Economy Boycott Strategy 2025

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For people not happy with this right wing power grab, even the midterms seem far away and protesting especially in blue states seems like preaching to the choir - but boycotting the companies complicit in this can be a direct action towards making this untenable for the oligarchs

I'm aiming to reduce my spending in general, then with the spending I do having the following priorities:
  1. Local small businesses - they're not the ones donating millions to politicians, they're locals working to get by, so that's a better way to spend
  2. Foreign businesses - allied foreign countries aren't the ones threatening to invade and annex Canada, so buying Korean, buying Canadian, buying Mexican, buying Japanese all has more appeal than buying American
  3. American medium/large businesses without overt political involvement - like if I shop at a chain grocery store, yes it's a big business but they're not making waves politically
  4. American megacorps and overtly involved companies - Tesla, Amazon, Paypal, etc - their owners have overtly used their wealth and power to towards putting and keeping Trump/Edolf in charge, avoid like the plague
Also, immigrant small businesses deserve extra attention - like thankfully in California we have lots of real Mexican restaurants and markets, definitely happy to take more of my business there. The Trump admin's definitely making things scarier and more difficult for them with these ICE raids so I'm definitely glad to take my money to the businesses they're running

How are you redirecting your spending in light of 2025 politics?
 
gentel said:
For people not happy with this right wing power grab, even the midterms seem far away and protesting especially in blue states seems like preaching to the choir - but boycotting the companies complicit in this can be a direct action towards making this untenable for the oligarchs

I'm aiming to reduce my spending in general, then with the spending I do having the following priorities:
  1. Local small businesses - they're not the ones donating millions to politicians, they're locals working to get by, so that's a better way to spend
  2. Foreign businesses - allied foreign countries aren't the ones threatening to invade and annex Canada, so buying Korean, buying Canadian, buying Mexican, buying Japanese all has more appeal than buying American
  3. American medium/large businesses without overt political involvement - like if I shop at a chain grocery store, yes it's a big business but they're not making waves politically
  4. American megacorps and overtly involved companies - Tesla, Amazon, Paypal, etc - their owners have overtly used their wealth and power to towards putting and keeping Trump/Edolf in charge, avoid like the plague
Also, immigrant small businesses deserve extra attention - like thankfully in California we have lots of real Mexican restaurants and markets, definitely happy to take more of my business there. The Trump admin's definitely making things scarier and more difficult for them with these ICE raids so I'm definitely glad to take my money to the businesses they're running
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Yes and post more on sherdog
 
gentel said:
For people not happy with this right wing power grab, even the midterms seem far away and protesting especially in blue states seems like preaching to the choir - but boycotting the companies complicit in this can be a direct action towards making this untenable for the oligarchs

I'm aiming to reduce my spending in general, then with the spending I do having the following priorities:
  1. Local small businesses - they're not the ones donating millions to politicians, they're locals working to get by, so that's a better way to spend
  2. Foreign businesses - allied foreign countries aren't the ones threatening to invade and annex Canada, so buying Korean, buying Canadian, buying Mexican, buying Japanese all has more appeal than buying American
  3. American medium/large businesses without overt political involvement - like if I shop at a chain grocery store, yes it's a big business but they're not making waves politically
  4. American megacorps and overtly involved companies - Tesla, Amazon, Paypal, etc - their owners have overtly used their wealth and power to towards putting and keeping Trump/Edolf in charge, avoid like the plague
Also, immigrant small businesses deserve extra attention - like thankfully in California we have lots of real Mexican restaurants and markets, definitely happy to take more of my business there. The Trump admin's definitely making things scarier and more difficult for them with these ICE raids so I'm definitely glad to take my money to the businesses they're running

How are you redirecting your spending in light of 2025 politics?
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Elon has no stake in PayPal now unless you mean another guy
 
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filthybliss said:
This ain’t working. I remember people boycotted Starbucks for a like a week to give Israel the middle finger lol
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As a prog/liberal (but not a TikTok leftist) that Starbucks boycott was truly stupid asf, Starbucks had absolutely nothing to do with Israel. Not a single store in the country, no donating stuff to the IDF, nothing
 
Yeah good luck with all that

But are you Canadian or American? The “threat to annex Canada” hysteria being a sticking point for you makes me wonder
 
gentel said:
As a prog/liberal (but not a TikTok leftist) that Starbucks boycott was truly stupid asf, Starbucks had absolutely nothing to do with Israel. Not a single store in the country, no donating stuff to the IDF, nothing
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Yeah, this stuff tends to be counterintuitive. I remember when BLM was big, a bunch of people were posting black squares in solidarity and it quite literally changed the dynamics of nothing. If anything, it probably swayed indifferent people the other way.
 
Lol love when leftist try this...Charlie Brown(shirts) and the football
 
It might seem like too little money to matter but remember - the stock market doesn't just expect keeping the same revenue, it expects exponential growth. Decrease the revenue QoQ and YoY, and the investors lose interest
 
The only boycott that I think ever affected something, was the bud light one

And that’s because it was just so easy to grab a different light beer on the shelf 2 feet away that tasted identical at the same price
 
Kingz said:
Yeah good luck with all that

But are you Canadian or American? The “threat to annex Canada” hysteria being a sticking point for you makes me wonder
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I'm American, just making those kinds of threats is a gigantic POS move and I'm inclined to side with whoever's in the right in these situations, even if that means siding against my own country

Canadians are mass-cancelling their US travel trips, leaving US produce unsold on the shelves, and moving to make their government contracts with the EU and other allies of theirs
 
gentel said:
I'm American, just making those kinds of threats is a gigantic POS move and I'm inclined to side with whoever's in the right in these situations, even if that means siding against my own country

Canadians are mass-cancelling their US travel trips, leaving US produce unsold on the shelves, and moving to make their government contracts with the EU and other allies of theirs
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This shit ain't gaining any traction in Canada either. A lot of Canadians see that business's are using this as a marketing tool. It's disingenuous.
 
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