It’s easy to sit in our comfy homes and comment on the world but when push comes to shove - do we really have it in us to stop doing something that is convenient?
Whether it’s climate change or the latest scandal, it shouldn’t matter - if what we are doing supports the issue in any form then we should probably stop doing whatever that is … otherwise sadly, we’re just hypocrites. Like the movie - it’s an inconvenient truth.
Amazon is the first one I’m going to stop supporting because buying from Amazon supports Jeff Bezos who supports Trump - so basically we’re just supporting paedophilia and everything else that orange bag of ■■■■ stands for. Bezos is 46 billion dollars wealthier since Trump came into power for the second unfortunate time.
Just see the personal invites of farkwits to Melania’s movie, theres the starting point. Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, AMD CEO Lisa Su. Hard bunch to untangle from.
To be honest if your true to your word just about everything goes and then how far back do you trace the problem/s do you follow a product all the way back through manufacturing or even mining and then decide if you do or don’t like their political views.
It’s a slippery slope from there making your own clothes out llama you raised your self because you discovered the cargo ships that import everything are tied to someone you don’t agree with
I really don’t have the time and energy to research every single product I use and in any case I will always choose the product that I feel best suits my needs or that I consider best quality regardless of where or who produces it.
I’ll boycott products that have failed me or let me down before and ones that have poor remedial action. Another words if a product pizzes me off I’ll boycott them and I’ve boycotted some products or services for 20+ years
You do what you can when you can. It’s not going to be perfect or consistent. And you can’t do it all at once. At least address the obvious. For a start, Musk & Bezos ain’t getting a cent from me.
But man, totally divorcing yourself from the US tech bro fascists is difficult, their products are so insidious (I conduct half my life thru Facebook). Ultimately, we need a corresponding set of ethical alternatives - Qobuz instead of Spotify for example.
and like all true fascist pedo supporting bots you hide all you can about your profile, cos it aint right v left it’s just you wanting to make others suffer aint it
Pretty confident that if any person no matter who they are turns out to have Trumps demonstrable level of active involvement with Epstein, and especially deceit about that involvement, everyone on here will be calling for them to be fired into the sun.
If it turns out Rudd was invited but declined, what would you propose happen as a result?
Re Paul Keating - from what’s available, his most likely involvement is coming a tiny bit close to ending up in the position of Virginia Guiffre’s father, but luckily nothing seems to have happened to get anywhere close to that tragic end. And you’re … looking forward to reading about that, as though that would represent some kind of wrongdoing on his part.
I deleted my Amazon prime account at Christmas time.
I don’t expect to be spending much if anything on a personal note with Amazon. Thats more because I don’t find Amazon that affordable any more and I’d rather support other retailers.
I still use some of their cloud computing offerings through work.
After reading through Bill Gates and Epstein in the news, of the big tech Microsoft is the one I’d want to distance myself from the most. Then Google.
Brin and Gates can both go ■■■■ themselves. Don’t feel like making them any wealthier than they already are.