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F**k Amazon, part 2 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Don't throw away your Kindle, Jailbreak it and take back ownership. Make your Kindle even better with KoReader and other apps. If you wanna see whats possible i recomment this Yt video. If you wanna get started here are all instructions: https://kindlemodding.org/ Don't let it scare you it seems complicated but its just a lot of (easy) steps. So definitely possible in <2h.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

What did I miss?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Of you can just put your device in airplane mode .. lmao y'all like drowning in glasses of water.

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[+] [email protected] -38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

is that super racist cartoon the best image to use for right to repair?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Happy to hear you out and I didn't downvote, but I'm not sure how it's racist. The original cartoon doesn't seem racist (though Bugs Bunny has plenty of that in other cartoons) and I'm not sure how this frame could be taken that way otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Whoever it was, ive blocked them as either a troll or a complete dumbass. So take that for what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Looking at his other reply…. You’re right on both counts hahaha

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[+] [email protected] -38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

"I'm not sure how this frame could be taken that way"

yes, you are:

"Bugs Bunny has plenty of [racism] in other cartoons"

it sounds like you do understand that cartoon is racist. you said it.

why associate the right to repair with a racist cartoon when there are so many not racist cartoons?

especially when bugs is such a capitalist mascot, and you're trying to make this communist.

doesn't make sense why you would choose that specific frame to associate with Communism (which many people associate with China) from that specific cartoon that is known for Asian racism to promote right to repair.

like, use Donatello fixing a gadget.

or Dexter.

or inspector gadgets niece whatever, or that mouse girl from that show... I think her name is gadget.

none of them have racist associations that you, yourself are aware of and yet are promoting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Penny and.. Yeah, gadget

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (27 children)

You seem to have skipped over actually explaining how this meme is racist... Afaik it's just one of those exaggerated stretched frames from animation used to animate motion which is why it looks funny. The scene of the cartoon has nothing to do with race, and could just as easily be replaced with any other exaggerated cartoon frame.

If your sole complaint is the addition of the hammer & sickle, then no amount of substituting of bugs bunny with other cartoons will make a difference.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Bugs isn't imitating an Asian person in the original. He's yelling at Elmer. "I AM A WABBIT!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't understand what the image is trying to convey anyway (though agree with the premise of Amazon-fucking).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Amazon still wants to retain a sense of ownership of their Kindle devices, despite it being the user who one who bought and owns it.

It's a similar idea (albeit corrupt) idea to communism, where you don't own anything, as everyone owns it. (there's a USSR emblem in the corner, signifying the meme has an oppressive communistic feel about the subject)

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