this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
1023 points (96.4% liked)

Comic Strips

14242 readers
2762 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Just some additional advertising for todays boycott.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] stevedice 28 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I didn't know about this and still participated by accident. What I'm trying to say is that if 1 day counts as boycott I'm severely concerned by the overreliance the general public has on those companies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

There's an ever growing chance shit like this just functions as pressure release psyops because it makes people feel accomplished while doing fuck all as everyone buys more the day before or the day after.

What people -don't want to- understand is that for it to hurt the corporations, it's got to hurt all of us. Either we give up things entirely like streaming and luxury goods or we do a general strike that costs millions of people their jobs or prompts a fascist crackdown.

The only good ways out of this spot were decades ago. Every path forward is miles of broken glass because of how propagandized a majority of this country is. Everyone wants to blame Trump or Republicans, but Democrats have spent at least 30 years with Clinton's 3rd way dems (gay tolerant Reaganites) pushing the Overton window right.

http://politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

Hilary's policy was assessed as farther right than Trump's. Obama basically handed the Heritage Foundation everything they wanted.

These bullshit one day strikes aren't going to save us and neither are the Democrats simply because if they were interested in preserving democracy, they wouldn't have been slow walking us right for decades.

MIT lecture from 2014 about oligarchy controlling everything already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzS068SL-rQ

[–] Unforeseen 3 points 2 hours ago

I was gonna say. I go out and buy something about once a week.. I realize I'm not the norm but for a single day to matter to most people blows my mind.