PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well.
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Separate the Art from the Artist is accepted by SANE people, who don't have time to milk tirades so that they can play victim on the internet so that strangers think they are virtuous.
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They own the city of Toronto? Explains much I guess
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Naw sorry, I tried that this last election and got embarrassed. Went hardcore Democrat, Coconut-pilled, blah blah blah.
I genuinely tried to believe in it, voted early, got friends and family to show up and vote too. Not only did the dems lose, they lost worse than they have in decades.
And to make matters worse, the Democratic party largely has completely missed why they lost so badly to the most pathetic excuse for a president in American history.
It's too late for large scale positive structural change with the current political parties in the USA. The Dems must be torn apart and re-shaped into a populist left-wing party to have any chance of meaningful change. Until that happens, voting with your dollar is the only kind of vote that will be taken seriously.
Extremely local elections, sure, vote for a leftist candidate that might actually win some small office. But unless it's that, vote with your dollar and engage in direct action to serve your community and build genuine solidarity.
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I work in a servo/convenience store and about 3/4 of our drink fridges (all 10 or so doors worth) are the same 4 brands. Probably most of the store is covered under like 7 brands.
Coke, Pepsi, Schweppes, Nestle, Unilever and there goes almost everything edible and drinkable that isn't fresh.
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Now here's the scrubber of this all -- If you REALLY want to be serious -- Go to a farmers market.
Oh wait, almost every fucking farmer is a Trump supporter...
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There are no good options sometimes. I place my hope in GNU Taler as a means to send and accept payment in the future (it's anonymous for the buyer but the seller is identifiable for tax reasons).
We'll have to agree to disagree on the effectiveness of voting with wallets.
What would you call an example of 'real collective power'?
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Oh boy... Look up peter thiel, elon musk and david sacks to start - three stains on humanity working very actively to end it as we speak. They were the basin founding faces of PayPal (I mean, I think musk came on after the fact or was pushed out early or something, continuing the trend of him never actually creating anything). Currently they are alll very active in the trump admin - two with officially appointed positions, one in the shadows. Vance is also created by thiel. Look up that "Dark Gothic maga" video (musk's stupid name) that's been shared often recently.
Then separately, PayPal owns Honey, and it turns out has been scamming millions, maybe billions away from online creators for years, probably some of your favorites included in that list. Active lawsuit ongoing - look up legal eagle's video maybe as a start.
All these billionaire fucks made their fortunes through Paypal and still likely hold stock and maybe board positions, can't recall?
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Not the modern X.com to be clear; Musk just has a weird fetish for the letter X like an edgy teenager.
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Another tactic is ..... don't spend money on things if you don't really need to. Why keep spending just to continually spend, spend, spend.
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not for long, it seems...
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I can easily avoid every company owned by PayPal.
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I do, but they don't own Coke. And my tap water comes from my tap.
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I wish I could say the same, I use PayPal very frequently because my credit union doesn’t support debit-visa. With PayPal I can make payments with my bank online rather than use my cc.
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Nonsense. Most people who boycott products aren't posting about it on the internet.
And I don't know why you assume that opposing one company means you have to oppose others. People are allowed to oppose PayPal but not give a crap about eating meat.
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I have none of these in my house, many by conscious choice. It has made no difference in my life. I challenge everyone to do the same. It’s really not THAT hard.
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Ah that's interesting, all the banks around me stopped issuing ATM cards and only issue debit cards nowadays. I wish I wasn't required to have a debit card with those banks - I purposely tell my banks to disable debit/POS features on the debit card so it is only functional at ATMs.
All that aside you should consider getting a credit card or a prepaid credit card for those types of transactions. It's safer to separate your bank account from your day-to-day payments/shopping, not great when someone gets access to your debit card which then gives them direct access to your bank account balance. At least with a credit card those situations are just a dispute that never affect your actual money in the bank.
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Now you got me started on X...
While true, Musk is no fool and bought such a simple and recognizable domain back from PayPal in 2017 for an undisclosed amount.He's a successful businessman, no doubt. Problem is that billionaires are pulling up the ladders behind them as wealth inequality is increasing (power is concentrating).
Twitter was well-known to be infested with bots when Musk purchased it. Turns out, that made it more valuable to someone rich who wants to sway elections...
Shop local, use smaller local services (credit unions), drop services owned by or purchased by billionaires (Too busy ranting and I haven't actually read this article yet
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Don't buy processed shit... This simple trick really hurts that parasite.
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And my tap water comes from my tap.
Every glass is profit stolen from the daddy Capital
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I'd rather support a working farmer than an evil corporation
