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Say wha-
Are you just shilling for corpos or something? What exactly are you talking about.
That’s exactly what this is. Trying to seek the truth while they spin false narratives. And you’re siding with the people who are literally just professional false narrators. Sowing doubt about unflattering stories is literally a PR person’s main job. And you’re saying “well, they denied it! Why is this a story?” It just makes no sense. Unfortunately, right now it’s just the word of an employee vs the word of the PR person. Which is exactly—I might add—the way the no bathroom breaks thing started. You’re just deciding to give the corp the benefit of the doubt. I’m choosing to believe the believable story about them being awful (as the company has proven to be over and over and over.)
How exactly does my just happening to believe the employee over the PR person “confuse people about the real issues” and “actively discredit” myself and “create a false reality.” Like, for real, it seems like you’re spinning PR right now. But you’re just bad at it.
I dont believe either and havent formed an opinion because there isnt enough information. Seeking truth is the opposite of assuming. Assuming the corporation is lying reinforces your personal belief. You are diluting yourself. Deal with reality and its complexity.
You say it’s assuming based on personal belief. I say it’s applying the innate human ability to recognize patterns.
I could make the argument that you’re carrying water for Amazon by ever thinking they deserve the benefit of the doubt. I believe the worker. That’s it. You don’t. You’re calling it irresponsible basically, and to some degree I get that. But the benefit of the doubt is a benefit they’ve squandered too many times. It’s less responsible to apply an illogical rule after it’s proven false.
But no matter what fuck them. If I find out later the story was false—which happens plenty with more verified stories from larger outlets—my opinion of them won’t change for the better. It hasn’t changed for the worse believing it. It’s just to be expected at this point. You can call that irresponsible , I say it’s just believing what we’ve been shown over and over and over. And not just from Amazon, but from the increasingly invasive late stage surveillance capitalist world we live in and nearly all of its corporate representatives.
Pattern recognition is quite a fancy way to describe assuming.
If i thought amazon deserved the benefit of doubt then i would probably be siding with them, but as i said, i dont have an opinion on the matter at this time.
You are looking for shortcuts for critical thinking, and congrats, you've found one. As long as you dont care about the quality of the foundation of your beliefs then you are in the clear.
If you hate amazon regardless of this story, you are entitled to that. I want to understand reality, and am willing to suspend my opinions in the absence of information to maximize my understanding of whats actually going on in the world. But yeah, its certainly simpler to do it your way.
Its weird to me how much people tell me what i believe when i havent given them any legitimate reason to. I point out missing information for the conclusions being drawn in the comments and everyone else uses their genius shortcut logic to deduce who i am. Now, i do know who i am, and i know commenters are pretty consistently wrong when they extrapolate my opinions to praising something because im not memeing my worldview like a manchild. Life is so much more than that.