Pat12@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 days agoWhat can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?message-squaremessage-square105linkfedilinkarrow-up1243
arrow-up1243message-squareWhat can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?Pat12@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square105linkfedilink
minus-squareshplane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoVoting with your wallet can be a boycott. Seems like you’re really mincing words here and creating a false equivalent to recycling plastic that no one else is using as a comparison.
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoIt’s not a false equivalence, it’s the same exact thing Its a lie. The lie is “you can do collective action individually”. You can’t… That’s not how any of this works Boycotts are real. Voting with your wallet is just shopping. There’s no message to it, no power - just a slice of consumers to market to differently or a need to pivot
minus-squareshplane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 minutes agoYou can vote with your wallet by not shopping.
Voting with your wallet can be a boycott. Seems like you’re really mincing words here and creating a false equivalent to recycling plastic that no one else is using as a comparison.
It’s not a false equivalence, it’s the same exact thing
Its a lie. The lie is “you can do collective action individually”. You can’t… That’s not how any of this works
Boycotts are real. Voting with your wallet is just shopping.
There’s no message to it, no power - just a slice of consumers to market to differently or a need to pivot
You can vote with your wallet by not shopping.