Just some additional advertising for todays boycott.
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Maybe our boycott should be to choose one corporation at random and boycott for an entire quarter. Amazon would be the first obvious choice. And the quarter than contains prime day would be a great option.
I love this idea, but I beg that it be fully random.
Because I want every board of directors to all have to write a contingency plan against a Union organizer's monthly spinner outcome.
We could raffle off the right to be the one who makes the spin during the live stream.
I want to hear the billionaires pretend they have all the power while they still have to tune into our live stream of the big monthly spin. Lol.
The 10th - 14th is an Amazon blackout. No purchasing from them specifically for the entire week.
maybe but thats not this one. I will say that prime day and black friday would be the most difficult for the poor. The problem with the one corp at a time is what are your demands of them. These general strikes is because of the direction of the country in no small part do to corporate manipulation. Its to get them to push the administration they helped get installed away from this dismantling of the country. Its also not a bad idea to save money so you have it for an extremely bad economic situation.
Yeah, but if I don’t spend money today, I’m spending it tomorrow. I don’t need less groceries and gas for the week because I didn’t spend money today.
yeah im not sure now who all might have seen my other comments but companies gather constant metrics. Its about a one day dive. So some folks may by stuff the day before, some after, or some days either direction within a week in most cases. Its a show of force. Like a warning shot. If it works and the news is talking about how companies showed a massive drop in purchasing today then it will have the intended effect.
If you can't convince people to not shop for one day, (even when they can go shop tomorrow) then you're definately not going to convince people to boycott a specific company for months.
This is the lowest of all bars to see how many people actually care enough to participate. Encouraging people to not participate by dismissing it's effect decreases how many people will participate in future action.
I don’t know, man, I would sooner boycott Amazon than stop buying everything for a day. It’s Friday and we do pizza every Friday. I’m not gonna sacrifice that for a boycott. But you tell me to shop at Walmart instead of Amazon for 3 months and it might have a meaningful impact? I’m down.
If you're unwilling to only buy pizza 51 weeks out of the year instead of 52, and unable to plan ahead to have purchased a pizza on Thursday, then you sure as fuck can't be relied upon when more meaningful action that will actually be difficult is planned such as a general strike.
Not making a purchase today is the lowest possible bar and you are still unable to clear it. If that minor inconvenience is too much for you then you shouldn't be criticising the people putting in effort to try to do something.
I think the difference is that I don’t see any value in this. Skip a day of purchasing will have zero effect on anything. People don’t spend money on Christmas Day and guess what, zero impact on corporations. Cause they plan for this. And the day after Christmas is a madhouse.
I’m not going to skip pizza day with my family for something that will have zero impact. It has nothing to do with planning or willpower and everything to do with the nature of the plan.
So corporations have planned for this and have few staff on today? They have extra staff scheduled for tomorrow? That would be great! It means they are taking notice and taking precautions.
If you think something else would be more effective then start planning it. If you want to plan a rotating boycott go for it, I will encourage people to participate.
If you're literally not doing anything then sit the fuck down. No one cares about your self justification for not being mildly inconvenienced, and there is no world in which you encouraging people not to participate helps in any way.
Maybe you should relax and recognize who the ops are here and put that aggressive negative energy in the right place.
I’m giving my reasoning for why I think this is dumb and what I would consider a more worthwhile protest. I am not encouraging people to not participate, but I can guarantee there are plenty of people that feel the same way. If you don’t want to hear it, you are more than welcome to quit interacting with me.
If you don't see how:
"Yeah, take all the money you would spend today, and spend it tomorrow. Power to the …."
Actively discourages people from taking part I don't know what to tell you.
You know what's a more worthwhile protest than nothing? Anything. And here you are doing less than nothing, you're actively arguing against doing something.