You should be every day voting with your wallet to prevent money flowing into the wrong hands. Boycott these ALEC members who non-stop fund the republican war chests:
- FedEx
- UPS
- Motorola
- Anheuser Busch
- American Express
- Bose
- Chevron
- Marlboro
- Sony
- Texaco
- Boeing (fly on Airbus instead, see how to boycott Boeing)
Quit driving. It’s not just the fuel burn that harms the environment. When you buy fuel, you fund the oil companies who fund republicans. Trump’s 4th biggest cash source came from oil giants. There is nothing worse for the environment than republicans.
Find out which companies funded Trump’s war chest directly, and boycott them.
list of most notable Pro-Trump lobbyists (who funded them? We need to follow the money)
Make America Great Again Inc SuperPAC $331,464,578
America PAC (Texas) SuperPAC $130,300,020
Preserve America PAC SuperPAC $106,088,226
Save America Leadership PAC $91,695,410
Right for America SuperPAC $68,457,574
Turnout for America SuperPAC $25,390,000
Duty to America PAC SuperPAC $20,650,000
Make America Great Again PAC Leadership PAC $16,732,669
SAG PAC SuperPAC $16,412,306
Maha Alliance SuperPAC $4,632,637
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund SuperPAC $1,848,824
Defend Us PAC SuperPAC $1,544,688
CatholicVote.org SuperPAC $1,432,742
Committee to Defeat the President Carey $536,739
Concerned Americans for America SuperPAC $478,293
Sticker PAC SuperPAC $450,000
American Resolve PAC (Virginia) SuperPAC $442,684
FOUR MORE YEARS PAC SuperPAC $267,216
Greater Georgia Action SuperPAC $242,441
College Republicans of America SuperPAC $85,409
Billboards 47 Swing States SuperPAC $81,694
Asians Making America Great Again SuperPAC $77,064
Win USA PAC SuperPAC $46,807
Great America PAC Carey $34,822
America First Veterans PAC SuperPAC $30,000
New Gen 47 Carey $20,397
Wilberforce PAC SuperPAC $5,000
People & Politics PAC SuperPAC $1,981
Make America Great Again, Again! SuperPAC $200
America First Action SuperPAC $36
There is likely a long list of banks. Banks love republicans in general. We need to get that list and get people off those banks. People should be using cash anyway since banks finance fossil fuels, private prisons, and republicans. In the very least, if you give a shit and you are not a deadbeat then you will avoid using these banks.
(edit) Home Depot, Disney, …, probably others. That’s a long article not an easy list so work required.
grab your wallet is an election cycle out of date, and sadly it’s in Google docs (so use Tor). But it still has a bit of relevance.
Europeans— You can take these actions too. You couldn’t vote for Kamala but you always have the power to vote with your feet. The first ALEC list is international entities.
US folks— In addition to the ALEC list at the top, the following are also ALEC members which (I believe) are US-only:
- CenturyLink
- Charter Communications
- Farmers/Foremost
- Geico
- LMG (Liberty Mutual/Safeco)
- Nationwide Insurance
- PNC bank
- StateFarm
- TimeWarner
(update) Dug up a list of companies that are said to finance AIPAC, a PAC who targets democrats who go against Israel. It blows a huge amount of money on the right-wing candidate which apparently works every time. It’s so effective there is a verb for it: AIPAC-ed. I have not vetted the list but when I look at it it’s all usual suspects of corps I already boycott.
AIPAC feeders to boycott
Intel Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Google (Alphabet Inc.)
IBM (International Business Machines Corporation)
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
HP Inc. (Hewlett Packard)
Apple Inc.
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Facebook, Inc.
Oracle Corporation
Qualcomm Incorporated
Pfizer Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
General Electric Company
Coca-Cola Company
Procter & Gamble Co.
Verizon Communications Inc.
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Amazon.com, Inc.
Dell Technologies Inc.
General Motors Company
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Citigroup Inc.
American Express Company
Visa Inc.
Mastercard Incorporated
Walmart Inc.
The Walt Disney Company
Netflix Inc.
Adobe Inc.
Electronic Arts Inc.
Airbnb, Inc.
Uber Technologies Inc.
Lyft, Inc.
Tesla, Inc.
Ford Motor Company
The Coca-Cola Company
PepsiCo, Inc.
Nestlé S.A.
Unilever PLC
The Procter & Gamble Company
Johnson & Johnson
Colgate-Palmolive Company
The Hershey Company
Mars, Incorporated
The Coca-Cola Company
PepsiCo, Inc.
Nestlé S.A.
Nope. I give up. I'll vote, if we even have a next election, but at this point I've lost all hope for America. I have no doubt America will allow passing an amendment to allow Trump a third term. If he survives that, a fourth.
It's not just Republican shenanigans and Gerrymandering. We'll see what the popular vote comes out to be; maybe Kamala will have "won" that, but the fact that enough Americans were willing to make this even a close race has destroyed any faith I had left about the country. Either a vast swath of the American people didn't understand Project 2025, or they agreed with it; both options are utterly demoralizing.
Not to say I completely disagree with you, but searches for “did Joe Biden drop out” spiked on Election Day. A lot of people think Trump wrote all the checks for Covid aid out of his personal checking account. A vast swath of the American people simply have no clue what’s going on, what anything is or what’s about to happen.
Are you saying this to demoralize us and erode our confidence in America even more? Because it’s working.
Bingo. But that’s better directed at @sxan@midwest.social. @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat is merely expressing reality of the problem.
Inspiring people to keep feeding republican war chests and to NOT take action is detrimental.
You mentioned FedEx and UPS. That’s basically every package dealer. No e-commerce, no sending items to loved ones, no freight whatsoever.
The whole “vote with your wallet” thing is drivel concocted by those in power to convince us to not overthrow them, peacefully or otherwise. The billionaires have immense wallets and there’s no true competition for the common person to actually exercise any power with their wallet. It’s a fallacy.
I have not used FedEx and UPS for like 15 years now. Boycotting Amazon really helps because it essentially boils down to buying local.
Not true. USPS ships pkgs.
In one very rare circumstance where I bought online in the past 15 yrs, the seller had a field for notes on the order form. I wrote something like “You do not say how you ship this. Please ship it USPS or DHL, or if that is not possible then cancel my order. Thanks.” They shipped it USPS.
Those in power love you for saying this. You could not advocate for them better than this boot-licking drivel.
What keeps boycotts from working is the want for convenience and laziness; you are 100% correct. It is a choice. No one said it is the easy choice.
Right, I’m sure those in power love when people advocate for a violent uprising.
You seem to have no idea what “boycott” means. A boycott is a peaceful action.
Dude, you’re being intentionally dense. I’m saying it’s ineffective and it’s time for violence.
That doesn't improve my mood.
Didn't it "spike" like......05%?
Google says it went from "0" to "100", hovering from 50 to 100 for a lot of election day. I have no idea what that means.
She won't win popular. Left got exhausted by seeing their vote in a red state mean literally nothing.
And now, since the Republicans have seen how effective this is, we'll never see an end to the electoral college. Not that the Democrats were particularly behind it, either, but it benefits Republicans more.
Doesn't matter if they don't want to, if it's popular with their base they'll do it because they're just as known for turning on themselves when someone makes some error or whatever.
Giving up isn’t the right thing to do. The right thing to do is to start a campaign of domestic terrorism to destabilize the US government.
You've finally arrived where I landed 4 years ago, and I've been rolling downhill ever since.
The popular vote does not matter. It has no effect and no consequences. So you can give up on that.
Boycotts have consequences, so no good reason to neglect to boycott. In the very least you can rest knowing that you are not part of the problem.
Folks in my family vote D every opportunity. That’s a periodic drop-in-the-ocean single micro action. Then every single fucking day spanning the next 4 years they will continue to vote for all the republicans in the country (esp. Greg Abbott) by putting gas in their cars and feeding banks. It’s reckless. Then they wonder why republicans take power.
(edit) I have only ever heard anti-boycott folks claim (incorrectly¹) that boycotts do not work. Never has anyone given good cause for wasting your consumer power for nothing in return. It’s obviously a fool’s move to give up power for nothing.
¹ Recent example of boycotts working: McDonalds in Israel gave free meals to soldiers. Consumers outside Israel boycotted McDonalds, even though it was completely different store ownership, which would almost seem silly superficailly. But it worked so well that McDonalds bought all the Israeli shops with their brand just to nix the free meal promo to protect their brand.
That’s not how gerrymandering works. Gerrymandering affects the house and has zero effect on the POTUS election. So you are looking at irrelevant factors while ignoring opportunities to have effect -- and worse in fact, encouraging others to not use their power. Your stance is purely destructive to your own apparent political posture.
The inaction you advocate only supports Project 2025.
I didn't say it'd have any practical consequence. It would, however, maybe keep alive the dying ember in my soul that there's a tiny shed of hope for some future generation.
Do they? I've been boycotting Nestlé for about a decade now, and they seem to be utterly indifferent to the fact.
I... look I get your point, but at the risk of nitpicking, how are they supposed to not put gas in their car? Quit their jobs, or get fired because they won't come in to work? Even if you live in a city, most in the US have barely serviceable public transportation systems, and companies are going hard-core rolling back WFH.
Has it stopped Israel's invasion of Gaza yet? Heck, it's even limited in effectiveness when whole countries join a boycott. Russia's under sanctions, which is just a fancy word for country-level boycotts, and while it may have slowed them down, they still seem to be making steady progress. "Blood diamond" boycotts haven't put Debeers out of business yet.
Boycotting is mostly a feel-good gesture, or, I'll grant, "at least I can feel like I'm not contributing" moral superiority - which certainly has value.
You seem to think I'm anti-boycott, when I actually just think they only rarely move needles.
Gerrymandering affects state legislature, which translates directly into local laws that directly affect things that influence general elections - like voter intimidation laws, registration laws, mail-in voting laws, judicial and law enforcement elections, and countless legislation.
Uh huh. Boycotting's going to reinstate Roe v Wade. You go ahead and message me an "I Told You So" when that happens.
I’ve been doing the same. Glad to hear you are not taking your own advice. I have also voted in elections going back decades, and not a single election has been influenced by my vote alone. Should I stop voting?
You may have misunderstood the goal of the boycott. The goal was to stop a piece of the private sector from supporting the IDF. It worked so well that it forced a corporation to buy ~130 or so stores just to end the boycott. The boycotter’s demands were satisfied.
The Israel boycott led to the German grocer Lidl to struggle to sell Israel-sourced produce (which is often grown on Palestinian land). Lidl was losing money so they resorted to fraud and got caught labeling Israel-sourced produce as coming from a different country. Aldi North had the same problem and they resorted to opacity (removing the source tag when it was Israel). Of course it leads to people boycotting the whole store. Less revenue for Israel means less tax and greater dependency on the US, who is under pressure to keep Israel on a leash. Expecting a war to end due to a boycott is unrealistic. But if you do your part you can be part of the pressure in the right direction.
BDS is regarded as such a threat that the US gov has actually banned boycotting Israel. If the only effect is to “give people good feelings”, why ban it?
lol