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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.
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Dave Goldsmith

@lori @tend2wobble

How about a list of owners of businesses who contribute to Progressive candidates?

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@Dave_Goldsmith @lori @tend2wobble for small businesses you sometimes literally have to do detective work going as far as monitoring social media postings of owners and employees (Here in Britain not all their owners will openly state their political or religious views, but the Reform UK supporters tend not to be quiet about it)

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Lorraine Lee

@Dave_Goldsmith @vfrmedia @tend2wobble I tend not to judge a business by the views of their employees, as I want to think of employees as having lives of their own. I think your methodology has a point, though. Employment is a power matrix. An employee who's willing to out themselves on both their workplace and their opinions is (by definition?) an employee who shares their employer's worldview.

For what it's worth, goodsuniteus.com has data on the political contributions of employees of large American businesses.

Goods Unite UsHome - Goods Unite UsAt Goods Unite Us, we run political background checks on thousands of brands and companies so you can put your money where your vote is.
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@lori @Dave_Goldsmith @tend2wobble I'm thinking of smaller leaner local businesses in my bit of England, where the employees and business owners are often the same people (there may even only be one person running the lot) and despite fairly strong anti-discrimination employment law, bosses will still hire people with similar political views to themselves (as small businesses tend not to get audited as often for diversity)

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