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The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder (thelemmy.club)

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[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 82 points 1 week ago

Anti Consumerism is the best way everyone can fight this.

Stop all subscriptions like Netflix, Disney, Hulu, Prime, cable, YouTube, Spotify, iCloud, ….

Stop buying new clothes, stop buying new shoes, stop buying new phones, new computers, new yoga pants, ...

Stop consuming.

Buy the necessities only: groceries, laundry detergent, soap, toothpaste, etc.

Don’t eat out, don’t order delivery.

Stop feeding the oligarchy.

They will break quickly.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 week ago

WTF, I've been doing this for years. I buy a new pc every 10 years, shoes when you can see through them and clothes when mothers start covering their children's eyes as I mow the lawn.

[-] regedit@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

mothers start covering their children's eyes as I mow the lawn

I told you Daisy Dukes and Croc's were a terrible choice for lawn work!

[-] lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

They are the only choice in my household

[-] regedit@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Wall-to-wall of daisy dukes and crocs for as far as the eye can see!

[-] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 17 points 1 week ago

It is yes.

Hopefully this one day shows what a full general shutdown can do.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago

I've been doing all of that for years, what else you got?

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah me too :[ I only break that rule around Xmas. Weed and indie video games are the bulk of my spending outside of mortgage and groceries.

Idk how I can not spend money harder.

[-] zeca@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I guess the next step is growing food for yourself and your neighbors, installing solar panels (its spending money, i know, but it reduces the money continuously flowing up, so its a win if you ask me).

[-] optissima@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

And for those of us that are in rental locations that cannot do this… idk. I've been sitting on this for a while with no good ideas.

[-] zeca@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Me too, i wrote that but i live in a small rented appartment. Im thinking about growing basic stuff like basil, rosemary, lemon balm. Its nowhere close to growing actual food, but its something.

[-] glibg@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Smash some windows in corporate HQs?

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

The only thing on your list that I regularly do is order take-out, from small, local, mom & pop places. I already avoid fast food and chain restaurants. But my local Chinese restaurant isn’t part of the oligarchy, and I walk there to pick up my orders, so I see no reason to avoid them.

[-] ButWhatDoesItAllMean@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

I'm ready

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[-] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 34 points 1 week ago

Yup, it's why Racism is considered systemic in this country. Also they aren't just murdering people in the streets.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/27/us-witnessed-many-ice-related-deaths-in-2026-here-are-their-stories

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

I do think it's important that we check ourselves. Having a lot footage I think also plays a big role, George Floyd being another example.

I don't know of footage of the other ICE deaths, but maybe that's a bias at play.

[-] hobovision@mander.xyz 18 points 1 week ago

There's also the "one death is a tragedy, 100 deaths is a statistic" situation happening.

Another factor is that these murders are breaking through to the folks that see the violence of arrests and raids and the deaths and injury of detainees more as a necessary cost. They can't justify these murders in their world view and they can empathize with them because they know these people did "nothing wrong" and were still killed. Maybe it could be them next?

[-] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

The big difference with the two recent ICE murders is that the video evidence:

Is graphic
Clearly shows no wrongdoing on the part of the victims
Shows sudden and completely unnecessary escalation to murder

And they were both US citizens, so ICE has no jurisdiction. So it doesn't even matter if they were serial murderers—that's a police matter, not immigration. (And, obviously, being white and valued members of their communities matters, too.)

Contrast that with:

The Canadian who died in custody because they were denied access to necessary life-saving medications has plausible deniability.
Many deaths by suicide in custody are "their fault" because they did it.
ICE shootings without video evidence could plausibly be self-defense.
Etc.

Plus, they're (mostly) not American citizens, so ICE could have a legal reason to detain them "with force" for "resisting arrest" (or whatever they want to spin).

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago

For a long time the powers that be have played us against eachother with "them and us" tactics. When its 'them' dying its not a problem, they might have had it coming, its a 'them' thing. When they do it to 'us', recent converts realise one of two things ; [we were all us all along and they played me for a fool] or [they're coming after us too].

Either way, they're now an ally. You can preach at them when this is over, and sort the 1st and 2nd kind apart at a more convenient time. Don't try and shame them for not coming onside sooner, it'll only create problems.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

Curse of the left, exploited by the oligarchy, infighting. Half of members join left groups to kick the other half out.

[-] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Ok well they're activated now bring em in

[-] figjam@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

I guess nevermind then.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I have seen a lot of online chatter that starts with 'but he was a white guy'. Tells you a lot about the average american's view of the world.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, but at the same time, they do care about these 2, so we should use their names. Putting individual faces to the victims is powerful, but if we put 100 faces out there's they all get lost in the crowd and it stops feeling personal.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 26 points 1 week ago

Official site: https://nationalshutdown.org/

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Tryna convince the parents at my wife's school, but they poorer than us. It's a "lock the copy room or parents will take the paper" district which pisses me off. First, I know someone who would gladly donate like ten grand of paper if they just asked. I think they just stingy

[-] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks, friend!

[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

There may also be a government shut down on that day, until Trump gets his way.

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