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What brands should we NOT boycott?
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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Repeal of Citizens United and change that.
All Corporations Are Bastards, in a four hundred year unbroken chain going all the way back to the English East India Company and Dutch East India Company, and even before those.
I get that, but anarchy doesn’t manufacture shower tiles and I need to buy some.
I’m not saying we should boycott every corporation. I’m saying it’s a fool’s errand because there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
And we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. A poke with a stick isn’t good but it’s sure as shit better then a pistol whipping.
We're not trying to boycott EVERY corporations. We're voting with our wallets for the lesser evil the same way we vote at the ballots for the lesser evil.
"we're doing something that has never worked before"
If the extent of your participation in politics is choosing between evils, and not trying to actually achieve good, then you're accepting evil as eternal and unchangeable. It is much more important to focus on organizing, and thus working towards good.