Do you boycott anything/anyone?
 

The ultimate protest against a company or country is to deliberately fail to patronize them financially if they do something you don't like. Most people are too lazy to practically boycott anything so it's not very effective in practice. Still ... this is how we get our individual point across however weak it may be. So, tell me... do you boycott any company, country, state, brand, etc..? Why?

WHAT I DON'T WANT IS A FLAME FEST IN HERE. TELL US WHO/WHAT/WHY/HOW-LONG AND LEAVE IT AT THAT. NOBODY'S OPINION ABOUT YOUR BOYCOTT CHOICES ARE WORTH A DAMN SO LET'S ALL KEEP EM TO OURSELVES.

I boycott China, France and Iran outright. I've made sacrifices to do so. Try to find something not made in china. France I just don't like them cheese eatin surrender monkeys. They're always whining and giving up. It seems the only thing they can do well is surrender and make love with their faces. Iran...you figure that out. I consider their current regime to be a threat to world-wide geo political stability.

i should answer this in the same spirit of discussion that you brought to my thread and say, "tell me you arent a total retard and actually think you are boycotting china" its impossible to boycott china... but since i'm a more people friendly guy...i'll say i boycott venezuela myself...i'd boycott iran too if i could figure out what actually comes from there that i use...

I don't really boycott one particular country that produces a lot of goods. I do boycott Abercrombie and Fitch cause I hate their clothes and just the store itself. Having shirtless guys greet you at the door just doesn't do it for me. Also, they sell thongs for like 7 year olds. Come on now. My biggest boycott though is with AAA. They screwed me big time in an insurance claim, wasn't my insurance carrier, but the guy who hit my car. Anyways, they can go to hell and I'm even having my fiance switch from AAA to someone else.

if it says made in china I pass on it if at all possible. if there are no substitues on the market I'll try to make the thing, if that's not practical then I'll buy it used. If i can't do that, then and only then do I buy china made. It's not hard so much as effort driven. But yes... I'm a total retard in trying. Still it makes me feel better.

As for Iran, there are some hard to get spice mixes that are popular there that I like and real persian rugs (I have a thing for those). I've had to resort to mixing my own spices. Doesn't taste the same... probably my infidel status not letting the flavors mix right.

I tell you what though... if you want a great nose job in like 4 minutes flat... go to Iran. They're EXPERTS.

Everybody here is typing on a keyboard made from China and also computer parts from China. It may be assembled here buy components are Chinese.

lol...so true.

I boycott anything or any establishment that promotes the "thug" mentality.

and by "thug" mentality I mean the "Im better than you cause I gots mo shit and I gots mo bling and my whip is phatter than yours and if you look at me wrong im gonna buss a cap in yo ass"

the French....and Canada even though im half Canadian lol j/k

not quite all. There are several large keyboard, mouse and monitor manufacturing plants in California, Mexico and Canada. Just because most stuff is made in china doesn't mean it all is.

I boycott MTV. Turning society into a retards I tell you. disgusts me.
I do my best, I'm talking real hard, not to buy anything from Wal Mart. GOd I hate Wal Mart.

Same, and pretty sucessful at it.

I go to Target if at all possible.

I go to Sams Club, only because I havent got a costco card - but im getting there.

i think sams club and walmart are the same company

I boycott AM cause of some insulting remarks they made to thier customers.

Thats really about it.

oh and i probably wouldnt buy anything from france. those guys are a bunch of dicks.

not to mention all the stuff made in Korea, Taiwan, japan and other Asian countries.

I try to avoid mcdonalds, and i refuse to watch mtv.

MTV is making our younger generation a little less intelligent every day

I stopped watching MTV when they stopped playing music in the middle of the day. And I agree that they are making younger peeps stupider every day.

Yes they are - hence why i mentioned them

Irony at its finest.

jesus tiddy fuggin kryst if that's all you got to harp on I think you could have saved up till it was funny, interesting or original.

The whole world revolves around business. You cant just flame on someone because because you think their lazy cheese eaters. France has their reasons to back down from many things such as wars. Imagine your neighbors having nuclear missles and your military forces not being the strongest ones out there. specially when you live in such a clutteres high populated country and not a desert, you cant just put your country at risk, everything is happening for a reason.


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Wal-Mart is one company I would never hate. When wal-mart first started as wally mart or whatever it was called, they had just one moto "Instead of selling two items to make high profit, we will lower the price and sell 3 times as many, bringing in more customers and making things more affordable for everyone". Now thats one great business idea you cant go wrong with.

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But as Redneck stated, boycotting a company is nearly impossible now a days without a large amount of people. I posted a link on the MHL forums about a company called "mercury electricity" that I would love to boycott to help them lose money. A mother of 4 kids who was living off an oxygen machine and had terrible health conditions died because she was running late on her electricity payment and the electricity company shut off her power. You know what it is for the Electricity company to know that one of THEIR customers is DEPENDING on their life by THEIR electricity, and they shut off her power over just a $122 payment that hasn't been made. The electricity company was completely aware of the oxygen machine too. So over $122 a mother of 4 kids died.

Walmarts dirty, theres crap all over the floors and I can't stand the people in there. Sure it's cheap, but not really any cheaper then like Target. Plus they treat their lower employees like crap and pay them horribly. Granted, a good portion of them are probably illegal, but the execs and higher up guys make a crap load of money. Walmart could disappear and I could careless.

I just started boycotting any company that outsources their customer service dept. :nono:

Not sure if this was directed to me or not, but if it was, I wasnt harping on it. Just thought its was very funny.

Hey spin haven't seen you round these parts much lately.

lol... it always gives me a warm and fuzzy to know there are other people out there who remember back when MTV played music.

lol...

MTV played music videos? :shock2:

Work, vaction, wifey, body building, 360, sleep. and I got a BMW so i just stop by from time to time to chit chat. Im usually on BMW, Benz and the MHL boards.

GAP Stores Inc...

I stay FAAARRR away from any of those stores, not because I dont like their clothing (i actually kinda like it but thats beside the point), but because I don't like their stand on child labor.

Otherwise..um....I don't really boycott too much.

Same with me you can add Hollister to that list too

I now boycott California Pizza Kitchen. They got rid of my favorite pizza for some dumb excuss of it not being time efficient enough for them. Does it really take that long to slap some mushrooms onto a pizza? Come on, they can now go to hell.

This one isnt that hard for me to boycot. But I dont like BET (Black Entertainment Television). I feel like its a double standard in racial issues. I dont consider myself a racists, but I truly feel like if I started a WPN (White Peoples Network) and put it on air I would get shut down....citing racism. But BET isnt "RACIST"...... ..I call BS...... It would be racist if the roles were reversed! :hittingthefan:

Very true. I just wish any of the music channels actually played music. And not the same top 10 R&B videos they show over and over and over again. Thats why I have music choice with my digital cable. You can watch whatever videos you want, when you feel like watching them

+1 with the abercrappy and bitch stores and hollister too...i feel as if some of their dude sales ppl are gonna try to sneak up behind me and try to ass rape me or sumthin'..buhhh. anyways, i boycott ALL habeeb gas stations. sunoco and racetrac are the only ones i'll go to. i can't stand hearing that same damn line from them, "thank you, please come again!". and big tire companies. i'd rather take my business to the lil guys rather then the big name brand tire places. they all get the same tires, so why put ur money to the big storefront? i'd rather see a lil mom n pop company survive then see a big company get richer.

France is full of cowards, it always has been and it always will be. Beside that they're by and large massively racist, hyper nationalist and they can't manage to solve some of the most severe issues of international terrorists calling France home because it's easy to live there unnoticed by the shitty commie pinko government. Yeah... I can hate a whole country. Just like I hate Sudan, Canada, Venezuela and China. I hate France, I dislike the french on an individual basis and I wish they would just all go away and take their shitty micro-portioned food with them to Hell. Was that too vigorous?


W00t. I don't go there. Ever. My wife sometimes does but we prefer the mom and pop shops that give Livermore it's small town charm... kinda like p-town.

Mega dittos. I tried starting a Caucasoid Students Association at my high school after La Raza and the Black Student Union got started and officially sanctioned by the school board. They instead discussed expelling me. Granted it was 15 years ago... race relations were a bit more strained at the time. The school board wouldn't even hear the description of the group or the mission statement (to learn and share research about the common cultural evolution of western european societies... not even racist). I dropped the idea since giving up meant I could continue selling pot in school.

You're totally right. That's because only white males can be considered racist anymore. :confused: I'm not a racist either but it's not right. It should be equal treatment for all, not special treatment for some... but it's not. As for boycotting I wish I could boycott Walmart but that's all we have to choose from around here. I have for years bought American made products whenever possible. If that's not possible I figure if it's an American owned company it's still better than a foreign owned company. Ex: Microsoft makes the Xbox 360 in china but it's american owned. Sony makes the PS3 in china and they are a Japanese company. To me I would think that supporting the company who at least is owned by Americans would help our economy more than buying from a foreign owned company but then again what do I know... Lol.. :D

Bad movies. **** all those bullshit movies that companys just puke out to see how much money they can make. pisses me right off. i'm pretty good at judging movies by theyre cover....i made the mistake of going to see spiderman 3 (the Venom temptaion was too much for me, he's just bad ****in ass) and i felt raped after watching it. raped, mugged, and sick. so i say **** big movie company bullshit made for your buck.

Amen.

I'm with you on the china thing,its hard. Someday we'll be at war with them and we are giving them what they need to kick our ass. Don't think it will be fought on china's soil. Its going to be right here in the good'ol U.S. of A. We better wake the hell up people.

good god i agree with stormsgt...someone musta slipped somethin in my drink...ofcourse..before china becomes a problem we'll be back at war with whatever group of monkeys they put in charge over in iraq

I agree too. I don't claim to know much but the way I see it it's just rediculous how the US doesn't allow trade with a communist nation like Cuba but it's ok with China??? Do we even have any kind of tarriffs on goods coming in from China? I'd say if there is it's VERY little. The way I see it as long as the huge corporations are making a killing off of the cheap labor in China and as long as they are funding the campaigns of our leaders we won't see any change. This whole thing with China is a bad thing in my opinion but there is BIG BIG money in it. Money influences how our country is ran. These corporations have big money and big power and if they want free unlimited trade with China our leaders have and will continue to give them that. I don't trust them. We are making them richer and richer. One day they will rise up I'm afraid.

that was one of the more lucid, well thought out responses I've seen however; I disagree that we'll be at war with China anytime in the future. China has been manipulating their currency for so long and fiddling with every other underpinning of their economy that they are DOOMED to a rather large and long lasting depression. There's only so much a government can subsidize a partially privatized economy before it runs into a genuine financial crisis. So what are they going to do about it, well they're sorta already doing it. They're more rapidly privatizing business and industry and forcing foreign investment in specific industries while protecting others in order to force other countries currencies to float the Chinese economy until their output in dollar value matches the actual expense.

The big problem with China's idiotic economic policy is that it relies on cheap to free labor. Any slave labor population will eventually rise up. Besides that with roughly 25 years worth of oil left to be extracted from the whole world, china will have to find a new fuel, which is already in wide use and gaining in the US (ethanol and soy diesel will replace petrol in 10-15 years). They'll be behind the curve again and they'll suffer unthinkable economic penalties for riding the slave labor train till it stopped.

Not to mention china has other MAJOR problems that stop it from being able to actually win any kind of war. 1, they're still using 1950's rocket technology that they STOLE from the former USSR. If you can't even use your own tech to get some bloke into space for 3 measly orbits... we'll nuke your ass if you screw with us. They could never get enough people across the pond without us seeing it and responding in kind. Chinese weapons are known the world over for failing catastrophically (their legendary manufacturing quality), their military is frequently corruptable and in their last engagement (korea) largely unarmed. They have no less than 3 unfriendly nations that share borders. Japan which has unlimited technology and hates China is just off the coast and must absorb the first strike thereby giving us plenty of warning. China's military has never had a true test of their skills. The single biggest conflict they've ever seen was Korea and we killed hundreds of thousands of them during their "human wave" attacks. They were ineffective at doing more than bleeding. Massive populations defy the supply requirements of massive armies. During wartime you must divert a %age of domestic supplies (sugar, rice, coffee, cooking oil, etc...) to war supplies. The people at home must be able to live without it. The chinese by and large eek out a subsistence living farming those commodities. Subsistence means just enough to live... Imagine the millions of starving deaths if they were to have a war with someone like us that lasted more than a few weeks.

Finally, remember that in military circles there's an addage: You can't win a land war in Asia. So, China would be beyond stupid to make any sort of war outside their continent since they have us over a land barrel there. If they come to our side of the world, they'll be erased by the largely armed populace of the western hemisphere. Asia in general and China in particular is at least too big for us to hold with any kind of conventional force. So, to win we'd have to smash them like we did Iraq. It'll leave their country in just as big a mess as smashing the Iraqui government had on that land and so, we'd never even do it. Both sides know the outcome... so both sides decided not to fight directly.

No we'll have another Korea or Vietnam. Where we use some other country to fight with a Super Power by proxy.

i boycott Fat Kats Pizza. i think its just a local thing but they got rid of the best ice cream place in town.....i love cats though, they taste like chicken.