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Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 1 day ago

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

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Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 1 day ago
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In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.

https://archive.is/RWt8f

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  • Smeagol666 ( Smeagol666@crazypeople.online ) 
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    So basically a microcosm of the whole fucking US government. Yeah, no fucking shit.

  • artyom ( artyom@piefed.social ) 
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    They could have just spent that $1.4M improving conditions for their contractors…

    • James R Kirk ( Kirk@startrek.website ) 
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      It wouldn’t have been nearly enough, they ended up owing like 100x that much. From a business standpoint that 1.4M was probably a reasonable amount to risk losing.

  • SocialistVibes01 ( SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Mandani isn’t an ally.

    • Goodlucksil ( Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      Perfect is the enemy of the good

    • Phoenixz ( phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) 
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      Uuugghhhh

      I’ll bite

      What small thing did he do that got you all riled up?

      • iocase ( iocase@lemmy.zip ) 
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        He didnt completely overthrow the capitalists and sieze the means of production 😡😡🤬🤬👺👺

    • melsaskca ( melsaskca@lemmy.ca ) 
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      To Doordash?

    • DegradationDenial ( DegradationDenial@feddit.nl ) 
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      Classic Marxist Leninist.

      • SocialistVibes01 ( SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Classic Democrat. Which AIPAC Mummy is pulling your collar tiday?

        • DdCno1 ( DdCno1@beehaw.org ) 
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          Were you expecting him to execute half of Wall Street on day one?

  • frustrated_phagocytosis ( frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io ) 
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    Such horseshit. If you have money for politics, you aren’t paying your people enough!

    • Jul ( irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone ) 
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      Yeah, a symptom of late stage capitalism that large companies no longer compete by improving their product or service, but by manipulating the regulatory environment and/or competition, through collusion, legal attacks, or acquisition. It’s much less risky of an investment for larger companies post-mass-consolidation.

      • wyldrstallyns ( wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        Honestly, though, they are the government in all but name at this point.

        How fucked aren’t we? 😅😬

        • A_be_seedy ( A_be_seedy@beehaw.org ) 
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          Not if you support and vote for your local Mandami. Theyre out there, just needing the right local conditions: create them. Get 3-5 friends and take over your local democratic organization

          • zjti8eit ( zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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            lol. If voting made a difference, it would be illegal by now.

            • kunaltyagi ( kunaltyagi@programming.dev ) 
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              If voting didn’t make a difference, they wouldn’t be trying this hard to make it hard to vote

          • Scaramanga ( Scaramanga@thelemmy.club ) 
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            And you would be a complete moron to vote for socialism.

            • Bo7a ( Bo7a@piefed.ca ) 
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              It is refreshing to see someone saying something so purely stupid once a while. Good job!

            • Concetta ( vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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              Ah, you think having Andrew Cuomo or Curtis Salewa would have been more reasonable? What policy of Mandami’s do you not support? Do you think people having access to food is a bad thing?

          • wyldrstallyns ( wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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            I hear you, fellow pleb, and I was ardently politically active for decades —until, at a protest vs Bush Jr’s use of his appointed judges to put him back in office, I witnessed 4 swat pigs hogtie a 13yr old girl that was walking by the scene, and huck her in the wagon like a sack. (they also shot a senior vet w/ a “less than lethal” round in the crotch, etc. when he tried to tell them it was a “sit in”).

            I try to help wherever and however I can, but I’m pretty spent at this point after all these years of burning hard toward a dream, to be frank. 🥲🙇🏼‍♂️ I give what I can these days, but it’s a fraction of what I used to give with exuberance and glowing hope inside.

            • A_be_seedy ( A_be_seedy@beehaw.org ) 
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              I get it. I’m much less active then I was too. Just gotta find ways to improve our local community, and not be the resistance for the new energy.

              • wyldrstallyns ( wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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                Truth. I wish you luck, neighbor! I’m thinking I’ll stick to game nights and social fulfillment for a while. If it all goes to shit, at least I’ll have good memories of the way down. Besides, I’m tired of shadowboxing with fucknuts, ya know?

                • A_be_seedy ( A_be_seedy@beehaw.org ) 
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                  Game nights and social fulfuilment still builds community :)

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      I feel it is never about having the money or not rather that for them it is a moral issue that it’s preferable to spend money on fewer people (political lobbying campaign) rather than the same total amount or even sometimes less on the many.

      • dubs ( dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        The same amount of money in fewer hands creates a choke-point that they can squeeze later.

  • katy ✨ ( cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ) 
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    deleted by creator

  • jtrek ( jtrek@startrek.website ) 
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    Haha get fucked DoorDash. I’ll pick up my own food before using them.

    • zjti8eit ( zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      if you pay someone else to make your food, you are lazy and rich.

    • James R Kirk ( Kirk@startrek.website ) 
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      A while back I had a free month of dashpass but even with the money “saved” it was still about the same as if we actually dined out and tipped.

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      I always try to call and pickup. If ever a deliver app, never Doordash. Never again.

  • kiarash ( kiarash@lemmychan.org ) 
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    This is why prices are what they are, so the people profiting off of your stupidity can use your money against you.

    Stop being stupid.

    • Juice ( Juice@midwest.social ) 
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      Ah yes, capitalism is an individual failing like a snake that eats its own tail.

      Get organized

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