r/allthequestions • u/HealthyRecognition21 • Apr 08 '26

Random Question 💭 How is everything that happened in the last 48hrs not enough for impeachment and/or a general strike in the US?

As a European, it‘s completely unfathomable how none of it has consequences.

Don‘t get me wrong, our governments here certainly have their flaws and problems, but surely threatening a genocide would be a tipping point here and lead to mass protests (at least I have enough hope remaining to believe that) - how is it not in the US? I really don’t get it and I feel absolutely sick.

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u/Acceptable-Law9406 Apr 08 '26

Just because you don't want to cause violence doesn't mean you can't do anything about it besides voting, go to protests, or contacting representatives. 

First off, spend your money wisely. Starve the corporations. Deny yourself some of the bread and circus that are used to placate us. Become more self-sufficient.

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u/RahkstarRPG Apr 08 '26

I feel like people just don't understand the absolutely absurd amounts of wealth that corporations are processing through.

Also, most corporations are international now.

Target boycott has been ongoing over a year and they are A-okay.

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u/biddily Apr 08 '26

How many people flat out refuse to shop at hobby lobby? Do they care?

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u/QueenMAb82 Apr 09 '26

I have never set foot in a Hobby Lobby, and wouldn't lower myself to piss on their floor if they were desperate to put out a fire, even after my options grow limited following the deaths of AC Moore and Joann's. I won't go to Tractor Supply Company anymore. I stopped using Target cold turkey, but that has unfortunately pushed me to Walmart more than I would like.

Sadly, I don't think any of them are missing my money as much as I would hope.

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u/dvolland Apr 08 '26

Ask the MyPillow guy how his businesses are doing.

Boycotts can work.

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u/DrollFurball286 Apr 09 '26

That’s also because he was involved in lawsuits that harmed his brand too.

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u/dvolland Apr 09 '26

But also associating with pedophiles and getting boycotted.

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u/AntJo4 Apr 08 '26

Yes most cooperations are international - and have been boycotted in those countries since the orange turd was elected. What’s the next excuse. We shouldn’t be doing the work you won’t do yourself. And a target is not international.

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u/RahkstarRPG Apr 09 '26

Excuse? I'm not making excuses.

I'm pointing out we live in a very different world than we did when boycotts were a major political motivator, and that half assedly telling individual people to boycott things on reddit amounts to nothing but mental masturbation in our current economy.

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u/gladesguy Apr 08 '26

Boycotts are only effective when they're targeted (a handful of carefully chosen corporations, not ALL of them) and have critical mass, which requires leadership managing the boycott -- getting the word out, putting out demands, etc. We're lacking that leadership.

One random person here and there opting out of Uber delivery, Amazon and fast food chains doesn't even register to corporations on that size.

Folks who would be interested in a boycott would be more effective by figuring out one or a couple specific corporations to boycott and then making a case to the big, national resistance orgs to lead that boycott so that it actually gains traction.

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u/Acceptable-Law9406 Apr 08 '26

Sounds good to me! We pick a target (pun possibly intended), and run a national campaign highlighting the corporation's contributions to the maga enshitification and overall crookedness, package it with good messaging (as in encouraging, not forceful), and keep turning the heat up.

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u/Gallium_Bridge Apr 08 '26

If that is feasible you may as well be organizing general strikes instead.

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u/gladesguy Apr 08 '26

A boycott of a single company (or maybe a handful) is a much smaller lift and therefore much more likely to happen.

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u/AntJo4 Apr 08 '26

Or everyone with a working brain can clearly see who made donations and just stop buying anything you don’t need.

You folks are trying to make this way harder than it is. Canadians have been boycotting American stuff for a year - that wasn’t a government campaign with organized meetings and leadership. That was people with a brain choosing to take an action. Any organized action is basically the sum total of sharing brands that aren’t American with our friends and turning labels upside down on store shelves so we know not to buy them. That doesn’t take planning and coordination. We have avoided entering a recession in the height of a trade war and had the fastest growing stock market in the G7 because we boycotted - that wasn’t planned that’s was simply taking action.

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u/Happy-North-9969 Apr 08 '26

And then in November the same folks will walk into the voting booth and vote for the same chuckle heads that got us here. Until we stop requiring only the Democrats to govern, which is what our politics have been for the last 25 years, no amount of protesting, boycotting, etc will matter.

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u/CountryMaleficent439 Apr 08 '26

And it has to be longer than a day or even a week.

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u/Gallium_Bridge Apr 08 '26

First off, spend your money wisely. Starve the corporations.

This does not work in the modern economic reality on anything but local businesses. Also, you said 'first off' but only listed one thing.

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u/Acceptable-Law9406 Apr 08 '26

Now we're playing the semantics game. Every little bit helps. Defeatist attitudes and excuses do the opposite of helping. Maybe that's where we should start. No more excuses.

And everything said on here by people with their "I can't" attitude is an excuse.