You should be every day voting with your wallet to prevent money flowing into the wrong hands. Boycott these ALEC members who non-stop fund the republican war chests:

  • FedEx
  • UPS
  • Motorola
  • Anheuser Busch
  • American Express
  • Chevron
  • Marlboro
  • Sony
  • Texaco
  • Boeing (fly on Airbus instead, see how to boycott Boeing)

Quit driving. It’s not just the fuel burn that harms the environment. When you buy fuel, you fund the oil companies who fund republicans. Trump’s 4th biggest cash source came from oil giants. There is nothing worse for the environment than republicans.

Find out which companies funded Trump’s war chest directly, and boycott them.

list of most notable Pro-Trump lobbyists (who funded them? We need to follow the money)

Make America Great Again Inc SuperPAC $331,464,578
America PAC (Texas) SuperPAC $130,300,020
Preserve America PAC SuperPAC $106,088,226
Save America Leadership PAC $91,695,410
Right for America SuperPAC $68,457,574
Turnout for America SuperPAC $25,390,000
Duty to America PAC SuperPAC $20,650,000
Make America Great Again PAC Leadership PAC $16,732,669
SAG PAC SuperPAC $16,412,306
Maha Alliance SuperPAC $4,632,637
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund SuperPAC $1,848,824
Defend Us PAC SuperPAC $1,544,688
CatholicVote.org SuperPAC $1,432,742
Committee to Defeat the President Carey $536,739
Concerned Americans for America SuperPAC $478,293
Sticker PAC SuperPAC $450,000
American Resolve PAC (Virginia) SuperPAC $442,684
FOUR MORE YEARS PAC SuperPAC $267,216
Greater Georgia Action SuperPAC $242,441
College Republicans of America SuperPAC $85,409
Billboards 47 Swing States SuperPAC $81,694
Asians Making America Great Again SuperPAC $77,064
Win USA PAC SuperPAC $46,807
Great America PAC Carey $34,822
America First Veterans PAC SuperPAC $30,000
New Gen 47 Carey $20,397
Wilberforce PAC SuperPAC $5,000
People & Politics PAC SuperPAC $1,981
Make America Great Again, Again! SuperPAC $200
America First Action SuperPAC $36

There is likely a long list of banks. Banks love republicans in general. We need to get that list and get people off those banks. People should be using cash anyway since banks finance fossil fuels, private prisons, and republicans. In the very least, if you give a shit and you are not a deadbeat then you will avoid using these banks.

(edit) Home Depot, Disney, …, probably others. That’s a long article not an easy list so work required.

grab your wallet is an election cycle out of date, and sadly it’s in Google docs (so use Tor). But it still has a bit of relevance.

Europeans— You can take these actions too. You couldn’t vote for Kamala but you always have the power to vote with your feet.

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    I think boycotts are only really effective when they’re organized and focused, but I’m down to avoid Boeing out of safety concerns if nothing else. Any tips on how to do that tho? E.g. any tools to filter flight results based on plane manufacturer?

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      Thanks for asking. I actually covered it in this post. I will add that to the OP.

      Note that Google killed off the ITA Software front end so I’m looking for a replacement. Some airfare aggregators use ITA as a backend and the ITA query language sometimes works in those cases. Hipmunk worked that way at one point but they have been killed off too.

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    Oof. This liberal individualist thinking is fairly ineffective.

    Organize your workplace, raise class consciousness, support your community, and educate everyone.

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      Organize your workplace, raise class consciousness, support your community, and educate everyone.

      None of that is an obsticle to boycotts, so you can do them in parallel.

      It’s unclear what you mean by organizing your workplace. Politics at work can have dicey consequences. But if you are careful enough, you can amplify a boycott at a workplace without the workforce even knowing, as I did here.

      An employer subcontracted HP for all the office PCs, which sat next to linux workstations. HP got a monthly payment per PC for loaning the hardware and servicing it. I configured emacs and other linux apps to make the HP PC redundant. Then I called HP and said come remove my PC, I don’t need it. My boss had no idea that was a political action… thinks I did that to save the company money or to get more desk space or something. I was happy to keep it that way. If he knew it was politically motivated it could have backfired. So the opportunities to do politics at work are sparse but I still look for them.

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      [placeholder for meme of anti-cave dude invoking a meme of a guy popping out of a well talking about participation in society in response to hearing he might want to consider switching beer suppliers]

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      TBH buying less overall and buying used stuff (or getting secondhand stuff via Buy Nothing groups or similar) where possible should help. I already try to buy as little as possible and to avoid buying new but I do plan to cancel a few subscriptions and a bank account. I’ll see in a few days if figuring out specific companies (beyond the ones I already avoid) to skip for food and such seems worthwhile.

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    Nope. I give up. I’ll vote, if we even have a next election, but at this point I’ve lost all hope for America. I have no doubt America will allow passing an amendment to allow Trump a third term. If he survives that, a fourth.

    It’s not just Republican shenanigans and Gerrymandering. We’ll see what the popular vote comes out to be; maybe Kamala will have “won” that, but the fact that enough Americans were willing to make this even a close race has destroyed any faith I had left about the country. Either a vast swath of the American people didn’t understand Project 2025, or they agreed with it; both options are utterly demoralizing.

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      She won’t win popular. Left got exhausted by seeing their vote in a red state mean literally nothing.

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          Doesn’t matter if they don’t want to, if it’s popular with their base they’ll do it because they’re just as known for turning on themselves when someone makes some error or whatever.

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      Not to say I completely disagree with you, but searches for “did Joe Biden drop out” spiked on Election Day. A lot of people think Trump wrote all the checks for Covid aid out of his personal checking account. A vast swath of the American people simply have no clue what’s going on, what anything is or what’s about to happen.

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            You mentioned FedEx and UPS. That’s basically every package dealer. No e-commerce, no sending items to loved ones, no freight whatsoever.

            The whole “vote with your wallet” thing is drivel concocted by those in power to convince us to not overthrow them, peacefully or otherwise. The billionaires have immense wallets and there’s no true competition for the common person to actually exercise any power with their wallet. It’s a fallacy.

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              You mentioned FedEx and UPS. That’s basically every package dealer.

              I have not used FedEx and UPS for like 15 years now. Boycotting Amazon really helps because it essentially boils down to buying local.

              No e-commerce, no sending items to loved ones, no freight whatsoever.

              Not true. USPS ships pkgs.

              In one very rare circumstance where I bought online in the past 15 yrs, the seller had a field for notes on the order form. I wrote something like “You do not say how you ship this. Please ship it USPS or DHL, or if that is not possible then cancel my order. Thanks.” They shipped it USPS.

              The whole “vote with your wallet” thing is drivel concocted by those in power

              Those in power love you for saying this. You could not advocate for them better than this boot-licking drivel.

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                What keeps boycotts from working is the want for convenience and laziness; you are 100% correct. It is a choice. No one said it is the easy choice.

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                  Right, I’m sure those in power love when people advocate for a violent uprising.

                  You seem to have no idea what “boycott” means. A boycott is a peaceful action.

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          Google says it went from “0” to “100”, hovering from 50 to 100 for a lot of election day. I have no idea what that means.

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      The popular vote does not matter. It has no effect and no consequences. So you can give up on that.

      Boycotts have consequences, so no good reason to neglect to boycott. In the very least you can rest knowing that you are not part of the problem.

      Folks in my family vote D every opportunity. That’s a periodic drop-in-the-ocean single micro action. Then every single fucking day spanning the next 4 years they will continue to vote for all the republicans in the country (esp. Greg Abbott) by putting gas in their cars and feeding banks. It’s reckless. Then they wonder why republicans take power.

      (edit) I have only ever heard anti-boycott folks claim (incorrectly¹) that boycotts do not work. Never has anyone given good cause for wasting your consumer power for nothing in return. It’s obviously a fool’s move to give up power for nothing.

      ¹ Recent example of boycotts working: McDonalds in Israel gave free meals to soldiers. Consumers outside Israel boycotted McDonalds, even though it was completely different store ownership, which would almost seem silly superficailly. But it worked so well that McDonalds bought all the Israeli shops with their brand just to nix the free meal promo to protect their brand.

      It’s not just Republican shenanigans and Gerrymandering. We’ll see what the popular vote comes out to be; maybe Kamala will have “won” that,

      That’s not how gerrymandering works. Gerrymandering affects the house and has zero effect on the POTUS election. So you are looking at irrelevant factors while ignoring opportunities to have effect – and worse in fact, encouraging others to not use their power. Your stance is purely destructive to your own apparent political posture.

      American people didn’t understand Project 2025, or they agreed with it; both options are utterly demoralizing.

      The inaction you advocate only supports Project 2025.

      • The popular vote does not matter. It has no effect and no consequences. So you can give up on that.

        I didn’t say it’d have any practical consequence. It would, however, maybe keep alive the dying ember in my soul that there’s a tiny shed of hope for some future generation.

        Boycotts have consequences

        Do they? I’ve been boycotting Nestlé for about a decade now, and they seem to be utterly indifferent to the fact.

        putting gas in their cars and feeding banks. It’s reckless. Then they wonder why republicans take power.

        I… look I get your point, but at the risk of nitpicking, how are they supposed to not put gas in their car? Quit their jobs, or get fired because they won’t come in to work? Even if you live in a city, most in the US have barely serviceable public transportation systems, and companies are going hard-core rolling back WFH.

        Recent example of boycotts working: McDonalds in Israel gave free meals to soldiers.

        Has it stopped Israel’s invasion of Gaza yet? Heck, it’s even limited in effectiveness when whole countries join a boycott. Russia’s under sanctions, which is just a fancy word for country-level boycotts, and while it may have slowed them down, they still seem to be making steady progress. “Blood diamond” boycotts haven’t put Debeers out of business yet.

        Boycotting is mostly a feel-good gesture, or, I’ll grant, “at least I can feel like I’m not contributing” moral superiority - which certainly has value.

        You seem to think I’m anti-boycott, when I actually just think they only rarely move needles.

        That’s not how gerrymandering works.

        Gerrymandering affects state legislature, which translates directly into local laws that directly affect things that influence general elections - like voter intimidation laws, registration laws, mail-in voting laws, judicial and law enforcement elections, and countless legislation.

        The inaction you advocate only supports Project 2025.

        Uh huh. Boycotting’s going to reinstate Roe v Wade. You go ahead and message me an “I Told You So” when that happens.

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          Do they? I’ve been boycotting Nestlé for about a decade now, and they seem to be utterly indifferent to the fact.

          I’ve been doing the same. Glad to hear you are not taking your own advice. I have also voted in elections going back decades, and not a single election has been influenced by my vote alone. Should I stop voting?

          Has it stopped Israel’s invasion of Gaza yet?

          You may have misunderstood the goal of the boycott. The goal was to stop a piece of the private sector from supporting the IDF. It worked so well that it forced a corporation to buy ~130 or so stores just to end the boycott. The boycotter’s demands were satisfied.

          The Israel boycott led to the German grocer Lidl to struggle to sell Israel-sourced produce (which is often grown on Palestinian land). Lidl was losing money so they resorted to fraud and got caught labeling Israel-sourced produce as coming from a different country. Aldi North had the same problem and they resorted to opacity (removing the source tag when it was Israel). Of course it leads to people boycotting the whole store. Less revenue for Israel means less tax and greater dependency on the US, who is under pressure to keep Israel on a leash. Expecting a war to end due to a boycott is unrealistic. But if you do your part you can be part of the pressure in the right direction.

          BDS is regarded as such a threat that the US gov has actually banned boycotting Israel. If the only effect is to “give people good feelings”, why ban it?

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        Then every single fucking day spanning the next 4 years they will continue to vote for all the republicans in the country (esp. Greg Abbott) by putting gas in their cars and using banks.

        lol

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    Don’t worry, I’ve seen plenty of lectures from our friends on c/notvoting which made it clear that both candidates were near equally bad. So no real harm done.

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      If your premise is that both POTUS candidates are equally bad (nonsense¹, but I’ll play along for a second), then your most foolish move is to give one of them the POTUS and also give that same party both branches of Congress.

      The thread title should have made it clear that the actions herein are for climate activists who intend to support the democratic party. So what are you doing here? Giving anti-action advice counters the purpose of the thread. If you oppose Kamala then there is no problem here for you to solve. Your feedback could only be useful in a place like Gab.

      ¹ It’s utter nonsense in the very least because you think a POTUS is just one person, not an entire administration. It’s also an absurdity to claim any two people are equal on the environment when one of them is a climate denier and the other is not. It’s a fundamentally rock stupid claim at its core, particularly when the climate denier demonstrated a neutering of the EPA his first term in office.

      And beyond that it’s a failure to understand that a large number of people are inherently in play. Incompetence can only explain the idea that the republican party and democratic party are equals on anything but most particularly environnmental policy.

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        Not at all. I shouldn’t have expected the sarcasm to cary. Perhaps I’m jealous of the shield of those folks’ pessimism (assuming any of it was said in good faith in the first place).

        Edit: I will admit it wasn’t a productive contribution to the conversation. Seeing the title call it a disaster got my temper after mostly seeing so many conversations on this instance about how none of it matters and we’re all monsters for sullying ourselves trying to mitigate the damage with a vote. I might have also mixed you up for the mod of that community.

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      There is a ton of cascading embedded JavaScript that needs to be enabled to use that site. But it’s quite useful. Just looked up HP which has a long history of wrongdoing, and indeed they supported Trump.

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    Oh fuck off.

    I get what you’re trying to accomplish, but many of these companies are more or less vital to everyday life.

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      I get what you’re trying to accomplish, but many of these companies are more or less vital to everyday life.

      Not a single one of those companies is as you describe. Every single one of them has a lesser evil alternative.