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Old 11-27-2017, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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Not only am I sick of what Bezos and his Washington Compost are doing to Roy Moore and Project Veritas, but I'm worried that Amazon is going to become a large evil monopoly that crushes every business in sight like Microsoft and WalMart are doing.

I actually think us shopping Amazon so much is eventually going to kill a lot of jobs and lead to Amazon having a lot of power over the public with fewer jobs and lower wages and little competition.
So don't buy things there.

I find it fascinating that a conservative wants to stifle a successful capitalist enterprise.
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Old 11-27-2017, 06:51 PM
 
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So don't buy things there.

I find it fascinating that a conservative wants to stifle a successful capitalist enterprise.
I dont, most conservatives are as bad their liberal brethren when it comes to banning, regulating, prohibiting...
Its getting really hard to tell you all apart anymore.
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Old 11-27-2017, 06:51 PM
 
Location: Barrington
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Please, package theft was around LONG before Amazon.

hahah totally... But the sheer number of packages in the lobby makes me feel like i come home and live in a warehouse. It's gross. I realize some building have dedicated package delivery rooms now, well all the expensive buildings go up, but between the 5000 amazon packages the gazillion strollers and children's bikes and rocking horses (seriously, why do you need to put a rocking horse in the damn lobby? keep that crap in your apartment). it's just gross... Of course I live on the lobby floor so that's why I find it so gross. But yeah theft has always happened, but thieves now know the stupid amazon delivery people (they aren't UPS, USPS, or fed ex, but those last mile deliverers who are independent contractors who half of them seem like crackheads). They don't get the keys to let themselves into lobbies like USPS workers get so they randomly ring peoples bells (seriously) and creep behind you trying to get in. No, not letting you. You can leave that giant box of diapers out on the curb cuz im not letting you into the lobby to drop a giant box of diapers to sit outside my apartment. Let these people get them delivered at work or wait for their delivery, stop shunting it on your neighbors who don't share your overly consumptive and lazy ass lifestyle.

I did order from Amazon twice this week so I am complicit, but I wouldn't order my food and groceries and things non stop and make the building look like a warehouse and expect others to think that's okay. I deal with this at work too lol. Everyone gets their **** delivered at work, and it's all personal, kinda tired of that as well. That was never part of job description to all of a sudden have to deal with everyone's personal packages from Amazon and all those corny rent a wardrobe websites where you basically rent nice and expensive clothing to make people think you have a giant wardrobe and then return them and leave them with your mail guy at work to deal with to return!?!?!? SO GAUCHE!
Rocking horses in the lobby? It really sounds like a building management problem.

Many employers have strict rules banning delivery of employee's goods.

USPS delivers for Amazon in my neck of the woods. Federal Express contracts out. Imagine how / who delivers is geography specific.
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Old 11-27-2017, 06:53 PM
 
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In honor of the OP, I'm logging onto Amazon now to buy stuff. (not joking)
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Old 11-27-2017, 06:57 PM
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Not only am I sick of what Bezos and his Washington Compost are doing to Roy Moore and Project Veritas, but I'm worried that Amazon is going to become a large evil monopoly that crushes every business in sight like Microsoft and WalMart are doing.

I actually think us shopping Amazon so much is eventually going to kill a lot of jobs and lead to Amazon having a lot of power over the public with fewer jobs and lower wages and little competition.
I thought conservatives were all for free market capitalism, what happened? Trump trying to use the DOJ to stop AT&T buying of Time Warner, more anti free market there as well. What's going these days. It's getting too confusing trying to keep track of what conservatives stand for.
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Old 11-27-2017, 07:10 PM
 
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I thought conservatives were all for free market capitalism, what happened? Trump trying to use the DOJ to stop AT&T buying of Time Warner, more anti free market there as well. What's going these days. It's getting too confusing trying to keep track of what conservatives stand for.
They stand for increasing taxes for the middle class and increasing the country's debt and increasing the deficit in order to give tax cuts to billionaires. It's a brand new GOP.

Now the right is supporting Fake News - all upset that Project Veritas got busted planting a fake news story. I thought they were against Fake News. Seems they are the initiator of it and got caught red handed. Now they want people to stop shopping at Amazon because they got busted red handed.
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Old 11-27-2017, 07:12 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Please, package theft was around LONG before Amazon.
Yup, dirtbags have been around forever. Those with money are a target, even a little bit of money. Too many parasites in our society.
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Old 11-27-2017, 07:15 PM
 
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The worst thing is that there is 5 pages worth of comments for such an inane OP.
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Old 11-27-2017, 07:16 PM
 
Location: Boston
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remember 10 years ago when liberals were complaining we've created companies that are to big to fail? like AIG? they have short memories...like a child. Amazon is putting thousands of small businesses out of business, unskilled labor, the base of the Democratic Party, out of work ....but in reality, they love it ....lmao
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Old 11-27-2017, 07:17 PM
 
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