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What's the "BDS" list? Never heard of it.
Src: https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott
I read it as "BSD" at first glance and i was like "damn, i didn't knew the Linux communty declared war on BSD" 😭
Siemens is on there?
As an electrical engineer, I guess I know which company is NOT selling my circuit breakers now.
Sooo, i get it but this still doesn't explain what BDS is. Boycott Dis Shit?
edit- my ADHD ass missed the link.
I hate when I already don't buy from any of these companies, so I can't really join the boycott for this. At least some of them I am boycotting for other reasons, not just because they make a shit product. Intell, for example, I'll buy from AMD every time first.
AMD's not just in Israel, Lisa Su has been visiting the white house lately.
Sadly, AMD is in Israel as well, although to a lesser degree.
.... Why... or how, would McDonald's support Israel and the IDF?
I mean, that seems such an easy target to avoid and just go "I'm staying out of this one" for any company, but McDonald's? That just has to be for the sport
they give away free food to the idf.
Cruelly ironic, considering the IDF used starvation as a weapon.
even more so when you consider that they're using healthier ingredients for the idf instead of the toxic sludge that they serve to americans.
https://bdsmovement.net/
Bdsm....
I read it as "BDSM Movement"...
Like ATM machine.
I might shorten this to BDSM in the future though...
Boycott divest and sanction israel