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rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoI mean, so did Target. But you can’t expect these companies to resist when we’re barely in the streets. From their perspective the average person doesn’t care and the government is going to fuck them with a jackfruit. So they’re going to sign with the government until we show that we give a fuck, and boycotting products is barely going to move the needle.
underisk@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
What do you mean by take to the streets, because if it’s just more non violent signs-and-chants protests you might as well just accept this new reality because that sure as hell isn’t going to stop this.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I think you need to use your imagination a little more
underisk@hexbear.net 1 week ago
My imagination works just fine. As does my memory of every single mass political movement in my lifetime being cowed, suppressed, and ultimately co-opted into a completely toothless mockery of itself.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
You have an amazing memory.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
ah yes and the solution to that is of course to give up