Nope, they’re still full-on MAGATizing out there. If they realize anything yet, it’s only subconsciously and they’ll never admit it, even to themselves.

I agree that the whole DEI issue arose from republicans controlling the narrative, but things have now moved beyond that.

The question now isn’t “these companies have always been evil so why focus on DEI?”, the question is “this is where we are–whose side are you on”? IOW one’s stance on DEI has become a proxy for who you stand with–the oligarchs or the people.

Businesses/oligarchs getting rid of their DEI policies are doing it to prove to trump, and us as well, that they have now fully joined with him to destroy democracy and form the Oligarchy (along with the christian nationalist faction but that’s another topic).

So it’s a symbolic action (among others) they are taking to demonstrate that they are now part of the trump regime and consider themselves to be our rulers. Therefore these boycotts of their businesses is our symbolic action that we do not accept them as our overlords and will oppose them.

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The problem is reaching that 3.5%–that’s a lot more people than it sounds like, but that’s what we’ll need. Fortunately, the more people who show up, the more other people will join in, and the more people see them, the more will turn up. That’s why the media doesn’t want to cover the protests or at least not show footage of the crowds.

Are you willing to show up?

https://www.transcend.org/tms/2019/05/the-3-5-rule-how-a-small-minority-can-change-the-world/

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

There are, of course, many ethical reasons to use nonviolent strategies. But compelling research by Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard University, confirms that civil disobedience is not only the moral choice; it is also the most powerful way of shaping world politics – by a long way.

Looking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. And although the exact dynamics will depend on many factors, she has shown it takes around 3.5% of the population actively participating in the protests to ensure serious political change.

It takes less mental effort for them.

OK honey, go out and start your war or whatever, I’ll check to see if you make the 10 o’clock news.

But stop trying to discourage the people who are actually trying to find practical ways of dealing with our current reality, actually taking steps commensurate with that and building a resistance movement, which includes protesting.

And how does not protesting help us “naive children” “gain ground”? You’re concern trolling to try and discourage us from standing up for ourselves. Go away if you have nothing to contribute to defending democracy.

This is from a couple weeks ago, on why protesting ASAP is important: https://youtu.be/TxD18THltQQ

Gee, you sure seem to be posting a lot of replies trying to discourage us from protesting. 🤔 Hmm, I wonder why that could be?

They’re both basically the same word.

Is this how quickly people forget? Never again buy a Tesla, or Tesla stock, and never stop letting those who do know what you think of them for doing that.

Thank you, Senator Booker!

It’s still very important to take a stand and speak out. Even if that in itself is not enough, it’s still necessary. Putting out this statement doesn’t mean that’s the only thing they’re doing. When fighting for a cause you have to state your principles, call out the problems you see, and motivate others to join you in the cause.

“The nation’s scientific enterprise is being annihilated and the silence of too many of our scientific leaders is only making the ongoing catastrophe worse,” said Dr Robert Steinbrook, health research group director at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group. “The ‘SOS’ signal from 1,900 scientists must be a wake-up call for our leading scientific and medical organizations to show courage and speak out at this critical moment,” he said. “If scientists and scientific and medical organizations will not forcefully speak out in defense of science and public health, who will? There is no alternative.”

Responses in this thread dismissing people for speaking out is worse than doing nothing. If you aren’t going to do something, at least don’t disparage others for doing what they can.

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Cancel the entire dinner.

NATO countries should put out a statement that they are ready to defend Greenland from any incursion.

I don’t want my state to join Canada (it’s a red state far from the border), but I want to immediately move to one of the states that would be joining Canada. So I think the poll results would be even higher if the question was asked in a way to include people who would answer like I did.

Because the DOJ who would charge them is being run by the same criminal mob.

“I’ve been seriously considering moving to Peru if they deport her, nothing is for certain yet, but it is in the back of my mind,” Bradley Bartell said.

Bold assumption that she’d still want you, the guy who betrayed and continues to betray her, especially with that “maybe I’d consider moving to be with her” shit attitude.

“Why is everyone in MAGA going after Waltz when it was @PeteHegseth@SecDef that sent all the classified stuff?” posted former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a longtime conservative critic of the president.

Why not both? Or all for that matter. They were ALL violating the Federal Records Act, a crime.