Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Consumer level boycotts are helping crash the US economy right now. Ask yourself, who would benefit from you believing they don't work?
Extreme tariffs are crashing the US economy right now by making it unprofitable for a lot of businesses to do business within that economy. It's not a boycott if you can't afford the product or if you can't even buy the product because the company refuses to sell to you because they don't think you'd be willing to pay the price they are now required to charge just to make a profit.
Boycotts from international consumers are hurting us companies, to the point where California's governor implored tourists to come back.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/airline-stocks-hotels-us-tourist-boycott-9bc8fb69