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Re:GitHub waited 3 months to notify about potential compromise by wahnfrieden on Saturday June 18, 2022 @02:35PM (#31792501)
Thank you for your input but I am not commenting on the decision to stop purchasing. I'm responding specifically to the final demand: "Vote at the ballot box and with your dollars." The OP is encouraging us to take action against this behavior specifically via choosing how they allocate their dollars as consumers (and also voting), which is core to the neoliberal mission. They're not just saying it's worthwhile to stop purchasing, they're saying that this is the solution
Re:GitHub waited 3 months to notify about potential compromise by epistasis on Sunday June 19, 2022 @01:50PM (#31801616)
"Voting with your dollars" is not only a neoliberal attitude, it's also a liberal attitude, but moreover it is also very common for leftists. Unless you're buying the rope from capitalists to hang them, realizing how power flows in our current economic system is essential for all.
Re:GitHub waited 3 months to notify about potential compromise by wahnfrieden on Sunday June 19, 2022 @04:19PM (#31803043)
Waiting for bad corporate behavior to punish individual actors for individual behaviors with dollars requires such an extreme level of widespread activity that you might as well be talking about something more radical and mass-organized than promoting care over simple purchasing decisions, to be meaningful at a systemic scale. These negative behaviors are a feature of capitalism not aberrant fringe behavior to course correct. It’s fine but leaving such a strong command to, paraphrasing, “fix this world by choosing between democrat and republican, and through carefully considering your purchases” (not even a clear call for organized boycott, just the individualized ethics) does not satisfy me
Re:GitHub waited 3 months to notify about potential compromise by kenbolton on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:41PM (#31854219)
I only care about the individualized ethics. You do you.