Just some additional advertising for todays boycott.

  • admin@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    When you find out most of the people live paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford to buy in bulk, or don’t even have a place to store it because they live in an apartment, is when you realize that only a certain privileged subset of them is able to participate in this type of passive protests…

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      9 days ago

      I mean, I’ve been very poor. Not buying is the easy part when you’re poor - buying stuff is the hard part, so not sure what your point is on this one.

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        9 days ago

        Buying in bulk was the point. When you can stockpile on idk, meat, toilet paper, water… Etc. For a whole month.

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          9 days ago

          Who was saying the blackout was for a month???

          And if in extreme poverty, you don’t eat much meat, it’s mostly eggs (years ago when they were cheap). Fresh meat was always an “it’s on sale because it’s expiring today” event that you’d buy as much as you can and then piece out to freeze for later while eating a bit that same day. Most of the time it was cheap canned meats you’d have coupons for ideally of you wanted meat, and you wouldn’t eat the whole can at once.

          Water??? Really?

          I mean, maybe you had a good intention, but you clearly have no idea what poverty is like. When you’re that poor you don’t buy water, you get what’s on tap - even if it smells strongly of bleach.

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              8 days ago

              How the fuck did you conclude that when not reading something that’s nearly the same length as your initial comment?

              I take that back, you don’t have good intentions, don’t care about the poor clearly, and are just trying to sabotage people’s organizing efforts while discussing in complete bad faith.

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      8 days ago

      Before anyone decides to reply to this person’s comment or reads it and thinks they’re being legitimate, read their replies to me.

      They’re arguing in bad faith to undermine any protests and don’t care at all about whether someone is poor or not.