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BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 months ago

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos could face prison over knife sales to children

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos could face prison over knife sales to children

www.telegraph.co.uk

BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 months ago
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Harsher sentences will also apply to bosses of online stores who let under-18s buy deadly weapons in Home Office crackdown

Harsher sentences will also apply to bosses of online stores who let under-18s buy deadly weapons in Home Office crackdown

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250219072429/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/19/jeff-bezos-could-face-prison-amazon-knife-sales-children/


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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      This headline is so far from reality it should be institutionalized as a danger to itself and society.

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      Odds are actually less than a meteorite randomly killing him , and those odds are literally astronomical.

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    Billionaires don’t go to prison, silly. Billionaires are above the law.

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      But not above a guillotine

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      But billionaires are below the blade of the guillotine

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      There is this one country where they’re not above the law 🇨🇳

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      Billionaires are the law

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    lol like hell he will. The oligarchs are clearly in control of the US

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    I don’t think we should be posting such pornographic fictions in this community.

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    that’s a pardoning

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      That’s an appointment to a cabinet position.

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        Chief Secretary of Knife Sales to Minors

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    As an American: lol. Lmao even. The European mind cannot comprehend the unvarnished corruption of the American legal system

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      I can’t help but picture some stereotypical British street urchin child (think Oliver Twist) buying a knife from Amazon.

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        And the avatar for Amazon just carelessly hands a child a long jagged grooved blade that serves no apparent purpose but gleeful, sadistic murder

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          long jagged grooved blade that serves no apparent purpose but gleeful, sadistic murder sitting on a shelf and looking cool

          Mall ninja shit, my friend.

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            Sometimes the solution to all our problems is a 10" 440A steel knife modeled after the one used by the sadistic villain in the 1986 action thriller “Cobra” starring Sylvester Stallone at his Stalloniest

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    I’ll bark like a dog for 7days if he spent even a single day in jail

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    😂 the telegraph with the hottest out of touch take of the year.

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    0.00000000000% Chance.

    He’d buy the Judge, the Jury, the Courthouse, The News.

    More likely, it’ll become retroactively legal to sell katanas to newborns.

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      He doesn’t have to. He already paid off Trump, who will pardon him.

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    Harsher sentences will also apply to bosses of online stores who let under-18s buy deadly weapons silverware in Home Office crackdown

    FTFY.

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