Boycott Dispatch #1 — Amazon
Our boycott guide is massive.
Because the list is massive.
New cowards. Trump enablers. Fascism’s financiers. Corporations profiting off human misery while pretending it’s just “business.” Billionaires like Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos paying tribute to power because they think there’s still a little more blood to squeeze from the public.
These aren’t neutral companies.
They choose profit over people. Every time.
The list is long—really long.
And millions have read it, shared it, acted on it.
But now we make it more accessible.
We serialize it.
One entry a day.
So people remember: who, what, why—and how to hit back.
And we start where we should:
Amazon.
No company has engineered dependency like they have.
Fast, cheap, effortless—until you realize it’s a loop.
But here’s the good news:
No company is easier to boycott.
Stop buying from Amazon.
Cancel Prime.
That’s it. That’s the move.
Everything else? It’s in this entry.
1. Amazon — The Smash-and-Grab Empire
Walmart wrote the playbook in the 1970s: roll in with cheap prices, kill local shops, jack them up once competition’s dead.
Amazon picked up the ball and sprinted into the end zone.
Faster. Slicker. Meaner.
They became the everything store, the default option, the illusion of convenience.
During the pandemic, those boxes on the doorstep felt like society itself—until we realized what we were really funding: the fascist normalization of corporate power.
Every Prime membership is a kickback to Jeff Bezos, who buys influence, launches vanity rockets, and parades his plastic decadence while workers piss in bottles and U.S. aid cuts kill infants.
His smile is the smile of our gilded age: worship of money in a graveyard.
And here’s the kicker—Prime isn’t even a deal anymore.
“Free shipping” is a lie.
Prices are padded.
Convenience is surveillance.
And the algorithm is quietly eating your paycheck.
Cancel it.
Don’t let the algorithm win.
But Amazon is not just “Amazon.” It’s so much more which makes it more insidious than most others.
Amazon Ring: Surveillance as a Service
Amazon’s Ring tried to integrate with Flock Safety to expand law enforcement access to private camera networks. After backlash, the deal was canceled. That’s why we do this. That’s what a win looks like.
But the intent matters more than the press release.
Ring already receives thousands of law enforcement requests every year. Through “Community Requests,” police can ask users for footage—no warrant required for the ask. Add subpoenas, emergency requests, and voluntary compliance, and you get the same result:
A distributed surveillance network built out of private homes.
This isn’t convenience.
It’s the blueprint for a digital Gestapo.
Once they kicked in doors.
Now they don’t have to.
Doorbell cameras turn neighborhoods into data pipelines—tracking movement, behavior, patterns—normalized under the language of “community safety.”
The state doesn’t need to install cameras.
You do it for them.
Don’t invite it in.
AWS (Amazon Web Services) — The Backbone
AWS isn’t just cloud storage. It’s the invisible infrastructure of power—hosting governments, police systems, and the very platforms shaping public reality.
It powers:
government infrastructure
surveillance systems
corporate monopolies
Whole Foods: Organic Oligarchy
That olive bar you love?
It’s Amazon now—just another pipeline into the same corrupt bloodstream.
Every dollar spent there flows from the register to Bezos to MAGA super PACs.
The store that once preached “local and sustainable” now bankrolls the architects of collapse.
The Washington Post: Democracy Dies in the Boardroom
Once a proud institution.
Now a Bezos accessory.
They fired truth-tellers, platformed bootlickers, and “both-sidesed” authoritarianism until fascism sounded like a policy debate.
Subscribing today isn’t supporting journalism—
it’s subsidizing propaganda.
Boycott:
Amazon
Prime
Ring
Whole Foods
The Washington Post
Amazon Ads
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Twitch
Audible
Start here (takes 5 minutes):
Cancel Prime
Remove your saved payment method
Delete the Amazon app
Choose one alternative for your next purchase
Alternatives:
Costco • Aldi • Farmers’ markets • Thrift stores • eBay / Mercari • Direct from manufacturers
(Find it on Amazon, then buy it off their site—it’s a gut punch to the goddamn oligarchs.)
Prime Week isn’t a sale.
It’s a shakedown.
Convenience is the bait.
Surveillance is the hook.
And the catch?
Your freedom.
Your wages.
Your future.
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