theangriestbird

tbh I was only aware of the Montgomery boycott. thank you for the examples, I have some reading to do.

I appreciate your takes on this. to be clear, i generally agree with you, but I have struggled to connect morals to action. I've participated in plenty of boycotts, this Target one has just been harder to work around for the reasons i mentioned earlier. It's hard when you struggle with executive function and the boycott is targeted (oof) at your go-to grocery store. Thank you for sharing your activist energy and knowledge with us.

The only clear financial impact I'm seeing is the 12% stock dip. That ain't nothing, but it sounds like it is unrelated to the boycott, and stocks bounce around all the time.

in the grand scheme of things literally nothing you can do as an individual (besides go vegan or vegetarian) makes much of a difference

Does that same logic not apply to boycotting Target? why would my individual boycott have any impact if the majority of Americans are still shopping at Target? I'm on the side of this initiative and I want to stick it to Target, and even I am struggling with it a bit. Imagine what the apolitical majority of shoppers are thinking and doing. I guess my point is that boycotts have never worked historically, and this one seems particularly unlikely to have any impact, even if 100% of American leftists participated. The parking lot at the Super Target near my home remains as packed as it has ever been.

seems strange for you to criticize the quality of Wikipedia, then? you have personal experience that demonstrates why these volunteers are putting their time towards this instead of towards editing articles - editing articles is a difficult and sometimes contentious process.

honestly you aren't wrong. I'd guess it's just a case of the Wikipedia photo being a bottom priority for them, but then you would think "update Wikipedia photo" would be somewhere on every publicist's to-do list. Maybe this project will encourage more publicists to explore how to do this.

and none of those are the ones currently used on his article lol

Wikipedia focuses on those other issues as well, they just happen to be a group of volunteers trying to manage the most comprehensive repository of information that the world has ever seen. If you see issues with articles, you are always welcome to sign up and edit the articles yourself!

as someone who lives in MN, Target is like the go-to store so it has definitely been more difficult. I can go to other grocery stores that have either higher prices or worse produce, and I can stomach those trade-offs. I haven't bought clothes from Target in years and years. The hard thing is everything else I buy at Target. If I need markers, Brita filters, AND groceries, do I now have to go to three separate stores for that?

And yeah yeah yeah I know, inconvenient does not equal infeasible blah blah blah. But is all that extra time and carbon emissions worth the impact of the boycott?

Wikipedia does such a solid, unmitigated GOOD service for the world, especially the English speaking world.

Lol EXCELLENT example of the kind of photo Wikiportraits is trying to replace. It's hilarious, but not great for the internet's most reliable resource.

I hate how likely this is. I can't imagine any scenario where the Trump DOJ does something like this unselfishly, and Google has already kowtowed to the Trump admin. There must be a specific Trump ally they have in mind that would buy that from Google, Musk is just the most likely.