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

[Oopsie Daisy]

205. I've been very clear and never said that "nothing is worth doing"

and if something is to be done, then it needs to be targeted, sustained, meaningful. It needs to hurt. The target needs to hurt financially or their reputation needs to suffer. The boycotters need to be uncomfortable as a result of their efforts too. It needs to be quantifiable, it needs to have specific goals and and definable outcome as a measure of success.

As it stands right now, it's going to be no more effective than an online USA-Today poll.

I think my "approach" was largely influenced by those who were making arguments (in favor) by assuming anyone opposed to this boycott were only opposed because it was "too much to ask" and not because it was inherently flawed and doomed to failure. And another asked how they could look at themselves in the mirror (or maybe they wondered how I could look at myself) knowing that they/I did "nothing" in an effort to put forth a minimal effort of, uh, well, doing nothing?

Bad idea after bad idea after bad idea is going to make people less likely to participate (or even listen) when by some luck of the draw a decent idea actually surfaces.

I'm looking forward to reading the headlines tomorrow about how this one-day not-buying boycott brought our country's oligarchs and our corporate masters to their knees (or whatever measure of success this boycott is supposed to have).