So, what's the next event to keep attention focused? Election coming up, so lots of opportunities it's the get involved in politics. Some are cynical, don't think that will ever work. If it not, violence is likely, and few are prepared for that. Better to give politics a chance.
Amazon is an incredibly useful service, but bozos has been at the front of tyranny. He's now being charged with criminal contempt of congress, which I don't actually consider criminal, but might be a good enough reason to try for a buyer strike. Hard to find strike opportunities that don't actually make things worse. But a lot of Amazon purchases are discretionary. Easy to cut, still impacts their profits..
A lot of society's problems are indicated by or caused by failing schools. A school strike would be interesting.
I encourage everybody to buy guns. Gun sales gets government attention.
We need to get folks thinking about ways to keep up the pressure. If we back off, return to complacency, we lose.
Matt Taibbi had interesting post today featuring a porn star pointing out censorship by Visa and Mastercard. Truckers were robbed by gofundme and others have been by the card companies. Governments are using financials to lean on Russia. Lots of leverage available in how we use the financial system. Cards are a necessity for some folks who need the loan, but probably most folks it's mostly a convenience because they're afraid to carry cash or need to do business online. Lots of leverage in financials, they work on thin margins counting on lots of transactions. Boycotts don't need to be absolute. We could get folks to reduce card use, not quit, but buy local with cash, don't automatically whip out the card. That would hurt the whole financial industry. Credit card strike!
So, what's the next event to keep attention focused? Election coming up, so lots of opportunities it's the get involved in politics. Some are cynical, don't think that will ever work. If it not, violence is likely, and few are prepared for that. Better to give politics a chance.
Amazon is an incredibly useful service, but bozos has been at the front of tyranny. He's now being charged with criminal contempt of congress, which I don't actually consider criminal, but might be a good enough reason to try for a buyer strike. Hard to find strike opportunities that don't actually make things worse. But a lot of Amazon purchases are discretionary. Easy to cut, still impacts their profits..
A lot of society's problems are indicated by or caused by failing schools. A school strike would be interesting.
I encourage everybody to buy guns. Gun sales gets government attention.
We need to get folks thinking about ways to keep up the pressure. If we back off, return to complacency, we lose.
Matt Taibbi had interesting post today featuring a porn star pointing out censorship by Visa and Mastercard. Truckers were robbed by gofundme and others have been by the card companies. Governments are using financials to lean on Russia. Lots of leverage available in how we use the financial system. Cards are a necessity for some folks who need the loan, but probably most folks it's mostly a convenience because they're afraid to carry cash or need to do business online. Lots of leverage in financials, they work on thin margins counting on lots of transactions. Boycotts don't need to be absolute. We could get folks to reduce card use, not quit, but buy local with cash, don't automatically whip out the card. That would hurt the whole financial industry. Credit card strike!