Individual Climate Action

Not to say I completely disagree with you, but searches for “did Joe Biden drop out” spiked on Election Day. A lot of people think Trump wrote all the checks for Covid aid out of his personal checking account. A vast swath of the American people simply have no clue what’s going on, what anything is or what’s about to happen.

She won't win popular. Left got exhausted by seeing their vote in a red state mean literally nothing.

You've finally arrived where I landed 4 years ago, and I've been rolling downhill ever since.

The popular vote does not matter. It has no effect and no consequences. So you can give up on that.

Boycotts have consequences, so no good reason to neglect to boycott. In the very least you can rest knowing that you are not part of the problem.

Folks in my family vote D every opportunity. That’s a periodic drop-in-the-ocean single micro action. Then every single fucking day spanning the next 4 years they will continue to vote for all the republicans in the country (esp. Greg Abbott) by putting gas in their cars and feeding banks. It’s reckless. Then they wonder why republicans take power.

(edit) I have only ever heard anti-boycott folks claim (incorrectly¹) that boycotts do not work. Never has anyone given good cause for wasting your consumer power for nothing in return. It’s obviously a fool’s move to give up power for nothing.

¹ Recent example of boycotts working: McDonalds in Israel gave free meals to soldiers. Consumers outside Israel boycotted McDonalds, even though it was completely different store ownership, which would almost seem silly superficailly. But it worked so well that McDonalds bought all the Israeli shops with their brand just to nix the free meal promo to protect their brand.

It’s not just Republican shenanigans and Gerrymandering. We’ll see what the popular vote comes out to be; maybe Kamala will have “won” that,

That’s not how gerrymandering works. Gerrymandering affects the house and has zero effect on the POTUS election. So you are looking at irrelevant factors while ignoring opportunities to have effect -- and worse in fact, encouraging others to not use their power. Your stance is purely destructive to your own apparent political posture.

American people didn’t understand Project 2025, or they agreed with it; both options are utterly demoralizing.

The inaction you advocate only supports Project 2025.

There is a ton of cascading embedded JavaScript that needs to be enabled to use that site. But it’s quite useful. Just looked up HP which has a long history of wrongdoing, and indeed they supported Trump.

TBH buying less overall and buying used stuff (or getting secondhand stuff via Buy Nothing groups or similar) where possible should help. I already try to buy as little as possible and to avoid buying new but I do plan to cancel a few subscriptions and a bank account. I'll see in a few days if figuring out specific companies (beyond the ones I already avoid) to skip for food and such seems worthwhile.

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If your premise is that both POTUS candidates are equally bad (nonsense¹, but I’ll play along for a second), then your most foolish move is to give one of them the POTUS and also give that same party both branches of Congress.

The thread title should have made it clear that the actions herein are for climate activists who intend to support the democratic party. So what are you doing here? Giving anti-action advice counters the purpose of the thread. If you oppose Kamala then there is no problem here for you to solve. Your feedback could only be useful in a place like Gab.

¹ It’s utter nonsense in the very least because you think a POTUS is just one person, not an entire administration. It’s also an absurdity to claim any two people are equal on the environment when one of them is a climate denier and the other is not. It’s a fundamentally rock stupid claim at its core, particularly when the climate denier demonstrated a neutering of the EPA his first term in office.

And beyond that it’s a failure to understand that a large number of people are inherently in play. Incompetence can only explain the idea that the republican party and democratic party are equals on anything but most particularly environnmental policy.

Organize your workplace, raise class consciousness, support your community, and educate everyone.

None of that is an obsticle to boycotts, so you can do them in parallel.

It’s unclear what you mean by organizing your workplace. Politics at work can have dicey consequences. But if you are careful enough, you can amplify a boycott at a workplace without the workforce even knowing, as I did here.

An employer subcontracted HP for all the office PCs, which sat next to linux workstations. HP got a monthly payment per PC for loaning the hardware and servicing it. I configured emacs and other linux apps to make the HP PC redundant. Then I called HP and said come remove my PC, I don’t need it. My boss had no idea that was a political action.. thinks I did that to save the company money or to get more desk space or something. I was happy to keep it that way. If he knew it was politically motivated it could have backfired. So the opportunities to do politics at work are sparse but I still look for them.

Thanks for asking. I actually covered it in this post. I will add that to the OP.

Note that Google killed off the ITA Software front end so I’m looking for a replacement. Some airfare aggregators use ITA as a backend and the ITA query language sometimes works in those cases. Hipmunk worked that way at one point but they have been killed off too.