After careful consideration, I have decided that the 24 Hour Economic Blackout is bullshit.

[Oopsie Daisy]

181. There ya go! Nobody knows, nobody cares.

A one-day microfluctuation in sales that recovers the next day (or next week) is just pissing in the ocean with the belief that it will cause a tidal wave. It's indiscriminate and it's a weak response. Its little more than virtue signaling, but it has no real effect (other than the momentary pride one may have for NOT doing something) but that pride will quickly turn into disappointment and renewed feelings of helplessness when they realize that they've been wasting time NOT doing things when they could have actually been focusing their efforts in meaningful ways that actually help people, or that strengthen our party, or that weaken the GOP.

Random and non-specific boycott of just "one day of not buying" is silly. It needs to be targeted and sustained. But even if sustained, people aren't just going to STOP buying, STOP driving, STOP eating... everything, indefinitely. It would need to be focused so that key industries, products, companies are targeted... and so that ordinary people can participate without starving their families or going without clothes and heat.

Eggs. That's a good place to start. Why not "boycott eggs." We can live without eggs there are other things to eat. Boycott Unilever, boycott Georgia Pacific, boycott specific store chains. A sustained and focused effort will be noticed when targeted in that way (either by product or manufacturer or retailer).

In reality, doing nothing (and doing it poorly, haphazardly, un-targeted, and not long enough) is the true equivalent to watching "outrage videos" and feeling proud for having done nothing. It's a lazy form of "protest" that will accomplish nothing meaningful.

It's like protesting the price of postage by NOT mailing one's holiday cards on December 1st... and instead waiting until December 2nd. (Yeah, that'll teach the USPS!)