Do exactly what you are doing.
More Americans need to be taking to the streets to protest. They are not showing up and they won't show up until it really starts hurting.
spacequetzal
joined 3 days ago
Woosh.
A simple no-buy for one day boycott led to the way to Prime cancellation.
More than one, actually. I talked to my sister about it and she ended up cancelling hers as well. A couple of our friends did as well.
I used to buy a ton of Amazon stuff. Mostly art supplies, pet supplies, clothes, novelties I didn't need.
One day, I was browsing Reddit and I was like-- "what is this boycott thing all about?" and then I started by not ordering for one whole day!
Then one whole week!
Then one whole month!
Anyway, I ended up cancelling my Prime subscription, deleting my Amazon account completely, and cancelling my Prime Store credit card.
Then at work, for Valentine's Day, we each received a $200 dollar Amazon gift card as an employee appreciation gift.
I spoke up and said that I would prefer to receive cash or nothing at all because my values did not align with Amazon-- which caused many of my coworkers to decline theirs as well.
It was so perplexing to leadership, that they decided that going forward they are just going to give us a $200 cash bonus on our paychecks
So anyways, that's the impact one of these "pointless" boycott posts had on me.
I saw this movie yesterday with a couple of friends and it was a great watch!
One of my friends is a violin player and the other a bassoon player-- we were all in agreement that the music was absolutely delightful.
I am a big fan of "Moon" by Sam Rockwell and I was really excited to see more exploration into the theme of cloning as a gateway to human labor exploitation in space.
Mickey-17 had many elements that reminded me of Snowpiercer, so it was more playful and campy whereas Moon was a lot more melancholic and just sad. I really enjoyed Snowpiercer, so I didn't have a problem with that.
My friends are younger than me, so I was very happy that they were picking up on the movie's themes in a way that was entertaining and relatable to them. They definitely made comments about recognizing Elon Musk with his whole deal about sending people to Mars and how problematic it would be to enforce labor rights far away from Earth.
That in itself is why Mickey-17 has my gratitude, as it is hard enough to explain to them why they have to set strong boundaries at work and protect their own health.