pardon my cynicism but is this big amazon strike people are supposedly planning going to like do anything are the organizers planning to make any like, demands of amazon that could cause any sort of constructive outcome or are we just like. not shopping at this one company just to prove we can - ThreadSky

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obscoore.bsky.social • 3 days ago

pardon my cynicism but is this big amazon strike people are supposedly planning going to like

do anything

are the organizers planning to make any like, demands of amazon that could cause any sort of constructive outcome or are we just like. not shopping at this one company just to prove we can

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obscoore.bsky.social•3 days ago

this question is mostly rhetorical because i read the independent article about it quoting the organizer and it's mostly a bunch of pap about "retaking control of the economy" or some such nonsense but like

obscoore.bsky.social•3 days ago

like i dunno man. i'm pro not shopping at amazon, i guess, but it kind of sounds like you just want to make people feel good for doing the bare minimum and don't acthally have any meaningful long-term goals in mind

obscoore.bsky.social•3 days ago

like if this is specifically in protest of dei rollbacks then sure, that's something, but you'd think that would be foregrounded better in their messaging. i dunno, everything about these sorts of things always makes me feel extremely cynical

obscoore.bsky.social•3 days ago

especially when, despite generally being pro Anti-Treatler Discourse, the way these sorts of hasty, vaguely defined boycotts usually devolve into a pretext for people to smugly talk down to people not participating in it for any number of reasons rankles me to absolutely no end

obscoore.bsky.social•3 days ago

i'm going on way too long about this but i dunno. it bothers me

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