Black Thursday and Friday

[Red_Banner]

Put the black in Black Thursday and Friday with anarchist protests.

:)

[Blake's Baby]

What's Black Thursday and Friday?

[Red_Banner]

What's Black Thursday and Friday?

Here in the US they wan't people to shop on the day after Thanksgiving(a big holiday).

They give rediculous discounts like 90% percent off to bring in customers.
But now alot of stores want people to work on Thanksgiving(thursday) too.

Alot of these people working these stores are just minimum wage seasonal help.
It isn't really worth it to show up for work.

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

On the other hand, its also the biggest day for shoplifting and the stores normally put so much focus on tracking down customers who are stealing that it makes for easy pickings for the employees. So it can be worth your while to work those days, you just have to be creative. Leaving on that Friday night with the shit i had been hoarding away for months was one of the only positive parts of working retail.

[Sea]

What are we supposed to do? Burn shit for satan? This is hardly a worker struggle. It's just 2 days that people buy things they plan to give away for christmas because of the sales. If the effectiveness of boycots in general is iffy, this is just more so.
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oh my fucking god dude

[Decolonize The Left]

^ Did you really just make a post laughing at someone's spelling mistakes and then not capitalize or properly punctuate your very own post? Well played sir... well played... :rolleyes:

[Ele'ill]

great day for sabotage

[Sea]

^ Did you really just make a post laughing at someone's spelling mistakes and then not capitalize or properly punctuate your very own post? Well played sir... well played... :rolleyes:I wasn't under the illusion that my own post was grammatically correct. ;)

[goalkeeper]

Put the black in Black Thursday and Friday with anarchist protests.

:)

Why would you want to protest (largely working class) trying to buy cheap goods?

[adipocere]

Americans spend half their waking lives buying cheap goods...this is a consumer holiday, entirely manufactured to part people with their money before the next consumer holiday, Christmas.
I think boycotting this type of brain-dead hyperconsumer excess is a perfectly fine idea.

[Red_Banner]

What are we supposed to do? Burn shit for satan? This is hardly a worker struggle. It's just 2 days that people buy things they plan to give away for christmas because of the sales. If the effectiveness of boycots in general is iffy, this is just more so.

oh my fucking god dude


So what?

They are typos.

Get a life and stop being an idiot.

[CECE]

It's, more or less, the representation of what is truly wrong with people in westernized societies today. Saving up and working simply to buy things that you don't need. To buy distractions from the things that really mater, like people, your friends, your family. Distractions from the terrible shit happening around the world and the freedoms you're slowly losing. And to only add to this tragic representation of how materialistic these people are every year people are trampled to death so people can get their hands on a cheap Ipad or Android phone. Talk about the ultimate analogy for Capitalism and how goods are valued over people's well being.

[goalkeeper]

Americans spend half their waking lives buying cheap goods...this is a consumer holiday, entirely manufactured to part people with their money before the next consumer holiday, Christmas.
I think boycotting this type of brain-dead hyperconsumer excess is a perfectly fine idea.

Oh heaven forbid some worker wants to buy his kid an xbox for christmas when its cheaper.

[goalkeeper]

It's, more or less, the representation of what is truly wrong with people in westernized societies today. Saving up and working simply to buy things that you don't need. To buy distractions from the things that really mater, like people, your friends, your family. Distractions from the terrible shit happening around the world and the freedoms you're slowly losing. And to only add to this tragic representation of how materialistic these people are every year people are trampled to death so people can get their hands on a cheap Ipad or Android phone. Talk about the ultimate analogy for Capitalism and how goods are valued over people's well being.

1) You don't get to decide what people 'don't need'
2) Considering that a lot of items purchased at this time of year are purchased with the intention of giving them as a gift to a friend or family member, your idea of it being a distraction from 'things that really mater' doesn't seem true; people are trying to buy gifts for what you list as the 'things that really mater' which serves to strengthen friendship and family bonds. Consumerism tends to be a pretty social thing anyway, with people trying on clothes etc. thinking 'how will I look to my friend/partner/family in this?'.
3) Yeah, it is possible to read the news int he morning and go shopping in the afternoon.
4)The last bit just seems like a patronising anecdote of seeing 'the masses' as mindless consumer zombies and reeks of disdain of people in general.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

that said I can imagine that it wouldn't do any harm to use the day to highlight a few things for people. There's the obvious example of the wastefulness and hyper-consumerism of the season, but I'm sure that it wouldn't be hard to make a point about why people look forward to these sales so much. You work hard, but your income is not enough to buy nice things unless they're on sale? How much money do the owners of these shops rake in even on a day of sales - and did most of them do anything for that easy money etcetera?