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Oh boy, another one of the daily anti-FAANG posts. Amazon is evil and should be boycotted - usually coming from people who shop at WalMart and invest in compani
by tracer4201 7y ago
Oh boy, another one of the daily anti-FAANG posts. Amazon is evil and should be boycotted - usually coming from people who shop at WalMart and invest in companies like BP (i.e. my in-laws).
Good luck blocking AWS - and whatever percentage of the internet running on it.
- DangBigot 7y agonote previous post from this user: > Disclaimer: I’m own about $500K in my portfolio in Amazon.
- tracer4201 7y agoYeah and I posted that openly. They’re actually the smallest of the FAANGs in my portfolio. I’m invested heavily in tech, banking, energy, and retail, including WalMart. It’s hilarious and sad that my post caused you enough grief to dig up content from my post history as if that makes any of my points less valid.
- JeremyBanks 7y agoYour point were so absurd that I (correctly) assumed that there was some bias driving it. :)
- joshypants 7y agoI would think efforts like this are less about completeness and more about creating a media event around the fact that ICE uses AWS to do harm to people.
- jamiequint 7y agoICE uses AWS to help take into custody people who have deportation orders. Can anyone explain why this is even remotely controversial? What is the alternative, open borders? no deportation ever?
- zaphod4prez 7y agoThe idea behind these actions is to pressure ICE into abiding by international human rights laws in its handling of detained immigrant children. To me, that seems like a very reasonable thing-to-care-about.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoBy going after the supply chain instead of the actual offenders? That does smell a bit armchair-activisty, to be honest.
- roboys 7y agoBoycotting IBM may have saved lives at Nazi concentration camps if it was attempted... (IBM assisted Nazis in processing big data (of their time) during most of WW2)
- TeMPOraL 7y agoBut would it? When the war started, IBM was already established in Germany, and upon the US placing trade ban, the German branch essentially split out and worked independently, to be reintegrated into the mothership after the hostilities have ceased.
- joshypants 7y agoYeah let's get into the weeds on this WWII stuff when there are currently concentration camps in the USA where people are being tortured and dying. Out of here with this.
- jstanley 7y agoOpen borders, and no deportation ever, is a perfectly viable alternative.
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- jakelazaroff 7y ago> usually coming from people who shop at WalMart and invest in companies like BP (i.e. my in-laws) If one takes a moral stand, must one then take every moral stand? I avoid using Google products because I think they're an unethical company, but arguably Apple is too. Am I obligated to just not use a smartphone?
- whymauri 7y ago>Am I obligated to just not use a smartphone? I've met people who would argue "yes." Not sure that I agree with them, though.
- jliptzin 7y agoWhen you're boycotting company A for doing bad thing X, but then using the services of company B for doing bad thing X, then that's hypocritical. If company B were doing different bad thing Y, then that's a different story.
- maxk42 7y agoSomewhat north of 70% of internet traffic passes through AWS servers at this point.
- sterkekoffie 7y agoThe second sentence of the post clarifies that this is motivated by a one-day boycott in solidarity with Spanish workers striking for improved labor conditions--not by the belief that "Amazon is evil and should be boycotted." Either you didn't care to read up to that point or you're being intentionally obtuse.
- zaksoup 7y agoWhy not both!?
- pathseeker 7y ago>usually coming from people who shop at WalMart and invest in companies like BP What weird mental gymnastics are you trying to pull here? You know someone who hates Amazon and invests in Walmart/BP? So what? That doesn't mean there isn't a legitimate reason to hate Amazon. "ugh, another one of the daily anti-violent crimes posts. Rape is evil and should be boycotted - usually coming from people who jaywalk and overcook their steaks."
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- sli 7y agoThey know someone who hates Amazon but shops at Wal-Mart and invests in BP, and is projecting all of that only everyone who has a negative view of Amazon.