Marxist economics trialled at AMAZON

 ⚡🚨 WATCH - Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.

Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.

Here's what happened:

Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."

And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.

Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.

The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."

Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.

Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.

Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.

Same playbook with Hanes:

Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."

Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.

But it gets even worse...

Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. 

Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.

They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.

The mechanism is simple but terrifying:

If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.

Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."

Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.

Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.

So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. 

You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.

"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."

3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.

This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.

And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.

"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

 https://blossom.primal.net/56a5d84ebe2f1a74c473e9524d47183bc689f6b2b9c6dda82eb6655c9e9fd184.mp4

To the lists

 Epstein List mentioned by Sean Strickland prior to UFC WH bouts.

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Senator Elizabeth Warren: Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?

Fed Chair Nominee Kevin Warsh: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed and before I take office.

 https://blossom.primal.net/04a68a55ce4f77caa8a5881fc4841c879404f006f00fb34c3daa08c0195651c1.mp4

PROTECT YOURSELF AT ALL TIMES!

Terra Austria

 New Atlantis - Wikipedia

Chance exists for a second foundation.  Pyschohistorians know the empire is doomed. So why not preserve its best features for a future resurgence?  

As predictable as a sine wave. Imagine a utopian land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants!

Trantor was always a blot on the landscape. A pigsty.  Fit only for Boers and Ferengi.

Fuck that noise.

Mutton dressed as lamb

 AND GREASY AS A BUTCHERS DICK

The Widener family fortune was generated by electricity. Patriarch Peter Arrell Browne Widener may have started his career as a Philadelphia butcher who happened to receive a commission to supply mutton to all of the Union troops stationed within ten miles of Center City, but by diversifying his wealth into electric trolley lines, he had, by 1883, ensured that when he died thirty-two years later his estate would be worth around $32 million (counting philanthropy and assets, that figure reaches the billions). Like other robber barons of the Gilded Age, Widener took full advantage of the technological fruits of industrial capitalism, a founder of and an investor in not just his own Philadelphia Traction Company but also US Steel and the International Mercantile Marine Company, which manufactured large trade ships. For all of its wealth disparity, the nineteenth century was an era of miracles as well. Consider Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre’s alchemy of silver-platted copper and mercury vapor on which a living image could be preserved forever or Alexander Graham Bell’s voices through the wire. There were also Guglielmo Marconi’s mysterious radio waves in the ether and Thomas Edison’s luminescent filaments cradled in glass bulbs (not to mention his wax cylinders of recorded music and his moving picture machines). 

The Wideners’ Lynnewood Hall—a palatial, neo-classical mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania—was a testament to the faith in science and technology that had produced their wealth, featuring not just paintings by Rembrandt, Raphael, van Dyck, Vermeer, and Bellini but also a modern central vacuuming system and complete electrification in all of its 110 rooms. “For knowledge itself is power,” wrote Francis Bacon in his 1597 Essays, the first full-throated formulation of a positivist scientism that envisioned empirical knowledge leading an ever-upward movement of human progress. Peter’s grandson Harry Elkins Widener was, in addition to being a prodigious book collector, an avid reader of Bacon. While on a European collecting trip in 1912, Harry purchased a 1598 edition of the Essays from a London antiquarian for £260, later boarding a New York-bound ship in Cherbourg, France, with his treasure. Another technological marvel, the ship had a five-kilowatt-motor-generator for transmitting Morse code, ten-thousand lightbulb-illuminated lamps, a system of massive reciprocating steam engines, synchronized clocks, and even four elevators. The ship was the Titanic, soon to go down in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, taking Widener and what he called his “little Bacon” with her. 

Lies about Luddites

 Luddites were protesting low wages and shoddy goods.  Clothes that would unravel with a tug on one thread. They were friends of human progress, decency and intelligence. Quite unlike denizens of rightwing stink tanks.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/04/the-luddites-were-the-first-to-attack-ai.html#comments

Austro libertarian morons go fuck yourself

The Gollum face of childporn on chain

 ⚡️🇭🇰 NEW - Vitalik Buterin was spotted just before taking the stage to deliver a speech at the Web3 Carnival in Hong Kong. 

https://blossom.primal.net/7adfe990efed8eea4d152b12918edf1173cdef6599b3189d604efccf25fd8bb8.mp4

Nationalism 0

 ⚡️🚨🇫🇷 NEW - France's ANTS portal, the government system issuing IDs, passports, and driver's licenses, has been breached. 

Up to 19 million French citizens may be affected. ANTS has confirmed the breach.

Exposed fields include full name, email, address, date and place of birth, phone number, and identity verification data. Confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior.

The threat actor behind the ANTS breach told us he doesn't want any money, he just wanted to prove government systems are easy to hack. 

ANTS was breached via an IDOR access control flaw. 80GB of passwords, source code, logs, and PII stolen.

We've seen the samples...

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