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Anti Consumerism is the best way everyone can fight this.
Stop all subscriptions like Netflix, Disney, Hulu, Prime, cable, YouTube, Spotify, iCloud, ….
Stop buying new clothes, stop buying new shoes, stop buying new phones, new computers, new yoga pants, …
Stop consuming.
Buy the necessities only: groceries, laundry detergent, soap, toothpaste, etc.
Don’t eat out, don’t order delivery.
Stop feeding the oligarchy.
They will break quickly.
I’ve been doing all of that for years, what else you got?
Smash some windows in corporate HQs?
Yeah me too :[ I only break that rule around Xmas. Weed and indie video games are the bulk of my spending outside of mortgage and groceries.
Idk how I can not spend money harder.
I guess the next step is growing food for yourself and your neighbors, installing solar panels (its spending money, i know, but it reduces the money continuously flowing up, so its a win if you ask me).
And for those of us that are in rental locations that cannot do this… idk. I’ve been sitting on this for a while with no good ideas.
Me too, i wrote that but i live in a small rented appartment. Im thinking about growing basic stuff like basil, rosemary, lemon balm. Its nowhere close to growing actual food, but its something.
The only thing on your list that I regularly do is order take-out, from small, local, mom & pop places. I already avoid fast food and chain restaurants. But my local Chinese restaurant isn’t part of the oligarchy, and I walk there to pick up my orders, so I see no reason to avoid them.
WTF, I’ve been doing this for years. I buy a new pc every 10 years, shoes when you can see through them and clothes when mothers start covering their children’s eyes as I mow the lawn.
mothers start covering their children’s eyes as I mow the lawn
I told you Daisy Dukes and Croc’s were a terrible choice for lawn work!
Official site: https://nationalshutdown.org/
Another weekend protest to minimize its own effect
It’s on a Friday. Aren’t weekends Saturday and Sunday?
Not according to my Minnesota food service employer that requires that I work every weekend (Friday-Sunday) or else get fired. Also, a LOT of places here do 4x10s (or at least give you the option) so the weekend is kind of Friday-Sunday
Perfect is the enemy of good.
The United States lacks a lot of organizing structures compared to other countries, as well as lacking the social safety nets. Let this be a stepping stone rather than a point for derision.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
and with half ass efforts you continue your slide into fascism and drag the world down with it
So what are you doing about it then?
Since I am not Murican, I am boycotting anything USA and keeping fascism out of my country
Cool, then keep your half assed opinions to yourself until you can do more too, smoothbrain.
so? you are expecting the rest of the world to solve this mess for you?
Talk about entitled Muricans
No, I’m saying that you’re saying what we are doing isn’t enough,as if you’re doing anything at all.
Talk about entitled ignants.
There may also be a government shut down on that day, until Trump gets his way.
