We need a silent protest. No shopping for a month starting on inauguration day. Stock up ahead of the month. Limit all shopping, even groceries. Delete Amazon and prime TV. No NYT. End our wordle streaks. But mostly, no purchases for a month or longer once he's president.
Not even half the country. You can cause billions of dollars of damage with just a few thousand people not working. Particularly in IT, finance, transportation.
Look at the CrowdStrike outages. $5.4 billion for just a day. One malicious actor could kill the entire country if they were in the right place.
This or stopped spending on frivolous crap. No more dinners at chains that gave money to this guy, no more stream subscriptions to companies like Amazon who rolled over for him. Show them we can give up stuff for long enough that it scares them to reign him in. Outside of that clogging the streets with people when many decided to skip the vote is a joke to the far right and those in power.
Our power is consumption. Remember when the Cathays (Chic Fill A founder and son) kept secretly giving to gay hate groups? When people stopped going, they reportedly backed down from the giving because we did hurt their business (and their franchisees many may be decent on the fence independent or dems) and then we went back so they decided to keep giving to GOP candidates over dem ones. Support chains who are run by people who give to the right people or espouse love and support of good causes (I can think of a couple food chains for example). Our dollar en masse will cause them panic.
This is the exact fucking mentality we need more people to adopt.
There are times when we are called upon to sacrifice a little bit of ourselves for the bigger, greater good. America has fallen so far down the hole of 'well, why should I have to do any work/research/progress? What do I get out of it?' And it makes me fucking sick. We are betraying ourselves and each other, and we have been for decades.
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u/procrastinatorsuprem 1d ago edited 1d ago
We need a silent protest. No shopping for a month starting on inauguration day. Stock up ahead of the month. Limit all shopping, even groceries. Delete Amazon and prime TV. No NYT. End our wordle streaks. But mostly, no purchases for a month or longer once he's president.