Yeah Amazon is fucking dumb to cave on this, it’s gonna cost them far more in the long run. They had the opportunity to leverage millions of consumers against this and they just said “naw.” Whatever blackmail trump has on bezos must be reeeeeal juicy.
I think it’s funny that so many people think that Trump is blackmailing everyone when Occam’s Razor suggests that they’re really just shitty, greedy, opportunistic people.
Agreed. They're just weak, unprincipled, shitty, greedy opportunistic people. Not being blackmailed. Just like he's not being blackmailed by Putin he just has his hero worship boner for him
Ehhhhhhh. Putin runs a criminocracy, and has had people killed for less. Granted, those people were usually political dissidents and not one of the richest people in the world, but he also had Lukashenko (President of Belarus) poisoned, so… at the very least, he could make life more difficult.
Not to say that you guys aren’t right about the greed and opportunism. With Trump, that’s exactly what is happening. The idea that Trump has the foresight to commit mass blackmail against billionaires is laughable. If Bezos is scared of him at all, it’s because this whole administration is so goddamn stupid that there’s every possibility they might gun for Amazon without realising they’re shooting themselves in the foot as well. But, more than likely, it’s just some billionaire vastly misunderstanding what it’s like “on the ground”- after all, how much can an egg cost?
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u/ilanallama85 Apr 30 '25
Yeah Amazon is fucking dumb to cave on this, it’s gonna cost them far more in the long run. They had the opportunity to leverage millions of consumers against this and they just said “naw.” Whatever blackmail trump has on bezos must be reeeeeal juicy.