Autism Speaks. It has a pro-eugenics mindset, so you'd think everyone would be boycotting it, right? Nope, in fact it's partnered with the Jim Henson company.
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DuPont, source of our microplastic nightmare
And 3M. They both dumped a shit ton of PFAS/PFOA into the ground at every one of their factories around the world.
And teflon and other chemicals used in large quantities while delaying the inevitable reports of danger they pose.
Bro name one that doesn't deserve it.
Pategonia, who created the B-corp
Ticketmaster
Anything made by or connected to Nestle for sure
They have a lot of blood on their hands.
Tencent
Tobacco and oil companies. All of them.
Every company here deserves some sort of corporate death penalty where the CEOs face consequences and the company becomes worker owned and operated.
United HealthCare
Oh wait, you CAN'T boycott them. The ultimate monopoly.
- Apple
- All of the defence contractors
- Every telecom I've ever used apart from EE and Giffgaff
- YouTube
- Any website that tries to circumvent privacy rules with fuckery
- Governments like the UK that insist prohition is a better alternative to harm reduction but continue to profit from poisons like alcohol.
- Any company that makes devices with proprietary interfaces e.g. WiFi printers, BT routers, Apple in general, Tesla, battery power tool manufacturers.
- The list goes on...
Shell gas station. They bought dirty Russian oil
As far as which companies "deserve" it, it would be quicker to list the ones that don't.
Microsoft, although regulators sure as fuck help them make that impossible
Bayer-Monsanto, John Deere, Nestle
Amazon, SpaceX, TwitterX, TeslaX, Uber, Nestlé, Google, Micro$oft
Why SpaceX? I hate Musk and do not support any of his other... anythings. However, rocket go zoom then land without boom is fun to watch. I am genuinely curious why SpaceX is bad.
I completely agree about everything else you mentioned.
However, rocket go zoom then land without boom is fun to watch.
Yeah, Musk is a true innovater by having them blow up the concrete launchpad on launch instead...
The government got more money from the patents NASA got then it cost to fund NASA. Privatizing space hurts everyone except the rich asshole who gets the parents.
For fucks sake.
I clearly said I do not like musk. I even went as far as saying I hate him but still that's the first place you went. What the fuck?
Yeah, but there's also the cognitive dissonance of you saying SpaceX is fun because they don't explode...
But they do explode. Waaaaay more than NASA. Because if a NASA launch goes bad, everyone pays attention. If SpaceX goes bad, people just shrug
So by your own metrics you just said...
NASA is better than SpaceX.
No matter what position I took, it would have disagreed with your comment, because your comment disagrees with itself. Which explains why you think spacex is a positive.
Dave's Auto Body shop
Someone really has a personal gripe on this one ! What's the story?
Boycotting micro$oft till the day I die, OS monopolies (or close to it) shouldn't exist. Plus their OS is mediocre at best.
Ideally every corpo should be boycotted though. But it's quite difficult to boycott some of them (like Google, who likes to live inside every android phone, effectively having a duopoly with Apple, another really shitty company)