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appalachiablue

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11. You're focusing on anything but the subject & what was

Reply to Budi (Reply #9)

Sat Aug 29, 2020, 06:59 AM

Aug 2020

asked about Bezos by Bob Reich, Amazon employees and many others- why can't Amazon afford to pay workers and provide personal protection from Covid? Issues which drive negative views & hard feelings toward him specificially.

The extent to which you knock yourself out over Common Dreams and the Washington Examiner is pointless.

The Examiner which I just saw in another post a couple weeks ago is used here occasionally, like Common Dreams when a legitimate story or item is covered. Again, they aren't the point in this case.

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Bezos Worth $200 Bill, Makes 4K Per Second As Millions Struggle, Protesters W/ Mock Guillotine [View all] appalachiablue Aug 2020 OP

Ok. They have an absolute legit gripe, BUT seriously? A guillotine? Budi Aug 2020 #1

The situation is desperate for many people, the guillotine appalachiablue Aug 2020 #2

Got it. So lets haul a freakun guillotine in front of Bezos' house. Budi Aug 2020 #3

Can you provide insight and answer this? appalachiablue Aug 2020 #4

BEZOS did't cause the Pandemic & the chaos we face because of it. Budi Aug 2020 #5

Some of them are Amazon employees, they have every appalachiablue Aug 2020 #6

Mahalo, Budi... Cha Aug 2020 #7

Bezos Should Have To Pay Taxes Like I Have To DanieRains Aug 2020 #8

Agree, very curious how some depart from that thinking appalachiablue Aug 2020 #12

Bezos does pay taxes. George II Aug 2020 #14

Not Like I Do DanieRains Aug 2020 #24

Tell me why Commondreams is sourcing the RW Washingtom Examiner Budi Aug 2020 #9

+1 betsuni Aug 2020 #10

You're focusing on anything but the subject & what was appalachiablue Aug 2020 #11

No. The subject IS RW Washington Examiner, sourced exclusively by Commondreams Budi Aug 2020 #20

+1 sheshe2 Aug 2020 #22

Horsehoe effect. ehrnst Aug 2020 #25

A guillotine in front of his door is roughly equivalent to a noose in Bubba Wallace's garage. George II Aug 2020 #13

That door leads to a a property of 2 townhomes appalachiablue Aug 2020 #17

A guillotine? This is ugly AmericanCanuck Aug 2020 #15

Commondreams is losing it DenverJared Aug 2020 #16

Bezos, 1st man worth $200B was in bus. & gen. news this week. appalachiablue Aug 2020 #18

So what? DenverJared Aug 2020 #26

I appreciate your OPs, appalachiablue PETRUS Aug 2020 #19

I've posted a few pieces by them but haven't read appalachiablue Aug 2020 #21

Nice review. PETRUS Aug 2020 #23

I think Jeff Bezos is helping to keep the post office alive DenverJared Aug 2020 #27

Bezos' buying Fox would be fantastic, a few years ago appalachiablue Aug 2020 #28