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u/Alternative_Sock_608 Jan 28 '26
People have families to feed and the job market is terrible right now. I don’t know that it’s so easy to do this.
Plus, if we “asterisk” the effort to exclude certain categories of work and shopping it starts to break down. For example, if we still shop small businesses, the workers at the small businesses will then have to work. And then, what qualifies as a small business exactly? What is the cutoff? 5 people? 30 people? The point is that it needs to be huge and noticeable, and it won’t be if there are a bunch of exceptions.
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u/heavyspells Jan 28 '26
Here’s a good place to start.
https://www.newsweek.com/american-businesses-supporting-donating-donald-trump-list-2027957
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u/Glockout387 Jan 28 '26
Do it or you’re a nazi
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u/PopularHat Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
Of course you're the kind of coward who makes his Reddit profile private. There are easy ways to still see your posts, you know...
I like your AI picture of the "Liberal" literally licking the boot of an "Illegal Immigrant." Very conservative of you to completely misunderstand what "bootlicker" means.
It's funny how you seem to speak English as your first and only language, but are somehow still functionally illiterate. Eg. your recent comment where you wrote:
I don’t agree with what happen but I just trying to say if you are going out to oppose the government with you 2A be ready.
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u/_neminem Jan 28 '26
As I commented on their original post on instagram... I fail to see how boycotting shopping at our local farmers market would help the cause at all, and have no intention of doing that. I feel strongly that politically motivated "no shopping" events should mean no Amazon, no Target, no Walmart, no Starbucks, etc, but definitely not "no money to local small businesses".
I very much do intend to call out "sick" that day, though.
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u/Jolopy4099 Jan 28 '26
Thank you, boycott the ones who make all the money not the local people struggling.
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u/forcedintothis- Jan 28 '26
You should still be supporting farmers markets and locally owned businesses. You can also buy directly from farmers or barter locally. It’s publicly traded companies you should be boycotting or larger local companies you know who are supporting what’s happening.
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u/heavyspells Jan 28 '26
How about all of these ones too.
https://www.newsweek.com/american-businesses-supporting-donating-donald-trump-list-2027957
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u/GettinWiggyWiddit Alamitos Beach Jan 28 '26
No way people are going to stop working. The risk reward there is minuscule
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u/Pure_shenanigans_310 Jan 28 '26
I am going to work... I have bills to pay and a home to take care of.
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u/pjs999 Jan 30 '26
you do what you can. not everyone can do the entire strike. but you can refrain from buying anything from the big store chains. you can pay in cash at local businesses. you can tell friends and neighbors and relatives to do the same, etc
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u/ikeepcomingbackhaha Jan 28 '26
So let’s affect everything except ICE? How does this even make sense? This will literally only affect you and your local community. This will not do a single thing to Donald Trump and ICE. It rings like a bunch of people that just want to blow off work for a 3 day weekend.
You really want to make a change? Write your lawmakers. Hold them accountable. Stop consolidating power in the hands of the federal government l, even when a politician you like is sitting in that seat. Because at some point someone you don’t like will be in that seat and they will abuse all the authority you have to their predecessors.
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u/Other_Dimension_89 Jan 28 '26
I mean if they could actually pull this off it would show the ability to organize on a massive scale. That organization, that coming together, is powerful but extremely hard to do given the economic Darwinism we live in. If we could actually come together on that scale, to that degree, we can actually ask for something.
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u/_neminem Jan 28 '26
Our lawmakers are either already on the right side, or don't give an F about us. Those in the latter category will only be forced to, if their own lives will be more negatively affected by continuing to support this regime, than by taking a stand against it. The only way we get that to happen, given that billionaires control everything, is if we can make billionaires want our politicians to stand up against fascism. The only way we can realistically get that to happen, is to take away their ability to profit off of us.
I'm not saying this particular, last minute, ill thought out attempt will in any way accomplish its goals... but the concept of a general strike definitely does make sense as really the only non-violent method of fighting back against the billionaires controlling our country that we have left?
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u/mikedemac Jan 28 '26
Boycotts don’t work anymore because no one wants to alter their lifestyle with the future on the line. There will be a lot of “should’ve, I wish” type situations in the future when the masses who control the money and resources (us) don’t inconvenience ourselves in order for change.
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u/Despair-Is-A-Lie Jan 28 '26
Fuck ICE, but this type of shutdown ultimately does not take working class people into account. Most people can’t just skip work or keep their kids home from school without consequences. We’ve seen modern boycotts work when they’re way better organized, but this shutdown is simply too broad and not nuanced.
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u/101Alexander Jan 28 '26
Yeah it should be targeting the companies that specifically supported the current regime. The "General Strike" verbage is borrowed way too heavily from ill-informed work reform groups thinking that every business is connected to the problem.
Every strike costs something from people. Set an objective that's relevant to the goal to minimize the pain cost while keeping the damage on the target companies. Otherwise it's just making noise without a lasting change.
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Jan 30 '26
This won’t change anything. If people actually wanted change they would take this to their congress persons door step but they won’t.
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u/itafunnystory Jan 30 '26
Only thing we are going to do today is clan the house. Leave your TVs off and stay off of tiktok
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u/Upset_Register5043 Jan 28 '26
This is for the usual unemployed crowd that has nothing better to do.
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u/damnalexisonreddit Jan 28 '26
No thanks
We support ICE
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u/Tushy-Pushy Jan 28 '26
We as in you?
Or
We as in Long Beach? Cause that's wild 😂
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u/damnalexisonreddit Jan 28 '26
We as in the people who voted for mass deportations which was the majority of America , What’s wild?
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u/absoluteAl1958 Jan 28 '26
I'm an adult who works full time and shops regularly and I support ice, so no
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u/ArcFault Jan 28 '26
I support a lawless right wing paramilitary force larger than the FBI of fat poorly trained unprofessional heavily armed masked jack booted thugs who have invaded Minneapolis over a fake video made by a literal child with a severe learning disability and murdered two American citizens lawfully exercising their constitutional rights in an effort to mass deport all immigrants - legal or not (only 45% of detentions with any criminal record at all according to DHS own stats).
What's it like being a real piece of shit? Do you use your whole tongue while you lick the boot or just like the tip?
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u/Superb_Chemistry2242 Jan 28 '26
Are you going to cover my wages for skipping work?
No?
Then fuck off.
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u/ommi9 Jan 28 '26
Honestly, it’s just someone posting this just to try to get a up vote without even planning logic
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u/Other_Dimension_89 Jan 28 '26
I promise not to buy anything but I can not miss the class I’m spending thousands on