Is there any legal basis for this whatsoever?

And if CBP isn’t there, what’s to stop flights from just running anyway?

I mean there might be ways. Probably illegal though.

What turned you against her?

Oh interesting. I would vote for her too but she has her issues and has fallen off in the polls. So if you don’t want a chevron-owned candidate it’s basically Steyer or bust.

I agree but I don’t love it.

Yeah that’s why there’s so much arguing. There’s no good candidates.

The powerful are very good at weeding them out for higher offices.

True but that came later and did substantially harm his popularity, unlike the events of his first term.

People don’t like change. Especially when powerful nefarious people are behind it and they don’t feel like they have a say in what’s happening.

That still blows my mind. What about 9/11 made people like Bush? If anything he shares some blame for failing to prevent it…

And they immediately hijacked it to ram through their neocon agenda, damaging America and many other countries and people in ways we may never recover from. It’s not like those things happened in secret, at least not all of them.

All of them I would think.

Sure I was at them, just like I’ve been at a lot of protests for other topics too. But I don’t perceive that any of them were large enough to specifically be the key factor in swinging an election that was frankly not that close. A lot of political radicals aren’t very persuadable anyway.

Anyway your last comment is puzzling. I have no more sway on democratic policies than you do. Your last comment is weird. I think dems should reject genocide too. I just think they should do it because it’s the right thing to do, not because it would magically make fascism disappear through some mysterious and unknown mechanism.

Surely the Russian revolution involved the general public?

I just find the idea that Gaza swung the election so improbable. Do most Americans even know Gaza exists, let alone what is happening there? And how many who do know care about what’s happening to people they’ve been told are all terrorists?

So I don’t find its omission that surprising.

Well AWS is much harder to avoid that’s true. I’m not sure how you can even tell if a site is working with them. Only way to be sure would be to never go online.

True that’s the main reason I would shop online because some things can’t be purchased otherwise. But I don’t run into that super often.

Next time I’ll pay attention to see if Amazon is involved in some way… I have been boycotting them for a few years now and would like to continue that as best I can. Frankly, with how awful their site has become I haven’t missed it much.

Really? You mean like other websites you buy from are secretly owned by Amazon?

So maybe there is more to discuss here than I thought.

Still I’m a big proponent of brick and mortar shopping. Or better yet, borrow from a friend or freecycle. So I rarely buy things online anyway.

Are they wrong?

I’m not angry at people who have done nothing. Lives are busy, people were not educated properly, etc.

But the people who are actually protecting the thieves I fucking despise.

I just buy most things in person. If that fails I do a web search and buy from another platform. So I’m not sure how much there is to talk about but maybe I’m missing something.

If you have questions or ideas/resources it probably makes the most sense to just post on the existing de-Amazon com, since the audience there is likely to be interested. With the size of Lemmy it’s important not to separate our communities that are too niche, or they won’t really fire.

Very misleading summary of the events that led to Morales’s ouster. He’s just another wannabe dictator. Not that that excuses the US’s meddling.