Emily🌱Mar 28, 2025
Jo - pièce de résistance
They want to tell you the boycotts don’t work…except Target has already lost over 16 billion since they trashed DEI. Walmart stores are empty & while I can’t find figures on losses…truth will out eventually. And Tesla alone has lost over 750 Billion.
People aren’t flying to US.
Keep up the good work people. You may not see the results published and they may say it doesn’t work, but it clearly does.
#resist #resistance #boycott
Mar 27, 2025 at 2:38pmWeb
Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceMar 27, 2025
Tesla alone has lost 3/4 of a TRILLION dollars in less than 3 months.
Show threadClaraBlackInkMar 27, 2025

@JoBlakely They claim boycotts don't work but they forget all the industries "killed by millennials" who just couldn't afford to support or didn't want to purchase from those businesses.

Boycotts are just way more directed.

And, they cut employees when businesses do well so there's no reason to get overly concerned about the job loss aspect as these companies have never minded cutting workers' healthcare or hours just to pocket the savings.

Show threadyuhasz01Mar 27, 2025

@clarablackink @JoBlakely

Yes, economic corporate boycotts are impactful. Encourage all your friends and family to participate, as best possible. Collective actions get corporations attention.

Deny them your purchases and money, deny them source of their power and influence

Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Mar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely they absolutely won't report the pain the boycotts are unleashing on the Rich because they are not on our side.
Same with all the protests going on across America, most of them aren't reported on in any depth, people outside of Gilead are mostly unaware of the resistance and think Americans are largely behind Trump.
Show threadFluffy Kitty CatMar 27, 2025
@Lazarou @JoBlakely we need alternative media so we can dump the crap
Show threadBarbara SliwinskaMar 27, 2025
@Lazarou @JoBlakely dont be afraid; people outside are very aware, whole bluesky is covered informations from usa. i cross my fingers for U
Show threadCrystal_Fish_CavesMar 27, 2025

@Lazarou @JoBlakely At my crappy remote job taking donations for PBS I talk to Canadians every day. When I take their credit card the recording stops so I can speak freely. I never miss the opportunity to apologize, express my embarrassment, and tell them a joke.

What borders on stupidity? Mexico and Canada

They always laugh and then apologize for laughing. Great folks those Canadians.

I have been taking these calls for years. Recently they have taken on a whole new flavor.

Show threadhumourmetomMar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely Right now I'm drinking the last California wine I will ever purchase, because it has notes of Trump in the finish and that bad taste will never go away. (Sorry, blue states, but until you get off your butts and save your own country, I'm boycotting you too.)
Show threadMark IngallsMar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely Perhaps we should start saying "go woke or go broke"
Show threadKathmanduMar 27, 2025

@ingalls @JoBlakely

I've also seen the phrase "Go fash, lose cash."

Show threadJoel VanderWerfMar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely The "money is speech" crowd keeps telling us we can't use our money to speak.
Show threadvalOrie_p'OMar 27, 2025
@joelvanderwerf @JoBlakely 😎 #BoycottsAntiCitzensUnited
Show threadAsta [AMP]Mar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely if it actually didn’t work, they wouldn’t be talking about it.
Show threadneville parkMar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely can I please get sources for these?
Show threadAndrew J SpauldingMar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely EXACTLY! Boycott, Resist, and Protest!
Show threadBruce MirkenMar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely Where do your stats come from? The last quarterly report showed Tesla still profitable and the parking lot at my local Wal-Mart looks jammed every time I drive past. Tesla has definitely lost sales globally, but Trump just did them a big favor in the US. I loathe both companies, but let's not get overconfident.
Show threadi.grokMar 27, 2025

@BruceMirken @JoBlakely are you in a blue area or a red one? (Or very purple?)

I suspect Walmart being empty is hyperbole, but maybe it is in some places?

Show threadBruce MirkenMar 27, 2025
@igrok @JoBlakely Hawaii. Very blue.
Show threadKevin LaRose,aka GrumpasaurusMar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely @ItsaMeWario I have a friend who actually works at #Target who is nonetheless telling everyone not to shop at Target.
Show threadarctosMar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely Patience, this will take a little time. The billioniares will consume the GOP rats that they are.
Show threadsortiusMar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely it ended apartheid in South Africa, so, yeh, boycotts work, especially if backed by governments
Show threadAlex P Roe Mar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely EVERYTHING Trump touches turns to sh!t extraordinarily rapidly!
Show threadKyle Memoir 🍉🐧Mar 27, 2025

@JoBlakely

Tesla.

Especially eff Tesla.

Musk is an insult to spirit of the man whose name he’s appropriated into fascist service.

The cars I understand; they pre-dated this extremist episode.

If you bought that idiotic 3-ton wedge of energy wasting metal:

FUCK YOU

you deserve what you get

(climate-wise—which will make key-scratch vandals look like hairs on mosquitos and machine gun bullets flimsy rubber baubles)

Show threadOld Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!Mar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely Hit them in their pocketbooks. #resistance #boycottCapitalists
Show threadStephen Elliott~BuckleyMar 27, 2025

@old_hippie @JoBlakely

I've been tracking the #broligarchs and #mairikkkan markets over just the last 16 days in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@Maxfieldripken/114230515775496521

Holy fuck is #capitalism gutting itself.

Which, as historians know, is filled with potential for fascists.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #elxn45

Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesMar 27, 2025

@JoBlakely

The #CEO are terrified of the people.

We are a force of nature.

That is why they wedge and segment us.

When we are at each other's throats, fighting over crumbs from their tables, they rejoice.

#eattherich

Show threadCode of Amor 💘Mar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely a dead tourism industry in a country full of amusement parks, natural wonders, and massive expectations? Big mistake. Big. Huge.
Show thread🛠 Ba Dang 🌺Mar 27, 2025

@JoBlakely

It sure does !

#boycottusa

Show threadMaxime Messier 🇫🇷 🇪🇺​ 🌻​Mar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely "Flight bookings between Canada and US down 70% amid Trump tariff war"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/27/canada-us-flights-down-trump
Flight bookings between Canada and US down 70% amid Trump tariff war

Airline capacity between two countries reduced through October 2025 as high-profile incidents of Ice arrests on rise

The Guardian
Show threadlonely extrovertMar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely i was just wondering how much target must have lost so far. sweet.
Show threadFi 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 27, 2025

@JoBlakely @recursive

first quarter closes in a few days and the numbers will come out in a few weeks.

the rich people feelings graph ain't gonna like 'em.

Show threadDayMar 27, 2025
@JoBlakely I can't afford a Tesla or a plane ticket, but we drink German fritz-kola every now and then. It's delicious. And thanks to this boycotting American stuff supermarkets all over my city are stocking it now. Thanks, fascists! 
Show threadHazel-Quercus 🟡⚪🟣⚫Mar 28, 2025

@JoBlakely we need to remember that no matter how the political winds blow, we have to keep this pressure on. A few years from now, hopefully when things are better, we cant forget the economic power we have and cant just lapse back into old habits. Our spending habits helped make this shitty world and we need to learn from that.

Im not saying this to be contrary or 'that person'. This is a moment of empowerment and agency that we cannot forget about. Lets celebrate this and keep it up!

Thank your for sharing this positive message 💚🌿

Show threadStarkRGMar 28, 2025
@JoBlakely Of course boycotts work. In fact, it's one of the few tactics that have been shown to have long lasting effects, alongside labor strikes, mass vandalism, and straight up murdering almost the entirety of the wealthy and ruling class.
Show threadDianeMar 28, 2025

@JoBlakely

I want to compliment the https://www.targetfast.org/ organizers. They made a manageable but still significant boycott request, and also put together a specific list of demands and plans to negotiate with the company.

I thought it well organized.

DOLLAR GENERAL AIN’T WORTH A DIME!

Watch the Black Wall Street Ticker track our collective dollars as we shift the economy. Use the Voter Wallet to find Black businesses, redirect spending, and boycott where it matters.

Show thread0xDECAFBADMar 28, 2025
@JoBlakely And an example from the other side, the Bud Light boycott was pretty effective.
Show threadThomasMar 28, 2025
@JoBlakely The only effective way to deal with the oligarchs is to starve them out.
Show threadDaniël Franke Mar 28, 2025

@JoBlakely @cyberlyra boycotts work, but it’s just rare for a decent amount of people to actually boycott something in this age. After all, too many people often choose convenience over morals, see the amount of queers that still patronise that chicken place.

Glad this time a decent amount of people actually do it!

Show threadBssr4 (TЯ☭M₽ )Apr 1, 2025

@JoBlakely

WE, will not miss them!

Show threadJakub UrbanowiczApr 9, 2025
@JoBlakely
The less you have to organize something, the better it works. But it would be a shame not to do it.