Just had a couple of orders get cancelled as well.

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    I’d rather people got used to just going without instead. Grab a book, go outside under a tree. Read the book.

    Cancel subscriptions, cancel memberships, cancel reoccuring costs. Buy food, and quality items. Stop buying ‘smart’ shit.

    You need none of this junk. Stop feeding the machine. Make them hurt. We control ALL the power.

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      Ironic that you say “grab a book”, when one of the largest booksellers in the world, putting all smaller booksellers out of business, is the thing we’re all railing against. Do you realize how much of a monopoly they have on all corners of the market? It’s not just “smart shit”.

      I’ve been boycotting all amazon subsidiaries and affiliates for over a year now, so I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t, but that’s easier said than done. This comment is displaying levels of ignorance to which I can only respond “gee thanks, I’m cured”.

      In fact, several of my favorite authors have exclusive contracts with amazon, because it’s more financially viable for them.

      ETA: in fact, consider that, even if everyone with a prime subscription canceled right now, it would barely even impact their bottom line, because most of their entire revenue stream comes from AWS.

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        Cool beans…cancel subscriptions and grab a book, like I said.

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          How privileged, your wondrous life must be. I envy you the marble and ivory walks you must be able to tread in this, your halcyon paradise, where you can merely tell these ignoble peasants to eat cake. I pity you your ignorance. When the silt on which you’ve built your grand temple to your own ambivalence washes away, I wonder what you will say, then?

          Get down off your fucking high horse and rage against the dying of the light in the corpofascist hellscape this world has become, or fuck off back to your palace, Marie Antoinette.

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            Don’t forget to cancel your subscriptions, and grab a book to read it.

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                Onions make me cry, As I chop and wonder why, Subscriptions pile high, But today I say goodbye.

                A book in hand, I read, In silence, I plant a seed, Of stories that I need, While canceling their greed.