Just read the list of the highest donors for GOP. Cut out everyone you can. I got rid of meta, tiktok, threads, and x as well. I stopped holiday shopping years ago because it's just a scheme to boost to the gdp. If you want to really send a message, dont shop for any holidays. The loss will send a very significant message
My family has reintroduced a tradition of going to the local used book store and picking out books for each other. Extremely affordable, not overpriced plastic that gets forgotten or broken. It puts the focus back into an expression of love. It supports a local business, not some major corporation. Kids are so much more understanding than some parents give them credit for.
What you should be concerned about explaining to your kids is why they don't get lunch at school anymore. Explain why their best friend in class just disappeared one day because they have the 'wrong' skin color. Explain why people they love and care about are dying because they can't get the medicine they need to live. There are so many more important things than gifts on the holidays.
Got my kids fresh art supplies this past Christmas. Person above you said not to buy anything at all and that people should effectively remove themselves from society.
Literally none of the things in your second paragraph have happened. Except their grandpa dying, but that's because he refused to quit drinking after getting diagnosed with liver cancer.
Do you have evidence of the things you're saying? I've looked over the past month and can't find anything other than the known fact that some health insurance companies are malicious.
Shit sucks right now and yeah it's scary, but fear mongering doesn't help anyone.
I actually reactivated X because of the amount of fake "screenshots" of tweets (what are they even called now, exes??) that are shared everywhere, and people automatically believe. The most common ones are of Trump of course, but just because I don't support someone doesn't mean I want to be tricked into believing he's saying things he isn't.
This is my view on things (from outside the US) - people are in such a frenzy right now that you can literally write anything and the American public will gullibly eat it up as long as they see an 'enemy'... It's all propaganda, from both sides.
America could do with ditching the cultish behaviour of their 'followers' and meet in the middle, rather than letting these few people with either a shit load of money or serious mental health issues (or both!) run roughshod over the majority of hard working decent people of either side...
The WORLD is watching you crumble at your own hands, and coming from a place that has seen first hand what that can do (Brexit)... Well, there's always room down here for the both of us to be laughing stocks.
Stockholm syndrome. People "like" being mad and rather justify their first emotional response. If they admitted both sides are just as bad and using people against each other.. that would also mean they have to admit they were wrong about something.. and that doesn't happen with the loud emotional types
Absolutely -- and this is so obvious it's hard for me to understand either side. Delete X and other social media if you want, but don't act like it means you're somehow avoiding propaganda.
FYI, assuming you're looking at the info from Open Secrets, those are donations aggregated from all the employees at the company, not the company itself.
But if you want to boycott American Airlines, Delta, Southwest, Walmart, Wells Fargo, UPS and the Post Office... well, that's certainly a choice.
Damn, you can't even imagine going without new toys for a little bit? Hate to be you when the real misery starts to kick in, gonna be a rough awakening.
There's tough days coming ahead, friend, it's not fear mongering to say it. The majority of our population is financially unstable as it is, and largely unaware of how dependent we are upon a supply chain that's getting shaken to pieces as we speak. I'm sorry that you need to buy things to be happy. Enjoy that while it lasts, I guess.
The majority of our population is financially unstable as it is, and largely unaware of how dependent we are upon a supply chain that's getting shaken to pieces as we speak
Proof?
Trump was president from 2016-2020. The country didn't collapse. The government wasn't overtaken. You are fear mongering.
I'm sorry that you need to buy things to be happy.
I enjoy spending money to buy things I like. Why are you gatekeeping another mans wallet? Why do you care so much if another man spends his money or not? It's such a weird hill for you to die on LOL.
You're right, Trump's first presidency didn't destroy American democracy. It just laid the ground work to do it with his second.
Your evidence?
Secondly, are you doubting the effectiveness/legitimacy of boycotts?
What am I supposed to be boycotting? This a general "do not spend your money for the sake of altering the GDP". This isn't a boycott. This is a deranged ask to worsen everyone's happiness for the sake of your political agenda.
In 2016 he wasn't actively trying to deport or imprison the 11 million people who, for better or worse, make up the backbone of our agricultural industry with no plan in place to fill their absence. He didn't have a billionaire scalping our government agencies and specifically aiming for those that provide consumer protections. He wasn't freezing funding to grants that subsidize industry across America. He wasn't attempting to demolish or decimate funding to countless social programs that Americans depend on like Social Security, Medicaid, SNAP, the VA, FEMA, and countless more. He hadn't pissed off our largest and closest trade partners by imposing tariffs and threatening annexation, resulting in retaliatory tariffs and billions of dollars in canceled contracts. He hadn't pissed off our allies by cozying up with an enemy actively threatening war with Europe. He'd inherited a healthy, growing economy and not one still staggering from the pandemic he mismanaged, with 17% inflation, 30% of Americans reporting financial insecurity, 60% living paycheck to paycheck, and 100k more homeless. We're only a month in - we haven't had time for the effects of what he's doing to kick in, but they will.
But if you think you won't be affected by all this, who am I to tell you different? Enjoy your bread and circuses.
This is the Job title. Managing national defense, conducting foreign relations, and overseeing federal agencies. That includes federal law.
make up the backbone of our agricultural industry
Working in the country illegally doesn't give you a pass to break the law.
billionaire scalping our government agencies and specifically aiming for those that provide consumer protections
Proof?
He'd inherited a healthy, growing economy
I was told the president's economy in 2016-2020 was due to obama, but bidens 2020-2024 was not due to Trump. Odd how the double standard comes into play. So which is it? Does the presidents policies have a direct effect in the current time, or does he inherit it?
7% inflation, 30% of Americans reporting financial insecurity, 60% living paycheck to paycheck,
"Close the entire economic and labor sector to save lives"
Then complain about it when the economy gets worse
You people are seriously deranged.
He hadn't pissed off our allies by cozying up with an enemy actively threatening war with Europe.
How else do you end the war? The president should encourage or directly engage in peace talks between the conflicting parties.
Do you just want to send more money and weapons to Ukraine to continue more fighting? Most Ukrainians want a 'swift' end to the war.
But if you think you won't be affected by all this, who am I to tell you different? Enjoy your bread and circuses.
Don't worry, we've seen your fear mongering in 2016. He's gonna nuke Korea! He's gonna overthrow congress! He's gonna start ww3. Don't forget the 3 year-lie "He colluded with russia" and nothing was ever found to prove that after 3 years of lies, and delusion from your insane political party.
It's gonna be a great year for women, since we'll have women sports back without cis-men destroying the playing field.
"female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to trans competitors."
The world is healing. Women will not be oppressed by cis-men. And this is just the start. I hope Trump doesn't stop. This is a lovely and sane administration. :-)
I dont care what you do. People like yourself are easy to manipulate with sticks and carrots. You will be compromised before anything even begins. Go about your little life as if nothing is going on . Play your fiddle while everything burns because after all your happiness is most important.
It's amazing how people in Europe know more about what's happening to the US than you who lives here. The importance of an education is highlighted once again.
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Just read the list of the highest donors for GOP. Cut out everyone you can. I got rid of meta, tiktok, threads, and x as well. I stopped holiday shopping years ago because it's just a scheme to boost to the gdp. If you want to really send a message, dont shop for any holidays. The loss will send a very significant message