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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Alright, let’s do it then?

    Blackout Friday

    • Every Friday until he’s gone and damage is reversed

    • We don’t transact at all each Friday.

    • We directly call the businesses we would have shopped at that day to tell them the dollar amount we’d be spending with them if democracy wasn’t under attack.

    • And/or email their corporate with the same message.

    Maybe they can dismiss a total boycott that as a hollow, reactionary promise that will pass, but saying “I will shop with you much less” feels much more real and they can see it being enough to reverse their endless growth line. They care about one thing.

    Who wants to post and get this started?


  • SO MUCH commerce surrounds a day at school. You disrupt that along with everything else.

    If Mom doesn’t have to go to work, she doesn’t have to stop for that Starbucks on the way in and fill the gas tank. She doesn’t have to pay to park or feed the meter. If she’s not taking the kid to school, she doesn’t have to drop them off early at early day care and doesn’t have to give them lunch money to spend. If you’re not at work, you wouldn’t eat that shitty Subway at lunch and wouldn’t have to go to that gathering at TGI Fridays after work. Little things that add up. Point is to show them that there is a light switch. You turn it off for a day to tell them you could turn it off longer if needed .


  • The nazis weren’t as competent and intelligent as you suggest, that work was outsourced to IBM - Yes, that IBM.

    You know that Watson product that IBM sells and advertises so often? R one that plays chess and was on jeopardy (Fun!) Turns out that Watson was the name of the dude that signed off on them accelerating the Holocaust for the nazis. Some believe the nazis couldn’t have been nearly as efficient at unrepentant large scale murder without IBM joining the fray, yet they skate on by…




  • You’re not, OP…

    also, feels pretty obvious you haven’t been involved in bidding jobs before - these initial numbers set expectations. If “dad” valued the kid’s talent and time, he would have said, “they’ll give you a number” and/or the message to kid would not have been closed, it would have been open. So instead of, “you’ll do this, thanks bye” it would be a question to kid prior saying, “I know a lot goes into your work, is $500 a good ballpark to give my friend for something like this?”

    It’s about expectations and entitlement - you’re essentially my property, so I decided it would be this is indicative of a problem with “dad’s” approach.







  • Maybe nobody will notice how you just leap frogged clear over me making a similar point on my original comment?

    Maybe they also won’t comment on how you ignored that the dem is typically walking into an active fire set by gop mismanagement and general enshittification of society that happens every time they leave office? Then the democrat spends a bunch of energy and political capital on their first term working to scrape the molten shit mixed with broken glass and rat poison off of the walls of the country.

    There is definitely a real, bipartisan hatred of the poor by the old guard but again, triage… You start with the person hurling those bricks overhand and you don’t say, “Yeah okay, but those people over there stole a couple candy bars, so are we just going to ignore that?!?!?”