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Lorenzo's avatar

Boycott Amazon, they are helping the genoci*e in Gaza. Please don't post anything about Amazon anymore, do it if you have a heart that stands for the children in Gaza.

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Tim Leffel's avatar

I understand where you're coming from, but there's no other retailer in the world that has such a breadth of inventory and the only one close is Walmart, which is even worse. At this point I think we've run out of companies that nobody has told us to boycott. I think only Costco is possibly the only one left standing. We understand if you have to unsubscribe because of this, but judging by the number of clicks and sales we get on links that point to there, a large majority of our readers are still ordering from Amazon regularly.

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Lorenzo's avatar

I know they are, because it's easy. But easy doesn't mean good. I just wanted to point it out. And the more you share Amazon stuff, the more people are going to buy. You should take a stand yourself, regardless of what people do. I know you earn from that, but life is not all about money. Think about it. Be the change you want to see in the world. Take care.

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Tim Leffel's avatar

Like I said, if we took a stand on every company someone has told us to boycott, there wouldn't be any left to link to. And this newsletter would cease to exist since Substack has generated the same kinds of complaints. And we wouldn't have any social media platforms left to post to...

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Gipsy Dean's avatar

I have a Canadian and an American passport. One winter I was 89 days in Spain with my US passport then I went to England for 2 nights and returned using the Canadian passport for another 85 days. However they noticed that in Ecuador, I may change my name in Canada to be more stealth.

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Tim Leffel's avatar

Yeah, having a second one for the Schengen Zone would be a huge benefit. Or for Peru where you get 6 months but then you have to leave for 6 before returning.

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chiefmcconnell.eth's avatar

Ahhh passports. Unfortunately or fortunately I am currently restricted to US only passports, but I do have two of them because of my job. One is directly tied to my working Visa outside of the US, so that is the one I have to have on me at all times just in case. I never knew there was a cap on how many you can have. I know some countries like to have exclusivity, but my kids for example have an EU passport and a US passport (and can have both without a time limit). My mom has 2 concurrent passports as well.

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Tim Leffel's avatar

That's great for your kids! I'm wishing now I had found a way to do that for mine, especially considering how shaky the US is looking these days. I only have one, though at least I have legal residency in another country.

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