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
- Chevron
- Marlboro
- Sony
- Texaco
- Boeing (fly on Airbus instead)
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grab your wallet is an election cycle out of date, and sadly it’s in Google docs (so use Tor).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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
American people didn’t understand Project 2025, or they agreed with it; both options are utterly demoralizing.
The inaction you advocate only supports Project 2025.
The popular vote does not matter. It has no effect and no consequences. So you can give up on that.
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.
Boycotts have consequences
Do they? I’ve been boycotting Nestlé for about a decade now, and they seem to be utterly indifferent to the fact.
putting gas in their cars and feeding banks. It’s reckless. Then they wonder why republicans take power.
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.
Recent example of boycotts working: McDonalds in Israel gave free meals to soldiers.
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.
That’s not how gerrymandering works.
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.
The inaction you advocate only supports Project 2025.
Uh huh. Boycotting’s going to reinstate Roe v Wade. You go ahead and message me an “I Told You So” when that happens.
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.
Don’t worry, I’ve seen plenty of lectures from our friends on c/notvoting which made it clear that both candidates were near equally bad. So no real harm done.
If your premise is that both POTUS candidates are equally bad (nonsense¹, but I’ll play along for a second), then your most foolish move is to give one of them the POTUS and also give that same party both branches of Congress.
The thread title should have made it clear that the actions herein are for climate activists who intend to support the democratic party. So what are you doing here? Giving anti-action advice counters the purpose of the thread. If you oppose Kamala then there is no problem here for you to solve. Your feedback could only be useful in a place like Gab.
¹ It’s utter nonsense in the very least because you think a POTUS is just one person, not an entire administration. It’s also an absurdity to claim any two people are equal on the environment when one of them is a climate denier and the other is not. It’s a fundamentally rock stupid claim at its core, particularly when the climate denier demonstrated a neutering of the EPA his first term in office.
And beyond that it’s a failure to understand that a large number of people are inherently in play. Incompetence can only explain the idea that the republican party and democratic party are equals on anything but most particularly environnmental policy.
Not at all. I shouldn’t have expected the sarcasm to cary. Perhaps I’m jealous of the shield of those folks’ pessimism (assuming any of it was said in good faith in the first place).
Edit: I will admit it wasn’t a productive contribution to the conversation. Seeing the title call it a disaster got my temper after mostly seeing so many conversations on this instance about how none of it matters and we’re all monsters for sullying ourselves trying to mitigate the damage with a vote. I might have also mixed you up for the mod of that community.
Put in a US company in this website and it will show you which political parties the company donates too https://www.goodsuniteus.com/
Oh cool, so all we have to do is not participate in society, and sequester ourselves in a cave in the wilderness. EZ!
TBH buying less overall and buying used stuff (or getting secondhand stuff via Buy Nothing groups or similar) where possible should help. I already try to buy as little as possible and to avoid buying new but I do plan to cancel a few subscriptions and a bank account. I’ll see in a few days if figuring out specific companies (beyond the ones I already avoid) to skip for food and such seems worthwhile.