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Boycott for Leftists Who Feel Impotent
Those poor people on the Left can only sit back and watch the chaos from the sidelines, as Musk wreaks havoc on the U.S. government. It must seem like their world is coming to an end.
But the forces of protest have stepped up to give them something to complain about. A “grassroots group” is calling for an economic boycott against the big corporations. Celebrities like John Leguizamo, Bette Midler and Stephen King have stepped up to support them:
The one-day economic protest asks people across the country to make no purchases online or in stores across the country, and to buy only essentials like food, medicine and emergency supplies in small local brick-and-mortar businesses.
‘No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy,’ the group, the People’s Union, states on its website. ‘For one day we show them who really holds the power.’
As usual, the big corporations and their billionaire friends are the villains, and this organization seeks to empower the people. But my favorite part of the article is this:
It is not clear how the group will determine if the boycott succeeded or had any effect on the bottom line for the nation’s retailers.
It’s so sad that people will be attracted to this activist call, which is deeply flawed and trite. Will the day ever come when the Left realizes that their success and well-being are limited only by their support of useless causes and their lack of self-respect?
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Or undermined by their support of destructive causes? As long as that support benefits someone who is willing to fleece them, that day will never arrive.
Will there be any Kumbaya singing? That’s always important. Then you know they’re serious.
After the drum circle. Then everyone will get on line and order all the things they put off buying during the boycott.
I was going to wait to buy that gun I was looking at, but..
And led by people whose pampered lives would be impossible in the socialist systems they advocate.
Very good!
And they don’t see the irony… so sad.
Perfect, P!
Right up there with “Queers for Palestine.”
They couldn’t get Vic Damone and Doris Day to join? Of course we’re talking about a delay, not a purchase that won’t be made. So this amounts to two things: Look, I’m still important, follow me! Secondly, like practically everything about the left it is some performance with no substance, no practical effect experienced by any company.
Lashing out at corporations in general is silly. You can do precious little, go nowhere, enjoy no comfort or entertainment without them.
Somehow I’m reminded of stories about some kind of “working women’s strike” in… Iceland? Seems like. What I remember were reports that basically nobody noticed, except things actually got done and there were no complaints to HR. (Which may have accomplished nothing anyway even if complaints had been made, since HR seems to mostly consist of women.)
Men seem like a different issue, though. If men stop buying your trans beer, watch out!
That’s true! OMG. So the companies really don’t lose anything. Thanks for making this point, Joker.
This boycott is getting lousier all the time.
They’re supposed to be doing more of these protests, too. Why??
The left is religious and this the equivalent of the power of prayer to them. They believe that by putting out resistance energy to the evil that is Donald Trump their energy will change the physical world.
To be fair, it’s not just that.
Um…that would have been November 5th…
“Remember, remember the fifth of November.”
I spent $130-$140 today
I got a haircut ($25 including tip), but neutral observer bought double everything at the grocery store. I’d say we did our part . . .
Boycotts are a free market weapon. They’re like a successful shopping trip—the kind where I couldn’t find anything worth buying
So that means if you simply browse, you’re defying the boycott? Some people have it all.
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So have we forgotten the saying, “Go woke, go broke?” Why is our side reverting to its aversion to free-market boycotts? Is it because we’d rather use government power and have President Trump or RFK Jr force companies to obey?
Just a bad joke, apparently. I meant it in praise, like it was a superpower to defy a boycott without buying anything.
Reminds me of:
Paula Poundstone: “I saw this sign that said, ‘Don’t even THINK about parking here!’ and you know what I did? I stood right there, and I thought about it!”