I disagree boycotts are absolutely effective. Montgomery bus boycott. Even the starbucks boycott going on right now. If you hurt a companys source of income they tend to act pretty quickly.and it doesnt just apply to consumerism it applys to celebrities and politicians through cancelling and or not voting.
I dont know is the problem. For example I'm boycotting Nestle and i have been for years at this point. They're the worst they dont think water is a human right etc. I tell everyone about it it when it comes up. But at the end of the day i dont think its doing anything to Nestle.
I support protesting however you can i guess, but I'm also very pessimistic about odds of success
I think that in large part direct action has become less effective as corporations have learned how to deal with them. And the way they deal with them is by ignoring the problem until people forget about it.
But thats the thing, are strikes even effective anymore? I haven't seen one that succeeded in the way that the ones described in the 30s did.
The revolution won't be televised. Direct action is largely toothless. Iirc somebody lit themselves on fire to protest climate change and it was barely reported on. But somebody puts paint on the Stonehenge or even mildly inconveniences the public and it draws attention via outrage for a while. Literally all a protest is trying to do is draw attention to an issue. And this is one of the only methods I've seen that still works. Srsly why bother with direct action when it won't achieve anything
Yeah unfortunately root access is a requirement
Mine works fine but i might just be lucky. The phone is still based in android. I havent had issues with anything other android devices can do
Check out LineageOs. The point of the phone os is to allow you to keep using your phone for as long as you want. Bit of a pain to initally setup though
Is this alreay cooked??
Imo not everything is for everybody and thats ok.
If marvel movies arent your thing just dont watch them, theres too much good media out there for this to be a problem.
And i think trends are moving away from the marvel style movies anyways. Has there even been one in theatres this year? That studio that made everything everywhere all at once has been putting out great stuff.
Have you tried Arcane? Its a video game adaptation executed extremely well.
Pls dont I like it here
This actually highlights my issue with it. Both this and racism feel the same to me. Even though I aknowledge that they clearly aren't.
End of the day I'm still being judged for something i didn't do and wouldn't ever do. And that sucks.
But seriously fuck my feelings, do what you have to to stay safe
God I hate whataboutism. Because no really what about it? Why are you comfortable taking such blatantly hypocrytical stances arrrrg. It just seems like a way to ignore valid critiques
Thanks for the detailed comments. Is this the kind of thing you talk about at hexbear? I'd call myself a skeptic but I love the topic
Thank you I've gotten so many quality responses to this question and alot to think about.
Thanks for providing such detailed responses. I think my biggest problem with marxist ideologies is that I don't know an example of them working outside of theory. It seems to me like greed is a natural part of human nature and capitalism generally feeds into that nature as terrible as that is. Its not sustainable in the long term, but that also tends to be when revolutions happen to redistribute the wealth
100% agree. I had a much higher opinion of the soviet union before i heard how little it took to be placed in a gulag. It sounded like a toxic environment for voicing concerns at the very least. Although my sources could be biased I suppose.
Generally competition is good for the "consumer" or citizen in this case
I suspect the failure of viable alternatives to capitalism in the 90s resulted in the runaway scenario we see today. That doesn't make the Soviet union good though.
Fair enough I see your point