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"illegally and collusively boycott". Trump is such a turd of emotions. Just says things that feel true, and his idiot followers gobble it up. I don't think there's any case where a boycott is illegal, and colluding is just a scarier word for organizing or cooperating.
The only reason Trump knows what the word colluding means is because of his collusion with Russia.
colluding is just a scarier word for organizing or cooperating.
Makes sense when you remember that he doesn't want people cooperating, that's communism /s . He wants people obeying.
I don’t think there’s any case where a boycott is illegal,
The USA has made boycotting the zionist entity illegal, many states require businesses to sign pledges not to boycott as conditions to getting contracts. So much for that "freedum of speech".
I wonder whatever happened with Musk's claims that companies not advertising on Xitter was illegal collusion.
A quick Qwant search later: it seems he's expanded the suit: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5283271/elon-musk-lawsuit-advertisers-boycott-new
Unfortunately, his abuse has already SLAPPed down the original group behind the assessment that led to the boycott, but now that the world's bestest genius evar has decided to also take on (check article) Lego, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate-Palmolive, Pinterest and Shell International?
Hopefully, he's bitten off more than he can chew.
"A turd of emotions" is such a keeper.
In this case, it’s not even organizing/cooperating/colliding. Multiple people are reaching the same sensible conclusion simultaneously and acting accordingly.
colluding is just a scarier word for organizing or cooperating
Colluding is a bad kind of organizing and cooperating,like gangs, conspiracies, and oligarchies.
Do you bother to research anything before running your mouth? You’re literally on a community about boycotts
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6940
That was an extremely aggressive response. Did you consider, "Hey, you don't seem to know this, but check out this [source]"?
There's a trope for "existing users are hostile to newcomers because the newcomers are ignorant, preventing the community from growing and undermining their goals", but I'm not sure the name of it. Might be a variation of "For me it was tuesday"
Did they consider not bumbling into a new community and post ignorant disinfo?
It takes <30 seconds to search a point in a search engine (or provide a prompt to an LLM I don’t judge) if they’ve proven they can’t do the bare minimum to make sure they’re adding to the discourse and not spreading fake news, than their value to the community is dubious at best.
If you believe in this community, you are undermining its goals by being this hostile.
So I forget, are you an ‘ignorant newcomer’ (your own words) or do you have your finger on the pulse of the community and its goals, and post disinfo anyway?
I didn't know about anti-boycott laws. I posted in good faith. Now I know.
I don't know specifics of this community but I seem to have a better grasp of community in general than you do.
You could have taken the opportunity to politely educate. Instead you've chosen maximum hostility. Why? What are you getting out of this? How is it better than kindness?
Yeah, I got a little heated, I guess everyone has their own line on what constitutes good faith, and that’s okay! Frankly I only know as much about US anti-boycott laws as I do because I work at a big soulless US corp.
I definitely don’t claim to be some elder of usboycott, and in fact dislike people who claim to have some kind of superiority for being established in a community
I just happen to be a random nerd on the internet that knows a strange amount about anti-boycott laws, who just dropped an edible and is feeling much more empathic,
Hopefully this can just go down as a lovely educational moment on the fediverse! And I hope you have a lovely day
Oh good. I'm glad we've made peace. I didn't know about anti boycott laws, so I appreciate you bringing that to my attention.
I'm having a nice afternoon in the park. Hope your evening is just as pleasant.
Do you bother to research your own links before being extremely toxic?
What relevance does your half baked screenshot have to do with this conversation?
How is my screenshot half baked?
That bill was introduced, the tracker on that website never states it became a law.