The Left needs to organize and start strategically cancelling (sorry “boycotting”) shit again. Make Corporations Afraid Again. - ThreadSky

aew.one • 59 days ago

The Left needs to organize and start strategically cancelling (sorry “boycotting”) shit again.

Make Corporations Afraid Again.

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fluffy-snake.bsky.social•59 days ago

We also have to teach people that boycotts last more than 24 hours, or even a week lmao

heel-lucas.bsky.social•58 days ago

Absolutely I’ve stopped apologizing for calling maga what they are. I’ve stopped apologizing for how I’m feeling. There is no more sorry for us. We’re telling it like it is. Don’t like it? Too damn bad.

kimifw.bsky.social•59 days ago

Put "wrestling" in your bio and give your website an "about us" section.

aew.one•59 days ago

I don’t understand why you said this and now my anxiety is thru the fucking roof. Are you trying to be helpful or just calling me a fuck up? I’m old and lame and tired of pretending I’m unflappable online.

runtheblade4.bsky.social•59 days ago

It’s like “oh you said something homophobic years ago and never did or said anything else remotely homophobic? Well guess what? We’re about to ruin your life. You’re going to be bullied relentlessly, you’re getting doxed, you’re going to lose your job, etc.”

runtheblade4.bsky.social•59 days ago

Tremendous way to get people to flee in the other direction and potentially even radicalize in the other direction instead of actually changing their behavior in a positive way.

runtheblade4.bsky.social•59 days ago

The whole canceling thing is part of the problem for why the younger demos are starting to lean right more. Why vote for people for a platform that tries to get you canceled because you said something dumb online when you were too immature to know better?

protestingdeath.bsky.social•58 days ago

$$$$ is the only language they understand. Save more, spend less until we are heard.

freakquency.fun•59 days ago

Today is National no buy strike

freakquency.fun•59 days ago

We have flyers 😆

aew.one•59 days ago

That’s all well and good but I think having specific targets and immediate responses is better.

freakquency.fun•59 days ago

I think the idea is to not spend any money. Like fuck the whole economy style.

aew.one•59 days ago

I’m not quite sure what this accomplishes. Not saying I disagree with it—I’ll participate just because well-meaning people seem to be advocating for it—I’m just not up to speed. Like, won’t people just buy what they intended to on March 1st? Will the economy feel one bad day? Educate me.

freakquency.fun•58 days ago

I wish I knew. I feel like it needs to be a long session of no spending not just a day

heel-lucas.bsky.social•58 days ago

There’s another one coming months later. Today is I believe a trail run. If it’s effective maybe they’ll do more frequently. But definitely is needed to be planned out so people are able to plan ahead of time.

tentenforty.bsky.social•58 days ago

100% agree & along with Voting With Your Dollar what also needs to be said is this:

Prepare To Be Uncomfortable For A Bit For NOW For The Greater Good Down The Road

malcolm75.bsky.social•58 days ago

Boycotting is good to a certain moment, but the corp have learned that we need things from them so they know for a day or 2 a down turn is ok, but to make them seriously afraid is to protest in front of CEO's homes, that scares them because then they know we're watching them!

smoogley21.bsky.social•59 days ago

Organize your workplaces. Let's get 3.5% of the population to quit working and take to the streets.

#generalstrike

https://Generalstrikeus.com

flugennock.bsky.social•58 days ago

Maybe take off the goddamn gloves and do some REAL cancelling...?

lionoflithuania.bsky.social•58 days ago

At roughly 10% of the population, "leftist" simply do not have the numbers to have an effect.

azurevista.bsky.social•59 days ago

Who is 'the Left'? Do you mean Socialists?

mjc0961.bsky.social•59 days ago

Sorry, that's too much work and inconvenience for the average American. Best they can do is a "don't buy anything" one day challenge that companies absolutely will not care about because everyone's going to be back to the shops the next day

buyingrunescim.bsky.social•59 days ago

There’s one today and multiple targeted ones over the next month

thefilmdoctor.bsky.social•59 days ago

The issue is that cancel culture was something made by corporations.

tibbittz.bsky.social•59 days ago

The "Left" keeps shooting itself in the foot by excluding anyone who doesn't pass this week's purity test. I'm Left, but I broadly support the feminist views of J. K. Rowling, so I'm not allowed to be Left by large swaths of judgmental kinda-fascist Kool-Aid-swilling faux-Leftists.

Too many tribes.

aew.one•59 days ago

Ya but fuck JK Rowling tho, is the thing.

tibbittz.bsky.social•59 days ago

You're proving my point: I didn't pass your purity test. I'm a Leftist who believes in biology and you're a Leftist who is choosing to deny biology. Now we're not allies, when we could be.

We could unite on other issues, but I suspect you don't want my allyship. You think I'm Right-wing or a bigot.

aew.one•59 days ago

I don’t have a purity test, I just don’t like anyone who’s anti-trans. They’re the absolute last people on the planet who need to be “taken down a peg”.

Maybe pickup a textbook of this “biology” you supposedly espouse.

tibbittz.bsky.social•59 days ago

You're literally describing a purity test. You have judged J.K. Rowling an impure bigot. Despite her position being fully rooted in observable scientific reality and class fairness, you exile her from the progressive Left.

I suspect you need the biology textbook far more than I do.🍀

tibbittz.bsky.social•59 days ago

J. K. Rowling says "women are a sex class", a factual assessment of biology, feminism, and politics, and the captured-Left spit misogynistic venom at her because the Kool-Aid they're swimming in says that's progress.

It's infinite regress. It's the Patriarchy. It's the hip propaganda.

tibbittz.bsky.social•59 days ago

Meanwhile, the Right-wing, who smug Leftists love to look down on as "less than" and "dumber than" are much more clever and effective than we are: They mostly ignore their differences and unite to build political force around their shared core issues.

It's so foolish that we don't learn from them.

fluffy-snake.bsky.social•59 days ago

You're not a leftist. You're a TERF.

tibbittz.bsky.social•59 days ago

Speaking for a women's blog, you think it's right to treat J. K. Rowling like a pariah for championing the rights and safety of women. You don't see the cognitive dissonance at play, or choose not to. I find this extraordinarily disheartening. It's a huge part of how the Left got me to stop voting.

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