Originally published at: JD Vance said Amazon paid Black Lives Matter so rioters would burn rival stores - Boing Boing
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Ohh, biting the hand that feeds the GOP.
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What a weird, stupid man. If he wants an Amazon vs Republican war ending in mutual distruction, I help out however I can, but this is just nuts.
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Soon to be revealed in JD’s search history…
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Jeff Bezos has mostly avoided putting himself in the spotlight during national political campaigns because he knows that he can continue making obscene amounts of money no matter which party is in power as long as he keeps greasing the right palms.
It would be one thing for the GOP to make an enemy of Bezos for principled reasons that resonated with voters, such as by insisting that the richest Americans pay their share of taxes. But this is just poking a bear with a stick for no reason at all, much like when Republicans decided to go to war against Taylor Swift.
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Gee, if he’s so concerned about small Main Street businesses, I wonder why he didn’t use the same arguments against WalMart? /s
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It’s more like swinging a stick around on the playground and telling the younger kids that “this is how I fight off bears on the totally real camping trips my dad takes me on, that are not at the Hilton, and also I wasn’t listening to Taylor Swift just now.”
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Now he’s just plagiarizing from RFK!
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Does JD Vance really want a major corporation with enough lawyers to fill one of their warehouses suing him for slander? I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure one of the classic examples of potential slander is accusing someone of a crime, like incitement to riot or arson. Maybe they weren’t aware of Vance’s statement when he made it, or maybe they figured he was a small fry, but now that he’s a candidate for the second highest office in the land that could change very quickly.
I wonder how many red MAGA hats Amazon used to ship every day before Vance’s speech entered the public spotlight? I wonder if it will be “Sorry, that product is out of stock, and we don’t know when we’ll get more” between now and the election?
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I dunno JD, maybe going after megacorporations MIGHT be a bad idea.
Especially with “alternative facts”
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JD Vance - the creation of a tech billionaire is attacking a tech billionaire.
So the question is - what does his master, Peter Theil, have against Jeff Bezos?
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Maybe this will open up a rift in the space-time continuum and it will swallow them up. Peter Theil, too
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Recently I ordered some razor blades from Amazon. Amusingly, I had to prove that I was over 20, though I’ve had an Amazon account for over 20 years!
25 years ago I was all like: “Buying books online? What a silly idea! It’ll never take off.” I opened an account just to see what it was like. Now I increasingly fear Amazon because they deliver me so much stuff of nearly every description.
To be fair, I live in a small town. If I want something a little unusual, like a new sewing machine needle, I’ve got a 40 mile round trip to go to a shop where they sell them. Whereas I can look on Amazon, get a choice of too many brands, and have it delivered in a couple of days.
Back to the topic, Amazon doesn’t care about burning down your high street because your high street isn’t actually their competition.
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See, I was like “So I can order books in English and French without having to get a specialist mail order catalogue and paying extortionate prices? This is the best invention ever!”
It’s hard to overstate how transformative Amazon was for those of us in the countryside whose access to the wider world was otherwise mediated through trips to big cities or whatever small trickle of it made it through the local shops (and foreign language books didn’t). Actually, for me it was BOL first, but Amazon soon after. My account is also more than 20 years old (my first order was in 2001, I just checked) and as a result I have had a lot of goodwill for Amazon over the years. But this has eroded. I just wish they had stuck to books.
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I was spoilt. At the time I worked in central London. There were multiple bookshops within a few minutes walk, including a big Borders, Foyles and so on. Many of these have gone partly thanks to Amazon. I still like to visit actual shops but I buy a lot more volumes online, especially digitally (Kindle/)
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Yeah, as I said for me it wasn’t even the convenience of it, it was just that there literally was no other way to get books in foreign languages (English being one of those for me), and it opened up my world. Obviously in London even that wasn’t a problem. It’s fairly easy to get books in, say, French or German there in physical stores to this day
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So much this. If we were limited to what we could access in a roughly 100 mile radius, honestly, we’d be fine, the country stores stock the necessaries, but it would be a lot less interesting. I’m pretty well convinced that there are no “good” megacorporations, but there are some that don’t go out of their way to be evil, i guess.
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Generally speaking there’s two colours for packaging, white, and brown, and brown is cheaper, as to make card white there’s going to be a bleaching process somewhere in it’s production. What kind of weirdo makes a point of stating the colour of the packaging?
Doesn’t ‘Main street’ shops use brown paper bags for grocery shopping in the US?
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