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A whole 7 days??? Gosh gee willakers!!! You think people can uphold a boycott a whole 7 days???

Look. Boycotts are effective, but you gotta be stubborn. It’s gotta be “boycott from now on” with no end date.

Otherwise, it’ll just look like normal fluctuations in their business.

“Oh, this week was slightly down…ah, but then it stopped. We’re good!”

But if you boycott forever, then their numbers continuously go down. And if you get other people boycotting, those numbers go down faster.

THAT’S how you make an impact.

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null@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
How do you get people who can’t see themselves boycotting indefinitely? You get them used to it by getting them on board to boycott for a fixed length of time. Ideally, as they warm up to the idea, you get them to boycott for longer.

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- thejml@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  True, but 7 days isn’t enough time for that. I’ve gone weeks between purchasing the kinds of things Amazon delivers, so it’d just be normal. 2+ months is probably better. Especially if those months are Nov & Dec.
  
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  - null@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Some people can’t even handle a 1-day boycott. I think you’re overestimating the average person’s tolerance for discomfort.
    
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    SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I don’t even understand what people buy so often. I can easily go a month without buying a new physical item that’s not like, food
    
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  - Knitwear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah but it lets people feel like they’ve boycotted. Which isn’t coddling/faux activism so much as it is starter-activism. We don’t want activism to seem hard… even though we know that effective activism pretty much requires meaningful changes to behaviour which often brings discomfort. People are really out of practice
    
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    crabigno@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Too late. If not buying unnecessary shit they don’t need from a particular retailer that could be replaced by any other during a previously delimited week seems revolutionary to them… I’m sorry but… They are a huge part of the problem.
    
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  - crabigno@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I have spent the 38 years I have accumulated without needing to buy a single thing from that particular company. WTF?
    
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- crabigno@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I have ordered from them line 5 or 6 times, subscribed for a year because I wanted to watch a series by terry Pratchett, and never again interacted with it in the past 8 years or so. You are not boycotting food or water or oxygen.
  
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  - null@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Good job
    
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marv99@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
In 1995 we boycotted Shell for environmental reasons and it worked: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Spar

Towing of the platform to its final position began on 11 June. By this time, the call for a boycott of Shell products was being heeded across much of continental northern Europe, damaging Shell’s profitability as well as brand image. […]

On 20 June, Shell had decided that their position was no longer tenable, and withdrew their plan to sink the Brent Spar […]

So it needed few days more than week of concerted action to bring big business into trouble.

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- villainy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That boycott had a demand attached, to prevent the sinking of the Brent Spar buoy. Effectively “unlimited” boycott until Shell gave into the demand.
  
  This and the last no shop Friday thing seem mostly pointless. I mean fuck Amazon for sure but shouldn’t there be some goal? “Boycott Amazon until X, Y, and Z” not “No buy from Amazon for a week but then we’ll be back so no worries!”
  
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  - witten@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The implicit demand is to stop supporting fascists.
    
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    CHKMRK@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    for a week
    
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    villainy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Implicit demands are for mob bosses and boat owners. If you’re threatening a corporation you need to be clear and direct.
    
    Less
    
    We are boycotting Amazon products until they stop be bad
    
    More
    
    We are boycotting Amazon products until they make another season of The Expanse
    
    Or whatever. Clear, concrete, demands.
    
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- Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Boycott action, and a smidge of arson.
  
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CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Okay, so start boycotting Amazon now and don’t stop.

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rotmulaaginskyrim@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This is how strikes are organized generally. You do limited time events too minimize the hurt on both sides, and bring them both to the table.

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