Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
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This is great and all, but here's a bonus challenge: don't use Amazon ever fucking again!
Do it and you're cool!! Even though I haven't used it in awhile, I have the app downloaded. I'm going to uninstall it as soon as I post this comment.
Did you uninstall it?
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How about an anti-Honey plug in that reminds you not to order when you’re trying to check out.
Great Idea.
Perhaps call it something like:
BeeOff - A play on "bee" similar to Honey, but with a focus on avoiding (off) certain products.
BoycottBee - Directly stating its purpose as a boycott tool.
Avoidify - Emphasizes the idea of avoiding certain products or brands.
BlanketBan - Suggests a comprehensive avoidance or ban.
NectarNone - Opposite of honey nectar, focusing on avoiding products.
ProtestPal
A friendly companion for those who want to make a statement by boycotting certain products.SentryShop
Acts as a guardian or sentry while shopping, warning against certain products.Ethico
Emphasizes ethical consumption by avoiding certain brands or products.NoGo
Simple and direct, signaling products to avoid.BlockBuy
Directly blocks purchases of unwanted products.SanctionShop
Implies a personal sanction or restriction on certain products.ProtestPulse
A tool that keeps the pulse of your protest or boycott efforts.Avoida
A playful name emphasizing avoidance. -
I week long boycott will do nothing. If that is the most you are prepared to inconvenience yourself to send a message, then just give up now.
Sounds like an excuse to not get started.
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Great Idea.
Perhaps call it something like:
BeeOff - A play on "bee" similar to Honey, but with a focus on avoiding (off) certain products.
BoycottBee - Directly stating its purpose as a boycott tool.
Avoidify - Emphasizes the idea of avoiding certain products or brands.
BlanketBan - Suggests a comprehensive avoidance or ban.
NectarNone - Opposite of honey nectar, focusing on avoiding products.
ProtestPal
A friendly companion for those who want to make a statement by boycotting certain products.SentryShop
Acts as a guardian or sentry while shopping, warning against certain products.Ethico
Emphasizes ethical consumption by avoiding certain brands or products.NoGo
Simple and direct, signaling products to avoid.BlockBuy
Directly blocks purchases of unwanted products.SanctionShop
Implies a personal sanction or restriction on certain products.ProtestPulse
A tool that keeps the pulse of your protest or boycott efforts.Avoida
A playful name emphasizing avoidance.You're hired!
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This is great and all, but here's a bonus challenge: don't use Amazon ever fucking again!
Do it and you're cool!! Even though I haven't used it in awhile, I have the app downloaded. I'm going to uninstall it as soon as I post this comment.
Also tell them why you're boycotting them. That's an important step.
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Amazombies ain't gonna do that. bezos has them hooked in their guts
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You can't have change without sacrifice.
Accelerationism is not the best way forward.
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This is great and all, but here's a bonus challenge: don't use Amazon ever fucking again!
Do it and you're cool!! Even though I haven't used it in awhile, I have the app downloaded. I'm going to uninstall it as soon as I post this comment.
Amazon has the masses enthralled
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I still can't believe Amazon got away with it.
Its gut wrenching. No amount of lawsuit money could give true justice. Lives were taken. You can't give those back.
Change is the only positive outcome, and money to the families sure. But to prevent that horrible atrocity and to give power back to the people. Where they aren't in fear to go home for fear of losing their jobs or what ever the punishment was.
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Yeah, having like <5% of people put off buying stuff for a week isn't going to do that.
Unfortunately at this point only something fairly world-changing is going to really do much. And it's definitely going to get much worse before it gets better. Prepare for it.
With that said - I'm definitely not saying DON'T do it. Just realize this is would be a raindrop and we need a flood.
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Absolutely, and thanks for asking. Also, congrats! I'd recommend looking at credit unions (US/Canada) and higher ed. Both are non-profits and good stepping stones. Either can be a career if you don't want a 'stepping stone.' Depending on how altruistic you want to be, you can find either that serve underserved communities. CUs pay better, but are more corporate and demanding. Higher ed doesn't pay as well, but is more layed back if you can ignore politics, which there is a ridiculous amount of. I worked at HBCU (US) for a long time, and it was pretty great. Depending on where you are, it's usually pretty easy to find an open spot at either.
Thanks for taking the time to respond I appreciate it.
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Accelerationism is not the best way forward.
What's the best way forward then?
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Is this a joke? Like 2k people on fedi don't buy anything from Amazon for a week?
These "economic blackout"s are completely futile. Especially if they only target a single service, or if they target a service as big as Amazon. If this blackout is for everything Amazon operates, you can't use Twitch, or Fire TV, or Prime Video, or Fire devices, or Kindles, or any website that is run with AWS. You think normies are going to sacrifice all of that ease of use for a week, and even if in some alternate dimension they have any self control over their consumption, they'll just go back to using Amazon.
Amazon will survive for 7 days. What about people all around the world that quite frankly don't give a fuck about uspol? What about subscriptions? Invincible 3x8 comes out in this time period? Nobody will watch it? People will stop using a third of the Internet, their streaming slop devices, their e-celeb propaganda outlets? It simply won't happen.
These blackouts are an immature way to "break the system, man". They completely ignore the reasons why normies go to the slop mill in the first place. The general population has 0 self control over their spending. They will consume, and consume, and consume, until they die.
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No, you come on. You're are misrepresenting what I actually said. If you actually read my post, you'll see that I plan to participate in the boycott regardless. I made a throwaway comment about how it would be "mildly inconvenient" that I'd miss the opening, but also that I would do it regardless.
So what, I'm not even allowed to acknowledge that Prime has stuff I'm interested in? I have to boycott it, and deny that it holds any value whatsoever?
That's bullshit. It's entirely possible to both acknowledge that there are decent Amazon produced shows AND think that the company is evil as fuck and want to boycott them.
And here you've encountered first hand why these protests don't work.
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Or use it as a product search engine, then go to the supplier or an alternate online store to buy the one you want. I don't have it on my phone but do go to it in browser occasionally for that.
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That boycott had a demand attached, to prevent the sinking of the Brent Spar buoy. Effectively "unlimited" boycott until Shell gave into the demand.
This and the last no shop Friday thing seem mostly pointless. I mean fuck Amazon for sure but shouldn't there be some goal? "Boycott Amazon until X, Y, and Z" not "No buy from Amazon for a week but then we'll be back so no worries!"
The implicit demand is to stop supporting fascists.
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Sounds like an excuse to not get started.
It sounds like a call to avoid symbolic action and take meaningful action instead, to me.
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I week long boycott will do nothing. If that is the most you are prepared to inconvenience yourself to send a message, then just give up now.
Hard disagree. If you ask people to make a temporary change that still feels achievable, they're more likely to at least give it a shot, and many of those people will spend some time considering alternatives. Once the week is up, some people may even choose to continue boycotting Amazon, or at least reduce their spending there.
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Or how about you just stop buying from that cancerous blight on our society altogether?
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Agreed. Better to make it a month or two. This gives you time to find replacement companies and then hopefully never return to Amazon.
Or just stop using them entirely, right now, because the only service they have an uncontested lead in is, ironically, audiobooks.
I know, I know. You might have to physically go to a store. The HORROR.
