Always a smokescreen to take away your rights. Epstein plead guilty in 2008 to trafficking children to nobody.
Pro tip: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit which has been defending your right to privacy for many years. If you shop on Amazon, you can give a portion of the purchase price to EFF. You pay the same amount and daddy bezos gets a few less dollars. Use the affiliate link, not the smile link as smile has been sunsetted: https://www.eff.org/node/58741
Propro tip: Donāt buy from evilcorp and donate those savings directly to the EFF
If Iām on Amazon itās for something that I need and canāt get locally. There are no saving to donate. Iāll probably have to spend a lot more, drive multiple hours, or both if I donāt shop on Amazon. Thatās the only reason I ever use it.
Iām glad someone said this here. It feels vile, being forced to do business with these corporations, but I end up getting bulk couscous (which has been scarce even in single bags or boxes in my rural, deep south community) for my autistic stepson who has very specific dietary needs. I can get very specialized disability equipment there, and itās delivered in two days (which is already two days longer than we can afford to wait, sometimes, but we make do.)
Yes, obviously, be ethical everywhere you can, as often as you can, but a blanket ādOnT dO bUsInEsS wItH eViLā is useless, whereas minimizing harm like with tips for links like this one is very helpful.
Itās so insanely privileged. Reminds me of the same keyboard warriors who like to āraise awarenessā by pouring ice water on themselves and then doing nothing else, feeling smug they did āsomethingā when their only involvement with our causes is posting smug one-liners on the internet, or, of theyāre feeling particularly āhelpful,ā changing their profile picture to reflect someone elseās cause.
I tried to avoid Amazon for a product the other week, by buying direct from the person who was selling through Amazon.
They had their own store.
The prices were 50% more than they were charging on Amazon.
Anything and everything that politicians propose to protect children, I am automatically against. It doesnāt matter how good it sounds, if they say anything about protecting children, Iām opposed to it.
This is because they know that āprotect childrenā are magic words that let them get away with almost anything, and thatās genuinely about the only time they say that anyway. Basically nothing the government does is actually to protect children.
We had a recreational marijuana referendum in my state and the opposition signs said, āSave the Children.ā From what? I have no idea. Unsurprisingly, the vote failed.
Of course, it really helped that the state legislature sued to halt the referendum on grounds of improper procedure which caused the referendum to be put on the ballot as a special election instead of the mid-terms ballot. The judge dismissed the lawsuit, by the way.
The shit some people will do to stop other people from having a good time.
US keeps taking the flame while EU, Bastion of Rightsā¢, just outright banning encryption.
Different departments. Itās the ākeep the plebs in line departmentā that wants to scan your devices.
Where as the ākeep the rich giving us money departmentā are not actioning the rapist list
Wish I could add a /s to this.
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