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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I feel for them, but there's not much I can do. I voted for parties who don't support zionists and don't support genocide, but they got very few seats. And with the US incessantly sending the zionists arms to continue the slaughter, non-USAmericans can do quite little.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Boycotts. Don't go after the politicians directly, go after their constituents.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's just a list of every US company. It'd be easier to tell me what I dont need to boycot

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

LOL right? Like it's all a monopoly anyways so that scroll through there was hilarious and depressing and pointless.

The answer seems to just get local and hope your land doesn't have freedom juice under it when it starts really running dry.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Dog I can't even safely buy local because i'm surrounded by racists. Place I'd been stopping for years for a quick breakfast decided firing the employee who called incoming customers "sand n***ers" expecting me to join his hate wasn't worth the effort. Fortunately we have a good chunk of minority owned places but no grocery stores unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

steal and vandalize. still not enough, but, you know; something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Many big corporations such as Nestle and Unilever are heavily invested in israel. Smaller and especially local brands are a great alternative.

If it's difficult to boycott certain products on the list you could ignore it and swap other brands you're not specifically attached to. Even a small reduction in income to companies supporting israel makes a huge difference.

Two categories I found most often connected to israel are junk-food and cosmetics/hygiene products.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Oh good, it has a Play Store app. Solid step in the right direction.

Okay, something like this is all I wanted. I didn't know about this app, which means chances are I'm not the only one. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Along with the boycott, you can also contact Representatives and donate to aid organizations (if you live comfortably enough to have that means)

https://www.mobilize.us/nab/ is a good resource to find nearby events or call reps

https://ceasefire-now.com/ is a good resource to email representatives

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

see a 'product of zionist colony' note on a product at the supermarket? throw it out of the fridge/freezer, slash the package, steal it. fuck your local grocery store for being complicit in genocide.

let your congressghouls know that you'll be donating to their most viable opposition if they don't propose serious military action (or at least a blockade) agaisnt zionism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

vandalize zionist products you see in your daily life. or steal them. spit and scream at zionists. write a paper letter to your congressghoul and say you'll donate a thousand dollars to the first candidate who proposes a blockade or revenge for the americans killed, no questions asked, and knock on doors for your biggest opponent if you don't get on that shit quick.

its not enough. I literally cannot propose doing enough here, not that it's practical. but its more than nothing. more than you're doing now.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, after John Oliver's segment on the West Bank, covering Hebron, price tag killings, the settlement shenanigans and the treatment of Palestinians by local Israelis, my soul was crushed.

It turns out my society's criticism of the German Reich and its mass purge / genocide machine is not what it did to human beings but who was included among the Lebensunwertes Leben.

Considering how soon after WWII it became British and Israeli policy to displace less-favored persons with more-favored colonists, Europe and the US seems to have learned nothing at all from the affair.

And you know what they say about those who fail to learn from history.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"The lesson of history is no one learns."

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago