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I’ve gotten to a (privileged) point where I don’t give a flying shit about my credit score now. The way I deal with these kinds of inhuman disputes involves removing my payment/contact information from the vendor’s system, filing any applicable chargebacks, and then entirely ghosting them.

Maybe it will come back to bite me in the ass one day, but I honestly don’t care anymore. Mostly, because no one cares about me as a person anymore. I am just yet-another consumer to be exploited as much as possible.

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This has bugged me forever. You are expected to uphold integrity with them (all the thems) while they don't with you. They expect you to treat them like your neighborhood baker, while to them you aren't even a customer but the flour.

I'm not privileged, but I also don't care.

If you're of Italian descent, one option is to verify you're eligible for a passport Jus Sanguis, document it, then make a plan to spend the two-ish years it will take to process the application in a safe location:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis

Italy recognizes dual citizenship, and is in NATO.

This is not treason, it is a legitimate response to persistent refusals by the US federal government to cease engaging in selective prosecution at the expense of cryptowarriors like myself who did not choose to be born, did not volunteer for the military, and have felt trapped behind enemy lines since 9/11 with no end in sight to that "Eternal September 11th".

(The millennials are not your slaves, we are not required to be your caregivers, and lack of action is not violence -- we will respect your boundaries so well, less intelligent folks will mistake our use of technology for witchcraft or whatever.)

How is this related?

Because I'm primarily on HN to seek employment, and I deleted my Amazon account after issues similar to the ones in the OP.

It is frustrating to me that if I exercise my right to "take my business elsewhere", and then, due to unemployment, have more free time to use my 1st amendment protected free expression, folks seem to seek out what I say and take offense at it, when if I had something to occupy my time I'd probably be on the internet less.

Does that help give you context? I can clarify further as needed.

>Because I'm primarily on HN to seek employment

you should really rethink your strategy here

Agreed.

The pattern of thing displayed here is wild.

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