If you know me you know I don’t Amazon. I quit shopping at Whole Foods because of Amazon.
Recently, the behemoth and its abuses of power have come under the spotlight a little more. Enough that Jimmy Fallon, his generation’s most anodyne entertainer, had to hastily stop John Oliver from making a Zoom guest spot interesting when he asked “Alexa, what’s union busting?”
Here’s some more reasons you shouldn’t shop at Amazon:
- Vice: Amazon Denies its Workers Pee in Bottles. Here Are the Pee Bottles.
- Buzzfeed: The US Labor Board Isn’t Strong Enough to Protect Workers from Amazon.
- Gizmodo: There’s something fishy about Amazon’s Anti-Union Twitter Army.
- Reveal: Amazon says its warehouses are safe for workers. But the numbers reveal that workers are getting hurt much more often than the company claims.
- NYT: Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers.
So, you know. Stop giving Alexa all your personal data and stop giving extra money to ol’ Piss-bottle Jeff. Thus endeth the harangue.
Just Kidding, Here Is More Harangue
- Report confirms what we already knew: mishandling of BLM events was a nationwide phenomenon.
- Where we do need more cops: the IRS and general white-collar crime enforcement.
- If your blood pressure happens to be low, check out this map of deaths in police custody.
- The National Humanities Medal-winning Claremont Institute has a new essay claiming that to save America we must destroy democracy, because liberals and moderates don’t truly count as Americans, and only the right wing can claim to be the true voice of the people. Nothing to see here, just an explicit Herrenvolk screed wearing a suit and tie. And of course Tucker Carlson is singing the same song.
Secretly Ironic 