So, it's been clear since 47 came back into office that he's doing everything he can to impose martial law.
Along with hurting brown legal immigrants and US citizens, 47's corrupt administration has been continouily needling at black Americans. From rolling back civil rights with his illegal EOs, to flirting with releasing Derek Chauvin, and trying to give police total immunity.
During the protest in Philadelphia two days ago where Bernie Sanders was. It was a peaceful protest and yet, there were arrests. Those arrested and paraded in the streets were black people, with a black woman being shown in the link.
America, as proven time and again, is a racist and sexist country and while I know many black Americans want to go out there, this is what 47 wants. This is what his administration wants. It is not safe for any black or brown person to be out in the streets.
Instead, we need to keep hitting these people where it hurts and that is their wallets. So many operations backed 47's campaign. We need to strike them where it hurts.
And if you decide to go out regardless, it is up to white protesters to help when they see something blatant like this, which no one in this protest did.
We're all fighting the same regime. We just have to fight it differently now.
Originally Posted By u/Rushofthewildwind At 2025-05-04 02:18:22 AM | Source
You know boycotting works when the wealthiest man on the planet looks suicidal as the world turns against him, Target is reporting declining foot traffic week after week and the CEO is slashing his own pay, Europe is turning away from Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, X, etc.
Of course violence is what the Trump admin wants.
That way they can unleash violence to scare people, throw more people in prison for forced labor and collect their assets, and blame the people for deteriorating conditions.
Boycotting may actually be our most powerful form of protest right now. The in person protest have often been ignored, or under reported by media. But it's much harder for them to ignore the collapse of tesla.
Simply protesting has never gotten anything done- civil disobedience and organized resistance have. A safe, legal protest where only the right streets are shut down and everyone can easily go about their day ignoring it doesn't do anything because people just go about their day ignoring it. In the civil rights era they were shutting down public transit systems with strikes, blocking important roads and bridges, and brazenly defying segregation laws in spite of the potential consequences- indeed, the violent reaction to these peaceful protests was part of the effectiveness. But anyway, the whole point of civil rights era protests were to show power in a nonviolent way and actually disrupt the functioning of society. "We can get hundreds of people to defy the law in broad daylight and your can't stop us even with violence"
I think boycotting and the ... what do you call it.. where you do a bad job but like plausibly? Have long pointless meetings at work, make believable mistakes at work that gum things up. Like low grade sabotage, if you're working for or around the villains.
Civil disobedience & outright sabotage of harmful organizations.