Should we all stop eating McDonalds and stop drinking Pepsi? This is a serious question.

Bigga said:
The US are, literally, starving the Iraqi people after invading and murdering thousands of citizens over 20 years.

But the point was... "weasely" for the hypocrisy of pointing out this particular 'boycott'.

Okay, then...
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This isn’t about boycotting companies because we’re unhappy that Russia has invaded Ukraine. This is a tactic to get as many companies out of Russia as possible and the ones who are dragging their feet are boycotted to put pressure on them to pull out.

The tactic is to build pressure from within in Russia. Every bit of pissing them off we can do creates disunity, disruption, anger, dissent, protests and strikes… or reduces their GDP, even makes their economy crash, or leads them into being a pariah state to most of the rest of the world.

It can be as little as pulling all Cadbury’s Flakes from shelves in Russia to Apple disabling Apple Wallet, up to Russia being taken out of SWIFT and having all oil and gas exports banned.

This isn’t about taking a moral stance on what Russia are doing or comparing “yeah but…” examples from the past. The only comparisons to make here are when we’ve done the same with North Korea, Cuba and the USSR in the past; Iraq doesn’t even come into the equation.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
This isn’t about boycotting companies because we’re unhappy that Russia has invaded Ukraine. This is a tactic to get as many companies out of Russia as possible and the ones who are dragging their feet are boycotted to put pressure on them to pull out.

The tactic is to build pressure from within in Russia. Every bit of pissing them off we can do creates disunity, disruption, anger, dissent, protests and strikes… or reduces their GDP, even makes their economy crash, or leads them into being a pariah state to most of the rest of the world.

It can be as little as pulling all Cadbury’s Flakes from shelves in Russia to Apple disabling Apple Wallet, up to Russia being taken out of SWIFT and having all oil and gas exports banned.

This isn’t about taking a moral stance on what Russia are doing or comparing “yeah but…” examples from the past. The only comparisons to make here are when we’ve done the same with North Korea, Cuba and the USSR in the past; Iraq doesn’t even come into the equation.
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I'm sorry, but I find this incredulous. By no means am I condoning what Russia is doing, but who polices the police at this point?

Despite your desire to dismiss the literal THOUSANDS of starving people from US sanctions, it's a reality. You want to compare the sanctions against the big countries, but who's going to sanction the US for its travesties?

Right now, as they decide to [eventually] cut off trade with Russia for their oil, they're now turning cap-in-hand to the countries the US tried to overthrow (nevermind states it called 'evil') for oil!!

It's all about power, but people can believe in 'ethical' boycotts for whatever reason they want to.

The sooner these dinosaurs leave our planet, the sooner we can get back to being better Humans to each other.
 
I never dring Pepsi or Coca Cola, but I definitely could refuse drinking it because of the obstacles. The same is with McD. I can do this for sure!
 
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