I mean, so did Target. But you can’t expect these companies to resist when we’re barely in the streets. From their perspective the average person doesn’t care and the government is going to fuck them with a jackfruit. So they’re going to sign with the government until we show that we give a fuck, and boycotting products is barely going to move the needle.
What do you mean by take to the streets, because if it’s just more non violent signs-and-chants protests you might as well just accept this new reality because that sure as hell isn’t going to stop this.
My imagination works just fine. As does my memory of every single mass political movement in my lifetime being cowed, suppressed, and ultimately co-opted into a completely toothless mockery of itself.
I mean, so did Target. But you can’t expect these companies to resist when we’re barely in the streets. From their perspective the average person doesn’t care and the government is going to fuck them with a jackfruit. So they’re going to sign with the government until we show that we give a fuck, and boycotting products is barely going to move the needle.
What do you mean by take to the streets, because if it’s just more non violent signs-and-chants protests you might as well just accept this new reality because that sure as hell isn’t going to stop this.
I think you need to use your imagination a little more
My imagination works just fine. As does my memory of every single mass political movement in my lifetime being cowed, suppressed, and ultimately co-opted into a completely toothless mockery of itself.
ah yes and the solution to that is of course to give up
i don’t know how you’ve misread what i’ve said so completely as to think that was the point I was trying to get across.
You have an amazing memory.