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Jm7603

(165 posts)
1. Apparently we inadvertently set it up that way in this
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 10:40 AM
Apr 2022

country. Underestimating the greed and evil in the hearts of men have hurt our country deeply.

DBoon

(22,374 posts)
2. because they are the top royalty of the capialist aristocracy
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 10:40 AM
Apr 2022

"L'etat, c'est moi" as another monarch said

Aviation Pro

(12,172 posts)
5. You're looking at it from a single user perspective
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 11:23 AM
Apr 2022

Look at it at the meta-level and you'll find that they're affecting you.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
8. Meh. I prefer the good Bezos wife has done with her share, but they aren't villains or bogeymen.
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 11:30 AM
Apr 2022

Aviation Pro

(12,172 posts)
6. And yet their decisions to produce those products
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 11:25 AM
Apr 2022

Affects you, irrespective of whether you use them or not. Take Amazon Web Services as an example, there isn't a single person who uses the internet who isn't 'using' the biggest money maker for Bozos.

Jm7603

(165 posts)
7. Every local or national issue these a-holes
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 11:29 AM
Apr 2022

influence, every RW politician they promote, every union they bust, every time they speak against benefits for their employees, every tax they don't pay, and on and on and on will eventually affect you.

 

RaDaR63

(89 posts)
12. Couldn't the same be said of Disney?
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 11:43 AM
Apr 2022


Having a small effect on peoples lives is a far cry from ”deciding the fates of billions."

Jm7603

(165 posts)
13. Disney is not our friend either, and on many issues
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 11:50 AM
Apr 2022

is downright regressive. Musk is buying Twitter with hundreds of millions of customers and billions of daily impressions so he can allow RW disinformation and Q disinformation and vaccine disinformation etc. to spread unabated. That is a different scale all together.

Jm7603

(165 posts)
16. LOL. Good one. If you think my life would not be
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 12:04 PM
Apr 2022

richer and less stressful without misinformation bombardment and wages and benefits for most Americans being held down by billionaires, so be it.

👍

Midnight Writer

(21,770 posts)
17. One can simply refuse to listen to FOX and RW Radio, also.
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 12:10 PM
Apr 2022

Yet the nonsense they push is influencing our legislators, our judges, our law enforcement, our national policies.

 

RaDaR63

(89 posts)
18. Yeah, that happens in our two party system
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 12:16 PM
Apr 2022

a democracy with a free press and free speech. Whining about the other side having those rights too isn't a winning strategy.

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