• thejml@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    True, but 7 days isn’t enough time for that. I’ve gone weeks between purchasing the kinds of things Amazon delivers, so it’d just be normal. 2+ months is probably better. Especially if those months are Nov & Dec.

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      2 days ago

      Some people can’t even handle a 1-day boycott. I think you’re overestimating the average person’s tolerance for discomfort.

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      1 day ago

      I have spent the 38 years I have accumulated without needing to buy a single thing from that particular company. WTF?

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      2 days ago

      Yeah but it lets people feel like they’ve boycotted. Which isn’t coddling/faux activism so much as it is starter-activism. We don’t want activism to seem hard… even though we know that effective activism pretty much requires meaningful changes to behaviour which often brings discomfort. People are really out of practice and our goal is getting people into the habit

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        1 day ago

        Too late. If not buying unnecessary shit they don’t need from a particular retailer that could be replaced by any other during a previously delimited week seems revolutionary to them… I’m sorry but… They are a huge part of the problem.