Boycott is extortion

Survival is not gonna just be about trying to endure or being able to endure what the system does to you. It's also gonna be about learning ways to disrupt what the system itself depends upon. Because corporations don't care about your vote, they don't care about your protest, they don't care about your suffering, that's very clear. But what they do care about is their own bottom line, they care about their own profitability. So if you can insert yourself into that equation, if you can alter or impact their profitability, suddenly you become relevant, suddenly you have leverage, suddenly you have a voice.

Persistent demonstration that ultimately you have the ability to impact the profitability of these predatory corporations that are in fact your feudal lords in America. This constitutes a revolution by attrition. You don't always need to overthrow a system. You need to make it more expensive for that system to exploit you. You need to make it more expensive for that system to exploit you rather than to negotiate with you.

Make it more worthwhile for them in dollars and cents to deal with you in a dignified manner. If they don't deal with you in a dignified manner, then you can guarantee that that way of engagement will not profit them. When you prove that you can affect profitability, then you secure a seat for yourself at the negotiating table. That's when the corporations and the politicians who serve the corporations, that's when they're gonna be forced to recognize you because they're never gonna recognize you, not as a voter, not as a citizen, but they will recognize you as an economic actor with the power to destabilize their system. That's the only way they're ever gonna recognize you.

So Americans are gonna need to stop being passive consumers and start becoming active disruptors. Yes, use these tactics for Gaza now, refine them now because you're gonna need these tactics, you're gonna need these strategies even more for yourselves down the road. Let them know that when you declare a boycott, you're not just saying that people should reconsider patronizing this or that company, no. You're saying that this company that we are boycotting is not going to be allowed to operate smoothly. Just like when the monkeys comes to extort a business.

Oh, it's a lovely shop you've got here, it'd be a shame if anything happened to it. Right? When they come to extort some business, that's what they say. Yes, don't kid yourselves. That's what you're doing.

A boycott is nothing but extortion. It is extorting a moral position from an amoral actor through pressure, through targeting what that amoral actor actually cares about which is profit, they don't care about morals. Like I said, don't do anything rash, don't do anything violent, and don't do anything that's gonna get you convicted and get your movement shut down. But look at all of the factors, look at all of the factors that any given business depends upon to make a profit, and pinpoint what can be disrupted.