The company destroying YOUR White House without YOUR permission is Aceco LLC. Vote with your dollars people: let’s make sure this company never gets any business ever again and goes under.
The company destroying YOUR White House without YOUR permission is Aceco LLC. Vote with your dollars people: let’s make sure this company never gets any business ever again and goes under.
Are you asking if we should boycott every company doing business with (or bending the knee to) the fascists in D.C.? Then yes, we absolutely should. Target, T-Mobile, Palantir, Apple, Amazon. Fuck them all for selling out the American people.
The ones that we viably can, sure. That might change depending on the person, and their needs.
Totally. But I’d submit to you that these aren’t normal times where we can just go about our business ignoring politics and using whatever products/services happen to be convenient. Unless each of us individually fights back against the fascists by doing our darnedest to avoid products and services that fund fascist collaborators, we are complicit. Put another way: It is in our power to bring down this regime, and one of the biggest levers we have for doing that is changing our buying habits.
I doubt we could find many sites that don’t have some ties/business with the U.S. government. I assume most of Lemmy has ties to AWS or Cloudflare who both support government sites. Lemmy.world uses Cloudflare.
My point was trying to get some random llc shutdown doesn’t do anything. All that will happen is people looking down at others while really supporting much larger bigger-issue companies.
It’s not about purity testing; it’s about harm reduction. I’ll give you an example. T-Mobile is directly collaborating with both Trump (via Trump Mobile, which runs on T-Mobile’s network) and Elon Musk (via a T-Mobile/Starlink partnership). That’s pretty fucking bad from a fascist collaboration perspective. Are Verizon and AT&T any better? A little. They still donated to Trump’s inauguration, but at least they’re not running mobile networks for him. (EDIT: Or paying for his fucking ballroom.) So would I encourage everyone to switch from T-Mobile to AT&T or Verizon, even if that’s not a perfect solution? Absolutely.
I just think it’s a really specious argument that “everything we buy is connected to the U.S. government and therefore no purchase is better or worse than any other purchase.” That just doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
As for putting pressure on the construction company tearing down the east wing of the white house… I dunno, that seems like fair game to me. We can leave negative reviews for them while also cancelling Amazon Prime.
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