“The tax law that congressional Republicans and US President Donald Trump enacted last summer has proved to be a massive boon for Amazon, slashing the corporate behemoth’s 2025 tax bill even as its profits surged and it moved ahead with mass layoffs that have cost 30,000 workers their jobs since October.
“Citing a new securities filing, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Amazon’s “current US taxes, an accounting measure of taxes incurred last year, declined to $1.2 billion from $9 billion” while the company’s “pretax US profit increased by 44.5%, to $89.5 billion. On a cash basis, the company paid $2.8 billion in federal income taxes last year after paying more than $7 billion in each of the prior two years.””
Oh noes, so they went from paying almost nothing to just basically paying nothing at all?
Fuck these assholes, bring in the guillotines
I’m sorry, did the company actually pay billions in taxes, or was that before other deductions? I seriously doubt they paid that much, and did not offset it against losses in other years, as they can do retroactively for a few years too.
Bezos made that $70m from Melania back real quick
His wealth grows by more than that per day on average
There’s a reason these assholes feel like they need bunkers.
Their bunkers plans are mostly insane. Zuck has a bunker designed for him and like 100 staff. I don’t think he understands how the power dynamics are going to change once civilization ends and his money isn’t worth anything.
Fun fact: All bunkers have air vents somewhere on the surface.
And all bunkers have an entrance. Entrances that can be sealed with concrete and rebar, to turn bunkers into tombs.
Let’s become tomb creators, and after a year, raiders.
Oh, I imagine they have supplies to last a year.
I say open them after 100-200y, make it a fun time capsule, then turn them into museums – “this is one of the places where we buried alive the biggest leeches in society after they constructed the most lavish palatial bunkers to hide in during a time of global turmoil!” – you can show people just what excess wealth to the point of detachment from society will drive a person to do, and what society will do in turn to them.
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EAT THE RICH
Too clean.
Cerebral bore?
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Turok 2 for you youngins’ 🤪
That sound will always be seared in my memory. It is the scariest sound ever.
And yet it’s end result is so satisfying. Nostalgia hitting harder than usual today, and I’m all for it.
I used to play multi-player with friends. Nothing is scarier than hearing that thing coming for you. Turok 2 and Perfect Dark were my favorite shooter games back in the day.
Agreed
I think you are being too traditional in its application.
Start at one end, with a 1mm cutting depth and repeat until the job is done. Thinly sliced and ready for sandwiches.
Oh I like you.
I am told I am a lot of fun at parties.
You know, I have bloody-minded thoughts about these scumbags too, the kind of things that might earn me a visit from law enforcement if I spelled them out, but then I think about the negative impact actually doing those things would have on anyone’s psyche. Instead, we should take their money and sentence them to work on an organic farm for the rest of their lives.
Some days I have such thoughts as well, in the end I put that down to skipping over the revolutionary part: If the transition goes cleanly, sure, no need. We can adorn the former rich with gold chains a la More’s Utopia. But in revolutionary times, the reactionary armies will still be in full force. In such times, the logistics behind the guillotine are much simpler than running a prison system for capitalists and their crony politicians.
Fair, I was more replying to the idea a guillotine is “too clean” which implies that some sort of torturous death is preferred. I agree that in the process of any revolution a guillotine (or a bullet) may be necessary.
I just want to get on with life and rebuilding America into something that doesn’t suck. I say a bullet would do the job just fine, far as clearing out the Epstein and ICE classes go. They aren’t the kind of people you want as neighbors, and honestly, would waste a lot of resources to house them in prisons for life.
Those resources should go towards universal healthcare, parental leave, and so forth.
haha actually I meant to say: the guillotine looks too clean, I’d rather see much-used, bloodied guillotines :)
This.
That’s a little treat for the Washington post not endorsing anybody for president for the first time ever.
Outraged people continue to buy things from Amazon.com!
Not me! I canceled Prime and now shop at WALMART!! sigh.
As someone who lives in a rural area, this is literally what I’m trying to do. It’s fucking joke, but we only have so many stores in town.
Yet another reason to boycott the jungle site.
And yet the stock is still falling ¯_(ツ)_/¯
