What Makes a Boycott Actually Successful?

[@laurice8056]

Monopolies have weakened the impact of boycotting.

[@eveywrens]

Agreed.

[@chickensalad3535]

100%

[@valhatan3907]

Sadly, yes. But, what about alternative local products? Kalian nggak punya produk UMKM? 😭

[@chey7691]

Ah you don't know a lot about the USA "free" market then. In theory our economy thrives on smaller competitors and local businesses. BUT that doesn't happen here, small businesses can't compete against the tactics monopolies use. They started to disappear after the Reagan presidency, due to the rollbacks of some regulations against monopoly. Every Republican candidate in our country (and a majority Democrats too) has worked for the 1% and gutted anti-monopoly regulations.​@@valhatan3907

[@lordMartiya]

Boycotting Nestlè right now, among others. Just mentioning them because they control a lot of brands, and getting all of them is surprisingly hard...

[@schlieffenman957]

F*ck Nestle!

[@wylinout2257]

Agreed 💯

[@zachb.6179]

has anyone tried trying to get a store to stop carrying 'em?

[@I.____.....__...__]

🤨 There's no current boycott on Nestlé. The OP is probably just an LTT viewer who misunderstood Linus bringing up Nestlé during the Lan Show as a counter to Luke groaning about Prime in the vending-machine.

[@lordMartiya]

@@I.____.....__...__ Buddy, why do you assume either that you know who got me in the boycott or even that I'm American?

[@misslady0075]

When we stand together, boycotting works.

[@I.____.....__...__]

Too bad people DON'T stand together. Even if you manage to convince a lot of people to boycott something bad, there will still be 90%+ left who don't for any of several reasons.

[@dinkyboss]

So boycotting doesn’t work these days

[@addammadd]

@@dinkybossyour statement is as unpopular as actually boycotting en mass.

[@misslady0075]

@@dinkyboss Have we even tried?

[@ジハ-u5k]

@@dinkyboss depends on where you are, here, lotsa starbucks shut down due to boycott

[@PokhrajRoy.]

The origin of ‘boycott’ blew my mind,

[@kidlitfan]

It always seems like someone is making it up when they say something like "Boycotts were named after Charles Boycott" or "Smart and Final was founded by Jim Smart and H.D. Final," but sometimes it's true.

[@Hallows4]

I particularly like the educational aspect mentioned here. Obviously boycotts draw strength from the numbers of participants, but trying to win people to your side purely by scaring, shaming, or bullying them is not effective in the long run. Making sure you present the situation accurately and give reasons for long-term effort is what will change things in the end.

[@suicideshy451]

Yes that's such a big part of boycotting!! That's why you're always told to talk to the organizers and whenever boycotts are organized there should be a document attached with sources to educate the people following the boycott on why they are even boycotting to begin with and what demands they want

[@cbpd89]

A common refrain I hear now is people refusing to buy from a specific brand for ethical reasons, which is totally fair, while calling it a boycott. To me, a boycott means you won't buy the thing until a specific policy or behavior is changed. But more often than not I hear people say they'll never shop there again. That's your prerogative as a consumer, but that's not a boycott. It's just a preference. If your coming back as a customer is something that will never happen ever again, then you aren't asking the business to change, you're just taking your business elsewhere. Trying to be an ethical consumer is great, but it's just not the same as a boycott.

[@lindareed8265]

The potential for those consumers to actually come back may make their absence more powerful, too. Maybe people should focus on making that part of their message - as well as some positive reinforcement of companies who make changes without the need for a boycott or other pressure. It really shouldn't take that kind of action to get companies to, ya know, not let their workers get hurt, or treat customers equally. But companies are just groups of people coming together to make money. And people looking for money can be really sh***y.

[@sarahwatts7152]

Then the major determinant between a preference and a boycott is the customer belief in whether the company will change, which makes sense. I'll never buy from the clothing brand Pact again, because their fair trade claims seem like greenwashing and I just don't think they have incentives to change

[@freepalestine-dm2zq]

You're right

[@nak3b]

"buycott" :)

[@360shadowmoon]

This is such a good point and I admit to making this mistake in the past. Boycotts are tools of organized resistance, not just refusal to shop somewhere.

[@prettypic444]

My grandparents were part of the Farm Worker’s strike in the 1960s. My mom likes to joke that she went 10 years without eating grapes! Even today, my family doesn’t really buy them because we don’t have the taste for them lol

[@TJtheBee]

This is really important information that should be known by those organizing the boycotts, but unfortunately . . . lots of the organizers *don't* have this background information. It's not as simple as not buying a product or not buying from a company - it's more nuanced than that. And what's worse is how it can become a matter of morality and superiority very quickly, especially on platforms like Twitter, where one can be denounced or shamed for not taking part. Which, again, leads into the second point. If people don't understand what's at stake and what the impact will actually be, what the entire goal is, then of course they're not going to participate. You can't just expect "trust me, I know best" to be your argument for somebody to boycott. They need to have information.

[@Caterfree10]

+

[@NAKd_life]

Moral or superiority dimensions work too, maybe better if the organizers are looking long term. Coors beer faced an official boycott in the 80s, partial success... the bigots lost/gave up control of the company. But the moral boycott continues... still hard to find Coors beer in gay bars in the US in 2024. Bud Lite and Harley Davidson may feel moral/superiority effects on sale turn into general popularity & the loss of brand loyalty without an organized effort around DEI employee policies.

[@1One2Three5Eight13]

It's frankly scary the extent to which people don't understand how boycott's work. A one-month "boycott" is not going to convince the store to do what you want. Especially given that the store knows it's going to end. (It would also do more good if you pick a target that people can afford to boycott. Protesting high grocery prices by going after the most affordable stores - especially when they often have an effective monopoly in a given market - isn't going to work, because too few few people are capable of participating.) It's also important (long-term) that the goals of the boycott not change. Like with any other form of resistance, if the company does what you want, and then you say "actually we'd like even more, we're going to continue the boycott", you've just drastically reduced the likelihood that they'll continue to listen, because they now don't see any point, because they assume you'll just keep moving the goalposts and boycotting no matter what they do.

[@TheBlavkBoy]

On my Blackest Skin…. Thank you PBS for mentioning and involving Claudette in the bus boycott movement. I wept so hard to know her story and for a while couldn’t get behind Rosa. Thank you for mentioning such a pivotal historical black person.

[@apollofell3925]

TL;DW: They work best in concentrated efforts and over short periods of time, and larger companies will feel it less. Additionally, you won't have much control organizing a boycott unless you have practice organizing other types of political movements.

[@bisexualskywalker]

Growing up in the middle east, we learned about boycotts really young. What is frustrating seeing this unfold is how often people don't understand the importance of targeted boycotts, and not treating collective action like an individual thing, it takes time and work and strategy for boycotts to work. Free Gaza! Free Palestine.

[@CaolánTheCryptidCrow]

I’ve been joining the Starbucks boycott, both on purpose and not on purpose. I’d much rather get a good quality $5 mocha or late from a local cafe than whatever Starbucks is selling. I remember hearing that apparently Starbucks no longer really considers itself to be a cafe. They’ve have taken away tables and chairs and replaced them with more goods to sell and a longer line. I like being able to go somewhere to chill and drink coffee, eat food that’s home made, and maybe draw or work on something.

[@Zeyev]

My father was stationed at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery during the boycott. I remember little about it because I was very young but I seem to recall that my mother drove our maid back and forth. And my father took me along one time when we took food to someone affected by the action. Later, when I was in college and we lived back home in California, we stopped buying grapes for a long time to support the farmworkers' actions. I went back to Montgomery several years ago and visited the Rosa Parks Museum. The tall man who had fingerprinted her (a famous picture) came in while I was there. He and the staff were all friends. It was wonderful to see that some people had progressed.

[@VoIcanoman]

I have boycotted McDonald's since November of 2001. Tastes good going down, makes you sick later. Deforestation in the Amazon to raise the beef (and obviously, we need forests to combat climate change). Plus, I'm anti-capitalist in nature, and McDonald's is like the pinnacle of capitalism...so I consciously decided to not patronize their fast food restaurants (which I had visited multiple times a year for the preceding years of my life...I was 20 when I stopped eating at McD's, and I have lots of memories of eating there as a child/pre-teen/adolescent/young adult). It was an easy, cheap meal. But I don't eat there anymore. Coming up on 23 years...here's to another 23!

[@DrewLonmyPillow]

Live frugally and you end up boycotting most things.

[@Stormsong93]

Yep this is me too. Unfortunately there's too many consoomers out there to take our place.

[@DrewLonmyPillow]

Self-control is the greatest power every person has the opportunity to wield.

[@AB-wf8ek]

I buy almost all my clothes and electronics used. I've never owned a car in my life. With the money I saved, I bought my own house. At this point it's paid in full. My living expenses are so low that I'm semi-retired in my 40's.

[@sebastianmallon343]

@@AB-wf8ek hope you get to enjoy it 🙏🏻

[@AB-wf8ek]

@@sebastianmallon343 Thanks, the present is all we have, better enjoy it while we can :)

[@DrSanity7777777]

"Sociologists and political scientists have long viewed boycotts as an important (if not always successful) tool for those who lack the resources or access needed to participate in the formal political process, but this view needs rethinking. Positive first steps for those pursuing change are to be more selective in their targeting and to launch 'buycotts' that support firms that share their values. Though academic research has yet to systematically examine buycotts’ effects, they may be able to help buffer a firm’s reputation and performance. For example, the highest single day of revenue for Chick-fil-A came when its customers rallied to its defense following a highly publicized boycott. As it stands now though, the boycott’s efficacy as a weapon of the disenfranchised is lessening in our increasingly polarized world, further reducing the limited power of those who feel that their voices go unheard." - Timothy Werner

[@markrichards6863]

Boycotts only work if you can organize enough people to participate.

[@caseysmith544]

And said company is not a Monopoly on the market for stuff we need to live like food or a specific clothing item.

[@AssyriacUnitarian]

​@caseysmith544 that's when looting is an option.

[@amethyst034]

@@caseysmith544 nestle

[@carolederent7638]

@@AssyriacUnitarianWhich never works. American voters shifted right on crime like in California propositions

[@kr37rby]

Is their another way. 🔥

[@sarah.s.flanagan]

Amazon, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, Nestlé. And a purely personal one: Taco Bell.

[@sarysa]

I "boycott" fast fashion because I don't want clothes that deteriorate after a few wears. When I'm a wrinkly(...er...) old lady I want to try on something I've had for 50 years. 😹

[@nope2095]

Yo I love these new lil pbs channels. I'm turning my notifications on, why the heck is my algorithm not recommending these until 2 weeks later?? Yasss

[@alexwixom4599]

Watch out for chocolate, some of it is harvested with slave and child labor 😢

[@wylinout2257]

Yeah never mind apple products, Nike, temu, Amazon....all making billions off slave labor communist China. Just watch out for the chocolate 😂😂😂

[@AssyriacUnitarian]

Some? 98% are

[@kamii_kaizen]

My instructor who taught us about chocolate says they're trying to change that which means the price of chocolate is going to increase dramatically (which I have no problem with) but who even knows if that's true- they could easily just raise the prices for their own greedy pockets and continue slave labor

[@AssyriacUnitarian]

@kamilledeas6890 What Youve describe is called Greenwashing. Where corp are using "ethical sounding" broad terms to market themsleves as concious cooperation that cares about such things, Where in reality they don't and the prices did went higher. But we do have this thing call Certified B Corp, which is legitimate Green company

[@AndrewYac]

some? it's almost all chocolate, Nestle, Hershey's, Mars, you name it, almost everyone gets their chocolate from slavery in Ivory Coast

[@AntiAntagonist]

Been boycotting several large game publishers for a few years now due to bad management, shady business practices, and lack of innovation. Feels like a world has opened up by focusing on smaller publishers and indie games.

[@annieboookhall]

Yeah you kind of have to, well, organize for a boycott to work. Just throwing up your hands and say "I'm boycotting" isn't doing anything

[@sarysa]

8:34 - Okay, one cannot possibly compare boycotting an ethnicity with boycotting a nation. People are not their countries of origin. People here want a new way of life, almost always our way. Many are even escaping their country of origin. Countries are not people, they are representations of a relative handful of powerful people with immense power unto themselves. Countries are always fair game. If they don't play nice a boycott is fair.

[@nooodisaster]

Boycotts need to evolve to become like strikes where it's as much about creating negative press as it is lowering sales. Social media is about visibility whereas boycotts are inherently invisible. Instead of liking tweets, stand outside the store with signs and talk to people face to face on why shopping at the store is unethical.

[@custos3249]

They do when people actually boycott rather than remain feckless consumers. See videogame microtransactions vs live services/MMO-ification for example. It's like asking if quarantines or dishwashers work. Yeah, when people do it right.

[@elikeliii]

people on twitter neeeds this video so desperately, theyve washed down the boycott meaning and it doesnt even seem like theyre boycotting

[@vlmellody51]

I remember educating my brother about the plight of the farm workers during the boycott and its aftermath. He was shocked.

[@ferretyluv]

Bettridge’s law. If modern boycotting worked, Anheuser Busch would have fired their marketing department, Chik-Fil-A would be bankrupt, and Nestle would have divested a long time ago.

[@dumdawgpro]

they just stated why they work those boycotts didnt work because they need all 4 pillars to be effective

[@ibme93]

I don't watch Tubi because I don't support Faux News and Rupert Murdoch. I'm staying strong in spite of the fact that 8 Mile is on there.

[@michaelbindner9883]

Actions that breed overreaction by the oppressors is key to revolution.

[@abigailmaturana741]

i boycott but as you mentioned with facebook situation? i never truely know or realize what what belongs to what company and it’s so hard and exhausting to keep up with these mega corporations😢

[@evelynharrison9295]

Thank you for this informative article. Having been actively and continually boycotting many corporations for decades, I needed to know what difference it makes other than bolstering my conscience. In the senior apartment community where I’ve been for 2 1/2 yrs., those whom I know don’t seem to see the importance or effectiveness of boycotting and love their conveniently close by Walmart, Hobby Lobby and other dastardly bad stores.

[@chrisforsyth8323]

Thank you.

[@brooklynnchick]

OK, let’s get one thing straight; the Irish were feeding the UK empire with their agricultural products and labor in mines and mills while their rents, taxes, and expenses went up. At the same time, they were being low balled in ag markets and kicked off their land. THAT’S why they ‘boycotted’.

[@Reynadelcamino]

fantastic episode

[@allencallahan1478]

Superb content. Kudos and many thanks!

[@paxdriver]

Omfg she's amazing at this!!! Killer delivery and sick ink 👌

[@mariogarofano9926]

It's incredible how PBS managed to do an entire episode on Boycotts, stating there's an uptick of this movement at present, while completely avoiding to talk about or show examples of the MASSIVE, GLOBAL BDS movement for Palestine against Israeli occupation (a campaign intrinsically linked to the S. African Boycott movement). In a period where the BDS is once again vilified by western institutions & governments as "anti-s3m1tic", it would be extremely important to highlight how it actually works and debunk the propaganda against it by comparing it to the efforts against the Boycott movement in S. Africa. Ridiculous and what a sadly (purposefully) missed opportunity to discuss this vital part of the decolonialist struggle of the Palestinians. A shame since the video is actually very well structured and informative.

[@CUaffiliate]

She has a great voice and such unique style! I love it!

[@kathebridges4736]

Thank you

[@jmcosmos]

I can't be sure my boycotts actually affect the companies involved, but still I do them as my only hope of registering my beliefs and my protest: Chick-fil-a, Hobby Lobby, Home Depot.

[@chickensalad3535]

Oh no, what did Home Depot do? :(

[@jmcosmos]

@@chickensalad3535 They are apt to give money to the same political causes as the other two. I find Lowe's somewhat less repugnant, so I go to them.

[@dale3404]

@@chickensalad3535The HD owner gave big bucks to trump. I also try to avoid giving my hard-earned money to these three businesses

[@chickensalad3535]

@@dale3404 Damn, that sucks.

[@dale3404]

@@chickensalad3535I agree. You do what you gotta do, though.

[@ADF-fe7fv]

Very good and informative history here!

[@sabretoo]

I've boycotted Chick-fil-a and Hobby Lobby for a long time. I'm boycotting Israeli products too. I also try to avoid anything that supports the Catholic Church, but of course that's much older and bigger than any of these other institutions so boycotting isn't going to actually affect it.

[@caseysmith544]

Chick-fil-A I got screwed one time going in one becuse the Tie-dye shirt I was wearing was in Rainbow stripes of the colors for the LGBTA+ flag in the mid 2010's. This was in Ohio in a super Rest stop area, the one with the famous writer from Ohio his quote his words on the stations for left & right sides of the road window that the Chick-fil-A has been replaced with a Bagel Bros last I was there in 2023. Odd as the place has/had a Popeyes I got food from after the boot out and left so was not surprised the Chick-fil-A left or particular one stopped making money. I also avoid Chipotle due to multiple times the food being recalled and go for Qdoba's despite Qdoba's Buying out Chipotle around 2013--2014 or both deciding on a mutual merger, the Chipotle has kept getting people sick with food and bottled/can beverage recalls where as Qdoba's has only had 1 in this time for buying same cheese as Qdoba's.

[@chickensalad3535]

Man, I haven’t been in a Chick-fil-a or Hobby Lobby in years. I used to go there a lot as a kid so it a terrible shame that their ownership is bigoted. I don’t agree with the BDS movement but at the very least it helps me find brands to supports that share my Zionist values, or even better are Jewish and/or Israeli owned.

[@user-nz7ti9ch9p]

So sorry to inform you, but your use of a computer or cellphone to type your comment means you are not boycotting all Israeli products.

[@octaviatheappalled912]

Vote with your dollars, right? I've taken part in multiple boycott movements, many of which were unsuccessful. I remember doing a big boycott while South Africa still had apartheid. I had a list of the brands of consumer products that I took with me whenever I shopped for stuff. This went of for years. Seems like it worked fairly well.

[@charanth182]

"no taxation without representation" is ironic considering Puerto Rico, Guam, and Washington DC.

[@michaelbindner9883]

International general strike for a 26 hour, 4 day week

[@pickinviolence]

Bruh whaaaat the fck? I follow her on ig..had no idea she had a show😂😂😂

[@aielianna]

I followed her on tik tok but have been taking an extended break. So cool to see her pop up here!

[@adrianshaw9782]

Go Felecia!!! Here from TT!

[@CM-yz3ze]

It depends on what one's goal is when boycotting, and in fact, I guess the bigger goal overall, too. If you can shift at the very least your habits, that isn't fully a failed attempt. Maybe it doesn't strike at the heart of the intended goal, but even just my boycotting has filtered into other people's behavior. When with others, if we have to stop and get / do a thing, I don't tell them that they have to do what I'm doing in most cases, but they generally will, because we have other options and they're trying to include me. Or if they want to perform a kind gesture, knowing what I do/don't like means they're not going to those places / brands to get me something. If they were going to get themselves something at the same time, there's a strong chance that they gonna do that from the place/ brand they went to for me. Then habits form, and they might realize they like this other thing better, or that the thing they felt was beyond them to contribute towards, was actually more accessible than they thought. I get that that's not the main goal of a boycott, but it feels like a worthwhile enough outcome to still go through with it.

[@brandonfraterphoenixbowers]

Social media boycotts seem ineffective now, as numerous accounts are suspended. Companies allege ToS violations without clarification. Though I hope it's not the case, it seems our online legal rights are not as robust as those offline.

[@thesqueedler]

My shutting down my social media accounts didn't affect Meta and Google but it sure made my life better. That's effective enough for me!

[@TheSkystrider]

Tbh I never hear of anyone in Canada collectively boycotting something. It probably needs to be a girlcott for it to work.

[@NAKd_life]

Does contentious consumerism count as participating in a boycott? When facing a choice - say, California v Peruvian asparagus or independent v chain retailers - does "buy local" fit the definition of a boycott? Also, Walmart should not be allowed to continue to exist.

[@caseysmith544]

I think they should but being forced to split up the company into 7 independent parts, Sams choice/all Walmart owned food brands as own company, Walmart only brands that Walmart is the Owner of company like George or Athletec as one company, then the Food/Drink along with supplement Food/Drink portion as one company, then the clothing and rest of store as one company then the TV and other electronics companies Walmart bought out should be another company, then last online needs to be its own company, all 7 as independent companies.

[@NAKd_life]

@@caseysmith544 its vendor practices & employee relations as well as its lobbying are why it should not exist. Not broken into several equally vile businesses. It's very existence proves Americans are entirely selfish creatures. Railroad barons of the 1890s had more compassion than owners & shoppers of Walmart. Once it's gone, Amazon is next. Samsung, Cargill, Nestle, etc... people brought down the British Empire, so this should be simple.

[@lipingrahman6648]

They only mean anything if the population either go along with it or just don’t interfere with it.

[@Just_One_Tree]

(/gen) Felecia is a great host!

[@Red1Revival]

I boycott the meat industry by not eating any, ever

[@chickensalad3535]

Same! Are you Vegan? If so, I am too 🌱 😊

[@entropybentwhistle]

Ethical shopping should just be the automatic choice for consumers, but they have to pay attention and be more committed than half-assed lip service and liking comments about it on social media sites whose owners have no ethics themselves.

[@Alverant]

Another problem is getting the executive class to acknowledge it was their choices that led to a boycott. They're so detached from the struggles of everyday people and so arrogant, they'll blame everyone else but themselves. Then you have to worry about what they'd to to counter the lost profits. If a boycott cost a company a billion dollars, the execs would lay people off or cut corners before even considering cutting their own salaries, then go to the shareholders and brag about what a good job they did this quarter bringing down costs. All and all, boycotting is no longer effective because it ultimately depends on a group of people admitting they were wrong.

[@erinsweet8147]

Thanks for this video, it’s pretty neutral for a PBS production. We homeschool and I preview anything that comes from a left source. I’m 18 months into the Target Boycott. This video goes well with a worksheet in our #tuttletwins curriculum.

[@denelson83]

Viz Media. I have boycotted that company indefinitely.

[@chusedvintage400]

Who do we start with??

[@freepalestine-dm2zq]

Judging by the fact that none of the companies in the thumbnail have had to change in any way... no boycotts do not work. I still don't wanna give my money to these people though.

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

They literally showed examples where it worked. They also mentioned boycotts usually don’t work and they are hard to mount effective boycotts

[@covertTJ]

Omg Fe!!!!

[@Bacopa68]

Best boycott song was "Sun City" by Artists United Against Apartheid. Video is amazing.

[@AuntyKsTarot]

I’d like to point out that the settler americans refusing to pay britian taxes WAS a racist boycott. Their actual issue was that britian signed a treaty not to commit genocide and colonialism west of the Mississippi. But the settlers wanted to settle the west banks and beyond so they settled and colonized. So britian created taxes to cover the military express of protecting settlers breaking the treaty. So they boycotted and fought a war not for independence but for the right to colonize and commit genocide.

[@Just_One_Tree]

Yes! It’s kinda weird they didn’t mention that

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

I don’t blindly believe anything I read online but I’m certainly going to research this. Lots of things painted as positive from the past often have some darker context that’s been ignored if it favors the party that won

[@AuntyKsTarot]

@@Homer-OJ-Simpson 1763 treaty of Paris is where you start.

[@nak3b]

I've been buycotting Trader Joe's for their union policies for over a year, now, I think it's been. Starbucks, too.

[@nanityanpul4891]

Keep boycotting 🇵🇸❤

[@CorianderStevenson]

Why didn’t we directly answer the question that got asked at the beginning of the video? It’s more complicated than the rise of social media.

[@alphacha9713]

Video about Boycotts without mentioning the main one...

[@mariogarofano9926]

utterly outrageous conscious choice to avoid mentioning the most urgent one happening rn

[@alphacha9713]

@@mariogarofano9926 indeed

[@AroundTheBlockAgain]

Pretty sure they'd get demonetized and "deboosted" if they did

[@alphacha9713]

@@AroundTheBlockAgain So what's even the point of making the video then? Tell useless info to make money? If they can't speak on a topic to the full extent, then they should just not speak on it. I'm pretty sure it's more then that, and they consciously don't want to speak on it either, as they're pretty much state media, and propagate the state prop a gand a

[@polyesterbebe]

have you ever taken part of a boycott? let google know now

[@xWood4000]

Civil disobedience would be an interesting video, related to this subject

[@AmadeusK626]

I've been boycotting Mcdonald's for 10 years as of 2024, not that it's done anything.

[@kathebridges4736]

Yes, the grape boycott, Nestle,

[@PeloquinDavid]

Canadian here. I'm doing my due diligence in how we Canadian consumers can boycott all things "made in US" once the Trump Trade War begins.😊 #AmericaFirstAmericaAlone #FUSA

[@duck8dodgers]

I boycotted beef when Opera was being sued for saying that she'd be cautious eating beef while the mad cow disease was in full swing.

[@TinLeadHammer]

No mention of BDS?

[@SarahAndTheWMB]

Exactly, thank you.

[@SarahAndTheWMB]

Exactly, thank you.

[@senetr]

I know that boycotts work, because new local cola brands have emerged in Turkiye, especially since Coke Cola is being boycotted for Gaza.

[@lindareed8265]

Wow! That's wonderful to hear! It's so hard to make a dent in such a big company, especially for such a big and complicated cause. That's probably the education aspect that you guys have going that we lack in countries like the US and UK.

[@chickensalad3535]

I’m glad that Coca Cola has been steadfast in not caving to ridiculous demands.

[@ferretyluv]

You do realize Coca Cola makes more than just soda, right? 😂

[@codyshi4743]

Who’s here after hearing about the massive boycott of brands that support Israel & IDF?

[@romancenturion3507]

Yes. Download "No Thanks" to find out which companies to boycott.

[@RaptrRamblings]

Edited. I want to avoid threats to my livelihood. I want to avoid an argument. I also don’t know anything about politics. And I am one person trying to learn about the history of boycotting. Innocents are suffering. Let them live happily. Please.

[@ferretyluv]

And that’s why it won’t work :)

[@TheSkyheart5]

@@ferretyluv They're just too poorly thought out. They're doing more damage to the local economy than to the corporate HQ, and all as an indirect way to change the policy of a foreign company. How Starbucks closing their stores in Israel is going to put pressure on that country to end the war in Gaza is a large leap.

[@a.bastianwiik5592]

BDS and other Pro-Palestinian boycotts are often the very definition of "how not do boycotts" making every single mistake. They tend to be: 1 way to ambitious, 2. Include way too many global brands with only a small miniscule presence in the conflict. 3. Shy away from boycotting the massive amounts of russian-Israeli wealth as the BDS movement has a lot of fringe russia supporters, despite general consumer population in the west having a very low opinion of russia 4. A hatred towards "untrendy" poorer and middleclass consumers who consume McD, Papa Johns, Burger King and Pepsi, while being silent about exotic traveling influencers who fly on Boeing plane routes or anything that russia and the Saudis have a major stake in. 5. Anti-Semittism, in the form of companies that have Jews in their leader/ownership and little to no involvment in the conflict being targeted: Disney, Starbucks and HP got on the lists because of who ran them, not because their competitor were behaving any better. 6. Not understanding that most agricultural product are heavily subsidised, menaing boycotts actual save the government money, while making the population more hostile to the cause.

[@domloomes2594]

This was a prime opportunity to discuss and also disseminate clear information and strategy to boycott Israel’s apartheid in occupied Palestine. Especially mentioning Starbucks, a core funder of Israel’s genocide regime.

[@CalebHussey]

Not one mention of BDS? Not one?

[@SarahAndTheWMB]

Exactly, shocking.

[@ahmadhajhamdan6681]

I don’t think Americans like to hear about others boycotting them

[@CzolgoszWorkinMan]

consume less in general overproduction of frivolous consumer junk is strangling our ecosystem

[@dejesusrussell]

Avocados and beef, but like, not completely. Does that count?

[@kamii_kaizen]

I have been boycotting Disney, McDonald's, Starbucks, Shein, Temu, etc etc but it seriously feels like what I've been doing has no effect whatsoever when like 5 people from my job get Starbucks daily, I see insanely long lines at McDonalds everyday, and so many people I talk to say they got their outfits from Shein. It just makes me feel like I'm sacrificing so much for so little because what is just me refusing to buy stuff going to do? Their profits are likely already going back up to where they were before Oct 9 and they never los enough money to make a permanent impact. It's like everyone forgot we were boycotting for Gaza... Palestinians are still in immediate danger. The Congolese children are still being used as slaves to mine cobalt. TODAY. RIGHT NOW.

[@VelvetCondoms]

The McDonald's boycott worked. McDonald's terminated the franchise agreement for the franchise owner that was providing food to the IOF.

[@Marta1Buck]

I can't boycott, I'm not their customer in the first place

[@cjwms7279]

OK.

[@oopsy444]

Must be nice to have the last name for the win xp

[@HarrisonKent-g2f]

Talk about the BDS movement against the illegal occupation

[@TinLeadHammer]

Why millions is identified as "MM"? If the first "M" is mega, what is the second "M"?

[@sspfn]

I didn't notice what in the video you're referring to, but M is the Roman numeral for 1000, so perhaps it works out to being "one thousand thousands"

[@coffee6783]

Lidl is selling Avocados from Israel! I'm now boycotting Lidl!

[@SarahAndTheWMB]

Ok thanks it was driving me crazy given the timing of the posting of this video and the subject matter not to see one mention of it nor in the video or the comments. It hurts the level of ignoring, people don’t seem to care about Arab lives.

[@ArchOfWinter]

In this economy, every day is a boycott day when you can't afford to buy things!

[@DRACOFURY]

Boycotts do work... Look at Gucci They kiss the floor that I walk when I go in there and still buy nothin 😭

[@uelld.8371]

Just another excuse from the CEO because of their bad business practices. Skimming product quality/quantity from shrinkflation. It's also an excuse to cut off labour workers and reducing the min wage.

[@kidmohair8151]

the answer is, yes. they do work.

[@ferretyluv]

Not in the modern day and not for big enough companies. Otherwise, Budweiser would have gone out of business and Nestle would be bankrupt.

[@Beryllahawk]

So the big Disney boycott over them being LGBTQ+ inclusive were...basically noise and foul wind. I feel like QUITE a few of the boycotts that I do hear about are mostly people trying to be Karens, rather than legit trying to make workers' lives better or really any other cause.

[@hurricaneb6243]

Genshin players take note

[@azjves]

What about Genshin boycott?

[@Leleanor8]

I have never eaten Chick Fil A, and refuse to do so until they stop contributing to anti-LGBT activist groups and legislators. There are two near me, and they smell amazing, but F those guys.

[@bobsavage3317]

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