To those women who are buying extra at Hobby Lobby

[americannightmare]

102. Thank you, Fawke Em! I am indeed grateful...

to those folks who go to the trouble of putting these types of campaigns together (though I don't own a Smartphone or anything that would involve apps, a bit of a luddite here), it's about more than "buycotting" the Kochs. It's about taking down the people who control the media, and thereby our government. Not to mention other corporations who are off-shoring for both tax avoidance and human and natural resource exploitation. Our tax dollars not only paid for the incubation of what became the internet and personal computers as we know them (http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet-related-networks); but now our tax dollars pay for a hopelessly bloated defense budget which is utilized primarily as a resource defense apparatus, defending resources that at the least should be shared by all mankind as opposed to controlled by one or two countries, the best example being rare earth minerals contained mostly in China but controlled as much by the U.S.'s ability to project military power over China (at least for now) than by China. Apple demands that the U.S. use its military power if necessary to keep the rare earth mineral supply chain open. That's the long way around to saying that as long as Apple insists on off-shoring jobs to China to manufacture their products, and my tax dollars are paying for them to continue to do that, I will boycott them and never buy another "new" computer or phone. If that means that eventually I won't be able to use the internet at home, so be it. We all have to take a stand against corporations or continue to be dominated by them and their unsustainable and pernicious practices. My apologies for the lengthy rant.