Can someone just make an iCal that I can subscribe to? Can’t keep all these boycotts straight
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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Wouldn't it be easier to disrupt the system by—I don't know—something old & boring like asking everyone to clean out/close their bank accounts at the same time to cause a run on banks?
Where do people come up with these weaker ideas? Trump's inanity might disrupt the economy more than these efforts.
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This is great and all, but here's a bonus challenge: don't use Amazon ever fucking again!
Do it and you're cool!! Even though I haven't used it in awhile, I have the app downloaded. I'm going to uninstall it as soon as I post this comment.
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Practice makes perfect, but this better viewed as steps to cutting them out of our lives and not just nudging them to stop supporting facism, destroying workers and our planet.
The need us. We don't need them.
Much of the province of Québec is already boycotting them since January, after they closed all their warehouses here to prevent them from unionizing.
I personally haven't bought anything from Amazon for years now (or really anywhere online, I think maybe 8 things in the past year?), issue is even within the last week I've spent hundreds if not thousands on AWS through work... Sure it's not me paying, but it's also pretty hard for me to not to given they have such a monopoly
I guess it’s a good thing that I’ve always been a minimalist. These things don’t really impact me. I very rarely buy stuff.
Preach
Haven’t used Amazon for 1.5 years already
Id rather just forever boycott anything bezos related.
Those fuckers stole my digital comics library. I already stopped using Twitch and I havent bought their shitty and useless Chinese made electronics in years. Fuck Nazis, fuck Amazon, fuck Google, Fuck Trump, Fuck Musk, Fuck America! (the last part I take away when you vote the Orange Fuck Face away!)
We have a lot more to atone for than the orange Nazi but thanks for the vote of faith
Wtf do people even need from there that they can't get from temu or elsewhere..
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I moved on from Amazon to local after the 28th.
Just delete your account already.
Lol no, cuz then my option is Walmart and I ain't doing that.
Definitely boycott Walmart. They’ve been horrible a lot longer than Amazon. I haven’t purchased from Walmart in a decade and a half and I see no reason to stop now.
Yep. I live in the middle of nowhere, I'm not gonna start shopping at Walmart to give up amazon. Walmart was absolute shit first
Target? I've moved a bunch of my shopping there, and they have pretty fast shipping as well.
I believe they're already under a 40 day boycott
Hmm, that's about how often I shop there. Accidental boycott I guess?
Bad news about Target: they've cancelled their DEI initiatives to cater to the administration
Eh, still better than Amazon.
I used to LOVE target but then they got rid of Mossimo, denim and flowers and anything else good they ever had and started carrying clothes for fucking Mennonites. Seriously, their clothes went from awesome to shit.
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I boycott Amazon years ago already, when a warehouse of people died because employees were told that the government's tornado warning was just hyperbole.
Amazon is an evil company that treats its workers like garbage, and practices some of the most vile anti-union practices.
I cancelled my Amazon Prime account and never bought a single item through Amazon anymore. I don't buy anything from Temu either, by the way.
That warehouse disaster was horrible. Those poor souls. May they rest in peace.
With a few exceptions, I haven't bought from Amazon in more than a decade. I never buy from them unless I absolutely can't find the thing I need anywhere else.
Lol, this is the first one that I'm mildly inconvenienced by participating in. Wheel of Time S3 comes out somewhere in there doesn't it?
I can wait.
Fuck that show. Fuck the Halo show. Fuck each and every company that just buys a name and thus a built-in fan base and mutilates the original IP beyond recognition.
Just pirate it.
Arrr matey. Its the breakdown of society 'if the people running society aren't following the rules, why should I?' especially a giant corporation, and especially a giant corporation that sides with Trump. So yes, pirate it. Fuck 'em.
The thing is, I really don't want them to cancel it. I've been signing up for it and then cancelling my subscription when it's finished, and then pirating it anyway. I just want them to see it as valuable, so they don't try to squeeze 14 books worth of content into one shitty finale because it's not making them money.
Yes, I can see how you might not want to boycott a company if you're worried about them not making money because of it.
Oh please, that's not even close to what I said. I just don't want them to cancel a show I like and you're all acting like I'm swinging from Bezos' dick. You're all rabid.
The world is on fire and you're worried about your favorite TV show? Come on dude. These boycotts will not work if we can't even sacrifice the bare minimum. And yes, a TV show is the bare minimum.
No, you come on. You're are misrepresenting what I actually said. If you actually read my post, you'll see that I plan to participate in the boycott regardless. I made a throwaway comment about how it would be "mildly inconvenient" that I'd miss the opening, but also that I would do it regardless.
So what, I'm not even allowed to acknowledge that Prime has stuff I'm interested in? I have to boycott it, and deny that it holds any value whatsoever?
That's bullshit. It's entirely possible to both acknowledge that there are decent Amazon produced shows AND think that the company is evil as fuck and want to boycott them.
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that is the wrong mindset for a boycott. no amazon period from now until forever. if shows go under so much the better. take your show business elsewhere.