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The key thing to remember is that a one day blackout won't have an effect on the corporations. What it will do is get more people comfortable with taking action. If you can go one day without buying from Amazon, two days isn't much more, and then a week, and then a month. The idea is to ratchet up the action.
Just like how fascism has a progression to slowly "boil the frog," collective societal action does, too. This isn't an end but a beginning.
Amazon blackout, that's March 7th through March 14th.
This is a much better plan. Much better. We should be organizing longer pauses with different targets. We should have a different one every week or longer.
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One day at a time. Isn't that what the 12 Step groups say? People in this thread saying this won't do anything. You have to start somewhere. Don't be defeatist. Get involved. Unless you are just trolling to keep people from doing anything.
I'm sure it will do something, I'm sure it'll lead to overstock at large stores and force all the low wage workers to suffer a little extra. That's what it will do.
Doomer do-nothings are so incredibly frustrating. I get the frustration, but spreading apathy is not useful. Authoritarianism flourishes when apathy takes root among the populace.
Real doing something is a long term boycott. Not a one day thing. Real doing something is labor organization, unions allow collaboration at a higher level, and allow you to strike back at the throat.
Even protesting at a leftist capital is doing more than a single day's blackout.
Go exercise your second amendment by a conservative senator's house if you really want to do something (and I don't mean that as a shoot them euphemism. Make them uncomfortable.)
George Washington would tell you to stand outside the homes of the representatives and demand action.
The organization that organized the economic blackout has longer-term boycotts planned in the coming weeks. This is just the opening salvo. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
You're not getting "good". A one day pause is not an effective strategy in any sense. It's slacktivism. It'll placate people who would have otherwise taken actual action.
You say placate, I say practice. People who have never protested a day in their lives aren't going to start out with a multi-month blackout. They need to get used to protesting by starting small.
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This is it. If we want to have any effect it needs to be much longer than a day. One month would make a statement. You could even cave out food. You could also have people cancel their endless list of subscriptions or just scale back their lifestyle for a greater effect than a one day pause.
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