Amazon’s Behavior Makes Walmart’s Earnings Call Look Like a Profile in Courage
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It’s been illuminating to see which U.S. institutions have stood up for themselves.

This week… current Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is in Saudi Arabia with Trump, where he (Jassy) has announced a partnership between the company and an A.I. firm cofounded by close Trump family ally Mohammed bin Salman. Bin Salman is the de facto Saudi leader who is believed to have ordered the 2018 kidnapping, murder, and dismemberment of a columnist at the Bezos-owned Washington Post (at least, that’s what the CIA concluded; bin Salman denies it). Bin Salman was also accused by Bezos himself in 2019 of hacking Bezos’ phone and obtaining information about an extramarital affair that was later published by the National Enquirer. Time heals all wounds, apparently, except for those suffered by the people who were working for Jeff Bezos when Mohammed bin Salman had them murdered. Allegedly.

Years from now, one wonders if figures like Bezos will still expect to command respect and authority in the United States after having supported what is in essence an attempt to make someone king.

  • sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world
    47·
    4 days ago

    That columnist 's name? Jamal Khashoggi. Important stuff, they weren’t just an employee. They were a human being with a family, with people that cared. Never forget Saudi Arabia’s state sponsored murder of this blameless man

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      It’s important to note that Kushner was in the middle of negotiations on a $10 billion arms deal with MBS when this happened. Kushner knew about it in advance, and assured MBS that the operation wouldn’t detail the arms talks, nor would HitlerPig speak out against it.

      They knew that Khashoggi was going to be murdered, yet they did absolutely nothing to warn him, and let him go to his death, where he was tortured to death, and dismembered. They have video of him entering the building, but never coming out, although operatives were spotted leaving with heavy suitcases, presumed to be his body. His body has never been found.

      HitlerPig and Kushner greenlighted the murder.