Good news gang, turns out if we just don't buy products for one day, like if we just don't be consumers for two dozen hours, things will start getting fixed, uh, somehow, believe you me. Politicians hate this ONE trick! - ThreadSky

tylerjameshill.com • 9 days ago

Good news gang, turns out if we just don't buy products for one day, like if we just don't be consumers for two dozen hours, things will start getting fixed, uh, somehow, believe you me.

Politicians hate this ONE trick!

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thesix.bsky.social•8 days ago

Poster’s strike could fix it.

jam123.bsky.social•9 days ago

Well, it can take only one day to tank a stock price

zendervai.bsky.social•8 days ago

That’s true, but days that have inexplicably bad sales numbers for no apparent reason happen all the time. No one reports daily sales because of that, it’s all monthly or quarterly.

This idea is like…I can sort of see why people are liking it, but it’s not going to accomplish much.

guildmastergrouch.bsky.social•9 days ago

people indoctrinated into consumerism and capitalism are so terrified of changing themselves, its very sad

noamlaw.bsky.social•9 days ago

eh it’s a low-stakes thing that will generate massive headlines and seems to have actually managed to gain an impressive amount of momentum

it’s better to invite people to deepen their efforts after they have taken a small step rather than shitting on them for not doing the Perfect Resistance

crtrwospecies.bsky.social•9 days ago

I appreciate the sentiment behind it, but how many of these "24-hour boycotts" have ever actually made headlines, let alone "massive" headlines?

noamlaw.bsky.social•9 days ago

none that I can think of. it’s a fair point.

i do think this specific one is coming at quite an opportune time when millions upon millions people are pissed off and it might be something that really takes off.

too early to say but expending effort shitting on it seems silly to me

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

No doubt, moreover it's secular prayer. It's sorting your recycling even though it's going to the dump.

I'm not telling anybody to stop, like do whatever, but come on

noamlaw.bsky.social•9 days ago

i agree that it’s secular prayer

i disagree that it’s completely ineffective. prayer is one of the best collective actions that is:

1) community building
2) an on-ramp to more action

it’s not going to shift anything materially, but it can be part of getting people activated

noamlaw.bsky.social•9 days ago

so many people are scared to even go to protests, so getting them to do anything is a win.

i get it’s cringe and largely ineffective but damn let’s have some humility about the state of The Left and find ways to deepen our coalitions

stevefoam.bsky.social•8 days ago

Unionizing a business of 10 workers seems more effective to me. But whatever, I will play along

thedansimonson.bsky.social•8 days ago

It is—but in terms of effort, time scale, and personal risk, there are many orders of magnitude between the two.

lu.is•8 days ago

Also some people who take the leap now for the first time will do the bigger harder thing later.

okabacus.bsky.social•8 days ago

Any meaningful action carries some degree of personal risk. This should be mitigated by numbers of people helping each other, not by diminishing the action taken

cyanidesmoothie.bsky.social•8 days ago

(Psssst... People can do more than one thing, and everyone starts somewhere. This isn't an "either/or" thing)

stevefoam.bsky.social•8 days ago

(Psst, if you read all the way to the 2nd sentence of my reply, you will see that I am not treating them as mutually exclusive)

noamlaw.bsky.social•8 days ago

i mean yes but this is like someone saying “i am going to brush my teeth” and you reply “wouldn’t it be better if you got a root canal”

i agree it’s comparatively better to unionize than boycott business for a day. but you can’t unionize overnight so it’s not mutually exclusive

stevefoam.bsky.social•8 days ago

I thought my second sentence made it clear I didn’t find them mutually exclusive, but I guess not.

Brushing teeth has been shown to be an effective way to control tooth loss, where as generalized “buy nothing day” protests have not historically, shown effective at anything. But, I will join along.

deborahbuddingphd.bsky.social•9 days ago

Everyone knows it just takes one magical day of pausing consumerism to save a country swirling the drain

nategvo.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yeah, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, this ain’t

splumpi.bsky.social•9 days ago

Well hey, we can save that money for recouping lost pay if we strike next month.

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

Now a general strike lfggggg

splumpi.bsky.social•9 days ago

I'm all for it and glad that people SEEM to have the energy for it, but man I would appreciate not getting yelled at when I point out that most of us cannot afford to strike because if it fails, that lost day of pay could cause people to miss rent

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

It would take a lot of collaboration. Most people can't afford it, it's true, and that would have to be factored in about what to do

splumpi.bsky.social•9 days ago

Exactly. I just wanna make sure no matter what comes of it, we can mitigate how it affects the most vulnerable of us who still attend regardless of the personal risks they face.

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

Clickbait activism.

cavatica.bsky.social•9 days ago

I mostly agree with you, but given how many people in this country can’t not hurl their money at the worst corporations for the most useless shit, if this shows even a few of those people that it feels good to uhhhh NOT do that, I say it’s probably good on the whole

cavatica.bsky.social•9 days ago

like most people who do this tomorrow will give themselves gold stars for Doing Something and then use that to justify redoubling their purchasing the next day

but maybe a few won’t! maybe a few will actually keep not spending money

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

I mean we'll see, this feels like something deliberately made to keep people feeling like they're doing something. I'm all for sorting your recycling but who cares if it's all going to the dump. Secular prayer is all I mean. It would be lovely if it had an effect.

cavatica.bsky.social•9 days ago

doing anything is better than doing nothing. yeah this is activism preschool but a lot of these people are infants, so

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

Doing something is better than nothing yes absolutely but I kinda see this as nothing that looks like something. I see no language about buying less, just moving shopping around a day. At the end I saw "small business okay, use cash" and it's like why cannot we talk about doing that always instead

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

But that's not disagreeing with your baby activism for babies point per se

kelestrian-exile.bsky.social•9 days ago

test run for something better i think. organizing is not something most of the population has done before

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

I of course won't be buying anything as I have no money lol everyone is of course welcome to join

robmcfadden.bsky.social•9 days ago

i think a better idea is a day where everyone buys what they need for their DC riot go-bag

howardbeale.bsky.social•8 days ago

July 3rd through the 5th
Washington DC
National Mall
speeches, beer, and revolution
.
be there

robmcfadden.bsky.social•8 days ago

four months is a long time to wait

okabacus.bsky.social•8 days ago

You need time to organize. One day shit like the "blackout" doesn't work bc it isn't organized and has no weight behind it. The heritage foundation has been planning this takeover since the civil rights act got passed and we aren't going to beat a 75-year long scheme when zero prep

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

Honestly I wonder what would happen if you could convince 30 million people to order riot go-bg gear and masks and shit all at same time on Amazon

The phonecall Bezos places to Vizier Musk in my head makes me laugh

robmcfadden.bsky.social•9 days ago

first of all if i ever convinced 30 million people to do anything at all i would die so hard i would instantly be all the way dead

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

mmm well I suppose sacrifices must be made

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

It's just a boycott. If you only do it for a day it doesn't do much. Imagine Kennedy embargoed Cuba but just for a day then back to business as usual gents

lms379.bsky.social•9 days ago

I know dude but don’t discourage people

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

I would encourage them to stop buying from Amazon and Walmart completely! Not just for a day!

lms379.bsky.social•9 days ago

Me too! I currently do that.

tylerjameshill.com•9 days ago

People seem mad about this but all I'm doing is kinda making jokes but I'm really just saying "think bigger" seriously go nuts not buying things one day see what splash that makes but then think about not buying from Amazon et al just ever again

alisonborealis.bsky.social•9 days ago

seriously.

What's an economic blackout if a bunch of people aren't joining in and it's only for a Friday??

If we really want to "hit them where it hurts", stop buying from the big online stores and community-destroying supercenters.
Buy local. Buy independent. Buy ethically.

carolinemoore.bsky.social•8 days ago

In the boonies, we don’t really have much. Like our only grocery store here is Walmart, if I drive half an hour it’s Giant Eagle or Aldi’s. The superstores ran our independent grocery store out of business. It’s… disappointing.

outlett.bsky.social•9 days ago

It starts with one day, and we build it up to more. Meet others who participate, organize and prepare more blackouts. Bring more people local.

Every movement must take it's first step before it can run.

fairygodmegan.bsky.social•9 days ago

Everybody's mad about something. Fucking we get it people.

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