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this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
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I don't live there, but after seeing how the small business tyrants lobbied and agitated to kill as many immunocompromised people as possible where I live, I decided I would become the kind of person who doesn't go out and spend money to be social anymore, no matter what happened in terms of the pandemic.
fuck them all.
Remember, 'stop buying outside food and make it at home' and 'stop buying the latest iphone', but also 'eat out to help out' and 'buy the latest iphone'.
The comments 'stop buying avocado toast' and 'buy avocado toast' by the same people are literally only a few years apart, lol
one of my friends reminded me of some messaging going around encouraging people to "shop our values" as a stand in for "supporting local businesses".... the local businesses, many of which took PPP loans, fired all their staff, pocketed the payout and then got forgiven... only to turn around and complain "nobody wants to work anymore" when nobody wanted to come back to their shit show.
to be clear, I do believe in the efficacy of spending money in the local community generally, but a whole bunch of local businesses showed their entire ass during COVID, and so fuck them forever.