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Dave Goldsmith

If you cancel your Amazon account and you want to buy something (anything) where can you shop? I mean Walmart is almost as bad as Amazon, right? I am tempted to shop Canadian but I don't know anything about the politics of the owners of Canadian companies.

This is a central dilemma-- how do we stop supporting our enemies with our money?

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DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE WE CAN SPEND OUR MONEY WITH FRIENDS AND NOT FASCISTS?
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tend2wobble

@Dave_Goldsmith eBay and Poshmark Canada and other online sellers. Use small local businesses as much as possible. Screw the mega corps that support poverty and financial slavery.

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Lorraine Lee
@Dave_Goldsmith @tend2wobble Small local businesses are often politically problematic. If anything the worst of small business is worse than the worst of big business. I absolutely avoid patronizing small businesses with fishies on their business cards, for example. My buycott list is largely those businesses both small and medium that have spent some amount of money on advertising in the queer newspaper, but that isn't even a first approximation of an information repository. It's very difficult to research businesses in general. At some point such research needs to be adversarial in character, like investigative journalism, or perhaps "oppo" research in politics.
tend2wobble

@lori @Dave_Goldsmith This is true. We give the benefit of the doubt until a sign shows up or a clue is dropped somehow. When they expose themselves and we dump them , we call and tell them why and sometimes, how much we’ve spent at their business.

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tend2wobble

@Dave_Goldsmith @lori Everyone is entitled to an opinion but if we like a business and its products or service, we prefer not to know because once we smell RW/GOP/TRUMP stench in person or in advertising or labor practice, we are gone forever. 30 plus years have never stepped foot in a Walmart after their founding family’s deception and destruction of Midwest small business. youtu.be/RXmnBbUjsPs

YouTubeWalmart: The High Cost of Low Price • FULL DOCUMENTARY FILM • BRAVE NEW FILMS (BNF)By Brave New Films
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Lorraine Lee
@Dave_Goldsmith @tend2wobble My shadow has not yet darkened the door of a Walmart store.
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Dave Goldsmith

@lori @tend2wobble

Good for you. Now how do we scale that sentiment?

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Mike

@lori I thought I might be the only one 😆

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