Church of Jeff
#boycott #DOGE #MAGA #Resist #Trump
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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Church of Jeff
@geonz -- So are most of the fast food chains, but that does not change the fact that money spent there goes to support fascism.
cognitively accessible math
@jeffowski Aren't ACE Hardware stores franchiese?
Church of Jeff
@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
Janis
@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.
Church of Jeff
@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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Janis
@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?
Church of Jeff
@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...
Church of Jeff
@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.
Janis
@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.
Church of Jeff
@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"
Janis
@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?
Church of Jeff
@janisf --
Apologists say what?
#RESIST but not that way...
I've been getting your point all this time.
Janis
@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/
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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.
Church of Jeff
@blogdiva -- Provide a better list and I'll share that instead.
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