▲ 224 ▼ What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by Pat12@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world 116 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] shplane@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) You can vote with your wallet by not shopping. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 point 1 year ago No, you can't. You can reduce your consumption, and that's great But you have to eat. You have to wear clothes. You likely have to drive and to pay rent or buy appliances. You have to buy entertainment, because honestly most everything is monitised to crazy levels. You can't opt out. You can be a different kind of shopper. You can be an anomolus data point. But even if you live in a self built lean to and live as a freegan vegan, you've changed nothing if you've done it alone permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shplane@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) You can vote with your wallet by not shopping. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 point 1 year ago No, you can't. You can reduce your consumption, and that's great But you have to eat. You have to wear clothes. You likely have to drive and to pay rent or buy appliances. You have to buy entertainment, because honestly most everything is monitised to crazy levels. You can't opt out. You can be a different kind of shopper. You can be an anomolus data point. But even if you live in a self built lean to and live as a freegan vegan, you've changed nothing if you've done it alone permalink fedilink source parent
[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 point 1 year ago No, you can't. You can reduce your consumption, and that's great But you have to eat. You have to wear clothes. You likely have to drive and to pay rent or buy appliances. You have to buy entertainment, because honestly most everything is monitised to crazy levels. You can't opt out. You can be a different kind of shopper. You can be an anomolus data point. But even if you live in a self built lean to and live as a freegan vegan, you've changed nothing if you've done it alone permalink fedilink source parent