what I was trying to get at in the thread is that there is an assumption that long-term, deep organizing is always necessary, but I think it's only necessary in the US because of a large degree of apathy and being happy with the status quo
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The Canadian boycott has different bottlenecks - store owners and governments are pulling American products, it's not mass action that materialized out of nowhere. Much easier to coordinate pulling all American booze out of liquor stores in the province if you're The Liquor Control Board of Ontario
true in that particular case, but from what I've heard from my family a lot of the grocery store boycotts are fairly unplanned, and those plus other decisions like not planning any future travel to the US are probably more impactful than liquor stores
it also sounds like there's a huge amount of social pressure to not buy American, and people are talking about it all the time in a way I've never heard of happening here (at least among boomers, who polls show are the most on board with this stuff)
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It probably helps that most people weren't going to buy a Tesla driver and that Tesla drivers were already disliked
actually effective unorganized boycotts came in response to a crisis
Crises seem likely in the future for all sorts of reasons (climate change even if everything else gets fixed tomorrow)
maybe we should think about crisis resiliency more
Trump provided the motivation himself. Turns out threats of annexation have a galvanizing effect on a populace.
He kind of did us a favour in that regard.