Never do anything that might harm a corporation. Got it loud and clear.

It wasn’t the brain damage. He just stopped lying after the polls closed.

It should have been obvious when the party didn’t try to ratfuck him.

He’s a democrat through and through. Look at how he caved to fascists like that. He’s a natural.

The ouster of David Hogg and the attempted ratfucking of Mamdani happened under your alleged savior’s watch.

Because they shutdown the government because people were clamoring for some semblance of resistance, and there was an election coming up. They capitulated as soon as they could after the polls closed.

None of them are up for reelection until 2028 at the earliest. Two of them are retiring at the end of their current term. One of them is the minority whip. You know, party leadership.

How can you blame the entire party for the actions of a few?

Because it’s always just enough.

Most Democrats, establishment and otherwise, seem really upset by what those senators have done

You seem way more upset at anyone who suggests that politicians aren’t being honest in the face of massive pushback.

The problem arises when both parties keep moving to the right.

You wouldn’t put Hitler and some german citizen that voted for him at the same level, both suck but are not the same.

democrats are long past the “some german citizen that voted for him” stage. They are very firmly in “vidkun quisling” territory.

8 Senators don’t vote the way you want and now EVERY Democrat is a fascist.

8 senators vote the way you want and now you’re calling anyone who doesn’t love it a child. Standard centrist.

Any messes you make should not be gross or hazardous. And you don’t have to act entitled while wasting their time. You can be polite, apologetic even if it doesn’t tip your hand. They already have existing karens.

Otherwise, yeah, that’s basically the gist.

My example was a different retailer, but:

Asking a ton of questions, offering to sign up for things like store credit cards and then backing out at the last second or filling in the form in such a way that it won’t go through. Financing a large tire purchase and backing out at the last minute. Leaving a cart full of frozen food in a low traffic area far away from the freezers on a busy day. Putting items randomly where they don’t go. “Not understanding” how the self-checkout works, buying cigarettes and being shit at describing what pack you want. Getting to the checkout with a cart full of frozen food and realizing you “left your wallet at home.” Splitting your bill over more than one method of payment for a single object, with the last method of payment being a gift card you know will decline. Getting to the checkout and halfway rung up, being like “oh, I forgot something I’ll just be a moment” and then leaving through the garden center. Trying to pay with any coupon but one you know will work, not being aggro about it or anything, just bumbling through politely, apologizing constantly and looking embarrassed. Only purchasing things you know are loss leaders. The idea is to act like the sort of customer who already wastes their time so you don’t let on that you’re doing it on purpose to get at their employers, and so if they crack down on the behavior they alienate the boomers who act like that as a matter of course, only the boomers are way more rude.

And tipping generously and leaving glowing reviews for the employees and scathing reviews for management for overworking their employees. Under different names for each so management can’t retaliate. And never ever do something that might negatively impact a frontline employee without also harming the company’s bottom line, either directly or as opportunity cost. And absolutely never do this to a union shop.

Naturally, there’s a different bespoke list for every type of retailer and every retailer in particular. And it must be done one chain at a time. You want the company to sweat in the face of competition that doesn’t have you as a problem. You want them to get a reputation as the place with super long lines that’s poorly organized and full of people who waste everyone’s time. You want to turn them into what kmart was in the early 2000’s, so that they can become what kmart is today.

EDIT: Also waste the time of other shoppers. Stand in front of high-traffic items with your cart parked so that it takes your half of the aisle from out of the middle while “making up your mind”. Seasonal items are great for this if you time it right.

Another edit: And this absolutely must be organized, so that this happens with an entire movement of people against one chain.

who threatened you with death for wasting an employee’s time?

Another user here on lemmy. Made up a whole crazy power fantasy story about getting away with killing me.

And it was for the suggestion, not for actually doing it. It needs to be organized to be effective.

Maybe you shouldn’t make a habit of assuming people are just stupid if you don’t understand what they’re saying.

Centrists know their arguments are nothing more than meritless excuses, so they pretend people who disagree with them are stupid/children/shills/bots/evil foreigners.

I don’t think a boycott is sufficient. We need to gum up the works. We need to enshittify as customers.

We need to waste employee time so they can’t do things that are profitable for the company.

I’ve received death threats for saying this.

DINO

At this point, is it really “in name only” to just cave and give republicans whatever they want? It seems to be the most Democratic Party thing to do.

I think raising attention to this issue is the only thing Democrats could hope to accomplish.

They certainly raised attention to how utterly worthless they have always been and always will be.

They’re saying that the fact that they folded makes all the harm of the last 40 days meaningless.

Oh come on! It wasn’t meaningless! It was a cynical con to get votes that they abandoned as soon as the election was over!

My guess is that they were only pretending to have spines until the polls closed.

I would say it’s more surprising that

Any Dems caved at this point before at least seeing how the showdown between Trump and the courts would play out.

Dems caving isn’t surprising in the slightest. Infuriating, sure, but absolutely never surprising.

It’s why I’m so disgusted about the one thing they didn’t cave on.