this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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Resist: It's Time

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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."

The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.

The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.

It's time.

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[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Honestly this is kind of a great plan. General strike is hard for people to swallow. But a general boycott??? Super easy. People can go to work, do whatever but buy 0 consumer goods. Extremely basic food, maybe even from local farmers. And completely ignore the mega corps. A motived effort could last for months and halt the economy

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I buy my groceries every two weeks when I get paid. I don't get paid that week. I won't be buying anything anyways. And even if I did participate, I'd just buy stuff the next day and it would balance out. I'm not sure how this actually does anything. In the grand scheme of averages, this seems like barely a blip tbh.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You're exactly right. A one day boycott doesn't work. For it to work your need to have a day when you don't consume anything. But even then, that isn't feasible.

Cancel your subscriptions, and don't start them up again.

Divest your 401k from US money markets.

Get involved in your local government and start focusing on ways that your community can provide local services.

If you know where a morally corrupt CEO is going to be staying, let your local Luigi know.

These aren't easy things, but they can be effective.

[–] pet1t@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

"Your local Luigi", I love this expression!

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