Just some additional advertising for todays boycott.
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Better protest is to act as if there is a recession. Buy only what you need, and if possible seek an alternative from a smaller manufacturer. As aways don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
You're describing how a lot of people have been living for a couple of years now.
And we need those who are not to join in a similar behavior to help the protest
What is the protest though? What are the demands and how will we know when they are achieved?
The best answer I can get in these threads is to "send a message" of "general discontent", but protests just don't really work that way.
Decide what you want and figure out what to boycott in order to harm the people that are able to grant it.
Maybe make a trivial amount of effort to find those details yourself.
It's a response to the active class warfare happening, including the anti-DEI efforts.
Targeted boycotts aren't enough anymore. Too many major corporations, often without adequate competition, are working against us.
Sorry, the article you linked doesn't list any demands.
The closest it comes is this:
This demonstrates my point really. There's a general sense of dissatisfaction with billionaires and with capitalism, but there are no demands. If you're not demanding anything, how will you know when you have achieved your goal?
This is really part of it, but it's not included explicitly in that article like it should be.
Sorry, what I'm trying to explain is that protests require specific demands.
If a protest like this got any traction, companies could just say "ok we're listening, we will think about reinstating some DEI things".
I see what you're saying, but it sounds a little like "no true Scotsman", too. I guess Occupy probably did this better, but I'm not sure it helped enough.
Actually this is how occupy was undone. They couldn't agree on demands and in the end everyone just got frustrated with each other and the whole thing fizzled out. There was conjecture at the time that CIA plants frustrated this process.
Nope
Nope to what?
It's not a better protest to buy only what you need. That is advice how to live life. In America you have forgot how to protest or why people do so. It's a message.