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- BoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub
- cross-posted to:
- BuyFromEU@europe.pub
- BoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub
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Sucks about Cisco. I know they’re kind of a shit company to work with but I did enjoy working for them
Does anyone have suggestions for replacing Expedia? I’m planning a trip this summer and was going to use them for their package deals…
Neat. I’ve been unintentionally boycotting the priority targets for years now. I guess companies that support genocide also just make shitty products.
I don’t know why I even bother going into the comment sections of boycott posts. There’s only three types of comments. Smug “heh, I never shopped there anyway” comments, self-defeating “I’ll never shop there again even if they change” comments, or ‘boycotts don’t work, give up libs’ comments if you have some conservative trolls.
The “unintentionally boycotting” ones bother me because they are always the top comments and it’s not actually boycotting. You don’t show up as missing revenue because they support genocide and stopping that support won’t win you back. You might as well not exist to those companies. I’m happy you don’t have to deal with an HP laptop, but you weren’t boycotting them.
So your constructive suggestion is… That I should start buying from them again? So that I can stop buying from them again?
Like what do you want me to do.
My constructive suggestion was for people to stop saying they are unintentionally boycotting things. It just seems self-congratulatory and smug and every boycott discussion is just choked with those comments.
I was writing third paragraph about how if you aren’t shopping somewhere that is being boycott, you can help by spreading the word. I deleted it once when I had the realization that it doesn’t matter what I say, the next boycott post will have the same comments and that I’m getting worked up over something I can’t change.
Yeah I mean it sounds like your feedback is “stfu” and that’s not very helpful 😅
“Unintentionally boycotting” messages do have value. If people can live without these companies on accident, it gives people hope that it will be easy to join the boycott.
Fair point. Let’s add positively to the discussion then. An admittedly easy place to start is Google search. Here are some alternatives to try:
- Startpage
- DuckDuckGo (FYI partially uses Bing i.e., Microsoft)
- Ecosia
None of the above are perfect, but all are much better in terms of their impacts on others IMO.
Or I was already boycotting them anyway for being shit
Co-op is so much better than Chevron!
Already been doing that for a while, don’t have to make any changes!
it’s still a us company, i know, but ive been using keurig dr pepper more as an alternative instead of coca cola ever since they became infatuated with trump.
Genuinely never used any of them anyways.
