Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Where possible, avoid buying from companies that are complicit.

  Unless you buy from local creators/farmers, EVERYONE is complicit.

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  • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Simply existing is destroying the planet, so, like many things, you practice harm reduction. If I need to buy hardware or tools, and there’s no local shop, I go to Lowe’s. Not because Lowe’s is awesome, it’s a shitty corporation. But because Home Depot donates money to groups that practice gay conversion therapy, which is worse than anything I know of that Lowe’s does.

    Pretty much every decision you make can be about harm reduction on some level. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of better.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My problem is that I never even HEARD of the Home Depot thing.

      Here’s one you may or may not know about. Nestle actually engages in and uses literal slave labor to grow coco beans in other countries.

      So you think “well, how hard is it really to just buy hersheys chocolate instead? And buy your cookies from local bakeries?”

      Except no. Nestle is more than just chocolate. It’s like hundreds of brands. I’m constantly checking packaging now to see if their logo is on products. It owns DiGorno pizza. It owns Hot Pockets. It owns water bottles. It’s like half the grocery store. And that’s just ONE COMPANY!!!

      My issue isn’t accepting that you’re right. My issue is keeping track of it all. I’ve hated Nestle since 2012. I didn’t realize the scope of their brands until 2020. I think they even own a pet food company that makes dog food and cat food. Now granted I don’t have pets, so I’d not have delt with that, but still.

      I only have so many brain cells left to rot before I’m a full on dementia ridden crazy person who thinks it’s still the Nixon years, despite the fact I was born in 1983.

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      • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The No Thanks app let’s you can barcodes to quickly check if a product is on the BDS list. You can also search. Either way it only takes a few seconds to check if unsure about a brand

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      • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It was about the same years for me that I realized the scale of evil at Nestle, followed by learning they make everything. In fact we were even born the same year.

        I hear you. All we can do is our best.

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  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But your local farmers likely voted for the more genocidal candidate. Does that count as being complicit?

    Also, their seeds likely have to rebought every year from some corporation, due to patents BS, meaning you are still indirectly supporting evil.

    Ah fuck, we’re all gonna end up in The Bad Place.

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