Boycotting is literally not doing something. It doesn’t really meet the bare minimum of action despite being a step in the right direction. Returning to a neutral position from supporting something materially isn’t applying pressure without political organization to receive it and direct it.
Boycotting is literally not doing something.
And it only took five days worth of it to get Jimmy Kimmel back on the air.
It doesn’t really meet the bare minimum of action despite being a step in the right direction.
See above.
Returning to a neutral position from supporting something materially isn’t applying pressure without political organization to receive it and direct it.
Basically false. See above.
Maybe shop your Boycotting Doesn’t Work bullshit elsewhere?
Compelling stuff. So what are you expecting Kimmel to do? What follows from that?
Compelling stuff. So what are you expecting Kimmel to do?
Your claim was that boycotts are ineffective, which i easily refuted with the Kimmel example.
What follows from that?
Confidence. If getting Jimmy back on the air only took five days of angry protest, what else should we protest?
So much for the futility that you’re trying to peddle.
Yes. I asked what effect getting Kimmel back on air has. I don’t know if you’re familiar with him, but he is actually a talk show host. Not every public figure has political power. You sound like the conservatives who think they saved Bud Light and Cracker Barrel from the scheming woke. It’s embarrassing. I already forgot who Kimmel even was after that incident until you reminded me.
I’m not the one peddling futility, you’re the one claiming we ought to be satisfied with boycotts. I suppose we can wait a few years, double back, and see who was right. Are you game? I can set gloating that I was right as a reminder in OrgMode five years from today.
Boycotts are the acts of choosing deliberately to avoid doing something. So the actions that Canadians have done is travel within Canada more and and travelling to Mexico and overseas more as well.
The US wine boycott has been a boon for Niagara and Okanagan regions. The “Buy Canadian” movement [email protected] has been thriving alongside the “Boycott US” [email protected] one.
Choosing to not so something is actively doing nothing. These stats are completely irrelevant except to minor business owners who run wine plantations or hospitality businesses. It applies zero pressure against the US government.
I respectfully disagree that it has put no pressure on the US government. Part-time Ambassador and full-time clown Pete Hoekstra has been threatening to make travel to the US harder unless we embrace travelling to the US, which is the Trump administration’s impotent abuser method of showing how much they need us. State Governors, Congresspeople and Senators are making trips north to meet our provincial Premiers and ministers to beg for us Canadians to come back. But this isn’t in their control as it’s organic collective action.
These are mediocre political footballs that do not interfere with the true power relationship between the US and its metropole allies. So long as your leadership is more worried about Wall St and mining companies, this is what you will be asked to focus on. If you think what I am talking about is some kind of diversion or technicality, you need to get real. The US doesn’t need Canada for manufacturing or something. It’s like Japan, RoK, the UK, they put up the barest facade of sovereignty while adhering slavishly to US economic policy. That is where the leverage comes from. Not your tourism, not your consumer spending, but the leverage over your own leaders that you refuse to exert. Without that every decision they make will uphold the dollar system and nothing you guys are linking me to can move the needle. That’s the nature of finance, it has exponential political power when allowed to run everything and it crashes and burns. Stop them!
So you know what? You don’t have to boycott stuff.
The rest of us can do as we choose, and us Canadians are going to choose to not spend money on US stuff.That is missing my point, aggressively. You can make more strawman arguments if you wish, but if you’re still hemming and hawing about your consumer spending as activism, not only that but for the sake of Canadian nationalism, you’re a long way from having political priorities. You are satisfied with nothing. Your leadership will take note of your complacency.
Boycotting is more than negative, and less than positive. Boycotting is nothing. Not boycotting is aiding and abetting. Expecting results from nothing is just silly.
Dog what in the fuck are you on about
No posts in a week, take a lap. Better burner next time. No attention points. Blocked.
Oh no don’t block me!
What difference does post frequency make. I assume you post garbage day after day given the quality of your recent moronic posts
I don’t even care if it’s helpful for trade negotiations. It’s great for our economy and it’s good for me.
