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>the only correct course of action is to ditch Chrome History shows mere boycotts to always be abysmal failures one after another. The only few examples of ost

>the only correct course of action is to ditch Chrome History shows mere boycotts to always be abysmal failures one after another. The only few examples of ostensible outcomes were critically meaningless and necessitate zero-friction alternatives, like when bud light was encouraged to spend a bit of its marketing budget differently — wow, really showed them!! There's no detour for politics.

worik 1y ago
> History shows mere boycotts to always be abysmal failures one after another The South African apartheid regime was brought down by boycotts. The Israeli genocide regime will suffer the same fate if there is any justice left in the world. Boycotts are very powerful. Users boycotting ads is dismantling the surveillance web.
- bigfatkitten 1y ago
  South Africa didn’t have the U.S. Government and its allies actively propping it up, and punishing anyone who tried to boycott it.
  - linguae 1y ago
    The history is a little more complicated than this…it is true that South Africa was eventually sanctioned by the US for its apartheid policies, and this helped lead to the end of apartheid. However, the US supported South Africa during much of the Cold War period as a bulwark against communism. Some US politicians were willing to look the other way when it came to apartheid before support for South Africa became increasingly politically difficult.
    - AStonesThrow 1y ago
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- zorked 1y ago
  It wasn't just boycotts, however and unfortunately. The South African army was defeated militarily by FAPLA-Cuba. There's a reason why Nelson Mandela's first visit as chief of state was to thank Fidel Castro in person.
- autobodie 1y ago
  Read "merely boycotts"
codeguro 1y ago
>like when bud light was encouraged to spend a bit of its marketing budget differently But that was the whole point. They were marketing to children. They still haven't recovered from that backlash. Anheuser-Busch took a pretty damning financial hit and it sent a message to all the other companies not to pull this kind of stunt because it's bad for business. Changing their behavior was the entire point.
- autobodie 1y ago
  The point is flying over your head. Redirecting some ad dollars is an extremely low bar; not comparable to diverting a company's profit center.

worik 1y ago

> History shows mere boycotts to always be abysmal failures one after another The South African apartheid regime was brought down by boycotts. The Israeli genocide regime will suffer the same fate if there is any justice left in the world. Boycotts are very powerful. Users boycotting ads is dismantling the surveillance web.

bigfatkitten 1y ago
South Africa didn’t have the U.S. Government and its allies actively propping it up, and punishing anyone who tried to boycott it.
- linguae 1y ago
  The history is a little more complicated than this…it is true that South Africa was eventually sanctioned by the US for its apartheid policies, and this helped lead to the end of apartheid. However, the US supported South Africa during much of the Cold War period as a bulwark against communism. Some US politicians were willing to look the other way when it came to apartheid before support for South Africa became increasingly politically difficult.
  - AStonesThrow 1y ago
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zorked 1y ago
It wasn't just boycotts, however and unfortunately. The South African army was defeated militarily by FAPLA-Cuba. There's a reason why Nelson Mandela's first visit as chief of state was to thank Fidel Castro in person.
autobodie 1y ago
Read "merely boycotts"

codeguro 1y ago

>like when bud light was encouraged to spend a bit of its marketing budget differently But that was the whole point. They were marketing to children. They still haven't recovered from that backlash. Anheuser-Busch took a pretty damning financial hit and it sent a message to all the other companies not to pull this kind of stunt because it's bad for business. Changing their behavior was the entire point.

autobodie 1y ago
The point is flying over your head. Redirecting some ad dollars is an extremely low bar; not comparable to diverting a company's profit center.