it’s so fucking funny to see yankees talk about how they’re gonna bring a revolution and change their country and help each other because #community. you guys couldn’t even boycott mcdonalds.
I hate this post but it would take way too long to explain why.
It’s very easy to say Americans are stupid because we are but I think many people online have a completely unrealistic idea of the labor it would take to organize a COUNTRY WIDE CONSUMER BOYCOTT ARE YOU JOKING
folks pass around that garfield propaganda poster but really do think they are better than people who fall under the influence of propaganda.
People genuinely do not understand the amount of planning and effort that has to go into an effective boycott. Which is why people keep “declaring boycotts” that then accomplish nothing and get depressed about it.
The only thing less understood by online activists is strikes. So many people keep talking about a “national strike” as if it’s something you can organize on Facebook in a few weeks.
I wish I could kiss this post. If you actually sat down and read what went into the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama, you’d realize how much effort the state had put into dismantling the networks and communities that made that happen.
The “loneliness epidemic” is not an accident—it is a by-product of the United States government’s deliberate effort to destroy labor unions and ethnic communities of all kinds so that a widespread consumer boycott can never happen ever again.
Also, boycotts are not the only tool in the toolbox, but we’ve seen that already. Colleges across the United States had campus demonstrations that led to the state sending in troops to dismantle them. It’s so easy to say we can’t boycott McDonald’s as if college students weren’t getting their skulls bashed in by agents of the state department. And on top of that many protestors who organized the protests are currently being targeted and fucking kidnapped off the streets.
Like @its-gita-time said, there was so much work in the time since the Montgomery Boycott to make sure something like that never happened again, and Americans broadly speaking don’t know how to organize. Add on the fact that nearly half of the states in the US have ANTI-BDS legislation , meaning if you participate in BDS in say, Texas, you’ll lose your job. And even still, when we try to organize, the State Department responds with overwhelming force and violence. Violence! They hurt college students protesting Israel! They hurt blsck people during the Ferguson uprising and BLM protests.
And people are still putting their bodies on the line. They’re trying to ban wearing masks in New York City, New York! Have a little bit of perspective. Why would the state put all that effort into suppression if we’re all just lazy sacks of shit. If your work doesn’t have compassion and understanding for all the things I mentioned then it’s performative. You’re wrong, stop shitting on Americans for your silly Internet points. Free Mahmoud Khalil, free Palestine.
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