#boycott #DOGE #MAGA #Resist #Trump #Teslatakedown #DumpYourTesla
Why stop with boycotting #Tesla alone?
1800Flowers.com
ACE Hardware
Act Fluoride
Alamo Rental Cars
Allegiant Air
Anthropologie
Arby's
Arizona Diamond Backs
ArmorAll
Ashley Furniture
Auto Zone
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@jeffowski Aren't ACE Hardware stores franchiese?
@geonz -- So are most of the fast food chains, but that does not change the fact that money spent there goes to support fascism.
ACE Hardware are mostly mom & pop hardware stores. meanwhile, one of the Home Depot fascist billionaires a BEGGED Cheetolini to run in 2015.
this isn’t a good list.
@blogdiva -- Provide a better list and I'll share that instead.
@jeffowski Diffusing them with unintelligible, uunrememberable lists punches a hole in whatever power they might have had. You need millions of people to do ONE thing. you will never, ever get millions of people to do many things.
FFS. 1/3 of USians can't even read for 10 minutes about their candidates/political environment and go vote.
Don't do this. Singe message. Single gesture. Single target.
And don't go protest out on the street alone without a sign, either....
@jeffowski Diffuse or unsustainable boycotts just get the last-person-hired fired. There's no rhyme or reason to the messaging sent.
Target for 40 days would say a thing, but not a lot. It looks like Costco is doing well, though, so Big-Box business stays strong, DEI doesn't change. And, in April, everyone will go buy up all the Target-brand stuff Costco doesn't carry.
Or consumers can grasp the power each.dollar.spent actually has, and be deliberate & knowledgeable how it tips balances.
@janisf --
You can't even see that the status quo is unjust, and perpetuating the status quo is unjust.
What you're suggesting is unjust.
You're why we can't have nice things.
It's called #NoBuy2025
@jeffowski It's GREAT to fight consumerism, but that's not a boycott. If we communicate effectively, we can have nice, clean, effective boycotts, with statements, beginnings, ends, and results. it's like a workers' strike, but for shoppers, a bargaining tool.
It's another thing to say a list of companies trashed their DEI programs, so don't shop here if you can avoid it for the foreseeable future. That's not a bargaining tool, that's a directive to quit.
Organizing is better clean, yes?
@janisf --
You are really missing the point of #NoBuy2025 and how this is a full lifestyle change that can cripple corporations if all of the "consumers" become "citizens" again.
It isn't about punishing the corporations, it's about a societal change.
That's why I think you've missed the mark. It isn't something you can "negotiate" but something you must DO. You don't even have to talk about it. Just do it.
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@janisf --
That's why I said, "You're why we can't have nice things." You discourage change.
You can't talk and recruit and effect change without fundamentally changing your own personal actions.
No change happens unless people lead the way in ACTION. Stopping action is what you're doing here, which supports the status quo, and the status quo is unjust, so...
@jeffowski Hon, bless your heart. I've been fighting for market/retail change since about 1994. My first Facebook post in 2009 was about "consumer power." I seed-funded Fair Trade, and watched it fizzle by getting sloppy and too big to manage.
I'm glad you're enthusiastic. Please trust an oldster when I say it gets unwieldy really, really quickly. Tight and tidy will serve this movement better.
@janisf -- LoL, OK Janis...
But I'm your senior...
And been doing this longer than you have been actually...
This entire feed is to drop my memes in one place as I scrape them off the corporate social media and bring them to the fediverse.
Radical change is the only way forward, and if you knew the history of civil rights, it's literally the only path to change.
Take a look at the philosopher Peter Singer and understand that I've taken the same calling in middle school in 1985.
@jeffowski I've got you beat by a few years, agewise, but I'm not telling exactly how many. Google stole my FB bday, and to this day I've only typed my real one on a keyboard 4 times.
I'm glad it's a movement. I am. I hope it takes. I hope we can be smarter about it.
@jeffowski You'll fit more people through a pair of doors in less time if they line up.
I am not stopping action. Quite the opposite.
Organizing is impossibly hard. it's exactly why you haven't seen the change you'd think we'd have seen by now. It simply hasn't actually been organized.
Check in with me on this in June, would you?
@janisf --
You just called out your own issue. It is impossibly hard to organize. So you don't. You ACT. Individuals. Not organizations.
The big marketing firms have their demographic data and more information about you than you really know. Let them spend their money divining the consumer sentiment if we simply stop spending.
This is why I say that you inhibit and hobble the very change you want to see.
"Don't do anything until we do the IMPOSSIBLE thing first"
@jeffowski that's just it. I get cash. I go to my co-op and to 3 mom&pop second hand stores. I bought my car used from a local guy with an unmarked personal loan from my tiny credit union. I'm ALL for people doin' it my way.
I do struggle with one thing. Ace Hardware is technically a cooperative. Boycotting franchises and co-ops is an entirely different beast than the same with a publicly owned corporation. I am checking (as we all should).... https://www.myace.com/open-a-store/
@jeffowski Naw, man. I just want a boycott to mean something. I get taht a Gaussian blur can make things look a lot clearer, but you can take it too far. Protest needs clarity. Protest is a language.
No matter where you sit, you sit between the old and the new. Not everyone who's teaching the language of those who need to change are advocating for that language being the dominant language in the end, nor are they arguing any language should die.
I'm not here to just scream, I guess.
@jeffowski I've been spending 95-odd% of my consumer dollars at my local co-op or local second-hand since about 2008.
I'll believe the "revolution" when I see it. Welcome aboard.
@jeffowski And the other bit: most companies donate to all the campaigns in which it would benefit them as a business to show up on the donor list. All of these almost surely also donated to the Harris campaign. it's not exactly a bribe, but it's leverage to say that donation, and others on the list, could go away, not unlike a boycott, but on a candidate. This practice started in the 1880's or so, with oil and railroads. It's how US businesses are, and have been, run. Spread the word?
@jeffowski add TJ Maxx and Goya. Home Depot too. Fuck this list hurts, I'm a High Life guy.