Bud, it’s about teaching Americans about solidarity, because anti-unionism propaganda over 70 years has beat it ojt of them. This one day of not buying stuff, is like Day 1 lesson of Solidarity Kindergarten. You have to start somewhere.
Comment on Friday is a boycot day of online retailers. I saw this from CPUSA.
echo@lemmings.world 5 days ago
What a performative complete waste of time. Do something real or do nothing at all.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
don@lemm.ee 5 days ago
What a pointless comment. Offer up a solution, or don’t comment at all.
echo@lemmings.world 5 days ago
Detailed solution: Find something real instead of symbolic, mental-masturbation. I don’t have to offer anything more complex to call bullshit what it is.
wizblizz@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Instead of bitching, what are your bright ideas and calls to action? What resistance are you organizing? This is, at least, something.
echo@lemmings.world 5 days ago
I’m resisting performative bullshit. Swear off of these fuckers permanently.
BertramDitore@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Do something real
If I had been planning to make a big purchase on Friday, but decided to join the boycott and not make the purchase, that is absolutely doing something. That is money that the retailer will not get from me.
If I usually buy groceries on Fridays, or Friday is the day I drive by the local Target and sometimes stop in, but because of the boycott I actively decide not to, that is absolutely doing something. That is money that those retailers might have come to expect, that they will not get from me.
If enough people make those decisions, the impact will most definitely be felt and reach the top.
Collective action is incredibly powerful. Sometimes collective action means deciding not to do something, together. And that is also incredibly powerful.
I’d love to hear your suggestions on what “real” looks like to you.
echo@lemmings.world 5 days ago
Commit to 6 months or they’ll never even notice or care. Based on the most recent POTUS election, roughly 1/3 of the population agrees with you. 1/3 of the population just plain doesn’t give a fuck. The final 1/3 of the population will choose to buy extra on your day of boycott just to say fuck you. Now of the 1/3 of the population that agrees with you, we might say quite generously that 20% will even know about this. Of that 20% you’ll be lucky to get 10% participation. At the end of this one day, it doesn’t mean a damned thing.
I think it’s absolutely horrible what Amazon has done (and Wal-Mart before them), but I still buy some stuff from them for a variety of reasons. Not least of all is the fact that the 1/3 of the population that actually gives a shit all stopped shopping there permanently it wouldn’t even slow them down.
Any/ever “don’t shop on x day” is strictly symbolic and mental masturbation.
DougHolland@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Harshly said, but correct. A one-day change in spending is piffle. Anyone participating in this is participating in piffle. Make a serious, long-term change in your spending patterns and it might, arguably, add up to something, but this is … I don’t even know what this is, but I’m not doing it.
Telorand@reddthat.com 5 days ago
It worked for Conservatives when they boycotted Target and whatever dumb beer company over support of Pride. We ridiculed them for it, and look where they are now.
I think it’s fair to say that there’s better ways to protest, but getting people off their asses in any way could be a gateway for some to realize that a little discomfort is worth the outcome.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 days ago
But the two examples you mentioned were targeted and permanent. Conservatives were going to target to harass workers and vandalize displays. Kid Rock fired a rifle at cases of Bud Light. Conservatives get violent when they protest, and the loss in sales isn’t replaced by the communities they are courting, because both brands immediately gave in to the terrorist demands.
echo@lemmings.world 5 days ago
Exactly this. A one day boycott is strictly performative.
echo@lemmings.world 5 days ago
Is that what they did. What was the one day that they chose to quit buying bud light? Is that all they did? Just a one day boycott and then go back into silence and resuming drinking bud light? I remember it somewhat differently…