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NYPD locking arms to protect Amazon and protect and help break a strike (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Rentlar 93 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Solidarity for Bezos and his yachts, can't have him suffer from these rabblerousers living paycheque to paycheque taking a stand - NYPD.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Taxpayers. We’re the fucking taxpayers. This is after NY gave Amazon $3.5B in tax breaks.

https://www.taxnotes.com/featured-analysis/new-york-amazon-and-company-specific-tax-incentives-microcosm-national-problem/2024/09/20/7l69r

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

We’re the fucking taxpayers.

That's the joke of modern capitalist liberal democracy. It's not the people paying the rents who are in charge. It's the folks collecting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's just how our country works. It's by design.

They're just gonna keep taking shit until you see their face on the front page of Lemmy next to a angry looking dude in an orange jumpsuit.