Would it be unnecessary or annoying if I put "boycott israel" post it note on a sodastream at Lidl?

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• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If protests are not annoying people will just ignore them

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  • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It also benefits movements through the radical flank effect. (e.g. when white people saw the Black Panther Party carrying guns to protect their community, MLK Jr’s fairly peaceful sit-ins seemed not that bad in comparison, and when having to make a choice on whether or not to give black people rights, it was easier to justify doing so if the perceived alternative was “black people in the streets with guns")

    In this case, the options then become “buy products that always have random sticky notes and are telling me I’m a bad person” vs “grab the product that doesn’t have the sticky notes”.

    If it becomes increasingly annoying to buy products which support Israel because there’s constantly little sticky notes/stickers, people pushing things further back on shelves or flipping products around, etc, then it becomes a lot easier to justify just… not bothering buying the products that are being boycotted. (and it also saves people the hassle of looking up which products are being boycotted, which just makes the lives of anti-Zionists easier)

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would say annoying people is the goal of protest. You make people unconfortable until something changes.

    I don’t think you should care

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  • Cytobit@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are ways to be compelling other than annoyance.

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    • disorderly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Causing annoyance is one of the more polite ways of expressing your dissatisfaction with the status quo.

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If not annoyance, what are you referring to?

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Idk, violence is pretty annoying.

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    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What ways are you referring to?

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• Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not to dissuade you, but a complaint to head office might yield better results.

  Best case with your plan: you put one post-it note on one sodastream, and you cost sodastream one sale.

  A complaint to Lidl’s head office that them selling this kind of product makes you uncomfortable shopping there, and why, might make Lidl decide not to buy their products again. Which would cost them many more sales.

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  • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But will Lidl actually listen? That’s the real question.

    They might not care if one person tells them that, or even if many of them do, especially if they make the calculus that those people will probably still be buying other things at Lidl anyways.

    If sales for the product drops because people are putting sticky notes on them, knocking them over or hiding them behind other products, etc, then Lidl has a reason to not bother with the hassle.

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    • Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It can be very hit and miss. They might not care if a dozen people complain. Or they might make drastic, systemic changes based on a single complaint. That’s certainly how it goes in the supermarket I work in.

      No reason not to give it a try, only costs a stamp.

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  • CobraCommander@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Targeting the uninformed consumer will be far more effective than complaining to head office.

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    • Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you have a source for that claim? Because it seems counter-intuitive to me.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’d be annoying to someone. But that’s why you should do it.

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• ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Go for it, a lot of people might not know that about soda stream. If anyone gets annoyed that’s their problem because they’re probably pro-jizzrael and they can go fuck themselves.

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• GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I'd go with a sticker. Keep the text short and simple

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• disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Of course it is, to anyone who thinks people shouldn’t be boycotting Israel. I can’t imagine thats’s a popular belief in Finland.

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• rasterweb@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I'm all for activism!

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do it.

  Been putting boycott stickers on Israeli stickers.

  Once i made stickers that resemble a promotional campaign to win a trip to Israel, but the QR code led to betselem.

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• albbi@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If I saw that I’d appreciate it.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is vandalizing private property allowed in Finland?

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  • HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No. We are all jailed for attaching stickers on things.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is that where you get the free stuff?

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  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Calling post-it notes vandalism is pretty ridiculous.

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    • bryndos@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not even when they're used in pointless work meetings by cluless fuck-wits to trying to innovate new and exciting ways to break (sorry "disrupt") established workflows?

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