And nobody even knows if the US administration would get involved in it. All depends on Orange’s mood on the day and whether his friends call him to “tell him good things”

Big ups to you! No “skin in the game” but taking the right side. Disappointed in my own government. Luckily basically every regular person I’ve ever spoken with about it agrees with the take… Just the state…

I love how Orwell - being so iconic today - had to be described as “Author of ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ etc”

Yea, Orthodox Jews have total exemption from joining the armed forces. If you really don’t want to murder children and steal land, go study the Talmud. No excuse.

Absolutely! It’s in the choice. You consciously choose to be part of the IDF, you aren’t born into it, and thus it’s not a hateful statement. You know, except for BBC weaklings

Don’t forget the millions of Poles

You didn’t know that Scandinavia has monarchies?

This dude isn’t the crown Prince though, or even a royal

Do you mean Greenland or did they do some deal with Iceland?

Definitely seen south Italians darker than me 😂 but coupled with “exotic looks” and the ability to actually tan it’s definitely plenty to produce the “terrorist look” and stand out in Scandinavia

Do they really want me to be trapped? 😮 might go to El Salvador, but trapped?

I’m brown with a thick beard, so I’m used to being “naturally suspicious and prone to explosion” whenever I am within a 5 km distance of an airport. Yet US airports would scare the shit out of me

That might be a genuine option if not for widespread antitrust abuses by what is essentially monopolies… your answer to that is “just create more businesses”?

There’s plenty of Cloud companies in the works currently; I already applied for a position at Evroc. But it’s not all that Amazon does.

Run corporations by ourselves? Gladly! When do the CEOs step down?

Definitely Italian names and groups being mentioned in the article. Might be some Americans and others inbetween; it’s a struggle mirrored around the world. Can just be a reference to the fact that Bezos and Amazon are known tax evaders - including for their EU business. And yes, I’d imagine that people aren’t happy about being priced out of their own communities - hence the widespread anti-tourism protests in general

What is it you think Bezos does and has done “for Amazon” that makes him so important? The main thing he was good at was knowing how to rig the system. If he died tomorrow you’ll see that Amazon will do just as fine, possibly even better. He’s not even the CEO anymore. People can’t just “create structures” when all the world’s resources are owned by regimes and big corporations. If I create my own Amazon-equivalent they’re gonna destroy me before I ever make it big.

The Old City is being heavily depopulated, yes. Locals can hardly even live their anymore. So why wouldn’t thry be angry?

What structures are people supposed to create exactly?

I never claimed it was the entire problem and that it solve all of humanity’s issues, but the system that they’ve helped create and now benefit from is what’s destroying both the world and humanity. Eating just a few of them wouldn’t change that but it’d be a start. That’s why the fact that a few hundreds of brave Venetians won’t let him do whatever he wants in their home is awesome. Entitled motherfuckers coming in their private planes and yachts acting like they own a city that’s literally sinking and where locals can hardly make a living.

So you do recognise that. Then why are you spending so much energy defending Bezos and people like him?

Sure, regular people should rise up and retake power. Take back resources from the billionaires. Idk who “we” are - but I don’t live in USA, and if I did I wouldn’t be living in a democracy. There are plenty of plans for how to save the planet and they all include stopping billionaires and fundamentally changing the system. Think Bezos will bankroll it if we ask him nicely?

Look up “criticism of Amazon” or anything like that and you’ll see he isn’t just a good guy who happened to make a big benevolent corporation. From antitrust practices, to design theft, especially from POC, counterfeit products, special tax deals designed to contribute as little as possible, a significantly negative effect on the environment and more. Add to that Bezos’ personal relationships with business and government leaders that are actively trying to keep people poor, including Trump. It’s not the good-guy corporation you think it is.

And yes, when you’re worth 220 billion dollars and you do nothing positive with it whatsoever, you’re problematic, bordering on evil. It’s greed. If Bezos gave a flying shit about humanity, imagine what kind of change he could actually do.

And that shows you don’t understand the power of “just owning shares”. It’s a whole fucking shit load better than having income or money. He can take whatever loan he wants with his stocks as collateral. He skips out completely on doing anything helpful to society whatsoever. People are struggling because of this system, yes, and people like Bezos are happily living grand off of it

This is my main issue with it too. I can retire at 72 or later… in more than 40 years. I’d expect to be replaced long before this, so what’s the point?

Far from perfect, and with rising inequality, but Denmark has generally been relatively decent when it comes to taxing the rich and high-income individuals.

As born in the 90s I’m expected to retire at the earliest by 72. I don’t understand this at all though - I’m expecting a reduced need for labourers as many things become increasingly automatised anyway, so it’s an entirely wrong focus in the first place.

Absolutely not. As a Dane, our politicians and companies are just as capitalist and opportunist as elsewhere. Our corrupt government has been a major supporter of Israel, including in the weapons trade, and we, for example, just invited the US military to freely use our military bases for the next 10 years. I’m happy to see if popular pressure works.