r/PoursTea • u/FizzyAcidBird • Aug 24 '26
PositiviTea 🌞 Finally! Showing them rich people!!!
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u/Fit-Meeting-5866 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 25 '26
It really is jarring that anyone would take one look at what Mayor Mamdani is doing and think that it was in any way bad to have a political leader who is actually working for his constituents.
Edit: I posted this comment after seeing someone say something about Mayor Mamdani in a negative way, and I just cannot fathom that anyone who lives in his city feels anything but amazing knowing he is there. Less about Bezos, and more about what a breathe of fresh air Mr. Mamdani is.
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u/imnojezus Aug 24 '26
But people who make $55k a year in rural Alabama have to hear his name spoken incredibly sarcastically on Fox News every time he uses NYC tax funds to make something better in NYC, and that's just so hard on them.
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u/alwayssunnyinskyrim Aug 24 '26
How many rural Alabamans do you think make $55k? $25k is more like it.
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u/Cardocthian Aug 24 '26
Hey now, that 25k is hard-earned from their cousins throwing dollars at them while they strip!
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u/Mostly_Afloat Aug 24 '26
Tiffany made 50k but she's got a lot of cousins
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u/Cardocthian Aug 24 '26
Well, and her brother is a mwth dealer, who enjoys watching her dance...thats bama!
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u/ForgottenMasterBalls Aug 25 '26
Literally had a pro-life Facebook post where somebody responded that he would never be able to live with himself if he let his daughter kill his child.
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u/mmmstrongflavors Aug 25 '26
Exactly. It's those lucky few $55kers that would all be the next Bezos if it weren't for Mamdani and his socialism!
.../s
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u/Marsuello Aug 24 '26
Not even Alabama. I live in Cali and my gma has said he’s not gonna do well because of his socialist ideals. Meanwhile he’s incredibly popular by anyone not right wing and has shown for the most part he’s doing a great job overall.
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u/RivenRise Aug 24 '26
I hope you told her that she's already wrong and he's already doing well because of his socialist ideas. All while refusing to engage on whatever bullshit she may say. Hopefully she means it with concern rooting for him and not the alternative though.
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u/Marsuello Aug 25 '26
She basically said when she saw him doing well that people voted for it so they get what they vote for and that good he’s doing isn’t going to last forever and people will eventually see how he’s not doing a good job. She’s a kind woman and a republican her whole life but not easy to sway with politics mostly. My late grandfather was on city council for a while where I used to live and was very heavy into republican politics. When I was young he met Darrel Issa and I was in the background of one of his ads to vote for him (too young to understand what was happening). We also had a meeting with some Saudi prince or some shit like that for lunch cus my gpa had written a book about climate change being fake and the guy I guess was mentioned in it or just loved the book or something.
He was very much a good person but not great person and since she’s more quiet and submissive I think has just kind of accepted where she’s at. She was always right wing, just never super into politics in the sense of active involvement. She has good and bad takes (as we all do) but sadly with my uncle also being a fox/newsmax 24/7 person my trying to reason with her would be overturned by him spewing their bs to her.
I’m the lone left leaner in our house so I don’t have much I can do especially when dealing with a quick to anger Fox/newsmax viewer
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u/KaleidoscopeSea9324 Aug 25 '26
I lived in North County SD for years and Issa was my rep. Left 18 years ago and I still want to vomit when I hear his name. It's hard being the lone sane person in a political conversation with Republicans. My MIL still lives there and happily supports their regime. It's mind numbing to think about so we've basically become estranged. Just wanted to let you know you're not alone, even when you're surrounded by ignorant people.
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u/Im_Just_A_Tourist Aug 25 '26
If he wrote a book earnestly about climate change being fake he might not actually be that good of a person even if he was good to his family. It's pretty fucked up to deny something so obvious from pretty much all available data that will do untold harm to people in the future.
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u/Ok-Tax-8165 Aug 24 '26 edited Sep 17 '26
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u/Bozee3 Aug 24 '26
As someone in Missouri, it's nice to hear about a politician that does things that I would see implemented.
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u/bluespruce5 Aug 24 '26
If only they had the critical thinking skills to evaluate what they're hearing and whom they're hearing it from 😭🤬
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u/ScratchLatch Aug 24 '26
Picking $55k in rural Alabama as a small salary is pretty out of touch.
The median US personal income is $45k
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u/not_accepting_now Aug 24 '26
We all agree with that. I just hope the momentum keeps up. It's not his fault many people done trust politicians but GD I want what's best for my neighbors
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u/atomicpioneer42 Aug 24 '26
I want that too, but only after I get what’s best for me, first.
/s
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u/hobopwnzor Aug 24 '26
There's a very very large contingent of politicians, a lot of them Democrats too, that hate Mamdani because he's doing real work.
They trained an entire generation to tune out what the government does because the world is stable and government can't do anything good. So when Mamdani comes in and within a year shows how easy it is to do good, that threatens the entire order. It means Democratic voters will start to expect results instead of just being satisfied that they aren't Republicans.
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u/SnooMaps7370 Aug 24 '26
>They trained an entire generation to tune out what the government does because the world is stable and government can't do anything good. So when Mamdani comes in and within a year shows how easy it is to do good, that threatens the entire order.
Yep. the establishment in America has spent fifty years crafting the attitude that everything the government does is automatically bad, because when the public demands that the government provide services, the robber barons can't squeeze as much money from us.
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u/IcyGarage5767 Aug 25 '26
Yeah. Government is filled with people their for the pay and stability (lol), not to help their fellow countrymen like are entrusted to. Just takes one to actually put in the effort to make them all look bad.
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u/orange-yellow-pink Aug 25 '26
Mamdani gets a lot of press for things that other mayors have done too. Don’t get me wrong, he’s doing a good job, but the barrage of posts boasting about his accomplishments is because he has a great marketing and PR team.
Most of what he’s done are normal democrat things. The real test will be if his city run grocery stores function well.
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u/TheBigMoogy Aug 25 '26
He's upsetting the current political climate of robbing people blind. It's in every other politician's interest to paint his strive for a better community as bad.
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u/ErusTenebre Aug 25 '26
The thing I hate about him is that he's not my mayor.
Who in general just sort of exists and does barely anything useful for my city.
It's really annoying to see how good it could be lol
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u/pizza_the_mutt Aug 24 '26
It's shocking how apparently easy it is for a leader to just go and do useful stuff. We've been hoodwinked into believing that any sort of progress is just an immense feat, and one can only expect a meaningful improvement every decade or so (while the opposite, decreases in societal functioning or life satisfaction seem to happen every day). But no, a mayor (or President, or Governor) can just make things better.
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u/kangorooz99 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26
When you’ve been brainwashed your whole life to grasp an oligarch agenda and worship oligarchs like they’re Gods….its easy.
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u/No-Value-8156 Aug 24 '26
What is that suppose to mean? We talking about the Rump cult or?
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u/Reasonable-Plate2982 Aug 24 '26
That's another bone of contention. The fact the trucks fly the Amazon banner but liability can be foisted on subs that one can only hope are adequately insured. They prolly are but the important thing is $9 million owed to the city was recovered and not just a $500,000 'gift' to Mamdamis political coffers. Which is how the corrupt politicians operate these days, starting with the extortion artist in the Whitehouse.
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u/wildcheesybiscuits Aug 25 '26
Amazon probably did cover the fines or got expensed for them. It's nothing to them in terms of monetary amount. But also if they hadn't and forced the subcontractors to pay the fines, then those subcontractors would just turnaround and cripple their business by not driving for them (temporarily but still). Amazon would know this and isn't stupid enough to expect subcontractors doing their work to cover cost of doing business expenses.
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u/Reasonable-Plate2982 Aug 25 '26
Good point. Obviously, subcontracting is baked in to most corporate business models these days but there will be an umbrella that the subs will prolly have to buy into. Maybe the Mamdami complaint may stem from the idea that Amazon squeezes the subs, so the underpaid sap who throws your package around ain't got the uniform benefits and decorum you may have expected. Sorta mobile sweat shop kyna thing
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u/outoftheshowerahri Aug 24 '26
Also, don't think for a second that Amazon or any other big business won't profit off of socialism or communism or whatever buzzword you ascribe to
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u/wandering-monster Aug 25 '26
Yes but this is like tarrifs in reverse.
Okay technically the transportation vendors pay the fines, but they aren't just going to eat that. They're going to recover it.
They do that by charging Amazon. Either directly in a lump sum, or via increased prices over time.
Amazon can afford to just eat it, and uses low shipping costs as part of it's strategy, so they'll be the one who pays in the long run.
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u/marmaladetuxedo Aug 25 '26
An Amazon spokesperson responded to the fines, stating:
“We’ve worked with city officials to resolve these fines, many of which didn’t reach the delivery service partners whose vehicles were cited because of gaps in how violations were tracked. We’ve since established a new process to help ensure potential future violations reach the right parties. Source
It sounds like Amazon paid the majority of fines, but only because they couldn't properly figure out who to blame. But don't worry, they have a new process that will make sure they don't have to pay if/when this happens again in the future. /s
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u/sharklaserguru Aug 25 '26
And looking at the amazon sub shitty DSPs will force their drivers to pay (or fire them since the ticket goes to the vehicle not driver).
https://old.reddit.com/r/AmazonDSPDrivers/comments/16j02ie/got_200_parking_ticket/
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u/Emergency_Exit7603 Aug 24 '26
Finally a politician actually doing something for the average joe, not his rich doner/buddies.
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u/Sea_Possible531 Aug 24 '26
Amazon makes between $1.5 billion and $2 billion per day in revenue, based on 2025–2026 financial data.
PER DAY.
9 million is a drop of piss in Bezos' ocean.
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u/Gorstag Aug 24 '26
Don't conflate revenue and profit. As an example... Walmart revenue is about the same per day. Their profit is about 1.5B a month. Most of Amazons profit isn't their shipping service or their store. AWS is like 1/6th of their revenue but around 1/2 their total profit.
The numbers are still massive and they should be paying their fines regardless.
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u/flargenhargen Aug 24 '26
we live in such a shithole country,
and there's just this one dude, still giving a shit about people and fixing stuff.
I wish I was optimistic enough to think good would triumph over evil in the long run.
it's depressing to think about how life could be in this world if greed and hate didn't run everything.
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u/Brilliant-Ad-4624 Just Chill 😎 Aug 24 '26
Timing is hilarious but I'd still wanna know when those fines were issued before calling it a clapback
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u/Griffolion Aug 24 '26
Why the fuck should Bezos even have an opinion about NYC school outlay? Does he have kids that are in the NYC public school system?
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u/Vitaman1000 Aug 24 '26
Ok. Amazon should pay fines that are rightly imposed, but how are these these two events connected?
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u/McGillis_is_a_Char Aug 24 '26
The OP is suggesting that it is revenge, but more likely Bezos complained because of the fines.
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u/CrunchySockTaco Aug 24 '26
Can you not tell they're trying to make the connection that Bezos got fined just because he talked shit about NY school spending?
Obviously it's rage bait trying to make a correlation.
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u/spacedman_spiff Aug 24 '26
You think this is rage bait?
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u/ShaolinWombat Aug 24 '26
It’s the opposite of rage bait. It’s taking to unrelated events out of context to create a win. Basically cheer bait.
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u/yep975 Aug 24 '26
Are you saying that madani assessed the fines or dug them up BECAUSE Bezos criticized him?
That sounds like something corrupt Trump would do.
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u/CrunchySockTaco Aug 24 '26
No. I'm saying that's what the article wants you to believe.
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u/DrButtgerms Aug 25 '26
I like to imagine a government that can move that quickly too. In my imagination, they ride unicorns to do it.
More like Amazon was getting fined and Bezos ran his mouth because of it before the city made their press release or finalized the fines or whatever.
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u/brk816 Aug 24 '26
“Woah woah that’s socialism, think about the capitalism!” Some right wing ding somewhere I’m sure
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u/SatisfactionActive86 Aug 24 '26
Boggles the mind people are not suspicious of unsourced declarations because the declaration affirms their feelings about a politician. isn’t that what we criticize MAGA of doing?
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u/-Profanity- Aug 24 '26
Pre-Trump reddit was generally skeptical of believing anything as fact without a source to back it up.
Since then billions of political dollars have poured into this platform which has also gone public, and those skeptics have been replaced by zealous political experts. Now you get megaposters with hidden post histories posting tweets in random subs that somehow end up on your front page, and it's almost always some misleading point like this one. Basically the only political activity left on reddit is to agree with what the OP tells you.
We're only a few months removed from a karma farmer with a hidden post history convincing 99% of reddit that a Fox News contributor was wearing a realistic human mask in an interview for no apparent reason, simply because the OP told them it was true. Reddit has gone from the best source of information online to one of the absolute worst.
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u/Tupperbaby Aug 25 '26
This is Reddit. On /popular every day there are at least a dozen of those "Graphic with smaller graphic inset in circle with a black area under it featuring a claim in white/gold text" with ZERO citation, attribution or source included. They always, and I mean always, receive tens of thousands of upvotes and are immediately taken at face value by, again, literally thousands of commentors.
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u/humpbackwhale88 Aug 25 '26
Hi there, it takes a simple google search to substantiate both of these claims. The post is true.
And here
Yes, the left criticizes maga of doing the same but you’re being lazy AF to comment this. Do better.
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u/musical_entropy Aug 24 '26
I know. I'm very left leaning, but the amount of ""news"" on here that is simply a fucking tweet makes me feel fucking insane. I used to get downvoted to oblivion asking for a source while thousands of people just gobble up unsubstantiated slop.
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u/aceholeman Aug 24 '26
Does anyone here actually know or understand?
Jeff Bezos nor Amazon own Amazon Delivery Trucks.
They belong to Amazon Delivery Service Partners. Those are independent of Amazon.
75k to 300k is what each owner clears in net profit on average.
Amazon does own the 18 wheeled variety- that carries to distribution centers.
A simple google The Mamdani administration successfully collected $6.88 million in formal environment judgment violations and $2.15 million in pre-judgment violations accumulated across Amazon's third-party delivery network.
The Delivery Protection Act, This pending City Council bill directly targets how Amazon structures its truck and van operations. If passed, it would essentially ban Amazon from using the subcontracted DSP model in NYC, forcing the company to hire delivery drivers as direct employees with traditional benefits.
Which would cause 40 employers and 5000 employees to lose their jobs.
Then force another company to hire those 5000 employees as Amazon directly.
It would also close distro centers in thr Burroughs, and move them out of state.
Increased red tape and slower delivery with additional delivery charges. New legal requirements.
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u/mschnittman Aug 24 '26
As time goes on, his ex-wife is starting to look like the smarter of the two. She seems like a decent person, unlike Bezos. If you're in a position to make a real difference, you have a moral obligation to do so, IMHO.
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u/Rabid_Leprechaun83 Aug 24 '26
News flash, Amazon doesn't own a single one of those trucks. They're owned by third party logistics companies.
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u/E-rotten Aug 24 '26
Yeah I figured they racked up a LOT of money 💰 in parking tickets. Considering they aren’t paying them they should boot the vehicle from until they are paid
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u/explicitlarynx Aug 24 '26
Can billionaires stop competing for the title of Worst Human FOR FIVE MINUTES?
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u/-Casey-Diaz- Aug 25 '26
So Amazon has about $2.8 trillion market capitalization. So he's mad he has to pay 0.0003214285714285714% of Amazons worth.
Let's say you made a humble $1 million per year. 0.0003214285714285714% of your yearly salary would be 3.2 dollars. How much are you really feeling those fines at that point?
Let's pretend these 9 mill were taken straight out of Bezos' own pocket. With a net worth of $266.6 billion, 9 million is about 0.0033758439609902473%. That means you'd pay a whopping $33.75 out of your yearly $1 million salary!!!!
At this point, every single one of those mfs should be taxed into oblivion. Take everything. They deserve nothing. They should have a trillion in debt each, and be forced to work it off with minimum wage.
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u/RoundFaceDisease Aug 25 '26
This is gonna make some poor white guy working at Wal-Mart in Mississippi really mad.
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u/adilly Aug 25 '26
We need to stop referring to the rich in any positive way.
“Persons of extreme tax benefits”
“The parasite class”
“Titans of theft”
Etc etc etc.
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u/clonedhuman Aug 25 '26
There is enough in this country for everyone to have enough to eat, a place to live, and access to healthcare. There is more than enough for all of us to have those things.
But, there isn't enough for us and for a small handful of billionaires who want to own everything.
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u/uncouthulu_ Aug 24 '26
Jeff Bezos doesn't like music. Not a particular kind of music, he doesn't like music. Weird ass MF.
Mandani quoted Rick Ross recently.
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u/Aggravating_Dog3882 Aug 24 '26
I bet he used the refund from the tariffs to pay NYC. You know that Bezos the clown, isn’t gonna pay out of amazons’ account.
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u/cardguy64 Aug 24 '26
Does everyone evil have one fucked up eye?
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u/LazeHeisenberg Aug 24 '26
I have one eye that’s smaller than the other when I smile so… hope not.
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u/scared-o-diapers Aug 24 '26
Why do all these fuckers have some gnarly eye shit. Looking at you Bezos. Wink
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u/denv0r Aug 24 '26
Use your mouse and cover one of Bezos's eyes. Then cover the other one. He's 2 different dudes in one body..
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u/Mundane-Stick7438 Aug 24 '26
It doesn't say 'past due'. They probably pay that every month as a cost of doing business.
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u/Fun-Piglet801 Aug 24 '26
So, you're saying that it was retaliation? Weaponization of city resources against critics?
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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace Aug 24 '26
When they eventually add a surcharge for NYC you gotta boycott and hurt their pockets or they'll never learn. A fine for a company is just a price increase for the customer which is why companies have no incentive to not break the law. If, we ever get out of the shitshow that we're in, people need to start demanding that company fines are imposed as higher tax rates especially on new profits that will accrue from them fucking people over.
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u/Grand_Taste_8737 Aug 24 '26
Lol, like Bezos has anything to do with those trucks. Guess Mamdani showed him!!
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u/KiNGofKiNG89 Aug 24 '26
Well it was from Amazon, FedEx, UPS, etc. Amazon owed $17M and ended up only paying like $3M.
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u/Stealerb Aug 24 '26
With Jeff Bezos no longer being CEO and only owning 8-9% of Amazon, this is wildly incorrect. Current CEO is Andy Jassy. Pretty sure Bezos doesn't care.
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u/KartFacedThaoDien Aug 24 '26
Is it even possible for the government to spend too much money on public schools.
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u/Careflwhatyouwish4 Aug 24 '26
How exactly did they recover this money? I'd like to see the receipt.
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u/Suspicious-Bid-6111 Aug 24 '26
How many seconds worth of spending does that $9 million buy the city?
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u/kheq Aug 24 '26
The part they don't say out loud is the money was recovered on the city's end. These companies (FedEx, Amazon, UPS, etx) prepay their fines in bulk to avoid situations just like this. They gets thousands of tickets every day and it would be prohibitive for someone to appear in court for all of them. The money was just from the bureaucratic process catching up a little bit, not because they got around to dealing with Amazon. The money is already allocated to them, lol.
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u/ApoBong Aug 24 '26
Confiscate his wealth. Amazon has destroyed more infrastructure around the world than it build.
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u/Swimming-Time883 Aug 24 '26
I can’t believe I got to see a politician actually do their job in my lifetime. It feels like I’m living a myth.
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u/lumpboysupreme Aug 24 '26
If it was one day between them then the causal relationship was almost definitely backwards. Bezos sour grapes-ing over having to pay the fine that he learned about before Amazon paid out and Mamdani announced it.
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u/hitnrun_dryer Aug 24 '26
He had to get shit talk from bezos to enforce the law. This clown show all over the country, enforcing laws when you feel like it Is going to be hilarious
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u/ParticularMemory789 Aug 24 '26
...as someone who has more republican beliefs than democrat - thats undeniably amazing (unless you somehow idolize bozos).
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u/RainbowTentacle Aug 24 '26
Really sticking it to him. He makes that in like 7 min on a normal day lol
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u/El_Chairman_Dennis Aug 24 '26
I must be reading this wrong. I'm reading it as "Jeff bezos insults mayor of NYC, so mayor of NYC goes after poor Amazon delivery drivers with unpaid parking tickets." But that doesn't really seem to mesh with everything mamdani has done
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u/El_Chairman_Dennis Aug 24 '26
I must be reading this wrong. I'm reading it as "Jeff bezos insults mayor of NYC, so mayor of NYC goes after poor Amazon delivery drivers with unpaid parking tickets." But that doesn't really seem to mesh with everything mamdani has done
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u/ChanceOfMeatTornado Aug 25 '26
If this is true, I don’t love how the government doing its job is framed as retaliation for criticism. That’s the kind of thing conservatives believe is actually going on.
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u/Woogedywoogedy Aug 25 '26
Sadly the delivery trucks don't belong to Amazon. Some other schlep has to pay those bucks. Amazon subcontracts delivery with private companies with Amazon logo vans, UPS, FedEx, and USPS among others.
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u/NYSenseOfHumor Aug 25 '26
Oh no, $9 million to Amazon
That’s 0.00125 percent of its 2025 revenue of $716.9 billion.
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u/FroyoOk8902 Aug 25 '26
You all understand Bezos is paying $0 for those fines right? Amazon is… and the only person paying for the fines are the people who order from Amazon in NY.
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u/SierraPapaWhiskey Aug 25 '26
At least it's going in the right direction. Fight those rich pricks! Well done, man.
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u/Early_Key_823 Aug 25 '26
Power and wealth allows for entitlement, corruption and antisocial tendencies.
Someone should hand him a piss bottle
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u/Dtcomat Aug 25 '26
To be fair, Amazon delivery is outsourced to tons of independently owned 3rd party companies. I knew a guy who worked at one, and it sounded a lot like an MLM scheme. He drove a truck for so many years, and then he could apply for a license to open his own Amazon delivery company, and hire his own drivers, etc. Most of those companies have no "legal" connection to Amazon/Bezos, so this likely didn't affect them at all. Still good to collect the fees though.
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u/blueeyeshadowaz Aug 25 '26
I bought a disco record from a third party… 15 plus years ago… the only purchase… yet I get constant spam to this day from Bezos Inc!
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u/jcdahl Aug 25 '26
I don't believe this happened because it's literally just an image of text with two random unrelated pictures and no source or reference to anything.
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u/Sanquinity Aug 25 '26
You know, I'm not a fan of Mamdani. But fair is fair. This is a definite win. Fines should absolutely be paid. And honestly, if there were that many fines from one company, that entire company should be investigated.
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u/Longhair024 Aug 25 '26
Man what a feeling it has to be living in New York right now with this man killing it! Congrats to you all for standing behind Mamdani and letting this gentleman shine! Getting things done with the people of the city in mind! Stoked for you all!
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u/Tasty_Dirt783 Aug 25 '26
Mángina is a rich guy him self and a lying scum bag comy .. bezo pays more taxes in one quarter and 90% of people their whole lives.
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u/justkeepswimming2026 Aug 25 '26
thats right baby! fuck the rich! make em pay their fair share and a living fucken wage!
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u/Commercial_Rule_7823 Aug 25 '26
Wonder if OP realizes that bezos departed active roles with amazon 5 years ago
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u/ConcentrateJolly5461 Aug 25 '26
You wrote three paragraphs defending bank bailouts and political corruption just to say 'I'm done listening.' You ran out of arguments and your timeline fell apart. Take the L and go to bed.
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