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This Is the Age of the Coward (www.theindex.media)

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“The brazen hypocrisy staggers the mind. Disney, which commands a market cap larger than the GDP of many nations, can't find the courage to even wait for court challenges? Meta, which regularly boasts its power to connect billions, suddenly can't muster the strength to defend its own policies and users? These aren't businesses making tough choices – they're paper empires run by moral cowards—simpering, whimpering, and weak.”

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[–] Jarix 63 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (27 children)

Unpopular opinion warning.

The real cowards are the masses who don't stop bitching about these entities and then keep on using them. You are enabling them and you are not just missing the ring, you are gagging on their chode

Want to talk about courage?

Stop buyng Apple.

Stop buying Disney and anything it produces.

You can start with whatever you have now being the last you will ever have.

Burn all your socials and go out until the world around you with the people around you.

Take your power back by sacrificing the convenience they provide you.

Do this in enough numbers and they will cease to exist. And if it takes 25 years to accomplish it, so be it.

Start today

[–] PlantDadManGuy 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's easy and realistic to boycott one shitty company that supports Nazis. It is literally impossible to convince enough people to stop buying from every single company that has kissed king Orange Fantasy tiny little ring. You can't boycott everything, and literally none of them are putting up a fight, because they aren't interested in becoming a corporate martyr.

[–] stickly 3 points 4 days ago

People view boycotting as if enough homework will find them the fabled Free Market Unicorn©️, with sparkling udders they can ethically consume from to their hearts content.

Guess what: your coffee and chocolate are slave labor all the way down. Nestle owns all your water and 6 media conglomerates get your entertainment money no matter where you swipe your credit card.

But do you actually need to make those purchases in the first place? There's nothing other than habit, comfort, and convenience keeping you from cutting most of it out of your life. It makes the ethical calculus so much easier.

Of course, how much austerity you can stomach in your modern life is a personal threshold. But every dollar you don't spend is a dollar less to our corporate overlords. You could even donate it to a worthy cause for double the satisfaction (if you care to do that homework...)

[–] Jarix 1 points 4 days ago

Exactly that's exactly what I'm saying

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