Fuck the trivialities, boycott something real.

Fuck boycotting Nestle or lawns or some silly shit like that.

How 'bout something that actually matters like BLOOD DIAMONDS. The real impetus of terrorism, not drugs. Personally I like watering my lawn and I love chocolate, what I don't like is little boys and girls who look like me being dismembered, drugged up, orphaned, and tortured for a few miniscule diamonds. Just so that so aristocratic cocksmoke can say his bezzle or his wife's ring came from a prestigious cave in Africa ( a land, the mother of us all, that has been raped and pillaged ).

 

I know only a little bit about blood diamonds, but I'll look more up.


Update: I've just read a little bit about blood diamonds. The trade is disgusting. I'm not much of a diamond person anyway, so boycotting them shouldn't be a problem.

 

Boycott Israel.

They've served up lots of dismembered little boys and girls over the years.

With YOUR taxpayer dollars.


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Yup.
The money I've spent on diamonds in my lifetime: 0
The money I've spent on chocolate: Alot. It's kinda scary actually.

Perhaps you should look into chocolate and sugar and learn how much slavery and child labour goes into...well just about anything that has chocolate and sugar in it. (Unless labeled other wise) How is their suffering any less real of a cause than that of blood diamonds? It seems unfair to rate any human suffering in degrees of 'a real cause'.

 

Actually boycotting Nestles's is not such a bad thing to do a little research on that they are pumping dry the aquafers in Maine and California. While we allow more nuclear plants and off shore drilling, we are ignoring the fact that corporations are sucking our underground aquafers dry for the meer fact that people will buy water in plastic bottles. Don't fall for the bait and switch. They've raped India do we let them to the same here and because they are multinational corporations they don't pay taxes. It won't stop global warming, it won't do anything but put money in the pocket of profiteers.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/water/93505/attorney_general_slams_nestle's_bottled_water_aspirations/

 

to continue with your line of thought
boycott the USA
boycott Russia
boycott every single country in Africa
...
and so on....ad infinitum

 

Boycott the cause, not the effect. Boycotting companies or products is quite useless, unless you also boycott the way of thinking that created them and the values that give them power.

 

I totally agree

Sadly it seems that most people boycott just in order to feel morally superior to others or top get rid of their guilt for being white/rich/western
what is needed is a complete change of life style and very few people are willing to do that

 

I'd rather say "to get rid of the guilt of helping the machine work every day". An oriental man who helps his country's (monstrous) economical agenda is as guilty as a white one who does the same in Europe or the U.S.

 

I agree. But alot of that will start with bringing an end to the us vs. them/they/the machine rhetoric which divides us.

It seems my intentions for this thread have been misunderstood. I wasn't trying to specify Nestle and lawns or blood diamonds or even prioritize them. I was simply giving examples of how it's easier to sit on the internet and tell others to boycott minor things instead of actually going out and trying to make a change...(...that will probably never come).

 

The change will come, if we work hard enough for it. Individuals have much more power than we think, or rather, than the people who are earning all the big bucks want us to think.

 

"the people who are earning the big bucks" are a part of the solution, not the enemy. Geechee is correct when he says

 

You are right, they are part of the solution, since they are part of humanity, but they don't seem to understand that themselves. Many of them still earn their money through careless exploitaion of others, and I think not understanding that they are, as you say, part of the solution, is the only explanation to why they do this. I didn't mean to portray them as an enemy, but rather as those who have more interest in keeping things as they are.

 

I think that statistically, we are pretty much fucked, no matter what we boycott. There's just too many people that don't give a shit anymore, compared to the amount of us who do.

Resequenced's Earth life expectancy hypothesis: 100 years maximum.

 

Even if the entire Hip community boycotted Blood Diamonds it wouldn't do squat shit.

Most of us cant even afford fuel to drive to work, let alone material things such as diamonds!



Boycott fucking gas!

 

yup.

My friend has this Dasani bottled water in her room
I tell her that it's probably from some third world country where coca cola is sucking dry everyone's water.

She just says 'oh, stop talking, don't tell me all of these horrible things.' [not in a bitchy tone though]
DUDE WHAT THE FUCK! She just fucking continues to drink the water. and she'll drink half of the bottle and throw it out. Why the fuck do people not give a flying fuck about this stuff?

seriously, I absolutely agree.
100 years. that's it.

 

^i hate watching people being so wasteful like that. They will buy tons and tons of bottles when they could just get one good one to last a lifetime. And for what? Just the convenience of being able to throw it away when your done? blah...

 

Ok so you agree Nestle should kill babies.

Blood diamonds hmmmmmm I will look that up - is that like pearls of sweat?

one of the motivations - yes

You work for nestle !

Thou do'st protest too much, are you certain ?

Your psycho-sexual problems are at the forefront of your thinking

Cocksmoke LOL

Last line is a troll

 

psycho-sexual?

you have a great talent for being pretentious and taking things out of context