Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
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sounds easy considering I haven't bought anything from Amazon in years
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The problem of boycotting Amazon for over a year now is that I can't participate in collective actions like this one.
Really you are ahead of the curve which is great!
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I have ordered from them line 5 or 6 times, subscribed for a year because I wanted to watch a series by terry Pratchett, and never again interacted with it in the past 8 years or so. You are not boycotting food or water or oxygen.
Good job
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You just listed things that you can pick up at any number of local stores. That stupid convenience of ordering crap instead of just adding it to the shopping list is why people think going a week without using Amazon will "disrupt the system." This is exactly the problem.
Yes but when I live 40 miles from a city and hate wandering around multiple stores looking for things they may or may not have. But I know I need to change.
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I get where you're coming from, but just like with the single day, people have to start somewhere.
These events can help people break habits and find alternatives without something as big as "never again".
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Amazon stuff is totally not literal garbage
Correct, that's Temu.
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You guys buy from Amazon?
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Ooooooh 7 whole days???? That'll teach 'em. What is this, Whale Wars?
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Wait until the last 2 weeks of the fiscal quarter instead of mid-cycle and the rebound bump won't show up on their quarterly earnings, which will fuck their stock value, which is the only thing that matters to them.
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I get where you're coming from, but just like with the single day, people have to start somewhere.
These events can help people break habits and find alternatives without something as big as "never again".
You can make a seven days long hunger strike and that is commendable.
But a previously delimited week not buying commodities you don't need from a particular company with literally thousands of alternatives, sounds just completely ridiculous.
You are not boycotting food production, or sewage, or drinking water... You are suggesting that a seven days strike in buying the Vaseline you will need from the retailer that creates that same need is kind of a revolutionary action.
¡From the people that is dismantling your state!
Your society (and I'm really sorry to tell you this crudely) is deeply sick, if you think this is somehow fierce.
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That's not a boycott. That's waiting until payday to shop.
There needs to be a succinct way to say "Never shop Amazon again if possible. If you absolutely have no other option, don't do it March 7-14."
I cancelled mine recently and will actively try to avoid using it. They also need competition.
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The problem of boycotting Amazon for over a year now is that I can't participate in collective actions like this one.
What have you been using to order RAM/disks/whatever?
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We need to turn this into a cancellation party
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True, but 7 days isn’t enough time for that. I’ve gone weeks between purchasing the kinds of things Amazon delivers, so it’d just be normal. 2+ months is probably better. Especially if those months are Nov & Dec.
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You can make a seven days long hunger strike and that is commendable.
But a previously delimited week not buying commodities you don't need from a particular company with literally thousands of alternatives, sounds just completely ridiculous.
You are not boycotting food production, or sewage, or drinking water... You are suggesting that a seven days strike in buying the Vaseline you will need from the retailer that creates that same need is kind of a revolutionary action.
¡From the people that is dismantling your state!
Your society (and I'm really sorry to tell you this crudely) is deeply sick, if you think this is somehow fierce.
Don't hurt your back patting it so hard!
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Yeah but it lets people feel like they've boycotted. Which isn't coddling/faux activism so much as it is starter-activism.
We don't want activism to seem hard... even though we know that effective activism pretty much requires meaningful changes to behaviour which often brings discomfort.
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What have you been using to order RAM/disks/whatever?
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Don't hurt your back patting it so hard!
Whatever. I don't think this suggested action is of any use, but quite the opposite, and in other circumstances I would not say anything about it. But what we are going through, in my opinion, is important enough to call it out. Sorry if it sounded condescending, but for once, I think it has to be said.
