Fun Fact: As a human being, we are already endowed with the unalienable power to heckle senators with snotty tweets.
I didn't write the loopholes you exploit, @amazon – your armies of lawyers and lobbyists did. But you bet I'll fight to make you pay your fair share. And fight your union-busting. And fight to break up Big Tech so you're not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets.
The people on her feed are cheering her on, of course.
Get 'em Liz! Make them pay their "fair share" whatever that is, and fight their "union busting" which to Warren means, "not wanting a union."
But did they read the whole thing?
And fight to break up Big Tech so you're not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets.
There's something called a Kinsley gaffe.
A Kinsley gaffe occurs when a political gaffe reveals some truth that a politician did not intend to admit. The term comes from journalist Michael Kinsley, who said, "A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say."
That one sentence of hers revealed a lot about the way she thinks.
First, she thinks you have to be powerful to heckle a Senator?
Ms. Warren, we're not your servant, you're ours. What kind of mindset do you have to have for you to even think that?
Second, she wants to break up Big Tech not because they have too much power over political speech, she wants to break them up so they can't heckle her?
She doesn't stop there, she wants to break up Big Tech because of their "snotty tweets?"
What is this, seventh grade? Was Jeff mean to you again, being all snotty, and you were like "nuh uh," and he was like "uh huh," and you were like, "fine, I'm going to tell the teacher and also use my power to dismantle a multi-billion-dollar private business because I was personally insulted."
There are a lot of arguably sound reasons to seriously look into what can be done about the consolidation of power and through it the power over political speech (in collusion with the ruling political party) by a handful of tech billionaires but Elizabeth Warren having her feelings hurt is not one of them.
This tweet of hers is so revealing of how so many of our "leaders" view the world, view us, and the relationship between the two, I'm going to side with Jeff on this one. For now.
Here's the exchange. Although politically unwise, Amazon does not say anything you wouldn't expect them to say, nothing particularly heckling or snotty unless you are an extremely entitled and thin-skinned Senator.