Yeah, Snotty Little Lizzie needs her nose wiped. As you may have heard, Massachusetts Senator and Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren got into a bitch-slapping Twitter fight following a senate hearing devoted to the iniquities of Silicon giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon. After Lizzie posted a clip from the hearing, complaining about folks like Amazon not paying their fair share of taxes, someone at Amazon posted what was, in fact, a pretty snotty response, saying “we don’t write the tax laws, we just follow them,” ignoring the fact that corporations pay a ton of cash (actually, several) to lobby Congress to write the damn laws in a corporate friendly manner, something I’ve yelled about for years, (in a relatively snot-free manner).
So if Lizzie had left it like that, I’d be pretty much on her side—well, sort of, except that I don’t think that Lizzie, or anyone else, should “protect us” from “misrepresentation”, or even “hate speech”, even when delivered by, well, snotty trillion-dollar corporations like Amazon.
But of course she didn’t leave it at that. She had to get in the last tweet, one that made her sound remarkably like an over-privileged little snot, which read as follows:
I didn’t write the loopholes you exploit, @amazon—your armies of lawyers and lobbyists did. But you bet I’ll fight to make you pay your fair share. And fight your union-busting. And fight to break up Big Tech so you’re not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets.
I’m sorry, Liz, but the purpose of the anti-trust laws is not to protect your precious little senatorial ass from criticism, not from Silicon Valley giants, and not from anyone else. In this post you made yourself sound remarkably like Donald Trump, though I’m guessing that was not your intention.
Afterwords
Though Lizzie used to teach at Harvard, aka “Privilege Central”, she did not grow up as a privileged little snot. She worked her way up from basically nothing. But I guess those Cambridge brunches take their toll.
Special Declare Your Interest Afterwords
I confess that, though I haven’t made much money off it, it is only thanks to Amazon that I am a “published” author. So I definitely owe them. But whoever thought it was a good idea to sass Lizzie should probably be given a job that doesn’t require him to interface with, you know, people.
UPDATE
It appears that the nerdy smartmouth in charge of putdowns at Amazon is none other than Jeff Bezos himself! So I guess Jeff doesn't only look like a dick.
