“Illegally boycotting.”
Trump is hilarious. Like the government can stop me from NOT BUYING something.
Sounds like if he had it his way, we’d be forced to buy only what he declared and in the quantities the law stipulates, regardless of need or ability to pay.
Excuse me sir, have you performed your government mandated consumption today? It looks like your spending quota is a little low, how about ordering some tasty Dominoes^TM and signing up for a subscription service or your choice? Remember what your mother taught you: “a penny saved is a penny wasted”. Money atrophies if you keep it locked up, everyone knows that! You need to keep that cash aerated, circulate it!
I hate how possible this sounds. Like, alongside the other bullshit we’ve been exposed to, this nonsense sounds like it could be real.
This sounds like a great short story, or black mirror episode.
It is, this is from “brave new world”
Oh! I’ve even read that 🤦♂️
As billionaires do the exact opposite hording their money.
Please purchase verification Tesla.
Remember, this South African immigrant, whose father owned a slave ran
diamond(edit: emerald) mine, sued advertisers for pulling out due to his racist remarks and the racism being spewed on his platform. Choosing not to advertise on his platform was ‘collusion’ and illegal… 🤦♂️I forgot about that. Free choice and free will apparently isn’t a guarantee in this country, anymore.
Neither is free speech and the right to peaceful protest
*emerald mine
Thank you for the correction, I don’t want any misinformation over here, but it has been a while since I’ve looked into it.
it’s like that time when Elon “free speech absolutist” Musk tried to sue advertisers that decided that they didn’t want their ads on his Nazi filled platform
Like a planned economy?
ie, the ultimate neoliberal wet dream. let’s hope it doesn’t come to pass.
Trump signs an executive order that every American must purchase a Tesla. Supreme Court rejects the order by a 5-4 vote several weeks later
Bring back debtor’s prisons, lock up everyone who defaults on their mandatory loan on a non-living wage, then invoke the 13th amendment and boom – you’ve successfully replaced the labour force you’ve ousted by deporting people.
I’m sad that’s plausible.
(e: didn’t the auto industry basically do this once with company towns?)
“Rejects”? Oh, you optimist.
Well obviously, it’s time to for company stores to make a comeback.
I’m just gonna pretend I’m an advertiser on Twitter and just go fuck myself, Elon. You buy the swasticars.
Good grief, the President of the United States shilling for a Private Company. How pathetic.
Didn’t he do a photo shoot for beans in the oval office or something like that?
Google says:
Yes! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-goya-beans/Yep, I’d forgotten about it.
I’d forgotten about that one. Yeesh
I actually stopped buying their products.
No huge loss. Black beans are black beans.
I miss their cookies, but yeah it’s been a several years boycott for me.
Wouldn’t be the first time.
Worst thing is, that second picture is as close to a genuine smile that I’ve ever seen from him.
I member the McDonald’s banquet.
“illegally and collusively boycott”. Trump is such a turd of emotions. Just says things that feel true, and his idiot followers gobble it up. I don’t think there’s any case where a boycott is illegal, and colluding is just a scarier word for organizing or cooperating.
colluding is just a scarier word for organizing or cooperating.
Makes sense when you remember that he doesn’t want people cooperating, that’s communism /s . He wants people obeying.
I don’t think there’s any case where a boycott is illegal,
The USA has made boycotting the zionist entity illegal, many states require businesses to sign pledges not to boycott as conditions to getting contracts. So much for that “freedum of speech”.
I wonder whatever happened with Musk’s claims that companies not advertising on Xitter was illegal collusion.
A quick Qwant search later: it seems he’s expanded the suit: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5283271/elon-musk-lawsuit-advertisers-boycott-new
Unfortunately, his abuse has already SLAPPed down the original group behind the assessment that led to the boycott, but now that the world’s bestest genius evar has decided to also take on (check article) Lego, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate-Palmolive, Pinterest and Shell International?
Hopefully, he’s bitten off more than he can chew.
In this case, it’s not even organizing/cooperating/colliding. Multiple people are reaching the same sensible conclusion simultaneously and acting accordingly.
“A turd of emotions” is such a keeper.
The only reason Trump knows what the word colluding means is because of his collusion with Russia.
colluding is just a scarier word for organizing or cooperating
Colluding is a bad kind of organizing and cooperating,like gangs, conspiracies, and oligarchies.
Do you bother to research anything before running your mouth? You’re literally on a community about boycotts
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6940
That was an extremely aggressive response. Did you consider, “Hey, you don’t seem to know this, but check out this [source]”?
There’s a trope for “existing users are hostile to newcomers because the newcomers are ignorant, preventing the community from growing and undermining their goals”, but I’m not sure the name of it. Might be a variation of “For me it was tuesday”
Did they consider not bumbling into a new community and post ignorant disinfo?
It takes <30 seconds to search a point in a search engine (or provide a prompt to an LLM I don’t judge) if they’ve proven they can’t do the bare minimum to make sure they’re adding to the discourse and not spreading fake news, than their value to the community is dubious at best.
If you believe in this community, you are undermining its goals by being this hostile.
So I forget, are you an ‘ignorant newcomer’ (your own words) or do you have your finger on the pulse of the community and its goals, and post disinfo anyway?
I didn’t know about anti-boycott laws. I posted in good faith. Now I know.
I don’t know specifics of this community but I seem to have a better grasp of community in general than you do.
You could have taken the opportunity to politely educate. Instead you’ve chosen maximum hostility. Why? What are you getting out of this? How is it better than kindness?
Yeah, I got a little heated, I guess everyone has their own line on what constitutes good faith, and that’s okay! Frankly I only know as much about US anti-boycott laws as I do because I work at a big soulless US corp.
I definitely don’t claim to be some elder of usboycott, and in fact dislike people who claim to have some kind of superiority for being established in a community
I just happen to be a random nerd on the internet that knows a strange amount about anti-boycott laws, who just dropped an edible and is feeling much more empathic,
Hopefully this can just go down as a lovely educational moment on the fediverse! And I hope you have a lovely day
Do you bother to research your own links before being extremely toxic?
What relevance does your half baked screenshot have to do with this conversation?
How is my screenshot half baked?
That bill was introduced, the tracker on that website never states it became a law.
TIL it’s illegal to not buy a Tesla.
Believe it or not, straight to jail
Come an’ get me, copper!
I am sure the republican “silent majority” will save tesla!
Guarantee that Trump did not drop even $40k of his “billions” to help save Tesla.
Tesla being down 30% since last month. Keep it up!
No-no-no. Keep it down. Even “downer” :)
Bigly down
how in the fuck is boycotting illegal?
Well according to him it’s not illegal If he’s saving the country.
Toe country, just south of the foothills.
There is no boycott.
I don’t buy a Teslas because I don’t want a Tesla, but if it was somehow possible to illegally boycott Tesla, then I would totally not buy a Tesla illegally.
This is the shit that really bugs me with Trump in office again. He is the leader of the executive branch and just throws out statements saying boycotting is illegal.
His words should matter and the office should matter but it’s all just reality TV horseshit.
I’m sick of it.
I wonder how his “rolling coal” idiot followers are going to love getting a tesla to pwn the libs.
Implies they’re capable of independent thought whilst wacking off to their king’s every word.
They’ll just fall in line with the narrative.
It is working. Keep boycotting US everyone!
(Americans we still love most of you as individuals, its just … the threats and backstabbing by your leader is a bit much)
Totally understand. Keep the boycotts running. We’ll keep doing what we can from here. This isn’t just about the US, it never was. Until we bury ALL the fascists, it’s gonna be a little hectic around this 3rd stone from the Sun. Stay strong, perseverance furthers.
Please do, I’m no fan of the bullshit going on in this country.
The people of this earth have always been friendly neighbors, not counting the consequences of authoritarian propaganda.
Those who struggle for power have always created enemies out of nothing just for their own gain.
Americans are with you, friend!
Absolutely keep it up! It’s the only language the ‘leaders’ here recognize. Money.
His misuse of public office should be landing him a third impeachment. Why is any of this being ignored as the new normal?
Because the American people are cowards, and don’t know how to stand up against this. Their inaction speaks volumes in its own way.
So wait…. Boycotts are illegal now? It’s mandatory to buy their trumpmobiles?
Nazicar
Don’t call them swasticars. Elon hates them being called swasticars. So, don’t call them swasticars online, and don’t call them swasticars irl. Elon is sad and depressed and having a very not fun time lately, so don’t kick him while he’s down by calling his babies swasticars.
I work in the defense industry. Many of my coworkers are conservative. Most of them would never consider an electric vehicle (I heard them laughing about rolling coal on a Tesla recently). So the target audience doesn’t want them, and the former audience is now staunchly opposed. Who do they think will buy them at this point?
Crypto bros.
I like how it’s illegal to just decide to not buy something. Capitalism sure has changed.
I know it’s not illegal, just making a joke off the dumbass’s words.
Right, so NOT buying a car is illegal now.
They’ll let you buy something else, but first you’ll need to watch a video on the benefits of owning a Tesla, watch an ultrasound of your new baby Tesla, and complete a 72 hour waiting period with mandatory daily calls with a DOGE sponsored automotive counselor.
