Yes, they are making it harder, but that’s not a good reason not to not try at all - which is what they appear to be suggesting. For some areas sure it’s harder to tell who the owner is and such, but that does not apply everywhere. It’s not super difficult to figure out if you are boycotting Target or not

I think the bigger issues right now is just that lot of people forget how it often takes a while boycotts to work. For instance, people boycotted the Montgomery busses for 381 days before they were desegregated

Yes, boycotts shouldn’t be the only tool we use, but we shouldn’t just give up before trying and never use it all

So never even try to do anything? Absolutely not

Don’t spread defeatism for them

Organized boycotts can work

Let’s make it drop further. There are Tesla Takedown protests in Europe too! It’s growing both within the US and outside of it

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

Harris had the majority in both of the cities I listed. 59% of Dallas county (which includes much more than the city of Dallas) voted for Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas

80% of St Louis city voted for Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Missouri

Nor is it a super majority either state overall. 56% of Texas went for Trump, and 58% of Missouri

There are millions who voted against this. Don’t condemn them all

There have been protests for those too. Media coverage of protests has been severely limited making you think fewer people have been fighting back than they have. Here’s one in Dallas

Here’s another in St. Louis

There have even been people protesting ICE during their raids and doing things like loudly telling people around ICE is there and about their constitutional rights. It’s been effective enough that ICE has been complaining about how they are below targets

The USPS unions organized these protests against the entire USPS being dismantled. Sounds kind of like a thing unions should do. Privitizing it is way worse than just affecting “junk mail”

In various parts of the country USPS is the only place that will deliver mail to people because it’s unprofitable to do so. Zero mail service nearby affects a lot. For instance, need medications delivered, you may lose that option

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Understand that many of these events are as much about the people attending them as they are about the media attention they get

It about building that resistance back up. Many of these places are the kind of deep red where you feel deeply alienated and alone if you’re not MAGA

Going to a large crowd of people who are just as pissed off as you and right in your district is a massive boost to your resolve. You want to fight. Seperated you feel alone and powerless. Together you have strength

For anyone who is a US Citizen living abroad, here is one site some resources for how to vote abroad

https://usvotersabroad.org/

I should also note that with local & statewide elections, the next elections you can vote in may be sooner than you think. You don’t have to wait for the midterms. There have been 61 elections since January across the US in just this year and many more scheduled. They typically get less attention but still have tons of impact

https://ballotpedia.org/Elections_calendar

Call your senators (if dems) and keep the pressure up

Tell them to call for senate minority leadership to be replaced

Calling is just step one of building the pressure but it’s a very easy place to get started

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Call your senators (if dems) and keep the pressure up

Tell them to call for senate minority leadership to be replaced

Calling is just step one of building the pressure but it’s a very easy place to get started

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Yep, the local and state level are good part of how we fight back

It is worth noting that other types of materials are regularly recycled fairly well

For instance, paper and carboard (as long as it’s without food grease) work well

Also worth noting that #1 and #2 plastics are usually recycled. #3 and above are typically not economically viable and thus not recycled. They have higher cost and produce lower quality plastics after recyling

There was a time when China had such high raw demand for plastics that they would recycle large amounts of the higher number plastics from other countries. They no longer do so

These distinctions are typically not expressed to people very well. In any case, recycling is supposed to be the thing that comes after trying to reduce waste and reuse waste. It’s not a magical bullet, but it can help with the things you can’t easily reduce or reuse. Somehow it became the focal point of everything and the other two got lost

Heaven forbid someone try to fight to make things better in a country

Forgot we’re just supposed to all give up apparently

That will surely be the way things get better

Call your senators and tell them to vote no

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

(if dems, also tell them to push for replacing minority senate leadership)

Call your house reps and tell them to vote no

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Make them feel the pressure keep building. Calls are just step one to build that pressure, protests in person, etc.

Keep in mind even in deep red districts that there’s still a lot of people who vote against these representatives

Many of the people there likely did not vote for that

Related evergreen post from AOC

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3lapo7x44ws2k

Glad to hear my posts are going noticed. Indeed, there are lot more than you might think. I’ll repost one of my long comments with details about protests here. Wrote this five days ago so mentally subtract 5 days from all the times

They are being suppressed in media coverage, but there are people protesting. Media coverage paints a false picture that no one in the US is fighting back

Here’s one from today [meaning five days ago] with 1000 people in Boise, Idaho

Here’s a super incomplete timeline with just a handful of the nationwide protests. I’m missing a lot, I’m just showing your the photos I had from recent memory

8 days ago there were national protest for science funding cuts. Here’s the main one in DC

11 days ago there were nationwide protests in all 50 US state capitols + DC + Many cities within those states. This was part of the 50501 movement

Portland, Oregon

Monroe, Wisconsin

San Fransisco, California

Albany, New York

Raleigh, North Carolina

Richmond, Virginia

Austin, Texas

Protests Outside Fox News in New York City

16 days ago there were large protest in the Iowa Statehouse

19 days ago, a protest in Cherry Hill, New Jersy outside Tesla Showroom as part of a nationwide movement protesting Telsas. There have been tons more than just this one and these happen basically every day

21 days ago, large protests in DC for Ukraine aid

And so on. There’s a lot more going on than just this

Nice! There’s a bunch of vegan communities on lemmy to check out too

Both for general info and also things like recipes

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? ~60% of his wealth is estimated to be in Tesla shares

His net worth is definitely affected by Tesla shares declining