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US citizens can't boycott the US government (in regards to Snowden's NSA leaks or Epstein file revelations), but they can cancel their Disney+ subscriptions.

Oh no. You're a crazy person.

Edward Snowden is in Russian and everyone is still pissed about Epstein. Both things have nothing to do with Disney capitulating to American fascism.

To your point, TSLA stock is still 10x overvalued. And Labubu dolls are 200x more important to the American public than democracy.

Some people remember–and sometimes these things make it into the general cultural fabric in ways less dramatic than we might hope.

Ask anyone under 40 if they think they have privacy–and delve into what that word means to them. It won't be the same answer you'd have got in 2000. Likewise, ask any parent if there's an elected official–from comptroller to POTUS–who they would feel safe letting babysit their children.

I think you're both right. The active boycotting part likely will blow over quickly for most. But it's still an opportunity for a large group of subscribers, many of which are primarily subscribed due to FOMO, to reconsider the value of their subscription. Some segment of boycott participants will end up resubscribing. Some segment will remain unsubscribed and go without. Some other segment will remain unsubscribed and switch to piracy. Over the past 5 years since the service started, this kind of opportunity has only really happened around the annual price increase (e.g in Dec 2022, Oct 2023, Oct 2024).

I think it's totally plausible that we would have seen another price increase next month, but won't. It'd be too many reasons to unsubscribe, too close together. Even if they're comfortable enough to increase in Dec instead of Oct, that's still a hypothetical loss of 100s of millions in monthly revenue. That's a significant win for the boycott.