If this post reaches your dash after Jan 1st- YOU'RE NOT LATE to the party!!!
It's never too late to practice selective consumerism, and when companies try to pull bullshit it's up to us to say we won't stand for it by not continuing to use their product until they roll back the change. If we don't push back that's seen as consent, and more sites will follow in YouTube's (and Spotify's) footsteps.
And if this post reaches you before Jan 1st- GREAT! Please reblog (or even repost this on other socials- no need to credit!) to help get the word out as quick and as far as possible!
And if you have more questions on the hows and why's they're under the cut:
For those unaware, people started boycotting Youtube and Spotify earlier this year because of internet privacy and data safety concerns after they started implementing the ID age verification, as well to push back at this push towards mass surveillance poorly veiled as "we need to protect the kids!"
However, the first attempt made the mistake of giving a three day deadline - which resulted in poor turnout and high drop off.
We won't make that same mistake again. We'll "start" the boycott on Jan 1st, but keep pushing out the word even after it's started because it's never too late to join. (Yes, there have been those of us already boycotting for a minute now- but having looked around it seems like a relatively sparse group with little attention. Only reason we're calling for this "start date" is to hopefully get A LOT more people on the wagon)
No deadline. We're going to keep going until they roll the policy back, checking in at each financial quarter (every 3 months) to see how well they're listening. (Got this idea from the Kelloggs boycott)
I recommend also making your own posts and memes to spread the word. We need to make more noise.
Boycotts work if done effectively. This isn't just about YouTube, or Spotify. This is about precedent. If we don't push back that's seen as consent, and more sites will follow in YouTube/Spotify's footsteps.
Remember that we're boycotting YouTube/Spotify- NOT the creators on those platforms.
Your favorite creator is bound to have another way to support them, and I suggest you find out what that is. (i.e: do they have Patreon/Kofi? Something else? A different platform perhaps?)
This way they're not caught in the crossfire and can't be used as leverage to guilt you into abandoning the boycott. ("Oh a company wouldn't do that-" YES they would!)
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White people always trying to figure out what the horrors are. Don't even be for no reason, just the innate desire to die. "What was that creepy sound, we need to investigate-" no we don't actually- John please- JOHN IF YOU DONT GET BACK IN THIS FUCKING CAR AND LETS GOOOOOOO
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The case has raised questions not only about how the man could have ended up on a plane to El Salvador, but also about why the administratio
Yall. I know there's a LOT of things happening all the time now. But do not stop watching this story.
The Trump administration is saying that they CANT return this man who was wrongly deported because of an "administrative error."
*can't*? Forgive me if this is tettering on conspiracy, but it feels like the only reason they *can't* is if this man is already dead. When was the last time anyone spoke with him? How sure are we that these people are actually ending up in these El Salvador prisons *alive*?
And their reasoning? That he was suspicious that he "wore tattoos" because it meant non-existent affiliations with gangs he had no connection with.
We need to protest, get angry, pull on our congress people's ears (figure of speech, feds!), because we are witnessing crimes and a humanitarian crisis and we cannot afford to let this go unchecked.
I gotta be honest, friends that like dragon age... Y'all been using the name "Trevelyan" and this whole time I thought that was a stand in for a player character because no one's ever had the same first name and I'm always like "how the fuck do they all have such different stories" 😭 I finally looked it up. There's a bunch of em. It's a group of people. I get it now. I'm learning.
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"I have a message for people who say, 'Oh there's no point in calling my Republican representative. He doesn't listen, so it doesn't matter.' For the first few years that I was in office, Republicans flooded my phones. Do you think they really thought they were going to change my mind? No. But they constantly and consistently. Republicans flood the phones far more than people who are not Republicans flood the phones. And it does have an effect, because you really start to understand the strength and the scale of what you are up against. Republicans need to get that message too, because it skews our whole environment to the right when the constant pressure come from one place. Like, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but people who watch Fox News all day and right-wing media all day call their members of Congress, and they tend to call members far more, and far more consistently and regularly than everybody else does. And that really matters because phone calls are one of the biggest ways that members measure, not just it's not just numbers, it's how they measure enthusiasm, it's how they measure how people how much they are mobilizing around a certain issue and the more they see them mobilizing the more careful they will be in terms of not making those people more upset. And they will get pressured into acting, or hedging, what have you. So hop on 5 Calls, even the score, because this needs to be regular."
5 Calls is an app on Android and Apple that allows you to quickly choose a topic and know (based on your zip code) which reps to call. Here's what the screen looks like:
Given how many people are calling, a lot of voicemail boxes are full. You can Google the rep and find other numbers for them though. My senators have multiple offices and I've always been able to find one with space.
Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."
This is enormous. Please spread this news.
FOIA is the Freedom of information Act, which allows citizen oversight of government activity. It means you can request to see government records. This is so ubiquitous that all federal employees take yearly training about it. What this means is that DOGE knows they are committing crimes as they decimate the federal workforce and compromise its systems, and so they are now moving to exempt themselves from all FOIA requirements so no one can see what they are doing.
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"don't know what Jim Crow is" bro and they swear that DEI is what's making people unqualified for jobs 🙄. How the hell do you get a career in essentially investigation and you've never bothered to wonder about fucking Jim Crow. It is literally your job to observe the world around you. And we give these people with these biased worldviews positions of power 😭 they made it to the NEW YORK TIMES and didn't know what was very recent history! It only ended (in name) in the 60s! They're not hiring true journalists, they're hiring propaganda spreaders. I shouldn't be shocked. I'm not shocked. But I am horrified.
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
If some of you actually read the articles on this, yes, a single day won't make a world of change, and they are very clear about that. It's not about a single day, it's about the first day.
Quote, "This blackout is a wake up call, a first step in proving that we have the power to disrupt the system."
"This protest's real power lies in its potential for escalation. If the People's Union follows through with planned longer-term boycotts, we could see significant shifts in how corporations balance profit margins against social responsibility."
"The People's Union USA is not just about one day, it's about creating a long term strategic action. February 28th is the start, but we are building a sustained movement that continues to grow with each video posted." "This isn't a one time protest, it really is the beginning of a shift in how the people can demonstrate their power intelligently to the corporations and government."
"[It'll] likely have a minimal direct impact. But what many overlook is the power of the idea. The playbook for this already exists—Montgomery, 1955, the Bus Boycott. If this gains traction, it could turn into something much bigger, especially if people extend it beyond just one day."
Here's a list of MORE, UPCOMING, PLANNED BOYCOTTS.
Once again John Oliver proves that you can do anything with money and lawyers
Oliver then proceeded to detail how with $50 and knowledge of the law he was able to successfully apply online to create a debt buying company named “Central Asset Recovery Professionals,” or as Oliver put it, “CARP” named after “a bottom-feeding fish.”
After setting up a rudimentary website for CARP, the satirical, but still real company was offered a $15 million package of medical debt for $60,000.
Oliver explained that the debt was out of statute, which means it is the kind of debt that a collector can only continue to collect, but not sue the debtor for.
Then, instead of chasing down the 9,000 debtors in the debt package as a normal collection agency would, Oliver decided to stage the largest one-time giveaway in television history and work with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to forgive the $15 million with no consequences for the debtors.
You dont have to be rich to do a bit of this actually
RIP Medical Debt is a charity (and therefore takes donations). They buy the rights to medical debt and then forgive them. So far they’ve forgiven over 1B in medical debt.
So a little ray of hope for someone out there today.
thinking about this horrific story alongside that of Kelaia Turner, a 12 black child who attempted suicide at 12 yrs old after being relentlessly tormented by her racist classmates and teachers. after surviving the attempt, she was stalked and harassed by her bullies who took pictures of her whilst she was in a coma at the hospital, and now that she is conscious she is completely immobile, unable to speak, and requires constant care. white people are raising demon children and the world should burn several times over for these two little girls.
"we were/they're just kids going through a racist phase" yeah naw... Naw... If our kids can suffer through racism, yours can learn what it means to be and not be racist. This is heartbreaking.
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