Why did Amazon donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund and $40 million to license a truly awful shlockumentary about Melania? Because that’s how you conduct business on a gangster’s turf. Those bribes buy indifference to the company’s egregious business practices and pay dividends to the tune of dozens of billions of dollars. @pluralistic@mamot.fr https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/cheating-at-fraud/