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 agoHow 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.
thejml@lemm.ee 2 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.
null@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Some people can’t even handle a 1-day boycott. I think you’re overestimating the average person’s tolerance for discomfort.
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
SeeFerns@programming.dev 2 days ago
I really don’t get it either, how much shit do people need!?
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
crabigno@lemmy.zip 1 day 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.
crabigno@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I have spent the 38 years I have accumulated without needing to buy a single thing from that particular company. WTF?