What a performative complete waste of time. Do something real or do nothing at all.
quickly add up to a collective impact.
It will have absolutely no impact except for giving the shitheads on the other side some new ridicule material.
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It worked for Conservatives when they boycotted Target and whatever dumb beer company over support of Pride. We ridiculed them for it, and look where they are now.
I think it's fair to say that there's better ways to protest, but getting people off their asses in any way could be a gateway for some to realize that a little discomfort is worth the outcome.
But the two examples you mentioned were targeted and permanent. Conservatives were going to target to harass workers and vandalize displays. Kid Rock fired a rifle at cases of Bud Light. Conservatives get violent when they protest, and the loss in sales isn't replaced by the communities they are courting, because both brands immediately gave in to the terrorist demands.
Imagine how ineffective those protests would have been if, instead of violence, every conservative decided to stop drinking Bud Light or not shop at Target for one day. It's unbelievably naive to think a one day boycott would accomplish anything.
Exactly this. A one day boycott is strictly performative.
Is that what they did? What was the one day that they chose to quit buying bud light? Is that all they did? Just a one day boycott and then go back into silence and resume drinking bud light? I remember it somewhat differently...
Instead of bitching, what are your bright ideas and calls to action? What resistance are you organizing? This is, at least, something.
I'm resisting performative bullshit. Swear off of these fuckers permanently.
All efforts, great and small.
It's bullshit and not effort at all. I didn't shop anywhere yesterday. Do I get a gold star?
As a bare minimum, show up and picket. Everyone go in first thing when the store opens and fill their baskets with all the things they were going to buy and then simultaneously park them in front of the checkout lanes and walk out. Make sure the ice cream is buried in the bottom of the cart.
"Only the things I say you should do are worth doing, and nothing else!"
Don't be an ass... it makes you look like an ass and doesn't help the effort. I gave you some real things that could be done like were being requested. If you can't see the difference between a performance and a real action then that's your problem.