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[–] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 83 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's astonishing just how universally the mask is coming off.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 59 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm kinda just surprised they're doing stuff like this when all it'll do is drive some liberals and leftwingers away from the service. Were chuds boycotting Amazon because it was too woke for having an LGBTQ+ rights section in some corporate policy that nobody ever reads?

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The thing is liberals suck at boycotting if it means any minuscule amount of inconvenience

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

Yeah, less than like 500 people will bother to do anything and that's generous.

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Probably bring in an unfathomable amount off of AWS alone

They’ve stopped pandering which tells me regular people are no longer part of their business model

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

AWS indeed makes up about 3/4 of Amazon’s income. The margins are much higher than their e-commerce.

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Absolutely awful. I don’t think Marx could’ve even imagined techno feudalism tbh

Like how the fuck can anything done when most of the power is traversing amongst too-big-to-fail corporation

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

That 'some' is probably less than 500 people

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 60 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Fuck they absolutely could not wait to get on this train. Literally slavering at the mouth to drop the mask.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

And yet it's the chuds telling us that they're the poor wittle guy without any institutional or elite backing, while us eeeeevil tankies are the ones controlling society from the shadows.

Fucking hell agony-deep

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

won't be them getting on the trains

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

Are we finally getting public transit aubrey-happy

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 53 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Amazon likely has phrenology style stats they've been waiting to unleash on their recruitment practices.

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Aren't they already running out of potential new hires in some area because of their insane turnover?

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

Yeah in moderately populated areas the average length of employment is 2-3~ months and maybe 5-10% of new hires last more than a year.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This requires that they haven't already burned through so much of their labor pool by being such a shitty employer that they're still able to be picky. But I guess I shouldn't bet against Amazon finding new and exciting ways to be horrifying.

[–] uSSRI@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

Internment/Fulfilment centers coming soon. Keep your stats high enough to get access to a public defender appointment for 15 minutes after a year.

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

there was a whole story about them ditching ai resume screening bc it was sexist and racist. i personally think it's likely they're still using it, lol

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

Average cranial mass of the best workers and finding new workers that are roughly the same is gnarly work

[–] Jenniferrr@hexbear.net 47 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hard to tell what this portends or how far this will go. Scary

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago

It's terrifying but not unprecedented. I suppose that makes it scarier, knowing exactly how far these people will go. After all, they're the same species of human as Ford and all the other CEO's who cozied up to Nazis.

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 46 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Finally this full blown fascist turn might make some libs wake the fuck up and realize the severity of the situation and that nothing can be done from their couch or a voting booth. The people must prepare now before the Reich runs on full steam.

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nah, they'll just make price of eggs jokes until they're executed by the concentration camp guards.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

They'll fall further into line well before that.

[–] elpaso@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There is nothing more bourgeoisie than belittling those they view as serfs over little things like eating to survive.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Finally this full blown fascist turn might make some libs wake the fuck up and realize the severity of the situation and that nothing can be done from their couch or a voting booth.

He said while literally being lined up against a bullet-hole stricken wall.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Finally this full blown fascist turn might make some libs wake the fuck up

If it does, not enough will do anything, and most will acquiesce.

[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

Most will blame in on one CEO or the other. No systemic analysis.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What's funny to me is that the whole pinkwashing/rainbow washing/not racist (not anti-racist! Just not racist!) performance is basically cheap as hell. A token hire. An online ad rollout. Some lip service. Even self-serving like "donations" to a "charity" their spouse works at. They already gamed the system. It was inexpensive.

But still the moment they can their nascent Hitler particles go critical and kick the hate reactor into overdrive.

No amount of being bullied online by SJWs or "I didn't leave the left the left left me!" excuses can explain the speed and severity of this kind of heel turn. No. This is the true self unmasked. This was always their deep down. Good job on capitalism for creating a system where the most powerful people in that system are a bunch of huckster sociopaths. Nice.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

White people are finally great again sicko-wholesome

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If I had one bullet, stuck in a room with Musk and Bezos I would shoot them both with the same bullet.

[–] crime@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

shoot Bezos and pistol whip Musk to death

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

Somebody is getting it in the dick and then they're both getting pistol whipped to death.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. Bezos seems like he might be harder to fight.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

yeah he gives mid tier power level

I think you could just kick elon in the gunt and stomp him out pretty ez

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is there a gif of this? I really need a gif of this

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

It's almost 9 MB so it's kind of big. (For comparison, the .mp4 was 896 KB)

[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've said it before but Trump's second term seems to mark a shift. A real and probably enduring shift. After all they've had DEI and other -washing type initiatives since at least the 90s and they've picked up steam in the decades since, something like that isn't necessarily discarded quickly without a thought so there's some thought here on this shift. It's capital in the west deciding that maybe you know trans people in the CIA and rainbow imperialism isn't going to be enough, that maybe they need loyal soldiers in the core and to get them they need to shift to embracing the reactionary side of the culture war fully and trying to push America into a new age of reaction.

Time will tell but I predict that liberal/left-leaning shows and messaging are going to be strangled increasingly, censored, re-written, plain canceled as they push this into the wider culture much as happened in say the 50s with the second red scare.

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can’t wait in 2050 for MechaShapiro Mk II to argue that the private sector really really cared about trans rights but the meanie big government republicans! (there was another party switch) wouldn’t let them.

Therefore if Michael Parenti were alive today he’d be an ancap!

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Michael Parenti is alive, he just hasn't been well for a while. Severe dementia.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm talking about in 2050 for this hypothetical, but I didn't know about the dementia. That sucks.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

A long while back when r/genzdong was the new kid just after the chapo ban a bunch of the users of that sub arranged a visit and went to see him, I think through his son who has been passing along praise and letters etc but unfortunately he's quite far gone. Like, I have it in my will to be euthanized if in this state kind of dementia. That's why we haven't heard from him in years, it's sad as hell, bring vindicated by history in your lifetime but you're in no state to even know about it. Meanwhile fucking chomsky tweets to recent days

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

Stay safe out there, comrades. Reactionaries are now more emboldened Care-Comrade

[–] skaarl@feddit.nl 21 points 6 months ago

Former democrat enthusiast Chef Bezos

[–] ComradeLove@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

Movie idea: antifa hacker does some hacker stuff to cause the next Bezos rocket to crash into a Tesla factory.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

No, it's bad. It means they don't have to fear consequences anymore.