You should be boycotting these companies already because they support extreme right politics by their ALEC membership:
- FedEx
- UPS
- Motorola
- Anheuser Busch
- American Express
- Bose
- Chevron
- Marlboro
- Sony
- Texaco
- Boeing (fly on Airbus instead, see how to boycott Boeing)
You should be boycotting Amazon for many reasons.
If you oppose private prisons, then you already boycott these banks:
- #BankOfAmerica (#BofA)
- #FifthThird
- #JPMorgan #Chase
- #PNC Bank
- #Suntrust
- #USBank (#USBancorp)
- #WellsFargo
Don’t think they are out of reach to Europe -- many European small banks that you assume are ethical actually outsource their investments to JP Morgan. Also, BofA uses different branding outside the US.
If you like transparency with food labeling, then you endorse labeling of #GMO food, in which case you boycott companies that lobbied against GMO labeling. There are hundreds of companies that fucked us over, but these are the top ten financers of anti-labeling lobby:
- PepsiCo
- Nestlé
- General Mills
- Coca-Cola
- ConAgra
- Campbell Soup
- The Hershey Company
- J.M. Smucker
- Kellogg
- Mondelez
Some of those mushroom into many brands. See the attached infographic.
Hypocricy at its finest!
I don't think you are upholding your own standards. If you were, you would have just isolated yourself completely from everywhere.
But I don't have time to argue with someone who has the same thinking as a stereotypical Vegan lol.
Go ahead am live in your fantasy land where you think boycotting means that everyone you ever send an email to is failing to boycott.
A friend said it best "If you and your friend have been dumping trash on the road and you say 'I'm gonna quit that' but he say he will continue. Isn't it better that at least one of you stopped?"
Your whole idea of boycotts are twisted completely.
Also, FYI, educate yourself first. Proton is not an MS product, you donut.
Again, as a person mentioned here:
To the other commenters reading this:
Do what you can reasonably do. Going for this perfectionist bullshit is only going to make you want to quit boycotting U.S products and the cycle will start anew.
I’m telling you HOW to boycott as clearly you don’t grasp it. To claim to boycott a company while feeding them is a lie (to the extent that it’s not ignorance- which is what I am addressing considering when the conversation started you thought you could boycott MS while feeding them).
You are on your own to work out whether or not to boycott. That comes down to where MS stands w.r.t your values. You do you.
That would fail to support the good businesses who compete with the baddies. You’ve misunderstood my position if you think removing support from competitors of my adversaries upholds my standards. Relatively ethical competitors of the baddies are my friendlies.
You need to take your own advice here. Obviously you don’t know how Protonmail works. You only get out of the box crypto if the other person also uses Protonmail, you fool. When you send email to an MS user (yes, from Protonmail) without obtaining their pubkey and or shared key, MS sees the payload. In fact, MS sees just as much as if you sent the msg from gmail. You really have no clue how encryption (symmetric and asymmetric) works. It is not some kind of magic where everyone you contact from PM has encryption.
I am taking my own advice, lol.
Just because you are stuck in your "purist" ways, doesn't mean that everyone else is going to follow in your footsteps.
I don't email anyone who uses Gmail or MS Outlook, but if I had to send a reply to and from my work email, to a company which likely uses Gmail, tf am I gonna do?
Shiver me timbers, I'll send a single email through a corpo-slop server. Oh no... Anyway.
You genuinely have some of THE WORST takes I have seen on here so far. "Starbucks isn't as evil" "Lidl sucks because they support Israel"
Again, I'm all for boycotting shitty corporations, but if you believe that sending a single email to a company WHO YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT SERVICES THEY USE is stupid.
If you have a phone, best get rid of that, because your local phone provider and U.S Satellites know where you are! They hear all your conversations and see all the SMS messages! God forbid you use your phone to sign up for anything, they can see the code you get from the service. God forbid you use a bank card, because those are owned by either Visa or MasterCard, American corporations. Best get rid of those as well, mate.
In fact, get rid of everything and go live in the woods. Perhaps you'll learn something about life or something.
I will no longer perpetuate this conversation further as it is entirely useless. I don't want anyone telling me that I "live in a lie"
We all do, you just don't understand or realize it.