I'm resisting performative bullshit. Swear off of these fuckers permanently.
echo
joined 2 years ago
Exactly this. A one day boycott is strictly performative.
It's bullshit and not effort at all. I didn't shop anywhere yesterday. Do I get a gold star?
As a bare minimum, show up and picket. Everyone go in first thing when the store opens and fill their baskets with all the things they were going to buy and then simultaneously park them in front of the checkout lanes and walk out. Make sure the ice cream is buried in the bottom of the cart.
Detailed solution: Find something real instead of symbolic, mental-masturbation. I don't have to offer anything more complex to call bullshit what it is.
Commit to 6 months or they'll never even notice or care. Based on the most recent POTUS election, roughly 1/3 of the population agrees with you. 1/3 of the population just plain doesn't give a fuck. The final 1/3 of the population will choose to buy extra on your day of boycott just to say fuck you. Now of the 1/3 of the population that agrees with you, we might say quite generously that 20% will even know about this. Of that 20% you'll be lucky to get 10% participation. At the end of this one day, it doesn't mean a damned thing.
I think it's absolutely horrible what Amazon has done (and Wal-Mart before them), but I still buy some stuff from them for a variety of reasons. Not least of all is the fact that the 1/3 of the population that actually gives a shit all stopped shopping there permanently it wouldn't even slow them down.
Any/ever "don't shop on x day" is strictly symbolic and mental masturbation.
No fucking shit... you think?
I don't think this article quite gets it, either. The problem with "Autism is a spectrum" isn't the word 'spectrum', but the word 'a'. People understand what a spectrum and if autism were 'a' spectrum, they would be right to say that everyone is on it. However, it's not 'a' spectrum. It's a collection of spectrums. So an individual falling on the 'autistic end' of one of the spectrums doesn't necessarily make them autistic.
Wow... the 1-star review is living proof that you can be both autistic and completely fucking stupid.
It actually works well for me and I love having it on my phone since ad block works there... that was a life changing addition.
What problem(s) are you running into that makes you say it sucks?
Propaganda mixed with stupidity.
Don't be an ass... it makes you look like an ass and doesn't help the effort. I gave you some real things that could be done like were being requested. If you can't see the difference between a performance and a real action then that's your problem.