Friday, November 18, 2016

Boycotting Hate

If you're looking for a way to protest this farce of an election, but don't have the time, health, and/or stamina to join the thousands of awesome Millennials continuing to pour into the streets of metropolises across the country (keep it up, lovelies!) then you still have some pretty doable options left to you.

Fox News

Fox's misinformation, propaganda network continues to thrive at our expense. The teeth clincher? If you have a subscription to even the lowest tier of cable television available, you are paying them to carry on with their dirty work.

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Boycotts

Left Republic

Left Republic has recently started the Lock Up This campaign to boycott specific brands and/or popular shopping dates. Here's the first collective effort:

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Although the number of people who belong to our Facebook page campaign is currently a grand total of 6 (hey we just got going lol) the number of shares for the Black Friday Boycott banner has been phenomenal. 

Brands


A spreadsheet of stores that sell anything Trump has been making its rounds across the internet. The Huffington Post finally did a write-up on the database, making it much easier to implement into your daily life.

Clickbait


A fast way to make misinformation and fake news sites die a quick death is to quit funding them with clicks. Most of those sites can afford to thrive because of programs like Google Adsense which pays out monies for every click subscribing sites receive. If you don't recognize the address or website? Don't click on it.