You’re right in that the average Joe isn’t the most accountable, but the average Joe can hurt the companies and people who ARE most accountable. That means not indulging them, and definitely not giving them money.
And so you have beef with my habits because… I don’t know. I’m still trying to connect how me using an AirBnB maybe once a year within the USA not in Tourism cities is related to giving non-citizen landowners of foreign properties money.
Are you saying because I use AirBnB at all it is benefiting that group of scalpers? That sounds like saying using ebay helps scalpers and you shouldn’t ever use ebay because of that. I don’t see/agree with that connection.
Have you never chosen to boycott a company before? I won’t go to Chick-fil-A for any reason. It doesn’t matter if the franchisee holds the exact same level of hatred for lgbtq+. The fact that it isn’t a disqualifier is enough for me. Not all MAGAts are pedophiles but the fact that they can excuse it for other reasons in their head means I don’t fucking talk to those people. So yeah, you giving money to horrible people makes me think of you a certain way.
That’s a fine conclusion, I don’t expect us to agree after all. I think I better understand where you are at after all this conversation. Thank you for having it with me. You are going for abstaining. My big focus has been reduction. I do need to travel or my mental state just gets bad. It doesn’t help that I’m stuck living in this state via a multi-year contract.
And as for boycotting, only a few places completely; Chick-fil-A, Hobby Lobby, and many other places. The rest is significant reduction. WalMart, Amazon, McDonalds, etc I will use rarely (maybe twice a year) and have been funneling a lot more of my finances to the local grocery Co-Op that primarily stocks local farm goods, Etsy, and locally owned restaurants. Similar to not adopting veganism, but eating a lot less beef, adding in vegetarian meals, and mostly going with fish for protein.
I support as much local as I can afford to, and that is more than I can ask for from others. Intentions matter more to me than the rest, because it can be worked with. Hope you have a great day!
That’s fair I often go a little too hardcore in my boycotts, and realize I’m left with little to no options in picking up something I need. No Walmart, no Menards, no amazon, and try to avoid target, luckily I’ve found a few small shops around town that I didn’t know existed, simply cause I had to find some things for the house.
Once while driving through the middle of nowhere I found myself getting hungry and all they had was a McDonald’s and a dumpy looking gas station. So I passed on and wound up regretting it cause the next town of any significant size was nearly 80 miles away and I found myself getting lightheaded and my vision started getting hazy. Luckily I passed a town with a clean looking gas station before I got to the bigger town and I discovered the magic that is Casey’s pizza.
The correct answer isn’t left for us to easily choose, but Casey’s pizza is one of those cboices. I’d reccomend trying the breakfast pizza with gravy sauce if you have an opportunity sometime.
Keep fighting your fight, and I’ll keep pushing on mine. I’m getting close to helping some coworkers see how the economy they voted for is getting worse. I wish I could make basic human rights be more important to them, but The Machine is built to counter that specifically. I’ll take what I can get.
I’ve been doing that at work as well. Older Gen x types that don’t follow the news much. Right leaning but not far right are usually the highest success ratio for me. “Hey did you see they’re doing _______, crazy”
You’re right in that the average Joe isn’t the most accountable, but the average Joe can hurt the companies and people who ARE most accountable. That means not indulging them, and definitely not giving them money.
And so you have beef with my habits because… I don’t know. I’m still trying to connect how me using an AirBnB maybe once a year within the USA not in Tourism cities is related to giving non-citizen landowners of foreign properties money.
Are you saying because I use AirBnB at all it is benefiting that group of scalpers? That sounds like saying using ebay helps scalpers and you shouldn’t ever use ebay because of that. I don’t see/agree with that connection.
Have you never chosen to boycott a company before? I won’t go to Chick-fil-A for any reason. It doesn’t matter if the franchisee holds the exact same level of hatred for lgbtq+. The fact that it isn’t a disqualifier is enough for me. Not all MAGAts are pedophiles but the fact that they can excuse it for other reasons in their head means I don’t fucking talk to those people. So yeah, you giving money to horrible people makes me think of you a certain way.
That’s a fine conclusion, I don’t expect us to agree after all. I think I better understand where you are at after all this conversation. Thank you for having it with me. You are going for abstaining. My big focus has been reduction. I do need to travel or my mental state just gets bad. It doesn’t help that I’m stuck living in this state via a multi-year contract.
And as for boycotting, only a few places completely; Chick-fil-A, Hobby Lobby, and many other places. The rest is significant reduction. WalMart, Amazon, McDonalds, etc I will use rarely (maybe twice a year) and have been funneling a lot more of my finances to the local grocery Co-Op that primarily stocks local farm goods, Etsy, and locally owned restaurants. Similar to not adopting veganism, but eating a lot less beef, adding in vegetarian meals, and mostly going with fish for protein.
I support as much local as I can afford to, and that is more than I can ask for from others. Intentions matter more to me than the rest, because it can be worked with. Hope you have a great day!
That’s fair I often go a little too hardcore in my boycotts, and realize I’m left with little to no options in picking up something I need. No Walmart, no Menards, no amazon, and try to avoid target, luckily I’ve found a few small shops around town that I didn’t know existed, simply cause I had to find some things for the house.
Once while driving through the middle of nowhere I found myself getting hungry and all they had was a McDonald’s and a dumpy looking gas station. So I passed on and wound up regretting it cause the next town of any significant size was nearly 80 miles away and I found myself getting lightheaded and my vision started getting hazy. Luckily I passed a town with a clean looking gas station before I got to the bigger town and I discovered the magic that is Casey’s pizza.
The correct answer isn’t left for us to easily choose, but Casey’s pizza is one of those cboices. I’d reccomend trying the breakfast pizza with gravy sauce if you have an opportunity sometime.
Keep fighting your fight, and I’ll keep pushing on mine. I’m getting close to helping some coworkers see how the economy they voted for is getting worse. I wish I could make basic human rights be more important to them, but The Machine is built to counter that specifically. I’ll take what I can get.
I’ve been doing that at work as well. Older Gen x types that don’t follow the news much. Right leaning but not far right are usually the highest success ratio for me. “Hey did you see they’re doing _______, crazy”