joints or the other business that pay a pittance.
The big takeaway here is a corporation referring to their own "minimum wage" as if they were a nation state. But also, as they belittle US government officials.
Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive. In fact, virtually all living creatures emit very weak light, which is thought to be a byproduct of biochemical reactions involving blue checkmarks.
I've never had an issue with Amazon and their being given the Iraq treatment IMO. For comparison I remember when Walmart was growing, shutting down unions. I remember reading stories of women having to do sexual favors to get extra shifts. To me This nothing more than government and big business attacking a successful competitor.
The spotlight is on amazon because of the covid stuff. People started using amazon more and subsequently started paying more attention to them because of that. They were getting shit before but its been amplified now because of that.
Good point. I also think it's because amazon has been killing it and a lot of retailors with shitty management did not adapt. These progressive lefties are just politicking. They want to attack Amazon but are moot on fast foot, Walmart, ect. I find it gross and opportunistic. These are just my thoughts though.
Its the alabama unionization thing too. Walmart cracks down on unions harder and faster than amazon does since walmart is far more willing and able to shut down whole stores to crush any unionization efforts. Fast food unionization is a pipe dream here at the moment. Frankly if progressives can use this as an opportunity to push for more unionization then I fully back their opportunism.
Maybe Bernie hates Amazon bc he tried working in their warehouse back in the day? If he's lazy enough to get kicked out of a commune, then I'd love to see him actually work a real job for once.
Must be nice being a rich career politician.
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12 wizdumb337 2021-03-27
Jesus that's pretty brutal. It's almost elder abuse.
1 Minimum_T-Giraff 2021-03-27
Almost as he is reliving holocaust again.
1 Leylinus 2021-03-27
Yeah, but who are they preaching to?
Amazon has gone hard at rightoids between shutting down rightoid social media and Bezos' WaPo going hard at everything right of a drag queen story hour organizer.
Are they hoping rightoids have goldfish memories? Or are they just breaching to the neoliberal choir? Because the later seems pointless, they're already on board with whatever Amazon wants.
7 escargott 2021-03-27
more drama
https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1375509172549132289?s=21
https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1375529101931520007?s=21
1 Eternal_Mr_Bones 2021-03-27
Looks like we found out what Ńrump's new job is.
1 jubbergun 2021-03-27
More like Amazon poached the guy that was running the Wendy's twitter account.
1 Michelanvalo 2021-03-27
I can't believe these are official tweets. Whoever runs that account has big balls.
5 McFluff_TheCrimeCat 2021-03-27
Amazon acting like federal reps have anything to do with state policies. Lmao. Why do people always do that? Thatās literally not their job at that level.
5 EarlCampbellsMeat 2021-03-27
So the man is supposed to be president but can't even inspire his own state to support his policiesš¤
2 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
He won his most recent senate primary with over 90% of the vote and his most recent senate election with over 60% vote. Going by that Vermont seems to support his policies.
3 EarlCampbellsMeat 2021-03-27
Yet they don't institute them at the state level
1 Drama_Paladin 2021-03-27
Man learns his representatives may not be representing him, more at 11.
1 employee10038080 2021-03-27
Or the national level
0 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Yeah, state governments are complicated.
1 McFluff_TheCrimeCat 2021-03-27
Itās like you donāt know how a state legislature works either apparently.
1 EarlCampbellsMeat 2021-03-27
I didn't even reply to you. Move on creep š¹ā
2 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Most people who do this type of thing, attack a representative/senator because their state sucks, either doesnāt know how federal congress works or doesnāt care and just wants quick gotchas. Considering that Sanders has been trying to push for socdem policies for decades its the latter and
closeted rightoidsradical centrists here will eat it up because it owns the leftoids.5 trailerparkmalarkey 2021-03-27
Sure but if you really want to change something you do it at the state level. The Senate is basically a prestigious topiary garden that serves to keep dangerous sociopaths busy so that they can't do anything productive. Any politician who gives a shit and had half a brain gets involved in local or state government.
3 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Yeah its usually more effective for people to get involved with state and local government but that amounts to jack shit if the federal government starts swinging its dick around. If someone wants their stateās policies to be effective then they need the federal government working alongside them, pretending that the senate and house just exist as a politicians retirement home is dumb.
2 trailerparkmalarkey 2021-03-27
Good point, being a multi-decade lame duck senator is just as essential as a reformist governor or state party leader.
-1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Way to miss the point dumbfuck. I was agreeing with your sentiment that local politicians are often more important than federal people but their policymaking wonāt matter if the federal government says ānoā so having representatives and senators to help with that is also important and acting like they arenāt and/or donāt actually want to make change because they are in the federal government is smoothbrained.
1 RochelleH 2021-03-27
A N G E R Y
1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Yes
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-1 johannesalthusius 2021-03-27
read the 10th Amendment, it'll blow your peabrain
how is the federal government going to wave their dick around re: the minimum wage?
1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
I know how the 10th amendment works. I also know that the federal government has spent a full 2 centuries chipping away at it for better and for worse.
0 johannesalthusius 2021-03-27
yeah poor states, they only have most of the control over housing, zoning, roads, policing, and education
it's not coincidence that the twitter-addicted regions of the country have let these areas atrophy while they rage against the next national political issue
1 TheCorruptedBit 2021-03-27
Every region of the country has let that last area atrophy
1 Funkyduffy 2021-03-27
How did they implement a nationwide drinking age of 21? š¤š¤š¤
1 idio3 2021-03-27
blackmail, iirc.
1 Funkyduffy 2021-03-27
They made federal highway funding contingent on a raised drinking age. If you didn't raise it, your state was on its own paying for maintenance on a massive road network it couldn't afford
1 idio3 2021-03-27
So you agree with me.
1 lickedTators 2021-03-27
Obamacare would like to have a word with you.
1 Coonass_alt 2021-03-27
C0pe
0 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Correct, being purposefully ignorant to own the leftoids is in fact cope.
0 Coonass_alt 2021-03-27
S33THING
1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Hope Bezos sees this bro
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1 jubbergun 2021-03-27
I don't like Amazon Basics Lex Luthor. I also don't like the senile socialist senator. No matter which of them wins I get some schadenfreude and there is plenty of drama.
1 Leylinus 2021-03-27
Based.
1 jubbergun 2021-03-27
More like because it chaps the asses of the Bernie Bros and anyone else who said, "He can still win! Match me!"
1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Rent free
1 RochelleH 2021-03-27
Kek, says he who has dedicated a good few hours to coping over a seat-warming bum of a lifetime public servant.
1 jubbergun 2021-03-27
It would have to be rent free since most of them are unemployed.
1 employee10038080 2021-03-27
He can still win!!! Match me bro
1 AnnoyinTheGoyim 2021-03-27
TIL renaming post offices is pushing for socdem policies.
1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Yeah that tends to happen when the rest of the senate is made up of neoliberals and conservatives, canāt actually get socdem policies through in an environment like that. Next time try to fit in the three homes meme while you are at it.
1 AnnoyinTheGoyim 2021-03-27
How about the fact that heās so lazy he got kicked out of a commune? He couldnāt accomplish anything even if everyone else was receptive to his ideas.
1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Wow, I am no longer a socdem after reading that. I guess the leftoids were in fact owned.
0 not_yet_divorced-yet 2021-03-27
Not gobbling lefty bullshit means you're a heckin nazi
1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Oh no not nazis. Moat of the
rightoidsradical centrists here are just conservatives who are too embarrassed to just say that they are conservatives.1 employee10038080 2021-03-27
Most of the radical centrists are libs that think berntards are rslurred just like the rightoids in a separate but equal manner, almost like a horseshoe of being rslurred.
1 Leylinus 2021-03-27
Imagine thinking saying radical centrist sounds less rslurred than being conservative.
You're just doing that very common thing where you assume your views are reasonable and moderate and perceive anyone who disagrees as being an embarrassed rightoid. There are almost no actual rightoid approvedcels.
1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Correct, social democratic policies have been proven to work effectively
Not in todayās political climate, Iāll wait for the Overton window to shift a bit to call them moderate.
The ratio of shitting on rightoids to shitting on leftoids shows pretty clearly that this sub has a bit of a rightward bent.
1 Leylinus 2021-03-27
At what? Depending on your values what you're claiming the do effectively might be considered inherently undesirable.
I could also argue very effectively that the bulk of political science would indicate that what you call social democracy (assuming you're using a definition that includes things like universal suffrage and minimal checks by which the will of the majority can be dismissed) is undesirable from the perspective of someone that wants to avoid collapse into anarchy followed by tyranny, conquest, or immediate tyranny.
And that's even if we argued from the perspective that had values which would consider European social democracies successful.
But that's neither here nor there.
Props for self awareness and admitting to being a leftoid š
I would agree that this sub has a rightward bent compared to the rest of Reddit in some respects. It's certainly economically right of most of Reddit, but that's more a function of our neoliberal users than right wing ones.
Socially we're extremely gay. It also has a long and storied history of cheering on the extermination of whites people. But given that it's also a place for edgy takes and the left are the moralizers these days, that is arguably right of the rest of Reddit. It's iffy though.
But in both cases, the sub is solidly to the left of the average American voter.
And I apologize for all the words words words. I broke my toe and took a pain pill, which tends to make me ramble.
1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Stop appropriating my political movementās culture. Iām not reading all that.
1 Leylinus 2021-03-27
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1 lickedTators 2021-03-27
Federal politicians do have power over state policies. You think no Vermont local politician could be influenced by Sanders? They just listen to Burlington Cost Factory and that's it? It's called lobbying. Not just businesses do it.
1 Alicesnakebae 2021-03-27
Does the person running that account work for Amazon i thought they were just a corp simp
1 __TIE_Guy 2021-03-27
Isn't Sanders and company doing the same thing? Why just Amazon. I remember when walmart was the bad guy. Why not them? Or fast food joints or the other business that pay a pittance.
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0 Coonass_alt 2021-03-27
C0pe
5 LANDLORD___MESSIAH 2021-03-27
Holy shit. Anyone check the Bernout subs to see how theyāre doing?
1 Homofascism 2021-03-27
Stupidpol got a struggle sesh going over that one.
1 LANDLORD___MESSIAH 2021-03-27
I love that sub. Donāt care if itās a āmarxist perceptionā if thatās what marxist means then Iām marxist lmao š¤Ŗš¤Ŗ
1 Homofascism 2021-03-27
Marxism is when you hate libs and the more you hate libs the more marcist you are.
1 employee10038080 2021-03-27
Socialism but just for the fellas
1 Homofascism 2021-03-27
I wish
1 employee10038080 2021-03-27
When are they not having a struggle sesh?
5 JanetYellensFuckboy 2021-03-27
It will be hilarious when Twitter tries to cancel Amazon without literally canceling their Prime subscription.
1 UnheardIdentity 2021-03-27
But then they'd lose their twitch prime subscriptions.
1 employee10038080 2021-03-27
š¹š¹š¹ already hates Amazon even they all have prime
5 -Kite-Man- 2021-03-27
The big takeaway here is a corporation referring to their own "minimum wage" as if they were a nation state. But also, as they belittle US government officials.
1 Homofascism 2021-03-27
Anarchocapistan is happening in real times and it's glorious.
1 -Kite-Man- 2021-03-27
We'll see, old friend.
1 employee10038080 2021-03-27
If the minimum wage they pay is $15/hr, then what do you want them to call it?
Also belittling the government is always a good thing
1 wow___justwow 2021-03-27
The fuck is wrong with a corporation calling their lowest salary their minimum wage? It's concise and accurate.
You just bent because bernie got burnt?
1 RochelleH 2021-03-27
Lots of angry Sandwich Artists in this sub, apparently.
1 -Kite-Man- 2021-03-27
hah you think i work?
1 -Kite-Man- 2021-03-27
...nothing?
it's just new and interesting. i appreciate it's technically linguistically accurate
4 Pepperglue 2021-03-27
lol got 'em.
3 darth_stroyer 2021-03-27
not gonna fall for brand twitter epic clapbacks especially when the person behind this account is 100% a glowie
4 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Everyone glows if you look close enough
1 darth_stroyer 2021-03-27
the Ops are coming from INSIDE the house!
1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
I assure you, all the posts here are 100% organic posts
1 shitpersonality 2021-03-27
2 -Kite-Man- 2021-03-27
Is it 15$ USD in China, Amazon?
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3 wizdumb337 2021-03-27
I'm almost positive that the people they attacked in those tweets do wear diapers snappy
2 DeanofPSU 2021-03-27
You know what I always say!
1 __TIE_Guy 2021-03-27
I've never had an issue with Amazon and their being given the Iraq treatment IMO. For comparison I remember when Walmart was growing, shutting down unions. I remember reading stories of women having to do sexual favors to get extra shifts. To me This nothing more than government and big business attacking a successful competitor.
3 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
The spotlight is on amazon because of the covid stuff. People started using amazon more and subsequently started paying more attention to them because of that. They were getting shit before but its been amplified now because of that.
4 __TIE_Guy 2021-03-27
Good point. I also think it's because amazon has been killing it and a lot of retailors with shitty management did not adapt. These progressive lefties are just politicking. They want to attack Amazon but are moot on fast foot, Walmart, ect. I find it gross and opportunistic. These are just my thoughts though.
1 Zero5urvivers 2021-03-27
Its the alabama unionization thing too. Walmart cracks down on unions harder and faster than amazon does since walmart is far more willing and able to shut down whole stores to crush any unionization efforts. Fast food unionization is a pipe dream here at the moment. Frankly if progressives can use this as an opportunity to push for more unionization then I fully back their opportunism.
1 __TIE_Guy 2021-03-27
Well said. If that's what they gotta do than that's what they gotta do. I just hate that the attack Amazon. But I see the strategy too, thanks to you.
3 -Kite-Man- 2021-03-27
damn that's hot
1 Sudokublackbelt 2021-03-27
Yeah but why not let employees just unionize
0 __TIE_Guy 2021-03-27
they can.
1 loli_esports 2021-03-27
damn where i get this walmart pussy?!
1 strallweat 2021-03-27
Maybe Bernie hates Amazon bc he tried working in their warehouse back in the day? If he's lazy enough to get kicked out of a commune, then I'd love to see him actually work a real job for once.
Must be nice being a rich career politician.
1 RochelleH 2021-03-27
Lol no
1 strallweat 2021-03-27
Exactly
1 Spysix 2021-03-27
Let them fight.
1 StrategicReserve 2021-03-27
I swear I'll do it you'll see
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1 PUBLIQclopAccountant 2021-03-27
Love for Amazon
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