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Just some additional advertising for todays boycott.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

It's totally possible to never shop at any of these big businesses again.

Maybe not possible for everyone, but for many if not most.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Those small businesses you shop at still get their products from big businesses at the end of the day. Or their workers who you're paying by shopping there will spend money at big businesses. It won't significantly affect the engine that is the economy at the end of the day. Consumer choice only works against specific businesses you can target which if you wanted to have a campaign to for example not to shop at big chain grocery stores that could be good. If anything though that's another mixed message I've seen with this event, is it no spending in general like what a lot of the original fliers for the event said or is it just no spending at big businesses? Either way if your goal is to shut down the economy to show businesses and the government that the people don't want what Trump is doing then you're gonna be much more effective through unions and shutting down workplaces through strikes. If your goal is instead to punish businesses that support Trump that can work depending on the business but needs to be more targeted and there are a lot of companies that even if you try to boycott you'll still end up supporting them indirectly.