“His selection isn’t just a conflict of interest — it’s an aggressive step toward handing America’s mail system over to corporate interests,” Brian Renfroe, the president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, said in a statement. “Private shippers have been waiting to get USPS out of parcel delivery for years.”

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      Dejoy was step one. This is definitely step 2 or 3 at least. Arguably not making Amazon pay taxes when they’re one of the heaviest users of interstates was also a step…

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        I feel like those steps (and probably this one too tbh) could be course corrected. But this one seems more major.

        I didn’t know about the amazon tax thing. That’s ridiculous.

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    Why was Biden supposedly unable to get rid of DeJoy yet this dude can step in no problem?

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      Because the bulk of Democrats are owned and financed by the same oligarchs funding Republicans/Trump — America is (functionally equivalent to) a corporate dictatorship, merely masquerading as a democracy, and has been for many decades.

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    Mirror’s Edge wasn’t a fun parkour game was it? It was actually a prophecy in the privatization of mail.