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1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 18-Jun-2018 14:02:57 EDT iona 🐝

   Irish radio news today sounded like an advertorial for Amazon. No criticism of the company whatsoever allowed - just a glowing report about the benevolent US tech overlords gracing Ireland with a few hundred jobs.

   https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0618/971353-amazon-web-services-jobs/

   This is what a country that has sold its soul to Big Tech looks like.

   1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 18-Jun-2018 14:09:50 EDT iona 🐝

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      It is very easy to run a country when you can charge corporations next to no tax and entice them with handouts, then go to the EU with the begging bowl for subsidies when the sums don't add up and you've got roads to fix.

      Far harder to balance the nation's books when you have to charge in tax what it actually costs to run the country, and make corporations actually pay it.